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Moritz Gerstung

Division Head, German Cancer Research Centre DKFZ
Verified email at dkfz.de
Cited by 25807

Artificial intelligence in histopathology: enhancing cancer research and clinical oncology

A Shmatko, N Ghaffari Laleh, M Gerstung, JN Kather - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Artificial intelligence (AI) methods have multiplied our capabilities to extract quantitative
information from digital histopathology images. AI is expected to reduce workload for human …

Spatial biology of cancer evolution

…, A Lomakin, LR Yates, M Gerstung - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The natural history of cancers can be understood through the lens of evolution given that
the driving forces of cancer development are mutation and selection of fitter clones. Cancer …

Cancer evolution: mathematical models and computational inference

N Beerenwinkel, RF Schwarz, M Gerstung… - Systematic …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Cancer is a somatic evolutionary process characterized by the accumulation of mutations,
which contribute to tumor growth, clinical progression, immune escape, and drug resistance …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic classification and prognosis in acute myeloid leukemia

E Papaemmanuil, M Gerstung, L Bullinger… - … England Journal of …, 2016 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Recent studies have provided a detailed census of genes that are mutated in
acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Our next challenge is to understand how this genetic diversity …

Landscape of somatic mutations in 560 breast cancer whole-genome sequences

…, L Dirix, S Dronov, A Fatima, JA Foekens, M Gerstung… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
We analysed whole-genome sequences of 560 breast cancers to advance understanding of
the driver mutations conferring clonal advantage and the mutational processes generating …

Clinical and biological implications of driver mutations in myelodysplastic syndromes

E Papaemmanuil, M Gerstung… - Blood, The Journal …, 2013 - ashpublications.org
Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are a heterogeneous group of chronic hematological
malignancies characterized by dysplasia, ineffective hematopoiesis and a variable risk of …

High burden and pervasive positive selection of somatic mutations in normal human skin

I Martincorena, A Roshan, M Gerstung, P Ellis… - Science, 2015 - science.org
How somatic mutations accumulate in normal cells is central to understanding cancer
development but is poorly understood. We performed ultradeep sequencing of 74 cancer genes in …

Cell2location maps fine-grained cell types in spatial transcriptomics

…, A Arutyunyan, R Vento-Tormo, M Gerstung… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Spatial transcriptomic technologies promise to resolve cellular wiring diagrams of tissues in
health and disease, but comprehensive mapping of cell types in situ remains a challenge. …

[PDF][PDF] Universal patterns of selection in cancer and somatic tissues

I Martincorena, KM Raine, M Gerstung, KJ Dawson… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Cancer develops as a result of somatic mutation and clonal selection, but quantitative
measures of selection in cancer evolution are lacking. We adapted methods from molecular …

[HTML][HTML] The evolutionary history of 2,658 cancers

M Gerstung, C Jolly, I Leshchiner, SC Dentro… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
… For visual comparison, the number of mutations was scaled to the effective genome size,
defined as the 1/mean(m i /C i ), in which m i is the estimated number of allelic copies of each …