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Evolutionary pressures shape undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma development and radiotherapy response.

GSE279683 Homo sapiens (human) RNA-seq (gene expression) 38 samples Submitted 2024/12/13 Platform GPL24676
At a glance

RNA-seq (gene expression) · human · 38 samples

What it is
RNA-seq (gene expression)Gene activity measured by sequencing. The summary does not mention single-cell work, so this is most likely bulk: one average per sample, the usual starting point for comparing groups.
Organism
Homo sapiens (human)
Topic
Soft tissue sarcomaThis series is part of our curated briefing on it.
Samples
38 samples: 12 conditions, mostly in triplicateGroups are read from the sample names, not from the paper. Check the list below.
Data you can get
A processed table (series matrix) and supplementary files from NCBI; the raw sequencing reads from ENA. Which of these hold counts depends on the study, so check the file list.
Paper
Evolutionary Pressures Shape Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma Development and Radiotherapy ResponseCancer research · 2025
Summary (written by the submitters)
Although radiotherapy plays a crucial role in treating many cancers, the effect of radiation on tumor evolution remains unclear. We integrated temporal genomic profiling of 120 spatially distinct tumor regions from 20 patients with undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcomas (UPS), longitudinal circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) analysis, and evolutionary biology computational pipelines to study UPS evolution during tumorigenesis and in response to radiotherapy.
Read the full summary ↓
Most unirradiated UPS displayed initial linear evolution followed by subsequent branching evolution with distinct mutational processes during early and late development. Using metrics of genetic divergence between regions, we demonstrated evidence of strong selection pressures during UPS development that further increased during radiotherapy. We observed changes in subclone abundance following radiotherapy with subclone contraction tied to alterations in calcium signaling and demonstrated that inhibiting calcium transporters can radiosensitize sarcoma cells. Finally, ctDNA analysis accurately measured subclone abundance and enabled non-invasive monitoring of subclonal changes. These results demonstrate that radiation exerts selective pressures on UPS and suggest that targeting radioresistant subclonal populations could improve outcomes after radiotherapy.
Published in
Evolutionary Pressures Shape Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma Development and Radiotherapy Response
Blomain ES, Soudi S, Wang Z et al. · Cancer research 2025 · PMID 39808162 · doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-24-3281
This dataset
Download · which file do I need?

Direct links to NCBI and ENA, no account and no request form. Pick by what you want to do: take the small processed table to look, the supplementary files to re-analyse, or the original raw data to start over.

1 · Just have a look

Processed table

The series matrix: one table of values per sample as the submitters processed it. The smallest download, and it opens in Excel or R. Start here to see what the data look like.

2 · Re-analyse it

Supplementary files

The count tables and other files the authors uploaded. Take only the samples you need, or the whole study as GSE279683_RAW.tar (it can run to tens of gigabytes).

3 · Start from the raw reads

Raw sequencing reads

The original FASTQ files, straight from the sequencer, held at ENA. Large, and you align them yourself, so only choose this if you need to re-process the study from scratch.

What the files usually look like: For RNA-seq the counts are usually a table among the supplementary files (look for 'counts', 'expression', 'FPKM' or 'TPM' in the file name). The series matrix of a sequencing study is sometimes nearly empty.

Also filed as BioProject PRJNA1174082 and SRA study SRP539124. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

Study design
12 conditions, mostly in triplicate
SRC430-T ×4 SRC431-T ×4 SRC436-T ×4 SRC427-T ×3 SRC428-T ×3 SRC429-T ×3 SRC434-T ×3 SRC435-T ×3 +4 more

Supports a between-group comparison across 38 samples.

How we read this: 12 replicated groups read from 38 sample titles; they account for 38 of them. These groups are guessed from the sample names, not taken from the paper, so check them against the sample list below before relying on them.

Samples in this study
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