%0 Journal Article %@ 2662-1347 %A Biswas Dhruva %A Liu Yun-Hsin %A Herrero Javier %A Snell Daniel M. %A O’Neill Olga %A Leonce Daniel %A Mattsson Johanna %A Lindberg Amanda %A Micke Patrick %A Moldvay Judit %A Megyesfalvi Zsolt %A Döme Balazs %A Fillinger János %A Nicod Jerome %A Downward Julian %A Kollaboráiós szervezet: TRACERx Consortium %A et al. %A Tüdőgyógyászati Klinika SZTE / SZAOK TGYK [2023-], %D 2025 %F publicatio:35541 %J NATURE CANCER %N 1 %P 86-101 %T Prospective validation of ORACLE, a clonal expression biomarker associated with survival of patients with lung adenocarcinoma %U http://publicatio.bibl.u-szeged.hu/35541/ %V 6 %X Human tumors are diverse in their natural history and response to treatment, which in part results from genetic and transcriptomic heterogeneity. In clinical practice, single-site needle biopsies are used to sample this diversity, but cancer biomarkers may be confounded by spatiogenomic heterogeneity within individual tumors. Here we investigate clonally expressed genes as a solution to the sampling bias problem by analyzing multiregion whole-exome and RNA sequencing data for 450 tumor regions from 184 patients with lung adenocarcinoma in the TRACERx study. We prospectively validate the survival association of a clonal expression biomarker, Outcome Risk Associated Clonal Lung Expression (ORACLE), in combination with clinicopathological risk factors, and in stage I disease. We expand our mechanistic understanding, discovering that clonal transcriptional signals are detectable before tissue invasion, act as a molecular fingerprint for lethal metastatic clones and predict chemotherapy sensitivity. Lastly, we find that ORACLE summarizes the prognostic information encoded by genetic evolutionary measures, including chromosomal instability, as a concise 23-transcript assay. %Z Online ahead of print. Published online: 09 January 2025