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Record W4410603940 · doi:10.1038/s43018-025-00979-2

Tumor antigens preferentially derive from unmutated genomic sequences in melanoma and non-small cell lung cancer

2025· article· en· W4410603940 on OpenAlexafffund
Anca Apavaloaei, Qingchuan Zhao, Leslie Hesnard, M Cahuzac, Chantal Durette, Jean‐David Larouche, Marie‐Pierre Hardy, Krystel Vincent, Sylvie Brochu, Jean‐Philippe Laverdure, Joël Lanoix, Mathieu Courcelles, Patrick Gendron, Mathieu Lajoie, Maria Virginia Ruiz Cuevas, Eralda Kina, Julie Perrault, Juliette Humeau, Grégory Ehx, Sébastien Lemieux, Ian R. Watson, Daniel E. Speiser, Michal Bassani‐Sternberg, Pierre Thibault, Claude Perreault

Bibliographic record

VenueNature Cancer · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldImmunology and Microbiology
TopicImmunotherapy and Immune Responses
Canadian institutionsUniversité de MontréalMcGill UniversityInstitute for Research in Immunology and Cancer
FundersCanadian Cancer Society Research Institute
KeywordsLung cancerMelanomaAntigenCancer researchCancerBiologyComputational biologyGeneticsOncologyMedicine

Abstract

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Melanoma and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) display exceptionally high mutational burdens. Hence, immune targeting in these cancers has primarily focused on tumor antigens (TAs) predicted to derive from nonsynonymous mutations. Using comprehensive proteogenomic analyses, we identified 589 TAs in cutaneous melanoma (n = 505) and NSCLC (n = 90). Of these, only 1% were derived from mutated sequences, which was explained by a low RNA expression of most nonsynonymous mutations and their localization outside genomic regions proficient for major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I-associated peptide generation. By contrast, 99% of TAs originated from unmutated genomic sequences specific to cancer (aberrantly expressed tumor-specific antigens (aeTSAs), n = 220), overexpressed in cancer (tumor-associated antigens (TAAs), n = 165) or specific to the cell lineage of origin (lineage-specific antigens (LSAs), n = 198). Expression of aeTSAs was epigenetically regulated, and most were encoded by noncanonical genomic sequences. aeTSAs were shared among tumor samples, were immunogenic and could contribute to the response to immune checkpoint blockade observed in previous studies, supporting their immune targeting across cancers.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.002

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.252
Teacher spread0.247 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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