학위논문(박사) -- 서울대학교대학원 : 의과대학 임상의과학과, 2023. 8. 지의규.Purpose: To explore genomic biomarkers in rectal cancer by performing whole-exome sequencing (WES). Materials and Methods: Pre-chemoradiation (CRT) biopsy and post-CRT surgical specimens were obtained from 27 patients undergoing neoadjuvant CRT followed by definitive resection. Exomes were sequenced to a mean coverage of 30x. Somatic single nucleotide variants (SNVs) and insertions/deletions (indels) were identified. Tumor mutational burden was defined as the number of nonsynonymous mutations per megabase pair. Mutational signatures were extracted and fitted to COSMIC reference signatures. Tumor heterogeneity was quantified with a Mutant-Allele Tumor Heterogeneity (MATH) score. Genetic bioma...