Dominik Glodzik

Dominik Glodzik, PhD

Instructor in Biomedical Informatics
Park Lab

Dominik Glodzik's research at Harvard DBMI is focused on applications of statistical algorithms to understand, treat, and detect cancer early.

During his postdoctoral fellowship at the Sanger Institute in the groups of Sir Prof Mike Stratton and Prof Serena Nik-Zainal, he became an expert on detecting patterns of mutations in cancer genomes. Specifically, he pioneered using supervised machine learning methods to understand mutational processes in cancer. His most widely used algorithm is HRDetect (Nature Medicine, Davies and Glodzik et al., 2017). This algorithm identifies cancer patients with homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) from genome sequencing data, widening the population of patients eligible for therapies. 

On-going work is focused on the following areas:

  • machine learning methods for the prediction of therapeutic vulnerabilities from mutational patterns (mutational signatures) in cancer, using the principle of synthetic lethality. 
  • utilizing known mutational patterns to create more sensitive liquid biopsies for early cancer detection.
Partially methylated domains are hypervariable in breast cancer and fuel widespread CpG island hypermethylation.
Authors: Brinkman AB, Nik-Zainal S, Simmer F, Rodríguez-González FG, Smid M, Alexandrov LB, Butler A, Martin S, Davies H, Glodzik D, Zou X, Ramakrishna M, Staaf J, Ringnér M, Sieuwerts A, Ferrari A, Morganella S, Fleischer T, Kristensen V, Gut M, van de Vijver MJ, Børresen-Dale AL, Richardson AL, Thomas G, Gut IG, Martens JWM, Foekens JA, Stratton MR, Stunnenberg HG.
Nat Commun
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Author Correction: Landscape of somatic mutations in 560 breast cancer whole-genome sequences.
Authors: Nik-Zainal S, Davies H, Staaf J, Ramakrishna M, Glodzik D, Zou X, Martincorena I, Alexandrov LB, Martin S, Wedge DC, Van Loo P, Ju YS, Smid M, Brinkman AB, Morganella S, Aure MR, Lingjærde OC, Langerød A, Ringnér M, Ahn SM, Boyault S, Brock JE, Broeks A, Butler A, Desmedt C, Dirix L, Dronov S, Fatima A, Foekens JA, Gerstung M, Hooijer GKJ, Jang SJ, Jones DR, Kim HY, King TA, Krishnamurthy S, Lee HJ, Lee JY, Li Y, McLaren S, Menzies A, Mustonen V, O'Meara S, Pauporté I, Pivot X, Purdie CA, Raine K, Ramakrishnan K, Rodríguez-González FG, Romieu G, Sieuwerts AM, Simpson PT, Shepherd R, Stebbings L, Stefansson OA, Teague J, Tommasi S, Treilleux I, Van den Eynden GG, Vermeulen P, Vincent-Salomon A, Yates L, Caldas C, Van't Veer L, Tutt A, Knappskog S, Tan BKT, Jonkers J, Borg Å, Ueno NT, Sotiriou C, Viari A, Futreal PA, Campbell PJ, Span PN, Van Laere S, Lakhani SR, Eyfjord JE, Thompson AM, Birney E, Stunnenberg HG, van de Vijver MJ, Martens JWM, Børresen-Dale AL, Richardson AL, Kong G, Thomas G, Stratton MR.
Nature
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Mutational mechanisms of amplifications revealed by analysis of clustered rearrangements in breast cancers.
Authors: Glodzik D, Purdie C, Rye IH, Simpson PT, Staaf J, Span PN, Russnes HG, Nik-Zainal S.
Ann Oncol
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Short inverted repeats contribute to localized mutability in human somatic cells.
Authors: Zou X, Morganella S, Glodzik D, Davies H, Li Y, Stratton MR, Nik-Zainal S.
Nucleic Acids Res
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Corrigendum: A somatic-mutational process recurrently duplicates germline susceptibility loci and tissue-specific super-enhancers in breast cancers.
Authors: Glodzik D, Morganella S, Davies H, Simpson PT, Li Y, Zou X, Diez-Perez J, Staaf J, Alexandrov LB, Smid M, Brinkman AB, Rye IH, Russnes H, Raine K, Purdie CA, Lakhani SR, Thompson AM, Birney E, Stunnenberg HG, van de Vijver MJ, Martens JWM, Børresen-Dale AL, Richardson AL, Kong G, Viari A, Easton D, Evan G, Campbell PJ, Stratton MR, Nik-Zainal S.
Nat Genet
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Whole-Genome Sequencing Reveals Breast Cancers with Mismatch Repair Deficiency.
Authors: Davies H, Morganella S, Purdie CA, Jang SJ, Borgen E, Russnes H, Glodzik D, Zou X, Viari A, Richardson AL, Børresen-Dale AL, Thompson A, Eyfjord JE, Kong G, Stratton MR, Nik-Zainal S.
Cancer Res
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HRDetect is a predictor of BRCA1 and BRCA2 deficiency based on mutational signatures.
Authors: Davies H, Glodzik D, Morganella S, Yates LR, Staaf J, Zou X, Ramakrishna M, Martin S, Boyault S, Sieuwerts AM, Simpson PT, King TA, Raine K, Eyfjord JE, Kong G, Borg Å, Birney E, Stunnenberg HG, van de Vijver MJ, Børresen-Dale AL, Martens JW, Span PN, Lakhani SR, Vincent-Salomon A, Sotiriou C, Tutt A, Thompson AM, Van Laere S, Richardson AL, Viari A, Campbell PJ, Stratton MR, Nik-Zainal S.
Nat Med
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A somatic-mutational process recurrently duplicates germline susceptibility loci and tissue-specific super-enhancers in breast cancers.
Authors: Glodzik D, Morganella S, Davies H, Simpson PT, Li Y, Zou X, Diez-Perez J, Staaf J, Alexandrov LB, Smid M, Brinkman AB, Rye IH, Russnes H, Raine K, Purdie CA, Lakhani SR, Thompson AM, Birney E, Stunnenberg HG, van de Vijver MJ, Martens JW, Børresen-Dale AL, Richardson AL, Kong G, Viari A, Easton D, Evan G, Campbell PJ, Stratton MR, Nik-Zainal S.
Nat Genet
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Whole-exome sequencing in an isolated population from the Dalmatian island of Vis.
Authors: Jeroncic A, Memari Y, Ritchie GR, Hendricks AE, Kolb-Kokocinski A, Matchan A, Vitart V, Hayward C, Kolcic I, Glodzik D, Wright AF, Rudan I, Campbell H, Durbin R, Polašek O, Zeggini E, Boraska Perica V.
Eur J Hum Genet
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Landscape of somatic mutations in 560 breast cancer whole-genome sequences.
Authors: Nik-Zainal S, Davies H, Staaf J, Ramakrishna M, Glodzik D, Zou X, Martincorena I, Alexandrov LB, Martin S, Wedge DC, Van Loo P, Ju YS, Smid M, Brinkman AB, Morganella S, Aure MR, Lingjærde OC, Langerød A, Ringnér M, Ahn SM, Boyault S, Brock JE, Broeks A, Butler A, Desmedt C, Dirix L, Dronov S, Fatima A, Foekens JA, Gerstung M, Hooijer GK, Jang SJ, Jones DR, Kim HY, King TA, Krishnamurthy S, Lee HJ, Lee JY, Li Y, McLaren S, Menzies A, Mustonen V, O'Meara S, Pauporté I, Pivot X, Purdie CA, Raine K, Ramakrishnan K, Rodríguez-González FG, Romieu G, Sieuwerts AM, Simpson PT, Shepherd R, Stebbings L, Stefansson OA, Teague J, Tommasi S, Treilleux I, Van den Eynden GG, Vermeulen P, Vincent-Salomon A, Yates L, Caldas C, van't Veer L, Tutt A, Knappskog S, Tan BK, Jonkers J, Borg Å, Ueno NT, Sotiriou C, Viari A, Futreal PA, Campbell PJ, Span PN, Van Laere S, Lakhani SR, Eyfjord JE, Thompson AM, Birney E, Stunnenberg HG, van de Vijver MJ, Martens JW, Børresen-Dale AL, Richardson AL, Kong G, Thomas G, Stratton MR.
Nature
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