Pervasive chromosomal instability and karyotype order in tumour evolution

TBK Watkins, EL Lim, M Petkovic, S Elizalde… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Chromosomal instability in cancer consists of dynamic changes to the number and structure
of chromosomes,. The resulting diversity in somatic copy number alterations (SCNAs) may …

MEDICC2: whole-genome doubling aware copy-number phylogenies for cancer evolution

TL Kaufmann, M Petkovic, TBK Watkins, EC Colliver… - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Aneuploidy, chromosomal instability, somatic copy-number alterations, and whole-genome
doubling (WGD) play key roles in cancer evolution and provide information for the complex …

Karyotype aberrations in action: the evolution of cancer genomes and the tumor microenvironment

NC Baudoin, M Bloomfield - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cancer is a disease of cellular evolution. For this cellular evolution to take place, a
population of cells must contain functional heterogeneity and an assessment of this …

Quantifying chromosomal instability from intratumoral karyotype diversity using agent-based modeling and Bayesian inference

AR Lynch, NL Arp, AS Zhou, BA Weaver, ME Burkard - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Chromosomal instability (CIN)—persistent chromosome gain or loss through abnormal
mitotic segregation—is a hallmark of cancer that drives aneuploidy. Intrinsic chromosome …

The reckoning of chromosomal instability: past, present, future

A Lynch, S Bradford, ME Burkard - Chromosome Research, 2024 - Springer
Quantitative measures of CIN are crucial to our understanding of its role in cancer.
Technological advances have changed the way CIN is quantified, offering increased …

Predicting CIN rates from single-cell whole genome sequencing data using an in silico model

B Bakker, M Schubert, ACF Bolhaqueiro, GJPL Kops… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Chromosomal instability (CIN) drives the formation of karyotype aberrations in cancer cells
and is a major contributor to intra-tumour heterogeneity, metastasis, and therapy resistance …

CNETML: maximum likelihood inference of phylogeny from copy number profiles of multiple samples

B Lu, K Curtius, TA Graham, Z Yang, CP Barnes - Genome biology, 2023 - Springer
Phylogenetic trees based on copy number profiles from multiple samples of a patient are
helpful to understand cancer evolution. Here, we develop a new maximum likelihood …

YY2/BUB3 Axis promotes SAC Hyperactivation and Inhibits Colorectal Cancer Progression via Regulating Chromosomal Instability

R Hosea, W Duan, ITS Meliala, W Li, M Wei… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) is a crucial safeguard mechanism of mitosis fidelity that
ensures equal division of duplicated chromosomes to the two progeny cells. Impaired SAC …

Proliferative advantage of specific aneuploid cells drives evolution of tumor karyotypes

I Ban, L Tomašić, M Trakala, IM Tolić, N Pavin - Biophysical journal, 2023 - cell.com
Most tumors have abnormal karyotypes, which arise from mistakes during mitotic division of
healthy euploid cells and evolve through numerous complex mechanisms. In a recent …

Intra-tumor heterogeneity, turnover rate and karyotype space shape susceptibility to missegregation-induced extinction

GJ Kimmel, RJ Beck, X Yu, T Veith… - PLOS Computational …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The phenotypic efficacy of somatic copy number alterations (SCNAs) stems from their
incidence per base pair of the genome, which is orders of magnitudes greater than that of …