Extrachromosomal DNA amplifications in cancer

E Yi, R Chamorro González, AG Henssen… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) amplification is an important driver alteration in cancer. It
has been observed in most cancer types and is associated with worse patient outcome. The …

[HTML][HTML] Extrachromosomal circular DNA in cancer: history, current knowledge, and methods

JB Noer, OK Hørsdal, X Xiang, Y Luo, B Regenberg - Trends in Genetics, 2022 - cell.com
Extrachromosomal circular DNA (eccDNA) is a closed-circle, nuclear, nonplasmid DNA
molecule found in all tested eukaryotes. eccDNA plays important roles in cancer …

Chromothripsis followed by circular recombination drives oncogene amplification in human cancer

C Rosswog, C Bartenhagen, A Welte, Y Kahlert… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The mechanisms behind the evolution of complex genomic amplifications in cancer have
remained largely unclear. Using whole-genome sequencing data of the pediatric tumor …

Extrachromosomal oncogene amplification in tumour pathogenesis and evolution

RGW Verhaak, V Bafna, PS Mischel - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
Recent reports have demonstrated that oncogene amplification on extrachromosomal DNA
(ecDNA) is a frequent event in cancer, providing new momentum to explore a phenomenon …

Neuroblastoma—a neural crest derived embryonal malignancy

JI Johnsen, C Dyberg, M Wickström - Frontiers in molecular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Neuroblastoma is a neural crest derived malignancy of the peripheral nervous system and is
the most common and deadliest tumor of infancy. It is characterized by clinical heterogeneity …

Extrachromosomal DNA: an emerging hallmark in human cancer

S Wu, V Bafna, HY Chang… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Human genes are arranged on 23 pairs of chromosomes, but in cancer, tumor-promoting
genes and regulatory elements can free themselves from chromosomes and relocate to …

ecDNA hubs drive cooperative intermolecular oncogene expression

KL Hung, KE Yost, L Xie, Q Shi, K Helmsauer… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) is prevalent in human cancers and mediates high
expression of oncogenes through gene amplification and altered gene regulation. Gene …

Exploring the landscape of focal amplifications in cancer using AmpliconArchitect

V Deshpande, J Luebeck, NPD Nguyen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Focal oncogene amplification and rearrangements drive tumor growth and evolution in
multiple cancer types. We present AmpliconArchitect (AA), a tool to reconstruct the fine …

Extrachromosomal circular DNA is common in yeast

HD Møller, L Parsons, TS Jørgensen… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Examples of extrachromosomal circular DNAs (eccDNAs) are found in many organisms, but
their impact on genetic variation at the genome scale has not been investigated. We …

Long non-coding RNA PVT1 interacts with MYC and its downstream molecules to synergistically promote tumorigenesis

K Jin, S Wang, Y Zhang, M Xia, Y Mo, X Li, G Li… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2019 - Springer
Numerous studies have shown that non-coding RNAs play crucial roles in the development
and progression of various tumor cells. Plasmacytoma variant translocation 1 (PVT1) mainly …