Resolving genetic heterogeneity in cancer

S Turajlic, A Sottoriva, T Graham… - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
To a large extent, cancer conforms to evolutionary rules defined by the rates at which clones
mutate, adapt and grow. Next-generation sequencing has provided a snapshot of the …

Aneuploidy as a driver of human cancer

E Sdeor, H Okada, R Saad, T Ben-Yishay… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Aneuploidy, an abnormal chromosome composition, is a major contributor to cancer
development and progression and an important determinant of cancer therapeutic …

Chromothripsis as an on-target consequence of CRISPR–Cas9 genome editing

ML Leibowitz, S Papathanasiou, PA Doerfler… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome editing has therapeutic potential for treating genetic diseases and cancer.
However, the currently most practicable approaches rely on the generation of DNA double …

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 …

Nuclear chromosome locations dictate segregation error frequencies

SJ Klaasen, MA Truong, RH van Jaarsveld, I Koprivec… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Chromosome segregation errors during cell divisions generate aneuploidies and
micronuclei, which can undergo extensive chromosomal rearrangements such as …

Induction of APOBEC3 exacerbates DNA replication stress and chromosomal instability in early breast and lung cancer evolution

S Venkatesan, M Angelova, C Puttick, H Zhai… - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
APOBEC3 enzymes are cytosine deaminases implicated in cancer. Precisely when
APOBEC3 expression is induced during cancer development remains to be defined. Here …

Effects of aneuploidy on cell behaviour and function

R Li, J Zhu - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2022 - nature.com
Aneuploidy, a genomic alternation characterized by deviations in the copy number of
chromosomes, affects organisms from early development through to aging. Although it is a …

Luminal breast epithelial cells of BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation carriers and noncarriers harbor common breast cancer copy number alterations

MJ Williams, MUJ Oliphant, V Au, C Liu, C Baril… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
The prevalence and nature of somatic copy number alterations (CNAs) in breast epithelium
and their role in tumor initiation and evolution remain poorly understood. Using single-cell …

Mechanisms of genomic instability in breast cancer

PHG Duijf, D Nanayakkara, K Nones, S Srihari… - Trends in molecular …, 2019 - cell.com
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women globally. Genomic instability (GI)
refers to the increased tendency to accrue genomic alterations. It drives heterogeneity and is …

Mitotic clustering of pulverized chromosomes from micronuclei

YF Lin, Q Hu, A Mazzagatti, JE Valle-Inclán… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Complex genome rearrangements can be generated by the catastrophic pulverization of
missegregated chromosomes trapped within micronuclei through a process known as …