Epigenetics, fragmentomics, and topology of cell-free DNA in liquid biopsies

YMD Lo, DSC Han, P Jiang, RWK Chiu - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Liquid biopsies that are based on analysis of cell-free DNA from plasma
offer diagnostic information that is otherwise accessible conventionally through invasive …

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 …

eccDNAs are apoptotic products with high innate immunostimulatory activity

Y Wang, M Wang, MN Djekidel, H Chen, D Liu, FW Alt… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Extrachromosomal circular DNA elements (eccDNAs) have been described in the literature
for several decades, and are known for their broad existence across different species …

Extrachromosomal DNA is associated with oncogene amplification and poor outcome across multiple cancers

H Kim, NP Nguyen, K Turner, S Wu, AD Gujar… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) amplification promotes intratumoral genetic heterogeneity
and accelerated tumor evolution,–; however, its frequency and clinical impact are unclear …

Circular ecDNA promotes accessible chromatin and high oncogene expression

S Wu, KM Turner, N Nguyen, R Raviram, M Erb… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Oncogenes are commonly amplified on particles of extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) in
cancer,, but our understanding of the structure of ecDNA and its effect on gene regulation is …

Extrachromosomal circular DNA drives oncogenic genome remodeling in neuroblastoma

RP Koche, E Rodriguez-Fos, K Helmsauer, M Burkert… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Extrachromosomal circularization of DNA is an important genomic feature in cancer.
However, the structure, composition and genome-wide frequency of extrachromosomal …

[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 …

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 …

Parallel sequencing of extrachromosomal circular DNAs and transcriptomes in single cancer cells

R Chamorro González, T Conrad, MC Stöber, R Xu… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Extrachromosomal DNAs (ecDNAs) are common in cancer, but many questions about their
origin, structural dynamics and impact on intratumor heterogeneity are still unresolved. Here …

Extrachromosomal circular DNA and structural variants highlight genome instability in Arabidopsis epigenetic mutants

P Zhang, A Mbodj, A Soundiramourtty, C Llauro… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abundant extrachromosomal circular DNA (eccDNA) is associated with transposable
element (TE) activity. However, how the eccDNA compartment is controlled by epigenetic …