Aneuploidy and complex genomic rearrangements in cancer evolution

TM Baker, S Waise, M Tarabichi, P Van Loo - Nature cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Mutational processes that alter large genomic regions occur frequently in developing
tumors. They range from simple copy number gains and losses to the shattering and …

Aneuploidy as a promoter and suppressor of malignant growth

A Vasudevan, KM Schukken, EL Sausville… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Aneuploidy has been recognized as a hallmark of tumorigenesis for more than 100 years,
but the connection between chromosomal errors and malignant growth has remained …

Oncogene-like addiction to aneuploidy in human cancers

V Girish, AA Lakhani, SL Thompson, CM Scaduto… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Most cancers exhibit aneuploidy, but its functional significance in tumor development is
controversial. Here, we describe ReDACT (Restoring Disomy in Aneuploid cells using …

Gene copy-number changes and chromosomal instability induced by aneuploidy confer resistance to chemotherapy

MR Ippolito, V Martis, S Martin, AE Tijhuis, C Hong… - Developmental cell, 2021 - cell.com
Mitotic errors lead to aneuploidy, a condition of karyotype imbalance, frequently found in
cancer cells. Alterations in chromosome copy number induce a wide variety of cellular …

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 …

Genome-wide identification and analysis of prognostic features in human cancers

JC Smith, JM Sheltzer - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Clinical decisions in cancer rely on precisely assessing patient risk. To improve our ability to
identify the most aggressive malignancies, we constructed genome-wide survival models …

Extensive protein dosage compensation in aneuploid human cancers

KM Schukken, JM Sheltzer - Genome research, 2022 - genome.cshlp.org
Aneuploidy is a hallmark of human cancers, but the effects of aneuploidy on protein
expression remain poorly understood. To uncover how chromosome copy number changes …

Short-term molecular consequences of chromosome mis-segregation for genome stability

L Garribba, G De Feudis, V Martis, M Galli… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Chromosome instability (CIN) is the most common form of genome instability and is a
hallmark of cancer. CIN invariably leads to aneuploidy, a state of karyotype imbalance. Here …

Multiple cancers escape from multiple MAPK pathway inhibitors and use DNA replication stress signaling to tolerate aberrant cell cycles

TE Hoffman, V Nangia, VJ Passanisi, C Armstrong… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Many cancers harbor pro-proliferative mutations of the mitogen-activated protein kinase
(MAPK) pathway. In BRAF-driven melanoma cells treated with BRAF inhibitors …

Chromosomal instability and aneuploidy as causes of cancer drug resistance

DA Lukow, JM Sheltzer - Trends in Cancer, 2022 - cell.com
High levels of aneuploidy and chromosomal instability (CIN) are correlated with poor patient
outcomes, though the mechanism (s) underlying this relationship have not been established …