Live cell microscopy analysis of radiation-induced DNA double-strand break motion

B Jakob, J Splinter, M Durante… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
We studied the spatiotemporal organization of DNA damage processing by live cell
microscopy analysis in human cells. In unirradiated U2OS osteosarcoma and HeLa cancer …

Spatial genome organization in the formation of chromosomal translocations

KJ Meaburn, T Misteli, E Soutoglou - Seminars in cancer biology, 2007 - Elsevier
Chromosomal translocations and genomic instability are universal hallmarks of tumor cells.
While the molecular mechanisms leading to the formation of translocations are rapidly being …

Cancer after nuclear fallout: lessons from the Chernobyl accident

D Williams - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2002 - nature.com
The Chernobyl accident exposed people located hundreds of kilometres away to fallout, but
increases in cancer incidence as a result of the accident seem, at present, to be restricted to …

Mechanisms that promote and suppress chromosomal translocations in lymphocytes

M Gostissa, FW Alt, R Chiarle - Annual review of immunology, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Recurrent chromosomal translocations are characteristic features of many types of cancers,
especially lymphomas and leukemias. Several basic mechanistic factors are required for the …

The genome and the nucleus: a marriage made by evolution: genome organisation and nuclear architecture

HA Foster, JM Bridger - Chromosoma, 2005 - Springer
Genomes are housed within cell nuclei as individual chromosome territories. Nuclei contain
several architectural structures that interact and influence the genome. In this review, we …

Chromatin structural elements and chromosomal translocations in leukemia

Y Zhang, JD Rowley - DNA repair, 2006 - Elsevier
Recurring chromosome abnormalities are strongly associated with certain subtypes of
leukemia, lymphoma and sarcomas. More recently, their potential involvement in …

Radiation-induced thyroid cancer: what we have learned from Chernobyl

YE Nikiforov - Endocrine pathology, 2006 - Springer
An increased incidence of thyroid cancer in the exposed children remains the most well-
documented long-term effect of radioactive contamination after the Chernobyl nuclear …

RET/PTC and PAX8/PPARγ chromosomal rearrangements in post‐Chernobyl thyroid cancer and their association with iodine‐131 radiation dose and other …

RJ Leeman‐Neill, AV Brenner, MP Little… - Cancer, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND: Childhood exposure to iodine‐131 from the 1986 nuclear accident in
Chernobyl, Ukraine, led to a sharp increase in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) incidence …

Genomic rearrangements in inherited disease and cancer

JM Chen, DN Cooper, C Férec… - Seminars in cancer …, 2010 - Elsevier
Genomic rearrangements in inherited disease and cancer involve gross alterations of
chromosomes or large chromosomal regions and can take the form of deletions …

[HTML][HTML] Conservation of relative chromosome positioning in normal and cancer cells

LA Parada, PG McQueen, PJ Munson, T Misteli - Current Biology, 2002 - cell.com
Chromosomes exist in the interphase nucleus as individual chromosome territories. It is
unclear to what extent chromosome territories occupy particular positions with respect to …