Context is everything: aneuploidy in cancer

U Ben-David, A Amon - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer is driven by multiple types of genetic alterations, which range in size from point
mutations to whole-chromosome gains and losses, known as aneuploidy. Chromosome …

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 …

Tumor aneuploidy correlates with markers of immune evasion and with reduced response to immunotherapy

T Davoli, H Uno, EC Wooten, SJ Elledge - Science, 2017 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Aneuploidy, also known as somatic copy number alterations (SCNAs), is
widespread in human cancers and has been proposed to drive tumorigenesis. The …

Determinants and clinical implications of chromosomal instability in cancer

L Sansregret, B Vanhaesebroeck… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2018 - nature.com
Aberrant chromosomal architecture, ranging from small insertions or deletions to large
chromosomal alterations, is one of the most common characteristics of cancer genomes …

Short-and long-term effects of chromosome mis-segregation and aneuploidy

S Santaguida, A Amon - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2015 - nature.com
Dividing cells that experience chromosome mis-segregation generate aneuploid daughter
cells, which contain an incorrect number of chromosomes. Although aneuploidy interferes …

Causes and consequences of aneuploidy in cancer

DJ Gordon, B Resio, D Pellman - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
Genetic instability, which includes both numerical and structural chromosomal
abnormalities, is a hallmark of cancer. Whereas the structural chromosome rearrangements …

The impact of mitotic errors on cell proliferation and tumorigenesis

MS Levine, AJ Holland - Genes & development, 2018 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Mitosis is a delicate event that must be executed with high fidelity to ensure genomic
stability. Recent work has provided insight into how mitotic errors shape cancer genomes by …

The diverse consequences of aneuploidy

NK Chunduri, Z Storchová - Nature Cell Biology, 2019 - nature.com
Aneuploidy, or imbalanced chromosome number, has profound effects on eukaryotic cells.
In humans, aneuploidy is associated with various pathologies, including cancer, which …

Gene expression analysis identifies global gene dosage sensitivity in cancer

RSN Fehrmann, JM Karjalainen, M Krajewska… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Many cancer-associated somatic copy number alterations (SCNAs) are known. Currently,
one of the challenges is to identify the molecular downstream effects of these variants …

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 …