Transposable elements in human cancer: causes and consequences of deregulation

SL Anwar, W Wulaningsih, U Lehmann - International journal of molecular …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Transposable elements (TEs) comprise nearly half of the human genome and play an
essential role in the maintenance of genomic stability, chromosomal architecture, and …

Mechanisms and principles of homology search during recombination

J Renkawitz, CA Lademann, S Jentsch - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2014 - nature.com
Homologous recombination is crucial for genome stability and for genetic exchange.
Although our knowledge of the principle steps in recombination and its machinery is well …

[HTML][HTML] Contrasting evolutionary genome dynamics between domesticated and wild yeasts

JX Yue, J Li, L Aigrain, J Hallin, K Persson, K Oliver… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Structural rearrangements have long been recognized as an important source of genetic
variation, with implications in phenotypic diversity and disease, yet their detailed …

Homologous recombination and the formation of complex genomic rearrangements

A Piazza, WD Heyer - Trends in cell biology, 2019 - cell.com
The maintenance of genome integrity involves multiple independent DNA damage
avoidance and repair mechanisms. However, the origin and pathways of the focal …

Multi-invasions are recombination byproducts that induce chromosomal rearrangements

A Piazza, WD Wright, WD Heyer - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Inaccurate repair of broken chromosomes generates structural variants that can fuel
evolution and inflict pathology. We describe a novel rearrangement mechanism in which …

Chromosome rearrangements via template switching between diverged repeated sequences

RP Anand, O Tsaponina, PW Greenwell… - Genes & …, 2014 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Recent high-resolution genome analyses of cancer and other diseases have revealed the
occurrence of microhomology-mediated chromosome rearrangements and copy number …

Breaks in the 45S rDNA lead to recombination-mediated loss of repeats

DO Warmerdam, J van den Berg, RH Medema - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Summary rDNA repeats constitute the most heavily transcribed region in the human
genome. Tumors frequently display elevated levels of recombination in rDNA, indicating that …

[HTML][HTML] Loss of heterozygosity drives adaptation in hybrid yeast

CSS Heil, CG DeSevo, DA Pai, CM Tucker… - … biology and evolution, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hybridization is often considered maladaptive, but sometimes hybrids can invade new
ecological niches and adapt to novel or stressful environments better than their parents. The …

Loss of heterozygosity drives adaptation in hybrid yeast

CS Smukowski Heil, CG DeSevo, DA Pai… - Molecular biology …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Hybridization is often considered maladaptive, but sometimes hybrids can invade new
ecological niches and adapt to novel or stressful environments better than their parents. The …

[HTML][HTML] Recombination of repeat elements generates somatic complexity in human genomes

G Pascarella, CC Hon, K Hashimoto, A Busch… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Non-allelic recombination between homologous repetitive elements contributes to evolution
and human genetic disorders. Here, we combine short-and long-DNA read sequencing of …