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 …

[HTML][HTML] Polyploidy: a biological force from cells to ecosystems

DT Fox, DE Soltis, PS Soltis, TL Ashman… - Trends in Cell …, 2020 - cell.com
Polyploidy, resulting from the duplication of the entire genome of an organism or cell, greatly
affects genes and genomes, cells and tissues, organisms, and even entire ecosystems …

[HTML][HTML] Spatially resolved multi-omics deciphers bidirectional tumor-host interdependence in glioblastoma

VM Ravi, P Will, J Kueckelhaus, N Sun, K Joseph… - Cancer cell, 2022 - cell.com
Glioblastomas are malignant tumors of the central nervous system hallmarked by subclonal
diversity and dynamic adaptation amid developmental hierarchies. The source of dynamic …

Single-cell multimodal glioma analyses identify epigenetic regulators of cellular plasticity and environmental stress response

KC Johnson, KJ Anderson, ET Courtois, AD Gujar… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Glioma intratumoral heterogeneity enables adaptation to challenging microenvironments
and contributes to therapeutic resistance. We integrated 914 single-cell DNA methylomes …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Autophagy-mediated apoptosis eliminates aneuploid cells in a mouse model of chromosome mosaicism

S Singla, LK Iwamoto-Stohl, M Zhu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The high incidence of aneuploidy in the embryo is considered the principal cause for low
human fecundity. However, the prevalence of aneuploidy dramatically declines as …

[HTML][HTML] DNA replication stress and chromosomal instability: dangerous liaisons

T Wilhelm, M Said, V Naim - Genes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Chromosomal instability (CIN) is associated with many human diseases, including
neurodevelopmental or neurodegenerative conditions, age-related disorders and cancer …

Whole-genome doubling in tissues and tumors

MA Vittoria, RJ Quinton, NJ Ganem - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
The overwhelming majority of proliferating somatic human cells are diploid, and this
genomic state is typically maintained across successive cell divisions. However, failures in …