Incident disease associations with mosaic chromosomal alterations on autosomes, X and Y chromosomes: insights from a phenome-wide association study in the UK …

SH Lin, DW Brown, B Rose, F Day, OW Lee, SM Khan… - Cell & bioscience, 2021 - Springer
Background Mosaic chromosomal alterations (mCAs) are large chromosomal gains, losses
and copy-neutral losses of heterozygosity (LOH) in peripheral leukocytes. While many …

Clonal hematopoiesis due to mosaic chromosomal alterations: Impact on disease risk and mortality

AK Hubbard, DW Brown, MJ Machiela - Leukemia research, 2023 - Elsevier
Mosaic chromosomal alterations (mCAs) are the clonal expansion of large somatically
acquired structural chromosomal changes present on the autosomes and sex …

Serum biomarkers are altered in UK Biobank participants with mosaic chromosomal alterations

AK Hubbard, DW Brown, W Zhou, SH Lin… - Human Molecular …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Age-related clonal expansion of cells harbouring mosaic chromosomal alterations (mCAs) is
one manifestation of clonal haematopoiesis. Identifying factors that influence the generation …

Mutation rates and fitness consequences of mosaic chromosomal alterations in blood

CJ Watson, JR Blundell - Nature genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Mosaic chromosomal alterations (mCAs) are common in cancers and can arise decades
before diagnosis. A quantitative understanding of the rate at which these events occur, and …

Genetics of autosomal mosaic chromosomal alteration (mCA)

X Liu, Y Kamatani, C Terao - Journal of Human Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Mosaic chromosomal alterations (mCAs) are frequently observed in cancer cells and are
regarded as one of the common features of cancers. Strikingly, accumulating studies …

Mosaic chromosomal alterations in blood across ancestries using whole-genome sequencing

YA Jakubek, Y Zhou, A Stilp, J Bacon, JW Wong… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Megabase-scale mosaic chromosomal alterations (mCAs) in blood are prognostic markers
for a host of human diseases. Here, to gain a better understanding of mCA rates in …

A pan-tissue survey of mosaic chromosomal alterations in 948 individuals

T Gao, ME Kastriti, V Ljungström, A Heinzel… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Genetic mutations accumulate in an organism's body throughout its lifetime. While somatic
single-nucleotide variants have been well characterized in the human body, the patterns …

Mosaic chromosome Y loss is associated with alterations in blood cell counts in UK Biobank men

SH Lin, E Loftfield, JN Sampson, W Zhou, M Yeager… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Mosaic loss of Y chromosome (mLOY) is the most frequently detected somatic copy number
alteration in leukocytes of men. In this study, we investigate blood cell counts as a potential …

Association of the interaction between mosaic chromosomal alterations and polygenic risk score with the risk of lung cancer: an array-based case-control association …

N Qin, C Wang, C Chen, L Yang, S Liu, J Xiang… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Mosaic chromosomal alterations (mCAs) detected from blood-derived DNA are
large structural alterations of clonal haematopoietic origin and are associated with various …

Hematopoietic mosaic chromosomal alterations increase the risk for diverse types of infection

SM Zekavat, SH Lin, AG Bick, A Liu, K Paruchuri… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Age is the dominant risk factor for infectious diseases, but the mechanisms linking age to
infectious disease risk are incompletely understood. Age-related mosaic chromosomal …