Telomeres in cancer: tumour suppression and genome instability

J Maciejowski, T de Lange - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2017 - nature.com
The shortening of human telomeres has two opposing effects during cancer development.
On the one hand, telomere shortening can exert a tumour-suppressive effect through the …

Advances in the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia

H Inaba, CH Pui - Journal of clinical medicine, 2021 - mdpi.com
The outcomes of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) have improved remarkably
during the last five decades. Such improvements were made possible by the incorporation of …

Chromothripsis as an on-target consequence of CRISPR–Cas9 genome editing

ML Leibowitz, S Papathanasiou, PA Doerfler… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome editing has therapeutic potential for treating genetic diseases and cancer.
However, the currently most practicable approaches rely on the generation of DNA double …

The genomic landscape of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia

SW Brady, KG Roberts, Z Gu, L Shi, S Pounds, D Pei… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common childhood cancer. Here, using
whole-genome, exome and transcriptome sequencing of 2,754 childhood patients with ALL …

Chromothripsis drives the evolution of gene amplification in cancer

O Shoshani, SF Brunner, R Yaeger, P Ly… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Focal chromosomal amplification contributes to the initiation of cancer by mediating
overexpression of oncogenes,–, and to the development of cancer therapy resistance by …

[HTML][HTML] Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes

Y Li, ND Roberts, JA Wala, O Shapira, SE Schumacher… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
A key mutational process in cancer is structural variation, in which rearrangements delete,
amplify or reorder genomic segments that range in size from kilobases to whole …

Comprehensive analysis of chromothripsis in 2,658 human cancers using whole-genome sequencing

I Cortés-Ciriano, JJK Lee, R **, D Jain, YL Jung… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Chromothripsis is a mutational phenomenon characterized by massive, clustered genomic
rearrangements that occurs in cancer and other diseases. Recent studies in selected cancer …

Mechanisms generating cancer genome complexity from a single cell division error

NT Umbreit, CZ Zhang, LD Lynch, LJ Blaine… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The chromosome breakage-fusion-bridge (BFB) cycle is a catastrophic
mutational process, common during tumorigenesis, that results in gene amplification and …

Genomic copy number dictates a gene-independent cell response to CRISPR/Cas9 targeting

AJ Aguirre, RM Meyers, BA Weir, F Vazquez, CZ Zhang… - Cancer discovery, 2016 - AACR
The CRISPR/Cas9 system enables genome editing and somatic cell genetic screens in
mammalian cells. We performed genome-scale loss-of-function screens in 33 cancer cell …

Chromothripsis and kataegis induced by telomere crisis

J Maciejowski, Y Li, N Bosco, PJ Campbell… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Telomere crisis occurs during tumorigenesis when depletion of the telomere reserve leads
to frequent telomere fusions. The resulting dicentric chromosomes have been proposed to …