Cancer organoids 2.0: modelling the complexity of the tumour immune microenvironment

R Polak, ET Zhang, CJ Kuo - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
The development of neoplasia involves a complex and continuous interplay between
malignantly transformed cells and the tumour microenvironment (TME). Cancer …

The two sides of chromosomal instability: drivers and brakes in cancer

R Hosea, S Hillary, S Naqvi, S Wu… - Signal transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
Chromosomal instability (CIN) is a hallmark of cancer and is associated with tumor cell
malignancy. CIN triggers a chain reaction in cells leading to chromosomal abnormalities …

Aneuploidy as a driver of human cancer

E Sdeor, H Okada, R Saad, T Ben-Yishay… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Aneuploidy, an abnormal chromosome composition, is a major contributor to cancer
development and progression and an important determinant of cancer therapeutic …

Luminal breast epithelial cells of BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation carriers and noncarriers harbor common breast cancer copy number alterations

MJ Williams, MUJ Oliphant, V Au, C Liu, C Baril… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
The prevalence and nature of somatic copy number alterations (CNAs) in breast epithelium
and their role in tumor initiation and evolution remain poorly understood. Using single-cell …

Ancestral aneuploidy and stable chromosomal duplication resulting in differential genome structure and gene expression control in trypanosomatid parasites

JL Reis-Cunha, SA Pimenta-Carvalho… - Genome …, 2024 - genome.cshlp.org
Aneuploidy is widely observed in both unicellular and multicellular eukaryotes, usually
associated with adaptation to stress conditions. Chromosomal duplication stability is a …

An elevated rate of whole-genome duplications in cancers from Black patients

LM Brown, RA Hagenson, T Koklič, I Urbančič… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract In the United States, Black individuals have higher rates of cancer mortality than
any other racial group. Here, we examine chromosome copy number changes in cancers …

Aneuploidy in human cancer: new tools and perspectives

AA Lakhani, SL Thompson, JM Sheltzer - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
Chromosome copy number imbalances, otherwise known as aneuploidies, are a common
but poorly understood feature of cancer. Here, we describe recent advances in both …