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Oncogene-like addiction to aneuploidy in human cancers
Girish V, Lakhani A, Thompson S, Scaduto C, Brown L, Hagenson R, Sausville E, Mendelson B, Kandikuppa P, Lukow D, Yuan M, Stevens E, Lee S, Schukken K, Akalu S, Vasudevan A, Zou C, Salovska B, Li W, Smith J, Taylor A, Martienssen R, Liu Y, Sun R, Sheltzer J. Oncogene-like addiction to aneuploidy in human cancers. Science 2023, 381: eadg4521. PMID: 37410869, PMCID: PMC10753973, DOI: 10.1126/science.adg4521.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2023
Aneuploidy in human cancer: new tools and perspectives
Lakhani A, Thompson S, Sheltzer J. Aneuploidy in human cancer: new tools and perspectives. Trends In Genetics 2023, 39: 968-980. PMID: 37778926, PMCID: PMC10715718, DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2023.09.002.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSpecific chromosomal changesClinical prognosisConsequences of aneuploidyTreatment strategiesFeature of cancerIsogenic cell linesDosage-sensitive genesShort palindromic repeatsCancer developmentCopy number imbalancesMalignant growthHuman cancersAneuploid chromosomesCell linesPalindromic repeatsCancerChromosomal changesAneuploidyNumber imbalancesPrognosis
2021
Aneuploidy as a promoter and suppressor of malignant growth
Vasudevan A, Schukken KM, Sausville EL, Girish V, Adebambo OA, Sheltzer JM. Aneuploidy as a promoter and suppressor of malignant growth. Nature Reviews Cancer 2021, 21: 89-103. PMID: 33432169, DOI: 10.1038/s41568-020-00321-1.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2011
Aneuploidy Drives Genomic Instability in Yeast
Sheltzer J, Blank H, Pfau S, Tange Y, George B, Humpton T, Brito I, Hiraoka Y, Niwa O, Amon A. Aneuploidy Drives Genomic Instability in Yeast. Science 2011, 333: 1026-1030. PMID: 21852501, PMCID: PMC3278960, DOI: 10.1126/science.1206412.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAneuploidyChromosome SegregationChromosomes, FungalDNA DamageDNA RepairDNA ReplicationDNA, FungalGenome, FungalGenomic InstabilityMutagenesisMutationNeoplasmsPhenotypeRad52 DNA Repair and Recombination ProteinRecombination, GeneticSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsConceptsGenomic instabilityMitotic recombinationDefective DNA damage repairEffects of aneuploidyDNA damage repairCellular fitnessFission yeastGenomic stabilitySingle chromosomeEnhanced proliferative capacityChromosome lossDamage repairExtra copiesYeastGenetic alterationsProliferative capacityAneuploidyMost strainsMalignant growthRecombinationChromosomesTumorigenesisFitnessCopiesGrowth