Diverse mechanisms of somatic structural variations in human cancer genomes.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-9-2013

Keywords

Algorithms, Chromosome Aberrations, Genome, Human, Genome-Wide Association Study, Glioblastoma, Humans, Mutation, Neoplasms

JAX Source

Cell 2013 May 9; 153(4):919-29.

Volume

153

Issue

4

First Page

919

Last Page

929

ISSN

1097-4172

PMID

23663786

Abstract

Identification of somatic rearrangements in cancer genomes has accelerated through analysis of high-throughput sequencing data. However, characterization of complex structural alterations and their underlying mechanisms remains inadequate. Here, applying an algorithm to predict structural variations from short reads, we report a comprehensive catalog of somatic structural variations and the mechanisms generating them, using high-coverage whole-genome sequencing data from 140 patients across ten tumor types. We characterize the relative contributions of different types of rearrangements and their mutational mechanisms, find that ~20% of the somatic deletions are complex deletions formed by replication errors, and describe the differences between the mutational mechanisms in somatic and germline alterations. Importantly, we provide detailed reconstructions of the events responsible for loss of CDKN2A/B and gain of EGFR in glioblastoma, revealing that these alterations can result from multiple mechanisms even in a single genome and that both DNA double-strand breaks and replication errors drive somatic rearrangements. Cell 2013 May 9; 153(4):919-29.

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