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ArticleBreast cancer research and treatment2015

Cross-species DNA copy number analyses identifies multiple 1q21-q23 subtype-specific driver genes for breast cancer.

Grace O Silva, Xiaping He, Joel S Parker, Michael L Gatza, Lisa A Carey, Jack P Hou, Stacy L Moulder, Paul K Marcom, Jian Ma, Jeffrey M Rosen and 1 more

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Article in Breast cancer research and treatment, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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11 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.

Grace O SilvaDepartment of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA, silvag@email.unc.edu.
Xiaping He
Joel S Parker
Michael L Gatza
Lisa A Carey
Jack P Hou
Stacy L Moulder
Paul K Marcom
Jian Ma
Jeffrey M Rosen
Charles M Perou
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USUNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer CenterUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · USBaylor College of Medicine · USDuke University · USThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · US

Funding

Tissue Procurement & PathologyP50CA058223 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI KATHERINE A. HOADLEY · 1992 to 2026
$59.3M
UNC Initiative for Maximizing Student DevelopmentR25GM055336 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI COOK, JEANETTE GOWEN, KASH, THOMAS L. · 1996 to 2023
$12.1M
Therapeutic Targeting of Breast Cancer Tumor Initiating CellsR01CA148761 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI PEROU, CHARLES M, ROSEN, JEFFREY MARK · 2010 to 2025
$6.5M
NCI NIH HHS P50 CA058223NCI NIH HHS P50-CA58223-09A1NCI NIH HHS R01 CA148761NCI NIH HHS R01-CA148761NIGMS NIH HHS 5R25GM055336NIGMS NIH HHS R25 GM055336
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A large number of DNA copy number alterations (CNAs) exist in human breast cancers, and thus characterizing the most frequent CNAs is key to advancing therapeutics because it is likely that these regions contain breast tumor 'drivers' (i.e., cancer causal genes). This study aims to characterize the genomic landscape of breast cancer CNAs and identify potential subtype-specific drivers using a large set of human breast tumors and genetically engineered mouse (GEM) mammary tumors. Using a novel method called SWITCHplus, we identified subtype-specific DNA CNAs occurring at a 15% or greater frequency, which excluded many well-known breast cancer-related drivers such as amplification of ERBB2, and deletions of TP53 and RB1. A comparison of CNAs between mouse and human breast tumors identified regions with shared subtype-specific CNAs. Additional criteria that included gene expression-to-copy number correlation, a DawnRank network analysis, and RNA interference functional studies highlighted candidate driver genes that fulfilled these multiple criteria. Numerous regions of shared CNAs were observed between human breast tumors and GEM mammary tumor models that shared similar gene expression features. Specifically, we identified chromosome 1q21-23 as a Basal-like subtype-enriched region with multiple potential driver genes including PI4KB, SHC1, and NCSTN. This step-wise computational approach based on a cross-species comparison is applicable to any tumor type for which sufficient human and model system DNA copy number data exist, and in this instance, highlights that a single region of amplification may in fact harbor multiple driver genes.

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Chromosome MappingChromosomes, Human, Pair 1OncogenesAnimalsBreast NeoplasmsCell Transformation, NeoplasticComputational BiologyDatabases, Nucleic AcidDNA Copy Number VariationsFemaleGene DosageGene Regulatory NetworksHumansMiceNeoplasms, Basal CellReceptors, NotchReceptors, Notch

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PMCPMC4491106
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