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ArticleCancer science2020

Genome organization in proximity to the BAP1 locus appears to play a pivotal role in a variety of cancers.

Amit Sharma, Hongde Liu, Fabian Tobar-Tosse, Angela Noll, Tikam Chand Dakal, Huamei Li, Frank G Holz, Karin U Loeffler, Martina C Herwig-Carl

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Article in Cancer science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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9 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Amit SharmaDepartment of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2216-5389
Hongde LiuState Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.
Fabian Tobar-TossePontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Cali, Colombia.
Angela NollPrimate Genetics Laboratory, German Primate Center, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany.
Tikam Chand DakalDepartment of Biotechnology, Mohanlal Sukhadia University Udaipur, Udaipur, India.
Huamei LiState Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.
Frank G HolzDepartment of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
Karin U LoefflerDepartment of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
Martina C Herwig-CarlDepartment of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5943-7675
University Hospital Bonn · DESoutheast University · CNGerman Primate Center · DEMohanlal Sukhadia University · INPontificia Universidad Javeriana · CO

Funding

German Research Foundation (DFG) HE 5775/5-1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer studies primarily focus on the characterization of the key driver genes and the underlying pathways. However, the contribution of other cancer-associated genes located in the genomic neighborhood of the driver genes could help to understand further aspects of cancer progression. Given the frequent involvement of chromosome 3 in multiple human cancers, in particular in the form of the prognostically highly relevant monosomy 3 in uveal melanoma (UM), we investigated the cumulative impact of cancer-associated genes on chromosome 3. Our analysis showed that these genes are enriched with repetitive elements with genes surrounded by distinctive repeats (MIR, hAT-Charlie, ERVL-MaLR, LINE-2, and simple/low complexity) in the promoter being more precisely associated with cancer-related pathways than the ones with major transposable elements (SINE/Alu and LINE-1). Additionally, these genes showed strong intrachromosomal chromatin interactions in 3D nuclear organization. Further investigations revealed a genomic hotspot in the vicinity of BAP1 locus, which is affected in 27 types of different cancers and contains abundant noncoding RNAs that are often expressed in a tissue-specific manner. The cross-species comparison of these cancer-associated genes revealed mostly a shared synteny in closer primates. However, near to the BAP1 locus signs of chromosomal inversions were observed during the course of evolution. To our knowledge, this is the first study to characterize the entire genomic neighborhood of cancer-associated genes located on any single chromosome. Based on our results, we hypothesize that monosomy of chromosome 3 will have important clinical and molecular consequences in the respective diseases and in particular in UM.

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Evolution, MolecularAlu ElementsAnimalsChromatinChromosome InversionChromosomes, Human, Pair 3Computational BiologyHumansLong Interspersed Nucleotide ElementsMelanomaPrimatesPromoter Regions, GeneticRepetitive Sequences, Nucleic AcidTumor Suppressor ProteinsUbiquitin ThiolesteraseUveal MelanomaBAP1 protein, humanChromatinTumor Suppressor ProteinsUbiquitin Thiolesterasecancerevolutionmonosomy 3repetitive sequenceuveal melanoma

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