Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34205328›Full record

ReviewCancers2021

Structural Chromosome Instability: Types, Origins, Consequences, and Therapeutic Opportunities.

Sebastián Omar Siri, Julieta Martino, Vanesa Gottifredi

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In one paragraph

Review in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
39citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  4. Advances in Colorectal Cancer Cell Biology and Clonal Evolution.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  14. Chromothripsis in cancer.Nature reviews. Cancer · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sebastián Omar SiriCell Cycle and Genome Stability Laboratory, Fundación Instituto Leloir, C1405 BWE Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Julieta MartinoCell Cycle and Genome Stability Laboratory, Fundación Instituto Leloir, C1405 BWE Buenos Aires, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0001-9880-2682
Vanesa GottifrediCell Cycle and Genome Stability Laboratory, Fundación Instituto Leloir, C1405 BWE Buenos Aires, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0001-9656-5951
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas · ARFundación Instituto Leloir · AR

Funding

Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica PICT2018-01857Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica PICT2019-02201
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chromosomal instability (CIN) refers to an increased rate of acquisition of numerical and structural changes in chromosomes and is considered an enabling characteristic of tumors. Given its role as a facilitator of genomic changes, CIN is increasingly being considered as a possible therapeutic target, raising the question of which variables may convert CIN into an ally instead of an enemy during cancer treatment. This review discusses the origins of structural chromosome abnormalities and the cellular mechanisms that prevent and resolve them, as well as how different CIN phenotypes relate to each other. We discuss the possible fates of cells containing structural CIN, focusing on how a few cell duplication cycles suffice to induce profound CIN-mediated genome alterations. Because such alterations can promote tumor adaptation to treatment, we discuss currently proposed strategies to either avoid CIN or enhance CIN to a level that is no longer compatible with cell survival.

Indexed as

chromosome aberrationschromosome bridgeschromosome instabilityDNA damageDNA repairlagging chromosomesmicronucleiultra-fine bridges

Identifiers

PMID34205328
PMCPMC8234978
OpenAlexW3173926945

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