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ArticleCell systems2022

Allele-specific genomic data elucidate the role of somatic gain and copy-number neutral loss of heterozygosity in cancer.

Yari Ciani, Tarcisio Fedrizzi, Davide Prandi, Francesca Lorenzin, Alessio Locallo, Paola Gasperini, Gian Marco Franceschini, Matteo Benelli, Olivier Elemento, Luca L Fava and 2 more

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Article in Cell systems, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Yari CianiDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology, University of Trento, 38123 Trento, Italy.
Tarcisio FedrizziDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology, University of Trento, 38123 Trento, Italy.
Davide PrandiDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology, University of Trento, 38123 Trento, Italy.
Francesca LorenzinDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology, University of Trento, 38123 Trento, Italy.
Alessio LocalloDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology, University of Trento, 38123 Trento, Italy.
Paola GasperiniDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology, University of Trento, 38123 Trento, Italy.
Gian Marco FranceschiniDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology, University of Trento, 38123 Trento, Italy.
Matteo BenelliDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology, University of Trento, 38123 Trento, Italy; Bioinformatics Unit, Hospital of Prato, 59100 Prato, Italy.
Olivier ElementoDepartment of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10021, USA; The Caryl and Israel Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA.
Luca L FavaDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology, University of Trento, 38123 Trento, Italy.
Alberto IngaDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology, University of Trento, 38123 Trento, Italy.
Francesca DemichelisDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology, University of Trento, 38123 Trento, Italy; Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10021, USA; The Caryl and Israel Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA. Electronic address: f.demichelis@unitn.it.
University of Trento · ITCornell University · USWeill Cornell Medicine · US

Funding

Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) SPORE in Prostate CancerP50CA211024 · NCI · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI LODA, MASSIMO · 2017 to 2021
$10.9M
NCI NIH HHS P50 CA211024
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pan-cancer studies sketched the genomic landscape of the tumor types spectrum. We delineated the purity- and ploidy-adjusted allele-specific profiles of 4,950 patients across 27 tumor types from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). Leveraging allele-specific data, we reclassified as loss of heterozygosity (LOH) 9% and 7% of apparent copy-number wild-type and gain calls, respectively, and overall observed more than 18 million allelic imbalance somatic events at the gene level. Reclassification of copy-number events revealed associations between driver mutations and LOH, pointing out the timings between the occurrence of point mutations and copy-number events. Integrating allele-specific genomics and matched transcriptomics, we observed that allele-specific gene status is relevant in the regulation of TP53 and its targets. Further, we disclosed the role of copy-neutral LOH in the impairment of tumor suppressor genes and in disease progression. Our results highlight the role of LOH in cancer and contribute to the understanding of tumor progression.

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Loss of HeterozygosityNeoplasmsAllelesGenomicsHumansallele specificcancergenomic instabilityloss of heterozygosityploidysomatic copy numberTP53

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PMID34731645
PMCPMC8856743
OpenAlexW3210182159

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