Abstract
Cancer genomes often harbor hundreds of somatic DNA rearrangement junctions, many of which cannot be easily classified into simple (e.g., deletion) or complex (e.g., chromothripsis) structural variant classes. Applying a novel genome graph computational paradigm to analyze the topology of junction copy number (JCN) across 2,778 tumor whole-genome sequences, we uncovered three novel complex rearrangement phenomena: pyrgo, rigma, and tyfonas. Pyrgo are "towers" of low-JCN duplications associated with early-replicating regions, superenhancers, and breast or ovarian cancers. Rigma comprise "chasms" of low-JCN deletions enriched in late-replicating fragile sites and gastrointestinal carcinomas. Tyfonas are "typhoons" of high-JCN junctions and fold-back inversions associated with expressed protein-coding fusions, breakend hypermutation, and acral, but not cutaneous, melanomas. Clustering of tumors according to genome graph-derived features identified subgroups associated with DNA repair defects and poor prognosis.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 197-210.e32 |
Journal | Cell |
Volume | 183 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 1 2020 |
Keywords
- aneuploidy
- cancer evolution
- cancer genomics
- chromothripsis
- fragile sites
- genome graphs
- mutational processes
- phasing
- structural variation
- superenhancers
- Mutation/genetics
- Humans
- Gene Rearrangement/genetics
- Genomics/methods
- Neoplasms/genetics
- Chromothripsis
- Genome, Human/genetics
- Genomic Structural Variation/genetics
- Whole Genome Sequencing/methods
- Chromosome Inversion/genetics
- DNA Copy Number Variations/genetics
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology