2022
Live-Cell Imaging Shows Uneven Segregation of Extrachromosomal DNA Elements and Transcriptionally Active Extrachromosomal DNA Hubs in Cancer
Yi E, Gujar A, Guthrie M, Kim H, Zhao D, Johnson K, Amin S, Costa M, Yu Q, Das S, Jillette N, Clow P, Cheng A, Verhaak R. Live-Cell Imaging Shows Uneven Segregation of Extrachromosomal DNA Elements and Transcriptionally Active Extrachromosomal DNA Hubs in Cancer. Cancer Discovery 2022, 12: 468-483. PMID: 34819316, PMCID: PMC8831456, DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-21-1376.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsExtrachromosomal DNA elementsDNA elementsUneven segregationRNA polymerase IILive-cell imagingPolymerase IIOffspring cellsGene transcriptionCell line modelsEcDNAsRandom segregationGenetic materialLiving cellsCopy numberLive cellsIndividual cellsTumor evolutionMitosisInheritance patternBreakpoint sequencesIssue featureTranscriptionFluorescent markersPatient tissuesCells
2019
Extrachromosomal oncogene amplification in tumour pathogenesis and evolution
Verhaak R, Bafna V, Mischel P. Extrachromosomal oncogene amplification in tumour pathogenesis and evolution. Nature Reviews Cancer 2019, 19: 283-288. PMID: 30872802, PMCID: PMC7168519, DOI: 10.1038/s41568-019-0128-6.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2018
Discordant inheritance of chromosomal and extrachromosomal DNA elements contributes to dynamic disease evolution in glioblastoma
deCarvalho A, Kim H, Poisson L, Winn M, Mueller C, Cherba D, Koeman J, Seth S, Protopopov A, Felicella M, Zheng S, Multani A, Jiang Y, Zhang J, Nam D, Petricoin E, Chin L, Mikkelsen T, Verhaak R. Discordant inheritance of chromosomal and extrachromosomal DNA elements contributes to dynamic disease evolution in glioblastoma. Nature Genetics 2018, 50: 708-717. PMID: 29686388, PMCID: PMC5934307, DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0105-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsExtrachromosomal DNA elementsDNA elementsChromosomal DNA alterationsDNA alterationsSomatic driver alterationsGenomic heterogeneitySingle nucleotide variantsOffspring cellsDiscordant inheritanceExtrachromosomal elementsEcDNAsGBM evolutionOncogenic potentialGBM samplesInheritance patternChromosomal alterationsSelection dynamicsModel systemCell culturesOrthotopic xenograft modelDriver alterationsXenograft modelOncogene amplificationCellsGlioblastoma