Breakpoint profiling of 64 cancer genomes reveals numerous complex rearrangements spawned by homology-independent mechanisms
Malhotra A, Lindberg M, Faust GG, Leibowitz ML, Clark RA, Layer RM, Quinlan AR, Hall IM. Breakpoint profiling of 64 cancer genomes reveals numerous complex rearrangements spawned by homology-independent mechanisms. Genome Research 2013, 23: 762-776. PMID: 23410887, PMCID: PMC3638133, DOI: 10.1101/gr.143677.112.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsComplex genomic rearrangementsSingle mutational eventCancer genomesMutational eventsBreakpoint clusterDNA double-strand breaksHomology-independent mechanismsComplex rearrangementsDouble-strand breaksLarge-scale rearrangementsGenome architectureGenome rearrangementsNonhomologous repairGenomic rearrangementsChromothripsis eventsSelective advantageMore chromosomesTumor genomesGenomeGlioblastoma samplesTemplated insertionsState profilingPunctuated changeBreakpoint sequencesAllele frequencies