Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Aberrant integration of Hepatitis B virus DNA promotes major restructuring of human hepatocellular carcinoma genome architecture

  • Eva G. Álvarez,
  • Jonas Demeulemeester,
  • Paula Otero,
  • Clemency Jolly,
  • Daniel García-Souto,
  • Ana Pequeño-Valtierra,
  • Jorge Zamora,
  • Marta Tojo,
  • Javier Temes,
  • Adrian Baez-Ortega,
  • Bernardo Rodriguez-Martin,
  • Ana Oitaben,
  • Alicia L. Bruzos,
  • Mónica Martínez-Fernández,
  • Kerstin Haase,
  • Sonia Zumalave,
  • Rosanna Abal,
  • Jorge Rodríguez-Castro,
  • Aitor Rodriguez-Casanova,
  • Angel Diaz-Lagares,
  • Yilong Li,
  • Keiran M. Raine,
  • Adam P. Butler,
  • Iago Otero,
  • Atsushi Ono,
  • Hiroshi Aikata,
  • Kazuaki Chayama,
  • Masaki Ueno,
  • Shinya Hayami,
  • Hiroki Yamaue,
  • Kazuhiro Maejima,
  • Miguel G. Blanco,
  • Xavier Forns,
  • Carmen Rivas,
  • Juan Ruiz-Bañobre,
  • Sofía Pérez-del-Pulgar,
  • Raúl Torres-Ruiz,
  • Sandra Rodriguez-Perales,
  • Urtzi Garaigorta,
  • Peter J. Campbell,
  • Hidewaki Nakagawa,
  • Peter Van Loo,
  • Jose M. C. Tubio

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26805-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and DNA integration is a frequent cause of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but the consequences of this process are not fully understood. Here the authors use whole-genome and long-read sequencing data from HCC patient samples to study the timing and alterations induced by HBV insertions.