Nature Communications (May 2020)

The landscape of chromothripsis across adult cancer types

  • Natalia Voronina,
  • John K. L. Wong,
  • Daniel Hübschmann,
  • Mario Hlevnjak,
  • Sebastian Uhrig,
  • Christoph E. Heilig,
  • Peter Horak,
  • Simon Kreutzfeldt,
  • Andreas Mock,
  • Albrecht Stenzinger,
  • Barbara Hutter,
  • Martina Fröhlich,
  • Benedikt Brors,
  • Arne Jahn,
  • Barbara Klink,
  • Laura Gieldon,
  • Lina Sieverling,
  • Lars Feuerbach,
  • Priya Chudasama,
  • Katja Beck,
  • Matthias Kroiss,
  • Christoph Heining,
  • Lino Möhrmann,
  • Andrea Fischer,
  • Evelin Schröck,
  • Hanno Glimm,
  • Marc Zapatka,
  • Peter Lichter,
  • Stefan Fröhling,
  • Aurélie Ernst

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16134-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The shattering of chromosomes is a dramatic early event in tumourigenesis and is termed chromothripsis. Here, the authors examine chromothripsis across 28 tumour types and show that 49% of cancers exhibit features of chromothripsis.