Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Robust elimination of genome-damaged cells safeguards against brain somatic aneuploidy following Knl1 deletion

  • Lei Shi,
  • Adel Qalieh,
  • Mandy M. Lam,
  • Jason M. Keil,
  • Kenneth Y. Kwan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10411-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The brain is a genomic mosaic shaped by somatic mutations and cellular responses that correct or purge these mutations. Here, by manipulating genome stability during embryonic brain development, authors revealed robust mechanisms that eliminate cells with genome damage from the brain, and the consequences of leaving somatic mutants unpurged