Disruption of chromatin folding domains by somatic genomic rearrangements in human cancer

PCAWG-Structural Variation Working Group, PCAWG Consortium, Kadir C. Akdemir, Victoria T. Le, Sahaana Chandran, Yilong Li, Roel G. Verhaak, Rameen Beroukhim, Peter J. Campbell, Lynda Chin, Jesse R. Dixon, P. Andrew Futreal, Kadir C. Akdemir, Eva G. Alvarez, Adrian Baez-Ortega, Paul C. Boutros, David D.L. Bowtell, Benedikt Brors, Kathleen H. Burns, Peter J. CampbellKin Chan, Ken Chen, Isidro Cortés-Ciriano, Ana Dueso-Barroso, Andrew J. Dunford, Paul A. Edwards, Xavier Estivill, Dariush Etemadmoghadam, Lars Feuerbach, J. Lynn Fink, Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, Dale W. Garsed, Mark Gerstein, Dmitry A. Gordenin, David Haan, James E. Haber, Julian M. Hess, Barbara Hutter, Marcin Imielinski, David T.W. Jones, Young Seok Ju, Marat D. Kazanov, Leszek J. Klimczak, Youngil Koh, Jan O. Korbel, Kiran Kumar, Eunjung Alice Lee, Jake June Koo Lee, Yilong Li, Andy G. Lynch, Geoff Macintyre, Florian Markowetz, Iñigo Martincorena, Alexander Martinez-Fundichely, Matthew Meyerson, Satoru Miyano, Hidewaki Nakagawa, Fabio C.P. Navarro, Stephan Ossowski, Peter J. Park, John V. Pearson, Montserrat Puiggròs, Karsten Rippe, Nicola D. Roberts, Steven A. Roberts, Bernardo Rodriguez-Martin, Steven E. Schumacher, Ralph Scully, Mark Shackleton, Nikos Sidiropoulos, Lina Sieverling, Chip Stewart, David Torrents, Jose M.C. Tubio, Izar Villasante, Nicola Waddell, Jeremiah A. Wala, Joachim Weischenfeldt, Lixing Yang, Xiaotong Yao, Sung Soo Yoon, Jorge Zamora, Cheng Zhong Zhang, Lauri A. Aaltonen, Federico Abascal, Adam Abeshouse, Hiroyuki Aburatani, David J. Adams, Nishant Agrawal, Keun Soo Ahn, Sung Min Ahn, Hiroshi Aikata, Rehan Akbani, Kadir C. Akdemir, Hikmat Al-Ahmadie, Sultan T. Al-Sedairy, Fatima Al-Shahrour, Malik Alawi, Monique Albert, Kenneth Aldape, Ludmil B. Alexandrov, Adrian Ally, Kathryn Alsop, Eva G. Alvarez, Fernanda Amary, Samirkumar B. Amin, Brice Aminou, Ole Ammerpohl, Matthew J. Anderson, Yeng Ang, Davide Antonello, Pavana Anur, Samuel Aparicio, Elizabeth L. Appelbaum, Yasuhito Arai, Axel Aretz, Koji Arihiro, Shun ichi Ariizumi, Joshua Armenia, Laurent Arnould, Sylvia Asa, Yassen Assenov, Gurnit Atwal, Sietse Aukema, J. Todd Auman, Miriam R.R. Aure, Philip Awadalla, Marta Aymerich, Gary D. Bader, Adrian Baez-Ortega, Matthew H. Bailey, Peter J. Bailey, Miruna Balasundaram, Saianand Balu, Pratiti Bandopadhayay, Rosamonde E. Banks, Stefano Barbi, Andrew P. Barbour, Jonathan Barenboim, Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, Hugh Barr, Elisabet Barrera, John Bartlett, Javier Bartolome, Claudio Bassi, Oliver F. Bathe, Daniel Baumhoer, Prashant Bavi, Stephen B. Baylin, Wojciech Bazant, Duncan Beardsmore, Timothy A. Beck, Sam Behjati, Andreas Behren, Beifang Niu, Cindy Bell, Sergi Beltran, Christopher Benz, Andrew Berchuck, Anke K. Bergmann, Erik N. Bergstrom, Benjamin P. Berman, Daniel M. Berney, Stephan H. Bernhart, Mario Berrios, Samantha Bersani, Johanna Bertl, Miguel Betancourt, Vinayak Bhandari, Shriram G. Bhosle, Andrew V. Biankin, Matthias Bieg, Darell Bigner, Hans Binder, Ewan Birney, Michael Birrer, Nidhan K. Biswas, Bodil Bjerkehagen, Tom Bodenheimer, Lori Boice, Giada Bonizzato, Johann S. De Bono, Arnoud Boot, Moiz S. Bootwalla, Ake Borg, Arndt Borkhardt, Keith A. Boroevich, Ivan Borozan, Christoph Borst, Marcus Bosenberg, Mattia Bosio, Jacqueline Boultwood, Guillaume Bourque, Li Ding, Lucinda A. Fulton, Robert S. Fulton, Ramaswamy Govindan, Reyka Jayasinghe, Tim Ley, Christopher A. Miller, Francesc Muyas, Johannes Werner

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Abstract

Chromatin is folded into successive layers to organize linear DNA. Genes within the same topologically associating domains (TADs) demonstrate similar expression and histone-modification profiles, and boundaries separating different domains have important roles in reinforcing the stability of these features. Indeed, domain disruptions in human cancers can lead to misregulation of gene expression. However, the frequency of domain disruptions in human cancers remains unclear. Here, as part of the Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) Consortium of the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) and The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), which aggregated whole-genome sequencing data from 2,658 cancers across 38 tumor types, we analyzed 288,457 somatic structural variations (SVs) to understand the distributions and effects of SVs across TADs. Notably, SVs can lead to the fusion of discrete TADs, and complex rearrangements markedly change chromatin folding maps in the cancer genomes. Notably, only 14% of the boundary deletions resulted in a change in expression in nearby genes of more than twofold.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)294-305
Number of pages12
JournalNature Genetics
Volume52
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1 2020

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