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Chromothripsis and beyond: rapid genome evolution from complex chromosomal rearrangements

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The impact of massive chromosomal change for the development of diseases such as cancer and for evolution more generally is considered and current models for underlying mechanisms are summarized.
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Recent genome sequencing studies have identified several classes of complex genomic rearrangements that appear to be derived from a single catastrophic event. These discoveries identify ways that genomes can be altered in single large jumps rather than by many incremental steps. Here we compare and contrast these phenomena and examine the evidence that they arise "all at once." We consider the impact of massive chromosomal change for the development of diseases such as cancer and for evolution more generally. Finally, we summarize current models for underlying mechanisms and discuss strategies for testing these models.

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Mako: A Graph-based Pattern Growth Approach to Detect Complex Structural Variants

TL;DR: Mako as mentioned in this paper proposed a graph-based pattern growth approach, where the graph depicts potential breakpoint connections, and pattern growth enables CSV detection without pre-defined models; however, there has been limited progress for CSV discovery compared with simple structural variants.
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Mako: a graph-based pattern growth approach to detect complex structural variants

TL;DR: Mako as discussed by the authors proposed a graph-based pattern growth approach, where the graph depicts potential breakpoint connections and pattern growth enables CSV detection without predefined models, and the validation rates of real data based on experimental and computational validations as well as manual inspections are around 70%.
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The Combinatorics of Tandem Duplication

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce an algebraic formalism to represent the process of tandem duplication as a word producing automaton, from which the number of possible evolutions arising from n tandem duplications can then be recursively derived.
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Double-strand breaks induce short-scale DNA replication and damage amplification in the fully grown mouse oocytes.

TL;DR: In this article, the conditions for initiation of multi-invasion-mediated DSB amplification were investigated in the G2 phase oocyte of a mouse and the results showed that DNA DSBs in the fully grown oocytes can initiate short-scale BIR (ssBIR) using the DNA replication indicator 5-ethynyl-2'-deoxyuridine (EdU).
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Characterization of structural chromosomal variants by massively parallel sequencing

TL;DR: Five studies, focused on the analysis of SV using whole genome sequencing (WGS), developed and tested tools suitable for WGS SV analysis in a clinical setting, and validate the use of SV calling from WGS as a routine test in rare disease diagnostics.
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Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer

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Cancer Genome Landscapes

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The clonal evolution of tumor cell populations

TL;DR: Each patient's cancer may require individual specific therapy, and even this may be thwarted by emergence of a genetically variant subline resistant to the treatment, which should be directed toward understanding and controlling the evolutionary process in tumors before it reaches the late stage usually seen in clinical cancer.
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