Whole genome and RNA sequencing of 1,220 cancers reveals hundreds of genes deregulated by rearrangement of cis-regulatory elements
Yiqun Zhang, Fengju Chen, Nuno A. Fonseca, Yao He, Masashi Fujita, Hidewaki Nakagawa, Zemin Zhang, Alvis Brāzma, PCAWG Transcriptome Working Group, Samirkumar B. Amin, Philip Awadalla, Peter J. Bailey, Alvis Brazma, Angela Norie Brooks, Claudia Calabrese, , Paul Alan Edwards
The paper identifies hundreds of genes deregulated by SVs in cancer, showing increased expression linked to SV breakpoints and enhancer elements.
Nature Communications · Feb 5, 2020Peer-reviewedGenomics