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Long-read sequencing of diagnosis and post-therapy medulloblastoma reveals complex rearrangement patterns and epigenetic signatures

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Title:Long-read sequencing of diagnosis and post-therapy medulloblastoma reveals complex rearrangement patterns and epigenetic signatures
Creators Name:Rausch, T., Snajder, R., Leger, A., Simovic, M., Giurgiu, M., Villacorta, L., Henssen, A.G., Fröhling, S., Stegle, O., Birney, E., Bonder, M.J., Ernst, A. and Korbel, J.O.
Abstract:Cancer genomes harbor a broad spectrum of structural variants (SVs) driving tumorigenesis, a relevant subset of which escape discovery using short-read sequencing. We employed Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) long-read sequencing in a paired diagnostic and post-therapy medulloblastoma to unravel the haplotype-resolved somatic genetic and epigenetic landscape. We assembled complex rearrangements, including a 1.55-Mbp chromothripsis event, and we uncover a complex SV pattern termed templated insertion (TI) thread, characterized by short (mostly <1 kb) insertions showing prevalent self-concatenation into highly amplified structures of up to 50 kbp in size. TI threads occur in 3% of cancers, with a prevalence up to 74% in liposarcoma, and frequent colocalization with chromothripsis. We also perform long-read-based methylome profiling and discover allele-specific methylation (ASM) effects, complex rearrangements exhibiting differential methylation, and differential promoter methylation in cancer-driver genes. Our study shows the advantage of long-read sequencing in the discovery and characterization of complex somatic rearrangements.
Keywords:Long Read Sequencing, Cancer Genomics, Templated Insertions, Complex Rearrangements, Epigenetic Signatures, Nanopore Methylation Calling, Chromothripsis
Source:Cell Genomics
ISSN:2666-979X
Publisher:Cell Press
Volume:3
Number:4
Page Range:100281
Date:12 April 2023
Official Publication:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100281
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