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标题：Thermodynamic energetics underlying genomic instability and whole-genome doubling in cancer
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作者：Francoise Remacle ; Thomas G. Graeber ; R. D. Levine 等
期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：2020
卷号：117
期号：31
页码：18880-18890
DOI：10.1073/pnas.1920870117
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Genomic instability contributes to tumorigenesis through the amplification and deletion of cancer driver genes. DNA copy number (CN) profiling of ensembles of tumors allows a thermodynamic analysis of the profile for each tumor. The free energy of the distribution of CNs is found to be a monotonically increasing function of the average chromosomal ploidy. The dependence is universal across several cancer types. Surprisal analysis distinguishes two main known subgroups: tumors with cells that have or have not undergone whole-genome duplication (WGD). The analysis uncovers that CN states having a narrower distribution are energetically more favorable toward the WGD transition. Surprisal analysis also determines the deviations from a fully stable-state distribution. These deviations reflect constraints imposed by tumor fitness selection pressures. The results point to CN changes that are more common in high-ploidy tumors and thus support altered selection pressures upon WGD.
关键词：aneuploid ; genomic instability ; whole-genome doubling ; free energy ; surprisal analysis