Bin Yang, Ting Yan, Heyang Cui, Enwei Xu, Yanchun Ma, Caixia Cheng, Ling Zhang, Pengzhou Kong, Fang Wang, Yu Qian, Jian Yang, Yaoping Li, Hongyi Li, Yanghui Bi, Xiaoling Hu, Juan Wang, Bin Song, Jie Yang, Wei Gao, Jing Liu, Binbin Zou, Ruyi Shi, Yanyan Zhang, Haiyan Liu, Yiqian Liu, Yuanfang Zhai, Lu Chang, Yi Wang, Yingchun Zhang, Zhiwu Jia, Xing Chen, Yanfeng Xi, Guodong Li, Jianfang Liang, Jiansheng Guo, Shiping Guo, Rongsheng Zhang, Xiaolong Cheng, Yongping Cui
Understanding the evolutionary processes operative in cancer genome may provide insights into clinical outcome and drug-resistance. However, studies focus on genomic signatures, especially for macro-evolutionary events, in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) are limited. Here, we integrated published genomic sequencing data to investigate underlying evolutionary characteristics in ESCC. We found most of ESCC genomes were polyploidy with high genomic instability. Whole genome doubling that acts as one of mechanisms for polyploidy was predicted as a late event in the majority of ESCC genome...
December 22, 2017: Oncotarget