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Review
. 2010 Mar;11(3):220-8.
doi: 10.1038/nrm2858.

Genomic instability--an evolving hallmark of cancer

Simona Negrini  1 , Vassilis G Gorgoulis, Thanos D Halazonetis
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Review

Genomic instability--an evolving hallmark of cancer

Simona Negrini et al. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2010 Mar.

Abstract

Genomic instability is a characteristic of most cancers. In hereditary cancers, genomic instability results from mutations in DNA repair genes and drives cancer development, as predicted by the mutator hypothesis. In sporadic (non-hereditary) cancers the molecular basis of genomic instability remains unclear, but recent high-throughput sequencing studies suggest that mutations in DNA repair genes are infrequent before therapy, arguing against the mutator hypothesis for these cancers. Instead, the mutation patterns of the tumour suppressor TP53 (which encodes p53), ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) and cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 2A (CDKN2A; which encodes p16INK4A and p14ARF) support the oncogene-induced DNA replication stress model, which attributes genomic instability and TP53 and ATM mutations to oncogene-induced DNA damage.

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