DNA synthesis generates terminal duplications that seal end-to-end chromosome fusions |
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Authors: | Lowden Mia Rochelle Flibotte Stephane Moerman Donald G Ahmed Shawn |
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Institution: | Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. |
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Abstract: | End-to-end chromosome fusions that occur in the context of telomerase deficiency can trigger genomic duplications. For more than 70 years, these duplications have been attributed solely to breakage-fusion-bridge cycles. To test this hypothesis, we examined end-to-end fusions isolated from Caenorhabditis elegans telomere replication mutants. Genome-level rearrangements revealed fused chromosome ends having interrupted terminal duplications accompanied by template-switching events. These features are very similar to disease-associated duplications of interstitial segments of the human genome. A model termed Fork Stalling and Template Switching has been proposed previously to explain such duplications, where promiscuous replication of large, noncontiguous segments of the genome occurs. Thus, a DNA synthesis-based process may create duplications that seal end-to-end fusions, in the absence of breakage-fusion-bridge cycles. |
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