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All y’all need to know ‘bout retroelements in cancer

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Belancio, Victoria P., Roy-Engel, Astrid M., Deininger, Prescott L.·2010·Seminars in Cancer Biology

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Genetic instability is one of the principal hallmarks and causative factors in cancer. Human transposable elements (TE) have been reported to cause human diseases, including several types of cancer through insertional mutagenesis of genes critical for preventing or driving malignant transformation. In addition to retrotransposition-associated mutagenesis, TEs have been found to contribute even more genomic rearrangements through non-allelic homologous recombination. TEs also have the potential to generate a wide range of mutations derivation of which is difficult to directly trace to mobile elements, including double-strand breaks that may trigger mutagenic genomic rearrangements. Genome-wide hypomethylation of TE promoters and significantly elevated TE expression in almost all human cancers often accompanied by the loss of critical DNA sensing and repair pathways suggests that the negative impact of mobile elements on genome stability should increase as human tumors evolve. The biological consequences of elevated retroelement expression, such as the rate of their amplification, in human cancers remain obscure, particularly, how this increase translates into disease-relevant mutations. This review is focused on the cellular mechanisms that control human TE-associated mutagenesis in cancer and summarizes the current understanding of TE contribution to genetic instability in human malignancies.

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Authors
Belancio, V. P., Roy-Engel, A. M., & Deininger, P. L.
Venue
Seminars in Cancer Biology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2010-08
Volume
20
Issue
4
Pages
200-210
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1044-579X (ISSN-L)
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W2001961555
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188
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Belancio, V. P., Roy-Engel, A. M., & Deininger, P. L. (2010). All y’all need to know ‘bout retroelements in cancer. Seminars in Cancer Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semcancer.2010.06.001

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