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Extensive telomere erosion in the initiation of colorectal adenomas and its association with chromosomal instability

Roger, Laureline, Jones, Rhiannon E., Heppel, Nicole, Williams, Geraint Trefor ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3768-9940, Sampson, Julian Roy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2902-2348 and Baird, Duncan Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8408-5467 2013. Extensive telomere erosion in the initiation of colorectal adenomas and its association with chromosomal instability. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 105 (16) , pp. 1202-1211. 10.1093/jnci/djt191

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Abstract

Background. Telomere shortening, dysfunction, and fusion may facilitate the acquisition of large-scale genomic rearrangements, driving clonal evolution and tumor progression. The relative contribution that telomere dysfunction and/or APC mutation play in the chromosome instability that occurs during colorectal tumorigenesis is not clear. Methods. We used high-resolution telomere length and fusion analysis to analyze 85 adenomatous colorectal polyps obtained from 10 patients with familial adenomatous polyposis and a panel of 50 colorectal carcinomas with patient-matched normal colonic mucosa. Telomerase activity was determined using the telomeric repeat amplification protocol. Array-CGH was used to detect large-scale genomic rearrangements. Pearson correlation and Student t test were used, and all statistical tests were two-sided. Results. Despite the presence of telomerase activity, we observed apparent telomere shortening in colorectal polyps that correlated with large-scale genomic rearrangements (P < .0001) but was independent of polyp size and indistinguishable from that observed in colorectal carcinomas (P = .82). We also observed apparent lengthening of telomeres in both polyps and carcinomas. The extensive differences in mean telomere length of up to 4.6kb between patient-matched normal mucosa and polyps were too large to be accounted for by replicative telomere erosion alone. Telomere fusion events were detected in both polyps and carcinomas; the mutational spectrum accompanying fusion was consistent with alternative nonhomologous end joining. Conclusions. Telomere length distributions observed in colorectal polyps reflect the telomere length composition of the normal originating cells from which clonal growth was initiated. Originating cells containing both short telomeres and APC mutations may give rise to polyps that exhibit short telomeres and are prone to telomere dysfunction, driving genomic instability and progression to malignancy.

Item Type: Article
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISSN: 0027-8874
Last Modified: 11 Dec 2022 09:24
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/51396

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