Browsing by Author "Behringer, Richard R."

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    Chromosome size affects sequence divergence between species through the interplay of recombination and selection
    (Wiley, 2022) Tigano, Anna; Khan, Ruqayya; Omer, Arina D.; Weisz, David; Dudchenko, Olga; Multani, Asha S.; Pathak, Sen; Behringer, Richard R.; Aiden, Erez L.; Fisher, Heidi; MacManes, Matthew D.; Center for Theoretical and Biological Physics
    The structure of the genome shapes the distribution of genetic diversity and sequence divergence. To investigate how the relationship between chromosome size and recombination rate affects sequence divergence between species, we combined empirical analyses and evolutionary simulations. We estimated pairwise sequence divergence among 15 species from three different mammalian clades—Peromyscus rodents, Mus mice, and great apes—from chromosome-level genome assemblies. We found a strong significant negative correlation between chromosome size and sequence divergence in all species comparisons within the Peromyscus and great apes clades but not the Mus clade, suggesting that the dramatic chromosomal rearrangements among Mus species may have masked the ancestral genomic landscape of divergence in many comparisons. Our evolutionary simulations showed that the main factor determining differences in divergence among chromosomes of different sizes is the interplay of recombination rate and selection, with greater variation in larger populations than in smaller ones. In ancestral populations, shorter chromosomes harbor greater nucleotide diversity. As ancestral populations diverge, diversity present at the onset of the split contributes to greater sequence divergence in shorter chromosomes among daughter species. The combination of empirical data and evolutionary simulations revealed that chromosomal rearrangements, demography, and divergence times may also affect the relationship between chromosome size and divergence, thus deepening our understanding of the role of genome structure in the evolution of species divergence.
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    Loss of LPAR6 and CAB39L dysregulates the basal-to-luminal urothelial differentiation program, contributing to bladder carcinogenesis
    (Elsevier, 2024) Lee, Sangkyou; Bondaruk, Jolanta; Wang, Yishan; Chen, Huiqin; Lee, June Goo; Majewski, Tadeusz; Mullen, Rachel D.; Cogdell, David; Chen, Jiansong; Wang, Ziqiao; Yao, Hui; Kus, Pawel; Jeong, Joon; Lee, Ilkyun; Choi, Woonyoung; Navai, Neema; Guo, Charles; Dinney, Colin; Baggerly, Keith; Mendelsohn, Cathy; McConkey, David; Behringer, Richard R.; Kimmel, Marek; Wei, Peng; Czerniak, Bogdan
    We describe a strategy that combines histologic and molecular mapping that permits interrogation of the chronology of changes associated with cancer development on a whole-organ scale. Using this approach, we present the sequence of alterations around RB1 in the development of bladder cancer. We show that RB1 is not involved in initial expansion of the preneoplastic clone. Instead, we found a set of contiguous genes that we term “forerunner” genes whose silencing is associated with the development of plaque-like field effects initiating carcinogenesis. Specifically, we identified five candidate forerunner genes (ITM2B, LPAR6, MLNR, CAB39L, and ARL11) mapping near RB1. Two of these genes, LPAR6 and CAB39L, are preferentially downregulated in the luminal and basal subtypes of bladder cancer, respectively. Their loss of function dysregulates urothelial differentiation, sensitizing the urothelium to N-butyl-N-(4-hydroxybutyl)nitrosamine-induced cancers, which recapitulate the luminal and basal subtypes of human bladder cancer.