Supplementary Figure 10 from Tumor Suppressor Genes with Segmental Duplications Are Prone to Somatic Deletions and Structural Variations

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Tumor suppressor genes with segmental duplications exhibit a higher frequency of somatic deletions.
The analysis used log2 copy-number comparisons from the TCGA dataset, emphasizing the impact of structural variations.
Findings indicate that segmental duplications might contribute to the genomic instability associated with tumors.
The study highlights the importance of examining structural variations when assessing tumor suppressor gene integrity.

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Analysis reveals higher deletion frequency in tumor suppressor genes with segmental duplications, suggesting a critical role in genomic instability.

Deletion frequency (log2 copy-number) comparison for with SDs versus without SDs TSGs across TCGA dataset (Illumina HiSeq).

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Huang et al. (2025) studied this question.

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