title: Intratumour diversity of chromosome copy numbers in neuroblastoma mediated by on-going chromosome loss from a polyploid state.
abstract: Neuroblastomas (NBs) are tumours of the sympathetic nervous system accounting for 8-10% of paediatric cancers. NBs exhibit extensive intertumour genetic heterogeneity, but their extent of intratumour genetic diversity has remained unexplored. We aimed to assess intratumour genetic variation in NBs with a focus on whole chromosome changes and their underlying mechanism. Allelic ratios obtained by SNP-array data from 30 aneuploid primary NBs and NB cell lines were used to quantify the size of clones harbouring specific genomic imbalances. In 13 cases, this was supplemented by fluorescence in situ hybridisation to assess copy number diversity in detail. Computer simulations of different mitotic segregation errors, single cell cloning, analysis of mitotic figures, and time lapse imaging of dividing NB cells were used to infer the most likely mechanism behind intratumour variation in chromosome number. Combined SNP array and FISH analyses showed that all cases exhibited higher inter-cellular copy number variation than non-neoplastic control tissue, with up to 75% of tumour cells showing non-modal chromosome copy numbers. Comparisons of copy number profiles, resulting from simulations of different segregation errors to genomic profiles of 120 NBs indicated that loss of chromosomes from a tetraploid state was more likely than other mechanisms to explain numerical aberrations in NB. This was supported by a high frequency of lagging chromosomes at anaphase and polyploidisation events in growing NB cells. The dynamic nature of numerical aberrations was corroborated further by detecting substantial copy number diversity in cell populations grown from single NB cells. We conclude that aneuploid NBs typically show extensive intratumour chromosome copy number diversity, and that this phenomenon is most likely explained by continuous loss of chromosomes from a polyploid state.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Genetics, Lund University, Skåne University and Regional Laboratories, Lund, Sweden.
authors.forename: Gisela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lundberg
authors.forename: Yuesheng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sehic
authors.forename: Ingrid
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Øra
authors.forename: Rogier
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Versteeg
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gisselsson
mesh_terms: D000782:Aneuploidy; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D020090:Chromosome Segregation; D002877:Chromosomes, Human; D003198:Computer Simulation; D005260:Female; D056914:Genomic Structural Variation; D006801:Humans; D017404:In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008938:Mitosis / Q000235:genetics; D008957:Models, Genetic; D009423:Nervous System Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D009447:Neuroblastoma / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D011123:Polyploidy; D061251:Primary Cell Culture; D059008:Time-Lapse Imaging
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