Accounted for almost allTiming of Mutations in a Breast Cancer GenomeFigure 2. The structure of the HCC1187 genome. A) Spectral karyotype as in [44]. Chromosomes are named A-Z and a-k based on their relative sizes as in [12]. Cytogenetic description of the karyotype is in Table S1 in File S2. B) Circos plot [45] of the HCC1187 genome: Chromosome ideograms around the outside, oriented clockwise pter to qter. Moving inward, the pale grey and dark grey boxes are chromosome segments observed by array painting [12] with their chromosome of origin indicated. Their parent of origin (light grey and dark grey) was deduced from the number of allelotypes given by PICNIC segmentation (Fig. S1 in File S1). Note that assignment of parents 1 and 2 does not transfer between chromosomes. Dark blue line, total copy number, equivalent to array CGH, from PICNIC. Red line, copy number of the minor allele; where this is zero, the ITI-007 site genome is homozygous. Chromosome segments that share a translocation breakpoint were assumed to have the same parental origin. Inner links reMet-Enkephalin chemical information present interchromosome translocations identified previously [12?14]. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064991.gFigure 3. Chromosome segments in HCC1187 and their most probable state before endoreduplication. Chromosome ideograms are drawn around the outside as in Fig. 2. Outer rings are array painting segments as in Fig. 2. Inner rings are chromosome segments that must have been present before endoreduplication. Coloured circles are different types of mutations, on the outer chromosome segment on which they were observed: truncating (red), nonsynonymous (blue), small deletion (yellow), small duplication (black), expressed gene fusion (light blue). Mutations that were on two copies of a chromosome segment probably occurred before endoreduplication and are also shown on the inner, pre-endoreduplication genome. Dashed grey boxes on chromosome 1 and 11 indicate regions where parental origin was undetermined, because PICNIC segmentation suggested additional rearrangements had taken place. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064991.gduplications. The resulting picture of the likely history of the karyotype almost exactly fits the suggested monosomic pattern of evolution (Fig. 1), with each unbalanced translocation leading to loss of one chromosome, plus some whole-chromosome losses. We next determined whether the somatic mutations most likely occurred before or after endoreduplication. As most loci in this genome had duplicated only once we could infer whether a mutation happened before or after endoreduplication: if the mutation occurred before, it would be present in two copies after the duplication, whereas if the mutation occurred after endoreduplication, it would only be present on one of two copies. This classification would be wrong if gene conversion had occurred, i.e. copying of an allele from one chromosome to another, but all ofthe 83 sequence-level mutations analysed below were found on only one parent of origin, implying that gene conversion was rare or absent in this cell line, as is typical for epithelial cancers [21,22]. We placed each structural mutation before or after endoreduplication, according to whether the translocation junction or deletion was duplicated, or involved only one copy of a pair of participating chromosomes (Figs. 2 and 3). For the three regions of the genome that were triplicated we assumed that one duplication had occurred at endoreduplication and another had occurred later. We.Accounted for almost allTiming of Mutations in a Breast Cancer GenomeFigure 2. The structure of the HCC1187 genome. A) Spectral karyotype as in [44]. Chromosomes are named A-Z and a-k based on their relative sizes as in [12]. Cytogenetic description of the karyotype is in Table S1 in File S2. B) Circos plot [45] of the HCC1187 genome: Chromosome ideograms around the outside, oriented clockwise pter to qter. Moving inward, the pale grey and dark grey boxes are chromosome segments observed by array painting [12] with their chromosome of origin indicated. Their parent of origin (light grey and dark grey) was deduced from the number of allelotypes given by PICNIC segmentation (Fig. S1 in File S1). Note that assignment of parents 1 and 2 does not transfer between chromosomes. Dark blue line, total copy number, equivalent to array CGH, from PICNIC. Red line, copy number of the minor allele; where this is zero, the genome is homozygous. Chromosome segments that share a translocation breakpoint were assumed to have the same parental origin. Inner links represent interchromosome translocations identified previously [12?14]. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064991.gFigure 3. Chromosome segments in HCC1187 and their most probable state before endoreduplication. Chromosome ideograms are drawn around the outside as in Fig. 2. Outer rings are array painting segments as in Fig. 2. Inner rings are chromosome segments that must have been present before endoreduplication. Coloured circles are different types of mutations, on the outer chromosome segment on which they were observed: truncating (red), nonsynonymous (blue), small deletion (yellow), small duplication (black), expressed gene fusion (light blue). Mutations that were on two copies of a chromosome segment probably occurred before endoreduplication and are also shown on the inner, pre-endoreduplication genome. Dashed grey boxes on chromosome 1 and 11 indicate regions where parental origin was undetermined, because PICNIC segmentation suggested additional rearrangements had taken place. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064991.gduplications. The resulting picture of the likely history of the karyotype almost exactly fits the suggested monosomic pattern of evolution (Fig. 1), with each unbalanced translocation leading to loss of one chromosome, plus some whole-chromosome losses. We next determined whether the somatic mutations most likely occurred before or after endoreduplication. As most loci in this genome had duplicated only once we could infer whether a mutation happened before or after endoreduplication: if the mutation occurred before, it would be present in two copies after the duplication, whereas if the mutation occurred after endoreduplication, it would only be present on one of two copies. This classification would be wrong if gene conversion had occurred, i.e. copying of an allele from one chromosome to another, but all ofthe 83 sequence-level mutations analysed below were found on only one parent of origin, implying that gene conversion was rare or absent in this cell line, as is typical for epithelial cancers [21,22]. We placed each structural mutation before or after endoreduplication, according to whether the translocation junction or deletion was duplicated, or involved only one copy of a pair of participating chromosomes (Figs. 2 and 3). For the three regions of the genome that were triplicated we assumed that one duplication had occurred at endoreduplication and another had occurred later. We.