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NATURE
卷 592, 期 7852, 页码 80-+出版社
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DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03345-1
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- Wellcome
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (Women's Health theme)
Placentas can exhibit chromosomal abnormalities different from the fetus, possibly due to genetic segregation. Research shows that placental cells display genetic isolation and extensive mutagenesis, suggesting that mosaicism is a typical feature of placental development.
Placentas can exhibit chromosomal aberrations that are absent from the fetus(1). The basis of this genetic segregation, which is known as confined placental mosaicism, remains unknown. Here we investigated the phylogeny of human placental cells as reconstructed from somatic mutations, using whole-genome sequencing of 86 bulk placental samples (with a median weight of 28 mg) and of 106 microdissections of placental tissue. We found that every bulk placental sample represents a clonal expansion that is genetically distinct, and exhibits a genomic landscape akin to that of childhood cancer in terms of mutation burden and mutational imprints. To our knowledge, unlike any other healthy human tissue studied so far, the placental genomes often contained changes in copy number. We reconstructed phylogenetic relationships between tissues from the same pregnancy, which revealed that developmental bottlenecks genetically isolate placental tissues by separating trophectodermal lineages from lineages derived from the inner cell mass. Notably, there were some cases with full segregation-within a few cell divisions of the zygote-of placental lineages and lineages derived from the inner cell mass. Such early embryonic bottlenecks may enable the normalization of zygotic aneuploidy. We observed direct evidence for this in a case of mosaic trisomic rescue. Our findings reveal extensive mutagenesis in placental tissues and suggest that mosaicism is a typical feature of placental development.
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