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. 2023 Oct 21;31(4):31. doi: 10.1007/s10577-023-09741-9

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

Consequences of p53 loss. Cells that lose p53 function can become aneuploid by various means, including supernumerary centrosomes, DNA damage, and altered proliferation and cellular surveillance mechanisms. Supernumerary centrosomes can result in multipolar spindles and/or lagging chromosomes, causing CNAs and WGD. Unresolved DNA damage can contribute to replication stress and mitotic errors (e.g., chromosome anaphase bridges) likely resulting in structural CNAs (sCNAs) or WGD. The combination of p53 loss with alterations in driver genes affects proliferation and surveillance mechanisms, resulting in aneuploid progeny with sCNA and/or numerical CNAs (nCNA)