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. 2012 May 18;13(6):528–538. doi: 10.1038/embor.2012.61

Table 1. Clinical relevance of CIN.

Cancer type Method of measuring CIN Associated outcomes Additional details Reference
Lung cancer (NSCLC) FISH (n = 63) Poor prognosis (OS and DFS) Korean patients Choi et al [4]
FISH (n =47) Poor prognosis (OS) Korean patients Yoo et al [51]
FISH (n = 50) Poor prognosis (OS)   Nakamura et al [52]
12-gene signature (n = 647) Poor prognosis (OS) Multiple datasets Mettu et al [66]
CIN70 signature (n = 62) Poor clinical outcome   Carter et al [5]
Breast cancer SSI (n = 890) Poor prognosis (OS) CIN measured within diploid, tetraploid and aneuploid classified tumours Kronenwett et al [55]
SNP (n = 313) Poor prognosis (MFS) Significant in ER-positive, luminal B and HER2-positive subtypes (not in ER-negative patients) Smid et al [46]
12-gene signature (n = 469) Poor prognosis (DFS and RFS) Multiple datasets Habermann et al [9]
CIN70 signature (n = 1866) Poor clinical outcome Multiple datasets Carter et al [5]
FISH (n = 31) Lymph node metastasis and ER negativity   Takami et al [50]
Myelodysplastic syndrome FISH (n = 65) Poor prognosis (DFS)   Heilig et al [102]
Endocrine pancreatic tumours CGH (n = 62) Metastasis   Jonkers et al [79]
Colon cancer 12-gene signature (n = 92) Recurrence of colon cancer Multiple datasets  
Flow cytometry/image cytometry (n = 10126) Poor prognosis Meta-analysis Walther et al [6]
Ovarian cancer 12-gene signature (n = 124) Poor prognosis (RFS)   Mettu et al [66]
Endometrial cancer SNP (n = 31) Poor prognosis (OS)   Murayama-Hosokawa et al [70]
Synovial sarcoma CGH (n = 22) Poor prognosis (OS)   Nakagawa et al [71]
Oral cancer (SCCs) FISH (n = 77) Poor prognosis (OS and DFS)   Sato et al [53]
  FISH (n =20) (Loco) regional tumour outgrowth   Bergshoeff et al [103]
Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma Anaphase segregation errors (n = 54) Poor prognosis (RFS)   Bakhoum et al [48]

CGH, comparative genome hybridization; DFS, disease-free survival; ER, oestrogen receptor; FISH, fluorescence in situ hybridization; MFS, metastasis-free survival; NSCLC, non-small-cell lung cancer; OS, overall survival; RFS, relapse-free survival; SCC, squamous cell carcinoma; SNP, single-nucleotide polymorphism; SSI, stem line scatter index.