Table 1 List of human tumors with the reported chromosome breaks around the centromere region

18, 8, 7

Breast cancer

FISH, aCGH

Alsop et al.¹⁸, Cooke et al.¹⁹, Bièche et al.²⁶

1, 18

Melanoma

FISH

Alsop et al.¹⁸, Smedley et al.²⁷

18

Colorectal

FISH

Alsop et al.¹⁸

18, 8

Pancreatic

FISH, aCGH

Alsop et al.¹⁸, Cooke et al.¹⁹

Several

Squamous cell carcinoma

FISH, SKY, aCGH

Hermsen et al.²⁸

Several

Adenocarcinoma

FISH, SKY, aCGH

Hermsen et al.²⁸

Several

Oral squamous cell carcinoma

FISH

Hermsen et al.²⁹

Mostly 3, 5

Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

FISH, fiber-FISH, aCGH, MLPA

Martinez et al.³⁰, Martins et al. ³¹

1

Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

FISH

Baccon et al.³²

1

Multiple myeloma

FISH

Baccon et al.³²

1

Ovarian cancer

FISH

Thompson et al.³³

10, 14, 7, 21

Cervical squamous cell carcinoma

FISH

Backsch et al.²⁰

Mostly 17

Hematologic malignancies

FISH

Adeyinka et al.²¹

Several

Prostate cancer

G-banding, SKY

Balachandar et al.²²

17

Male breast cancer

MLPA, FISH

Lacle et al.²³

1, 8

Hepatocellular carcinoma

Whole genome sequencing, aCGH

Fernandez-Banet et al.²⁴

1, 7

Acute myeloid leukemia

FISH

Ganly et al.²⁵