To address the flexibility of the complex ALT genome, and to unravel patterns of cancer genome evolution driven by oncogene induced replication stress, telomere dysfunction, or genotoxic damage, we examined five isogenic cell lines of the human ALT osteosarcoma cell line U2-OS, representing different karyotypic outcomes, using M-FISH/ (Multi-Color Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization) molecular karyotyping, combined with inverted DAPI banding and aCGH (array-Comparative Genomic Hybridization). This evidence concerns the gene GPT and cancer.