Comprehensive analysis of mutational signatures reveals distinct patterns and molecular processes across 27 pediatric cancers

V Thatikonda, SMA Islam, RJ Autry, BC Jones… - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Analysis of mutational signatures can reveal underlying molecular mechanisms of
the processes that have imprinted the somatic mutations found in cancer genomes. Here, we …

High-risk neuroblastoma challenges and opportunities for antibody-based cellular immunotherapy

NV Persaud, JA Park… - Journal of Clinical …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Immunotherapy has emerged as an attractive option for patients with relapsed or refractory
high-risk neuroblastoma (HRNB). Neuroblastoma (NB), a sympathetic nervous system …

Nuclear factor-κB activation by transforming growth factor-β1 drives tumour microenvironment-mediated drug resistance in neuroblastoma

K Louault, L Blavier, MH Lee, RJ Kennedy… - British Journal of …, 2024 - nature.com
Background Intrinsic and extrinsic factors in the tumour microenvironment (TME) contribute
to therapeutic resistance. Here we demonstrate that transforming growth factor (TGF)-β1 …

Defining neuroblastoma: From origin to precision medicine

L Sainero-Alcolado, T Sjöberg Bexelius… - Neuro …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Neuroblastoma (NB), a heterogenous pediatric tumor of the sympathetic nervous system, is
the most common and deadly extracranial solid malignancy diagnosed in infants. Numerous …

Neuroblastoma plasticity during metastatic progression stems from the dynamics of an early sympathetic transcriptomic trajectory

B Villalard, A Boltjes, F Reynaud, O Imbaud… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Despite their indisputable importance in neuroblastoma (NB) pathology, knowledge of the
bases of NB plasticity and heterogeneity remains incomplete. They may be rooted in …

Mutational topography reflects clinical neuroblastoma heterogeneity

E Rodriguez-Fos, M Planas-Fèlix, M Burkert… - Cell genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Neuroblastoma is a pediatric solid tumor characterized by strong clinical heterogeneity.
Although clinical risk-defining genomic alterations exist in neuroblastomas, the mutational …

A human neural crest model reveals the developmental impact of neuroblastoma-associated chromosomal aberrations

IM Saldana-Guerrero, LF Montano-Gutierrez… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Early childhood tumours arise from transformed embryonic cells, which often carry large
copy number alterations (CNA). However, it remains unclear how CNAs contribute to …

Early evolutionary branching across spatial domains predisposes to clonal replacement under chemotherapy in neuroblastoma

J Karlsson, H Yasui, A Mañas, N Andersson… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Neuroblastoma (NB) is one of the most lethal childhood cancers due to its propensity to
become treatment resistant. By spatial map** of subclone geographies before and after …

Management of high-risk neuroblastoma with soft-tissue-only disease in the era of anti-GD2 immunotherapy

M Gorostegui, JP Muñoz, S Perez-Jaume… - Cancers, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Neuroblastoma (NB) presents with two patterns of disease: with or without
metastasis. Both types of disease presentation include tumors with high-risk (HR) features …

Ongoing chromothripsis underpins osteosarcoma genome complexity and clonal evolution

JE Valle-Inclan, S De Noon, K Trevers, H Elrick… - Cell, 2025 - cell.com
Osteosarcoma is the most common primary cancer of the bone, with a peak incidence in
children and young adults. Using multi-region whole-genome sequencing, we find that …