Medulloblastoma

PA Northcott, GW Robinson, CP Kratz… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2019 - nature.com
Medulloblastoma (MB) comprises a biologically heterogeneous group of embryonal tumours
of the cerebellum. Four subgroups of MB have been described (WNT, sonic hedgehog …

The prenatal origins of cancer

GM Marshall, DR Carter, BB Cheung, T Liu… - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
The concept that some childhood malignancies arise from postnatally persistent embryonal
cells has a long history. Recent research has strengthened the links between driver …

Unified rhombic lip origins of group 3 and group 4 medulloblastoma

KS Smith, L Bihannic, BL Gudenas, P Haldipur, R Tao… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Medulloblastoma, a malignant childhood cerebellar tumour, segregates molecularly into
biologically distinct subgroups, suggesting that a personalized approach to therapy would …

ASCL1 and NEUROD1 reveal heterogeneity in pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors and regulate distinct genetic programs

MD Borromeo, TK Savage, RK Kollipara, M He… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) is a high-grade pulmonary neuroendocrine tumor. The
transcription factors ASCL1 and NEUROD1 play crucial roles in promoting malignant …

Decoding the regulatory landscape of medulloblastoma using DNA methylation sequencing

V Hovestadt, DTW Jones, S Picelli, W Wang, M Kool… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Epigenetic alterations, that is, disruption of DNA methylation and chromatin architecture, are
now acknowledged as a universal feature of tumorigenesis. Medulloblastoma, a clinically …

Modeling medulloblastoma in vivo and with human cerebellar organoids

C Ballabio, M Anderle, M Gianesello, C Lago… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Medulloblastoma (MB) is the most common malignant brain tumor in children and among
the subtypes, Group 3 MB has the worst outcome. Here, we perform an in vivo, patient …

The clinical implications of medulloblastoma subgroups

PA Northcott, A Korshunov, SM Pfister… - Nature reviews …, 2012 - nature.com
Medulloblastoma, the most common malignant paediatric brain tumour, is currently
diagnosed and stratified using a combination of clinical and demographic variables. Recent …

Predicting cell-type–specific gene expression from regions of open chromatin

A Natarajan, GG Yardımcı, NC Sheffield… - Genome …, 2012 - genome.cshlp.org
Complex patterns of cell-type–specific gene expression are thought to be achieved by
combinatorial binding of transcription factors (TFs) to sequence elements in regulatory …

A group 3 medulloblastoma stem cell program is maintained by OTX2-mediated alternative splicing

O Saulnier, J Zagozewski, L Liang, LD Hendrikse… - Nature Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
OTX2 is a transcription factor and known driver in medulloblastoma (MB), where it is
amplified in a subset of tumours and overexpressed in most cases of group 3 and group 4 …

Genome-wide analyses implicate 33 loci in heritable dog osteosarcoma, including regulatory variants near CDKN2A/B

EK Karlsson, S Sigurdsson, E Ivansson, R Thomas… - Genome biology, 2013 - Springer
Background Canine osteosarcoma is clinically nearly identical to the human disease, but is
common and highly heritable, making genetic dissection feasible. Results Through genome …