A Children's Oncology Group and TARGET initiative exploring the genetic landscape of Wilms tumor

S Gadd, V Huff, AL Walz, AHAG Ooms, AE Armstrong… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
We performed genome-wide sequencing and analyzed mRNA and miRNA expression, DNA
copy number, and DNA methylation in 117 Wilms tumors, followed by targeted sequencing …

Identification of new Wilms tumour predisposition genes: an exome sequencing study

S Mahamdallie, S Yost, E Poyastro-Pearson… - The Lancet Child & …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background Wilms tumour is the most common childhood renal cancer and is genetically
heterogeneous. While several Wilms tumour predisposition genes have been identified …

Intra-tumor genetic heterogeneity in Wilms tumor: clonal evolution and clinical implications

GD Cresswell, JR Apps, T Chagtai, B Mifsud… - …, 2016 - thelancet.com
The evolution of pediatric solid tumors is poorly understood. There is conflicting evidence of
intra-tumor genetic homogeneity vs. heterogeneity (ITGH) in a small number of studies in …

The genetic changes of Wilms tumour

TD Treger, T Chowdhury, K Pritchard-Jones… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Wilms tumour is the most common renal malignancy of childhood. The disease is curable in
the majority of cases, albeit at considerable cost in terms of late treatment-related effects in …

Recent advances in Wilms tumor genetics

JS Dome, MJ Coppes - Current opinion in pediatrics, 2002 - journals.lww.com
The past decade has witnessed substantial growth in our knowledge of the genes and loci
that are altered in Wilms tumor. Although Wilms tumor was one of the original paradigms of …

Novel mutations target distinct subgroups of medulloblastoma

G Robinson, M Parker, TA Kranenburg, C Lu, X Chen… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Medulloblastoma is a malignant childhood brain tumour comprising four discrete subgroups.
Here, to identify mutations that drive medulloblastoma, we sequenced the entire genomes of …

Genomic imbalances pinpoint potential oncogenes and tumor suppressors in Wilms tumors

ACV Krepischi, M Maschietto, EN Ferreira… - Molecular …, 2016 - Springer
Background Wilms tumor (WT) has a not completely elucidated pathogenesis. DNA copy
number alterations (CNAs) are common in cancer, and often define key pathogenic events …

Clinically relevant subsets identified by gene expression patterns support a revised ontogenic model of Wilms tumor: a Children's Oncology Group Study

S Gadd, V Huff, CC Huang, EC Ruteshouser, JS Dome… - Neoplasia, 2012 - Elsevier
Wilms tumors (WT) have provided broad insights into the interface between development
and tumorigenesis. Further understanding is confounded by their genetic, histologic, and …

[HTML][HTML] Stratification of Wilms tumor by genetic and epigenetic analysis

RH Scott, A Murray, L Baskcomb, C Turnbull… - Oncotarget, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Somatic defects at five loci, WT1, CTNNB1, WTX, TP53 and the imprinted 11p15 region, are
implicated in Wilms tumor, the commonest childhood kidney cancer. In this study we …

The landscape of somatic mutations in epigenetic regulators across 1,000 paediatric cancer genomes

R Huether, L Dong, X Chen, G Wu, M Parker… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Studies of paediatric cancers have shown a high frequency of mutation across epigenetic
regulators. Here we sequence 633 genes, encoding the majority of known epigenetic …