The expanding world of N-MYC–driven tumors

DS Rickman, JH Schulte, M Eilers - Cancer discovery, 2018 - AACR
Enhanced and deregulated expression of N-MYC, a member of the MYC family of
transcription factors, drives the development of multiple tumors, including tumors of the …

Ciliary signalling in cancer

H Liu, AA Kiseleva, EA Golemis - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
Although tumours initiate from oncogenic changes in a cancer cell, subsequent tumour
progression and therapeutic response depend on interactions between the cancer cells and …

The landscape of genomic alterations across childhood cancers

SN Gröbner, BC Worst, J Weischenfeldt, I Buchhalter… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Pan-cancer analyses that examine commonalities and differences among various cancer
types have emerged as a powerful way to obtain novel insights into cancer biology. Here we …

DNA methylation-based classification of central nervous system tumours

D Capper, DTW Jones, M Sill, V Hovestadt, D Schrimpf… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Accurate pathological diagnosis is crucial for optimal management of patients with cancer.
For the approximately 100 known tumour types of the central nervous system …

Spectrum and prevalence of genetic predisposition in medulloblastoma: a retrospective genetic study and prospective validation in a clinical trial cohort

SM Waszak, PA Northcott, I Buchhalter… - The Lancet …, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background Medulloblastoma is associated with rare hereditary cancer predisposition
syndromes; however, consensus medulloblastoma predisposition genes have not been …

Whole genome sequencing puts forward hypotheses on metastasis evolution and therapy in colorectal cancer

N Ishaque, ML Abba, C Hauser, N Patil… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Incomplete understanding of the metastatic process hinders personalized therapy. Here we
report the most comprehensive whole-genome study of colorectal metastases vs. matched …

[HTML][HTML] Metabolism and epigenetic interplay in cancer: regulation and putative therapeutic targets

V Miranda-Gonçalves, A Lameirinhas… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Alterations in the epigenome and metabolism affect molecular rewiring of cancer cells
facilitating cancer development and progression. Modulation of histone and DNA …

Small molecule promotes β-catenin citrullination and inhibits Wnt signaling in cancer

Y Qu, JR Olsen, X Yuan, PF Cheng… - Nature chemical …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Wnt (wingless)/β-catenin signaling is critical for tumor progression and is frequently
activated in colorectal cancer as a result of the mutation of adenomatous polyposis coli …

Extensive cellular heterogeneity of X inactivation revealed by single-cell allele-specific expression in human fibroblasts

M Garieri, G Stamoulis, X Blanc… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) provides a dosage compensation mechanism where, in
each female cell, one of the two X chromosomes is randomly silenced. However, some …

Subgroup-specific immune and stromal microenvironment in medulloblastoma

M Bockmayr, M Mohme, F Klauschen, B Winkler… - …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Knowledge on immune and stromal cells in medulloblastoma microenvironment is still
limited as previous work was frequently restricted by low sample size and the lack of …