Neuroblastoma—a neural crest derived embryonal malignancy

JI Johnsen, C Dyberg, M Wickström - Frontiers in molecular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Neuroblastoma is a neural crest derived malignancy of the peripheral nervous system and is
the most common and deadliest tumor of infancy. It is characterized by clinical heterogeneity …

Neuroblastoma and MYCN

M Huang, WA Weiss - Cold Spring …, 2013 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Neuroblastoma, the most common extracranial solid tumor of childhood, is thought to
originate from undifferentiated neural crest cells. Amplification of the MYC family member …

Control-FREEC: a tool for assessing copy number and allelic content using next-generation sequencing data

V Boeva, T Popova, K Bleakley, P Chiche… - …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
More and more cancer studies use next-generation sequencing (NGS) data to detect various
types of genomic variation. However, even when researchers have such data at hand, single …

Pan-neuroblastoma analysis reveals age-and signature-associated driver alterations

SW Brady, Y Liu, X Ma, AM Gout, K Hagiwara… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Neuroblastoma is a pediatric malignancy with heterogeneous clinical outcomes. To better
understand neuroblastoma pathogenesis, here we analyze whole-genome, whole-exome …

The risk-associated long noncoding RNA NBAT-1 controls neuroblastoma progression by regulating cell proliferation and neuronal differentiation

GK Pandey, S Mitra, S Subhash, F Hertwig, M Kanduri… - Cancer cell, 2014 - cell.com
Neuroblastoma is an embryonal tumor of the sympathetic nervous system and the most
common extracranial tumor of childhood. By sequencing transcriptomes of low-and high-risk …

Neuroblastoma heterogeneity, plasticity, and emerging therapies

KI Lundberg, D Treis, JI Johnsen - Current Oncology Reports, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The evolving information of the initiation, tumor cell
heterogeneity, and plasticity of childhood neuroblastoma has opened up new perspectives …

Clinical significance of tumor-associated inflammatory cells in metastatic neuroblastoma

S Asgharzadeh, JA Salo, L Ji, A Oberthuer… - Journal of Clinical …, 2012 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Children diagnosed at age≥ 18 months with metastatic MYCN-nonamplified
neuroblastoma (NBL-NA) are at high risk for disease relapse, whereas those diagnosed at …

Single-nuclei transcriptomes from human adrenal gland reveal distinct cellular identities of low and high-risk neuroblastoma tumors

OC Bedoya-Reina, W Li, M Arceo, M Plescher… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Childhood neuroblastoma has a remarkable variability in outcome. Age at diagnosis is one
of the most important prognostic factors, with children less than 1 year old having favorable …

11q deletion in neuroblastoma: a review of biological and clinical implications

V Mlakar, S Jurkovic Mlakar, G Lopez, JM Maris… - Molecular cancer, 2017 - Springer
Deletion of the long arm of chromosome 11 (11q deletion) is one of the most frequent events
that occur during the development of aggressive neuroblastoma. Clinically, 11q deletion is …

ATR inhibition enables complete tumour regression in ALK-driven NB mouse models

J Szydzik, DE Lind, B Arefin, Y Kurhe… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
High-risk neuroblastoma (NB) often involves MYCN amplification as well as mutations in
ALK. Currently, high-risk NB presents significant clinical challenges, and additional …