Fate mapping of human glioblastoma reveals an invariant stem cell hierarchy

X Lan, DJ Jörg, FMG Cavalli, LM Richards, LV Nguyen… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Human glioblastomas harbour a subpopulation of glioblastoma stem cells that drive
tumorigenesis. However, the origin of intratumoural functional heterogeneity between …

Human glioblastoma arises from subventricular zone cells with low-level driver mutations

JH Lee, JE Lee, JY Kahng, SH Kim, JS Park, SJ Yoon… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is a devastating and incurable brain tumour, with a median overall
survival of fifteen months,. Identifying the cell of origin that harbours mutations that drive …

[HTML][HTML] A single-cell atlas of glioblastoma evolution under therapy reveals cell-intrinsic and cell-extrinsic therapeutic targets

L Wang, J Jung, H Babikir, K Shamardani, S Jain… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Recent longitudinal studies of glioblastoma (GBM) have demonstrated a lack of apparent
selection pressure for specific DNA mutations in recurrent disease. Single-cell lineage …

A restricted cell population propagates glioblastoma growth after chemotherapy

J Chen, Y Li, TS Yu, RM McKay, DK Burns, SG Kernie… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Glioblastoma multiforme is the most common primary malignant brain tumour, with a median
survival of about one year. This poor prognosis is due to therapeutic resistance and tumour …

A prognostic neural epigenetic signature in high-grade glioma

R Drexler, R Khatri, T Sauvigny, M Mohme, CL Maire… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Neural–tumor interactions drive glioma growth as evidenced in preclinical models, but
clinical validation is limited. We present an epigenetically defined neural signature of …

Discordant inheritance of chromosomal and extrachromosomal DNA elements contributes to dynamic disease evolution in glioblastoma

AC Decarvalho, H Kim, LM Poisson, ME Winn… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
To understand how genomic heterogeneity of glioblastoma (GBM) contributes to poor
therapy response, we performed DNA and RNA sequencing on GBM samples and the …

The transcriptional network for mesenchymal transformation of brain tumours

MS Carro, WK Lim, MJ Alvarez, RJ Bollo, X Zhao… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
The inference of transcriptional networks that regulate transitions into physiological or
pathological cellular states remains a central challenge in systems biology. A mesenchymal …

Targeting glioma stem cells through combined BMI1 and EZH2 inhibition

X Jin, LJY Kim, Q Wu, LC Wallace, BC Prager… - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
Glioblastomas are lethal cancers defined by angiogenesis and pseudopalisading necrosis.
Here, we demonstrate that these histological features are associated with distinct …

Longitudinal molecular trajectories of diffuse glioma in adults

FP Barthel, KC Johnson, FS Varn, AD Moskalik… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The evolutionary processes that drive universal therapeutic resistance in adult patients with
diffuse glioma remain unclear,. Here we analysed temporally separated DNA-sequencing …

Non-cell-autonomous driving of tumour growth supports sub-clonal heterogeneity

A Marusyk, DP Tabassum, PM Altrock, V Almendro… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Cancers arise through a process of somatic evolution that can result in substantial sub-
clonal heterogeneity within tumours. The mechanisms responsible for the coexistence of …