Advancing therapy for neuroblastoma

B Qiu, KK Matthay - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2022 - nature.com
Neuroblastomas are tumours of sympathetic origin, with a heterogeneous clinical course
ranging from localized or spontaneously regressing to widely metastatic disease …

Recent advances in the developmental origin of neuroblastoma: an overview

M Ponzoni, T Bachetti, MV Corrias, C Brignole… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - Springer
Neuroblastoma (NB) is a pediatric tumor that originates from neural crest-derived cells
undergoing a defective differentiation due to genomic and epigenetic impairments …

GeneHancer: genome-wide integration of enhancers and target genes in GeneCards

S Fishilevich, R Nudel, N Rappaport, R Hadar… - Database, 2017 - academic.oup.com
A major challenge in understanding gene regulation is the unequivocal identification of
enhancer elements and uncovering their connections to genes. We present GeneHancer, a …

Neuroblastoma is composed of two super-enhancer-associated differentiation states

T Van Groningen, J Koster, LJ Valentijn… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Neuroblastoma and other pediatric tumors show a paucity of gene mutations, which has
sparked an interest in their epigenetic regulation. Several tumor types include …

Heterogeneity of neuroblastoma cell identity defined by transcriptional circuitries

V Boeva, C Louis-Brennetot, A Peltier, S Durand… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Neuroblastoma is a tumor of the peripheral sympathetic nervous system, derived from
multipotent neural crest cells (NCCs). To define core regulatory circuitries (CRCs) controlling …

EP300 Selectively Controls the Enhancer Landscape of MYCN-Amplified Neuroblastoma

AD Durbin, T Wang, VK Wimalasena, MW Zimmerman… - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
Gene expression is regulated by promoters and enhancers marked by histone H3 lysine 27
acetylation (H3K27ac), which is established by the paralogous histone acetyltransferases …

Role of non-coding sequence variants in cancer

E Khurana, Y Fu, D Chakravarty, F Demichelis… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Patients with cancer carry somatic sequence variants in their tumour in addition to the
germline variants in their inherited genome. Although variants in protein-coding regions …

Functional enhancers shape extrachromosomal oncogene amplifications

AR Morton, N Dogan-Artun, ZJ Faber, G MacLeod… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Non-coding regions amplified beyond oncogene borders have largely been ignored. Using
a computational approach, we find signatures of significant co-amplification of non-coding …

[HTML][HTML] Single nucleotide polymorphisms and cancer susceptibility

NA Deng, H Zhou, H Fan, Y Yuan - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A large number of genes associated with various cancer types contain single nucleotide
polymorphisms (SNPs). SNPs are located in gene promoters, exons, introns as well as 5' …

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 …