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 …

Molecular characteristics and therapeutic vulnerabilities across paediatric solid tumours

DTW Jones, A Banito, TGP Grünewald, M Haber… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
The spectrum of tumours arising in childhood is fundamentally different from that seen in
adults, and they are known to be divergent from adult malignancies in terms of cellular …

Transcriptomic definition of molecular subgroups of small round cell sarcomas

S Watson, V Perrin, D Guillemot… - The Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Sarcoma represents a highly heterogeneous group of tumours. We report here the first
unbiased and systematic search for gene fusions combined with unsupervised expression …

Aberrant gene activation in synovial sarcoma relies on SSX specificity and increased PRC1. 1 stability

NS Benabdallah, V Dalal, RW Scott… - Nature Structural & …, 2023 - nature.com
The SS18-SSX fusion drives oncogenic transformation in synovial sarcoma by bridging
SS18, a member of the mSWI/SNF (BAF) complex, to Polycomb repressive complex 1 …

Incidence of childhood renal tumours: an international population‐based study

K Nakata, M Colombet, CA Stiller… - … journal of cancer, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Malignant renal tumours represent 5% of childhood cancers and include types with likely
different aetiology: Wilms tumour (WT), rhabdoid renal tumour, kidney sarcomas and renal …

Small round cell sarcomas

F Cidre-Aranaz, S Watson, JF Amatruda… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Undifferentiated small round cell sarcomas (SRCSs) of bone and soft tissue comprise a
heterogeneous group of highly aggressive tumours associated with a poor prognosis …

BCOR overexpression is a highly sensitive marker in round cell sarcomas with BCOR genetic abnormalities

YC Kao, YS Sung, L Zhang, AA Jungbluth… - The American journal …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
With the advent of next-generation sequencing, an increasing number of novel gene fusions
and other abnormalities have emerged recently in the spectrum of EWSR1-negative small …

BCOR involvement in cancer

A Astolfi, M Fiore, F Melchionda, V Indio… - …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
BCOR is a gene that encodes for an epigenetic regulator involved in the specification of cell
differentiation and body structure development and takes part in the noncanonical polycomb …

Recurrent BCOR internal tandem duplication and YWHAE-NUTM2B fusions in soft tissue undifferentiated round cell sarcoma of infancy: overlapping genetic features …

YC Kao, YS Sung, L Zhang, SC Huang… - The American journal …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Soft tissue undifferentiated round cell sarcoma (URCS) occurring in infants is a
heterogenous group of tumors, often lacking known genetic abnormalities. On the basis of at …

The SS18-SSX oncoprotein hijacks KDM2B-PRC1. 1 to drive synovial sarcoma

A Banito, X Li, AN Laporte, JS Roe, F Sanchez-Vega… - Cancer cell, 2018 - cell.com
Synovial sarcoma is an aggressive cancer invariably associated with a chromosomal
translocation involving genes encoding the SWI-SNF complex component SS18 and an SSX …