articleCancer DiscoveryJan 16, 2014GREEN OA

Comprehensive Genomic Analysis of Rhabdomyosarcoma Reveals a Landscape of Alterations Affecting a Common Genetic Axis in Fusion-Positive and Fusion-Negative Tumors

Broad Institute · Seattle Children's Hospital · +11 more institutions

PubMed
Indexed incrossrefpubmed

Abstract

UNLABELLED: Despite gains in survival, outcomes for patients with metastatic or recurrent rhabdomyosarcoma remain dismal. In a collaboration between the National Cancer Institute, Children's Oncology Group, and Broad Institute, we performed whole-genome, whole-exome, and transcriptome sequencing to characterize the landscape of somatic alterations in 147 tumor/normal pairs. Two genotypes are evident in rhabdomyosarcoma tumors: those characterized by the PAX3 or PAX7 fusion and those that lack these fusions but harbor mutations in key signaling pathways. The overall burden of somatic mutations in rhabdomyosarcoma is relatively low, especially in tumors that harbor a PAX3/7 gene fusion. In addition to previously…

Citation impact

773
total citations
FWCI
40.96
Percentile
100%
References
75
Citations per year

Authors

27

Topics & keywords

Keywords
  • Rhabdomyosarcoma
  • Fusion
  • Fusion gene
  • Biology
  • Computational biology
  • Bioinformatics
  • Cancer research
  • Genetics
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Good health and well-being
No related works found for this paper.