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ArticleActa neuropathologica2014

CNS-PNETs with C19MC amplification and/or LIN28 expression comprise a distinct histogenetic diagnostic and therapeutic entity.

Tara Spence, Patrick Sin-Chan, Daniel Picard, Mark Barszczyk, Katharina Hoss, Mei Lu, Seung-Ki Kim, Young-Shin Ra, Hideo Nakamura, Jason Fangusaro and 41 more

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Article in Acta neuropathologica, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

58 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 159 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

51 authors at 20 institutions in 13 countries.

Tara SpenceDivision of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumor Research Centre, Peter Gilgan CRL,686 Bay Street, 17th Floor, 179712, Toronto, ON, M5G0A4, Canada.
Patrick Sin-Chan
Daniel Picard
Mark Barszczyk
Katharina Hoss
Mei Lu
Seung-Ki Kim
Young-Shin Ra
Hideo Nakamura
Jason Fangusaro
Eugene Hwang
Erin Kiehna
Helen Toledano
Yin Wang
Qing Shi
Donna Johnston
Jean Michaud
Milena La Spina
Anna Maria Buccoliero
Dariusz Adamek
Sandra Camelo-Piragua
V Peter Collins
Chris Jones
Nabil Kabbara
Nawaf Jurdi
Pascale Varlet
Arie Perry
David Scharnhorst
Xing Fan
Karin M Muraszko
Charles G Eberhart
Ho-Keung Ng
Sridharan Gururangan
Timothy Van Meter
Marc Remke
Lucie Lafay-Cousin
Jennifer A Chan
Nongnuch Sirachainan
Scott L Pomeroy
Steven C Clifford
Amar Gajjar
Mary Shago
William Halliday
Michael D Taylor
Richard Grundy
Ching C Lau
Joanna Phillips
Eric Bouffet
Peter B Dirks
Cynthia E Hawkins
Annie Huang
Hospital for Sick Children · CAUniversity of Michigan · USChildren's Hospital of Eastern Ontario · CASickKids Foundation · CAUniversity of California, San Francisco · USUniversity of Toronto · CAAlberta Children's Hospital · CAAmerican University of Beirut Medical Center · LBAsan Medical Center · KRBaylor College of Medicine · USBoston Children's Hospital · USBrain Tumour Research · GBCenter for Cancer and Blood Disorders · USCentre Hospitalier Sainte-Anne · FRChildren's Hospital Central California · USChildren's Hospital of Los Angeles · USChinese University of Hong Kong · HKDuke University · USHuashan Hospital · CNInstitute of Cancer Research · GB

Funding

Women's Cancer Research ProgramP30CA014236 · NCI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI DONNA NIEDZWIECKI · 1985 to 2026
$174.8M
Tissue CoreP50CA097257 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Joseph F Costello · 2002 to 2026
$57.4M
GENOMIC ANALYSIS OF MEDULLOBLASTOMASR01CA109467 · NCI · CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOSTON · PI MESIROV, JILL P., POMEROY, SCOTT LOREN · 2004 to 2015
$7.3M
Cancer Stem Cell Niche in Brain TumorsR01CA148621 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI FAN, XING · 2011 to 2015
$1.6M
Investigating Cancer Stem Cells - Niche Interactions in Brain TumorR01CA163737 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI FAN, XING · 2012 to 2016
$1.2M
Cancer Research UK 13457CIHR 102684NCI NIH HHS P30 CA014236NCI NIH HHS P50 CA097257NCI NIH HHS R01 CA109467NCI NIH HHS R01 CA148621NCI NIH HHS R01 CA163737
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Amplification of the C19MC oncogenic miRNA cluster and high LIN28 expression has been linked to a distinctly aggressive group of cerebral CNS-PNETs (group 1 CNS-PNETs) arising in young children. In this study, we sought to evaluate the diagnostic specificity of C19MC and LIN28, and the clinical and biological spectra of C19MC amplified and/or LIN28+ CNS-PNETs. We interrogated 450 pediatric brain tumors using FISH and IHC analyses and demonstrate that C19MC alteration is restricted to a sub-group of CNS-PNETs with high LIN28 expression; however, LIN28 immunopositivity was not exclusive to CNS-PNETs but was also detected in a proportion of other malignant pediatric brain tumors including rhabdoid brain tumors and malignant gliomas. C19MC amplified/LIN28+ group 1 CNS-PNETs arose predominantly in children <4 years old; a majority arose in the cerebrum but 24 % (13/54) of tumors had extra-cerebral origins. Notably, group 1 CNS-PNETs encompassed several histologic classes including embryonal tumor with abundant neuropil and true rosettes (ETANTR), medulloepithelioma, ependymoblastoma and CNS-PNETs with variable differentiation. Strikingly, gene expression and methylation profiling analyses revealed a common molecular signature enriched for primitive neural features, high LIN28/LIN28B and DNMT3B expression for all group 1 CNS-PNETs regardless of location or tumor histology. Our collective findings suggest that current known histologic categories of CNS-PNETs which include ETANTRs, medulloepitheliomas, ependymoblastomas in various CNS locations, comprise a common molecular and diagnostic entity and identify inhibitors of the LIN28/let7/PI3K/mTOR axis and DNMT3B as promising therapeutics for this distinct histogenetic entity.

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AdolescentAge of OnsetBrain NeoplasmsCell Line, TumorChildChild, PreschoolDiagnosis, DifferentialDNA (Cytosine-5-)-MethyltransferasesDNA MethylationDNA Methyltransferase 3BFemaleGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansInfantMaleMicroRNAsDNA (Cytosine-5-)-MethyltransferasesDNA Methyltransferase 3BLin28A protein, humanLIN28B protein, humanMicroRNAsRNA-Binding Proteins

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PMID24839957
PMCPMC4159569
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