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ArticleNature genetics2017

The genomic landscape of pediatric and young adult T-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Yu Liu, John Easton, Ying Shao, Jamie Maciaszek, Zhaoming Wang, Mark R Wilkinson, Kelly McCastlain, Michael Edmonson, Stanley B Pounds, Lei Shi and 29 more

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Article in Nature genetics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06855810 (Chinese Children's Cancer Group T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia -2025 Project), which is not on this map. Cited by 583 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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583citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
77.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT06855810 phase2 / phase3recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Chinese Children's Cancer Group T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia -2025 Project

TypeinterventionalSponsorInstitute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, ChinaRan2025 to 2031Enrolled610ConditionsAcute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Childhood Leukemia, Acute Lymphoblastic, T Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia/Lymphoblastic LymphomaArmsVenetoclax, Dasatinib, homoharringtonine
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

583 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 922 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

39 authors at 13 institutions in 1 country.

Yu LiuDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8928-2558
John EastonDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Ying ShaoDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Jamie MaciaszekDepartment of Hematology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Zhaoming WangDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Mark R WilkinsonDepartment of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Kelly McCastlainDepartment of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7868-3049
Michael EdmonsonDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Stanley B PoundsDepartment of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9167-2114
Lei ShiDepartment of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Xin ZhouDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Xiaotu MaDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Edgar SiosonDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Yongjin LiDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Michael RuschDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5363-1848
Pankaj GuptaDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Deqing PeiDepartment of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Cheng ChengDepartment of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Malcolm A SmithCancer Therapy Evaluation Program, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9880-9876
Jaime M Guidry AuvilOffice of Cancer Genomics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Daniela S GerhardOffice of Cancer Genomics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Mary V RellingDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Naomi J WinickUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Andrew J CarrollDepartment of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Nyla A HeeremaDepartment of Pathology, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Elizabeth RaetzDepartment of Pediatrics, Huntsman Cancer Institute and Primary Children's Hospital, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Meenakshi DevidasDepartment of Biostatistics, Colleges of Medicine, Public Health &Health Profession, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
Cheryl L WillmanDepartment of Pathology, The Cancer Research and Treatment Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
Richard C HarveyDepartment of Pathology, The Cancer Research and Treatment Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
William L CarrollDepartment of Pediatrics, Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
Kimberly P DunsmoreHealth Sciences Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
Stuart S WinterDepartment of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
Brent L WoodSeattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Brian P SorrentinoDepartment of Hematology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
James R DowningDepartment of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Mignon L LohDepartment of Pediatrics, Benioff Children's Hospital, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Stephen P HungerDepartment of Pediatrics and the Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Jinghui ZhangDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Charles G MullighanDepartment of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1871-1850
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital · USNational Cancer Institute · USUniversity of New Mexico · USChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia · USPrimary Children's Hospital · USSeattle Cancer Care Alliance · USThe Ohio State University · USThe University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · USUCSF Benioff Children's Hospital · USUniversity Medical Center · USUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham · USUniversity of Florida Health · USUniversity of Virginia · US

Funding

COG FOREIGN ACCRUALU10CA098543 · NCI · NATIONAL CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION · PI ADAMSON, PETER C. · 2003 to 2013
$335.5M
Viral Vector Technology (VVTSR)P30CA021765 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI CHARLES ROBERTS · 1985 to 2026
$166.9M
COG SDMC - Statistics CoreU10CA180899 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI TODD A ALONZO · 2014 to 2026
$132.8M
Translational Therapeutics Research Program (TT)P30CA016058 · NCI · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI Tasleem J Padamsee · 1985 to 2026
$132.3M
Children's Oncology Group Statistics &Data Center GrantU10CA098413 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER · PI DEVIDAS, MEENAKSHI · 2003 to 2013
$67.5M
CPML - Project 3: Genome-wide Studies of Adverse EffectsP50GM115279 · NIGMS · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI RELLING, MARY V · 2015 to 2019
$15.1M
Support for Human Specimen Banking in NCI-Supported Cancer Clinical TrialsU24CA114766 · NCI · RESEARCH INST NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSP · PI RAMIREZ MILAN, NILSA DEL CARMEN · 2005 to 2014
$14.5M
Translating genomic discoveries to improved outcomes for high risk acute leukemiaR35CA197695 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI Charles G Mullighan · 2017 to 2026
$11.4M
MOLECULAR SIGNATURES FOR OUTCOME PREDICTION AND THERAPEUTIC TARGETING IN ALLU01CA157937 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIS CTR · PI HUNGER, STEPHEN PATRICK, WILLMAN, CHERYL LYNN · 2011 to 2015
$2.9M
Targeted Therapies for Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic LeukemiaRC2CA148529 · NCI · NATIONAL CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION · PI BOROWITZ, MICHAEL J, DEVIDAS, MEENAKSHI · 2009 to 2010
$1.7M
CCR NIH HHS HHSN261200800001CNCI NIH HHS HHSN261200800001ENCI NIH HHS P30 CA016058NCI NIH HHS P30 CA021765NCI NIH HHS R35 CA197695NCI NIH HHS RC2 CA148529NCI NIH HHS U01 CA157937NCI NIH HHS U10 CA098413NCI NIH HHS U10 CA098543NCI NIH HHS U10 CA180899NCI NIH HHS U24 CA114766NIGMS NIH HHS P50 GM115279
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genetic alterations that activate NOTCH1 signaling and T cell transcription factors, coupled with inactivation of the INK4/ARF tumor suppressors, are hallmarks of T-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL), but detailed genome-wide sequencing of large T-ALL cohorts has not been carried out. Using integrated genomic analysis of 264 T-ALL cases, we identified 106 putative driver genes, half of which had not previously been described in childhood T-ALL (for example, CCND3, CTCF, MYB, SMARCA4, ZFP36L2 and MYCN). We describe new mechanisms of coding and noncoding alteration and identify ten recurrently altered pathways, with associations between mutated genes and pathways, and stage or subtype of T-ALL. For example, NRAS/FLT3 mutations were associated with immature T-ALL, JAK3/STAT5B mutations in HOXA1 deregulated ALL, PTPN2 mutations in TLX1 deregulated T-ALL, and PIK3R1/PTEN mutations in TAL1 deregulated ALL, which suggests that different signaling pathways have distinct roles according to maturational stage. This genomic landscape provides a logical framework for the development of faithful genetic models and new therapeutic approaches.

Indexed as

AdolescentAdultCell LineageChildChild, PreschoolCohort StudiesEpigenesis, GeneticGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGene RearrangementGenomicsHumansMiddle AgedMutationPrecursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-LymphomaReceptor, Notch1Signal TransductionNOTCH1 protein, humanReceptor, Notch1

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PMID28671688
PMCPMC5535770
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