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ReviewScience (New York, N.Y.)2019

The genomic landscape of pediatric cancers: Implications for diagnosis and treatment.

E Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, Jaclyn A Biegel

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Review in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 129 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

129 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

E Alejandro Sweet-CorderoDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA. jbiegel@chla.usc.edu alejandro.sweet-cordero@ucsf.edu.
Jaclyn A BiegelDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, and Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA. jbiegel@chla.usc.edu alejandro.sweet-cordero@ucsf.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-9270-6411

Funding

USC/NORRIS COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER (CORE) SUPPORTP30CA014089 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI MYLES G COCKBURN · 1985 to 2026
$181.4M
Sweet-Cordero_Diversity Supplement_Due 03/30/18R01CA211657 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI SWEET-CORDERO, ERIC ALEJANDRO · 2017 to 2021
$2.0M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA014089NCI NIH HHS R01 CA211657
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The past decade has witnessed a major increase in our understanding of the genetic underpinnings of childhood cancer. Genomic sequencing studies have highlighted key differences between pediatric and adult cancers. Whereas many adult cancers are characterized by a high number of somatic mutations, pediatric cancers typically have few somatic mutations but a higher prevalence of germline alterations in cancer predisposition genes. Also noteworthy is the remarkable heterogeneity in the types of genetic alterations that likely drive the growth of pediatric cancers, including copy number alterations, gene fusions, enhancer hijacking events, and chromoplexy. Because most studies have genetically profiled pediatric cancers only at diagnosis, the mechanisms underlying tumor progression, therapy resistance, and metastasis remain poorly understood. We discuss evidence that points to a need for more integrative approaches aimed at identifying driver events in pediatric cancers at both diagnosis and relapse. We also provide an overview of key aspects of germline predisposition for cancer in this age group.

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Genetic Predisposition to DiseaseNeoplasmsAdultChildDisease ProgressionDNA Copy Number VariationsGenes, NeoplasmGenomicsHumansMutationNeoplasm MetastasisOncogene FusionRecurrence

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PMID30872516
PMCPMC7757338

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