Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40335697›Full record

ArticleNature2025

Oncogene aberrations drive medulloblastoma progression, not initiation.

Konstantin Okonechnikov, Piyush Joshi, Verena Körber, Anne Rademacher, Michele Bortolomeazzi, Jan-Philipp Mallm, Jan Vaillant, Patricia Benites Goncalves da Silva, Britta Statz, Mari Sepp and 29 more

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Nature, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
20citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. From developmental origins to relapse: molecular and therapeutic insights in medulloblastoma.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2026
    Review
  4. Review
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Review
  9. Developmental determinants of male bias in medulloblastoma.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
    Article
  10. scAmp analyzes focal gene amplifications at single-cell resolution.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
    Article
  11. Article
  12. Review
  13. Article
  14. Review
  15. Review
  16. Review
  17. Article
  18. Article
  19. Review
  20. Article
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.

Konstantin Okonechnikov *Hopp Children's Cancer Center (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Piyush Joshi *Hopp Children's Cancer Center (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5631-336X
Verena Körber *Division of Theoretical Systems Biology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Anne RademacherDivision of Chromatin Networks, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and Bioquant, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3054-3121
Michele BortolomeazziSingle-cell Open Lab, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5805-5774
Jan-Philipp MallmSingle-cell Open Lab, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7059-4030
Jan VaillantHopp Children's Cancer Center (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0009-0003-6283-9581
Patricia Benites Goncalves da SilvaHopp Children's Cancer Center (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Britta StatzHopp Children's Cancer Center (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Mari SeppCenter for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1733-8385
Ioannis SarropoulosCenter for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2242-0562
Tetsuya YamadaCenter for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Heidelberg, Germany.
Andrea WittmannHopp Children's Cancer Center (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Kathrin SchrammHopp Children's Cancer Center (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Mirjam Blattner-JohnsonHopp Children's Cancer Center (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Petra FieselHopp Children's Cancer Center (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Barbara JonesHopp Children's Cancer Center (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Natalie JägerHopp Children's Cancer Center (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9589-7580
Till MildeHopp Children's Cancer Center (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7267-1052
Kristian W PajtlerHopp Children's Cancer Center (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3562-6121
Cornelis M van TilburgHopp Children's Cancer Center (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5274-910X
Olaf WittHopp Children's Cancer Center (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3918-9157
Konrad BochennekFrankfurt University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.
Katharina Johanna WeberGoethe University Frankfurt, University Hospital, Neurological Institute (Edinger Institute), Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Lisa NonnenmacherUniversity Children's Hospital, Ulm, Germany.
Christian ReimannUniversity Children's Hospital, Ulm, Germany.ORCID 0009-0005-2487-4313
David R GhasemiHopp Children's Cancer Center (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3844-9933
Ulrich SchüllerDepartment of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8731-1121
Martin MynarekDepartment of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3302-2719
Stefan RutkowskiDepartment of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
David T W JonesHopp Children's Cancer Center (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2036-5141
Andrey KorshunovHopp Children's Cancer Center (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Karsten RippeDivision of Chromatin Networks, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and Bioquant, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9951-9395
Frank WestermannHopp Children's Cancer Center (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1584-3636
Supat ThongjueaHopp Children's Cancer Center (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Thomas HöferDivision of Theoretical Systems Biology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Henrik KaessmannDivision of Pediatric Glioma Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7563-839X
Lena M KutscherHopp Children's Cancer Center (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany. l.kutscher@kitz-heidelberg.de.ORCID 0000-0002-1130-4582
Stefan M PfisterHopp Children's Cancer Center (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany. s.pfister@kitz-heidelberg.de.ORCID 0000-0002-5447-5322

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite recent advances in understanding disease biology, treatment of group 3/4 medulloblastoma remains a therapeutic challenge in paediatric neuro-oncology

Indexed as

CarcinogenesisCerebellar NeoplasmsChromosome AberrationsDisease ProgressionMedulloblastomaOncogenesCohort StudiesDNA Copy Number VariationsDrug Resistance, NeoplasmFemaleHumansMaleN-Myc Proto-Oncogene ProteinSingle-Cell AnalysisTranscriptomeMYCN protein, humanN-Myc Proto-Oncogene Protein

Identifiers

PMID40335697
PMCPMC12222029

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.