Linking genes, genomic instability and molecular subgroups in medulloblastoma

Brain tumors are the second most common pediatric cancer and carry the highest mortality rates in this age group. Medulloblastoma is the most frequent malignant brain tumor of childhood. Recent studies indicate that medulloblastoma comprises at least four sub-entities (SHH-signaling, WNT-signaling, Group-C, Group-D) that differ in molecular alterations, cell of origin, clinicopathological features and outcome. Further characterization of the entire spectrum of genomic alterations underlying the formation of these distinct groups is urgently needed to identify diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for clinical management and uncover novel therapeutic targets.

Type: Whole Genome Sequencing
Archiver: European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA)

4 Datasets 1 Publication

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Dataset ID	Description	Technology	Samples
EGAD00001000027	ICGC Germany PedBrain Medulloblastoma Pilot_2_LM	Illumina Genome Analyzer IIx Illumina HiSeq 2000	8
EGAD00001000697	Illumina HiSeq sequence data (with >30x coverage) were aligned to the hg19 human reference genome assembly using BWA (Li and Durbin, 2009); duplicate reads were removed from the final BAM file. No realignment or recalibration was performed.	Illumina Genome Analyzer IIx Illumina HiSeq 2000	90
EGAD00001001624	release_2: ICGC PedBrain: whole exome sequencing and Target-Seq	Illumina HiSeq 2000	188
EGAD00001001625	release_2: ICGC PedBrain: whole genome sequencing	Illumina Genome Analyzer IIx Illumina HiSeq 2000	209

Publications	Citations
Genome sequencing of pediatric medulloblastoma links catastrophic DNA rearrangements with TP53 mutations. Rausch T, Jones DT, Zapatka M, Stütz AM, Zichner T, Weischenfeldt J, Jäger N, Remke M, Shih D, Northcott PA, Pfaff E, Tica J, Wang Q, Massimi L, Witt H, Bender S, Pleier S, Cin H, Hawkins C, Beck C, von Deimling A, Hans V, Brors B, Eils R, Scheurlen W, Blake J, Benes V, Kulozik AE, Witt O, Martin D, Zhang C, Porat R, Merino DM, Wasserman J, Jabado N, Fontebasso A, Bullinger L, Rücker FG, Döhner K, Döhner H, Koster J, Molenaar JJ, Versteeg R, Kool M, Tabori U, Malkin D, Korshunov A, Taylor MD, Lichter P, Pfister SM, Korbel JO. Cell 148: 2012 59-71	544

Publications

Citations

Genome sequencing of pediatric medulloblastoma links catastrophic DNA rearrangements with TP53 mutations.
Rausch T, Jones DT, Zapatka M, Stütz AM, Zichner T, Weischenfeldt J, Jäger N, Remke M, Shih D, Northcott PA, Pfaff E, Tica J, Wang Q, Massimi L, Witt H, Bender S, Pleier S, Cin H, Hawkins C, Beck C, von Deimling A, Hans V, Brors B, Eils R, Scheurlen W, Blake J, Benes V, Kulozik AE, Witt O, Martin D, Zhang C, Porat R, Merino DM, Wasserman J, Jabado N, Fontebasso A, Bullinger L, Rücker FG, Döhner K, Döhner H, Koster J, Molenaar JJ, Versteeg R, Kool M, Tabori U, Malkin D, Korshunov A, Taylor MD, Lichter P, Pfister SM, Korbel JO. Cell 148: 2012 59-71

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