Deregulation of DUX4 and ERG in acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Chromosomal rearrangements deregulating hematopoietic transcription factors are common leukemia-initiating lesions in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Here, we show that deregulation of the homeobox transcription factor gene DUX4 and the ETS transcription factor gene ERG are hallmarks of a subtype of B-progenitor ALL with a distinct gene expression profile that comprises up to 7% of B-ALL. DUX4 rearrangement and overexpression is present in all cases, and is accompanied by profound transcriptional deregulation of ERG, frequent ERG deletion and expression of a truncated ERG isoform, ERGalt. ERGalt utilizes a non-canonical first exon that is bound by DUX4 and induces its expression....

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Archiver: European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA)

3 Datasets 10 Publications

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Dataset ID	Description	Technology	Samples
EGAD00001002654	This dataset contains RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, and ChIP-seq samples from the SJERG cohort. We applied ChIP-Seq for Dux4 on two B-cell ALL cell-lines(REH, Nalm6) along with INPUT. ATAC-Seq on two B-cell ALL cell-lines(REH, Nalm6) and xenograft of a B-cell ALL patient(ERG000016).	Illumina HiSeq 2000	13
EGAD00001002681	RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, and ATAC-seq files for PCGP SJERG paper titled "Deregulation of DUX4 and ERG in acute lymphoblastic leukemia"	Illumina HiSeq 2000 (ILLUMINA)	53
EGAD00001002741	Additional Xenograph files for PCGP SJERG	Illumina HiSeq 2000	11

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Pediatric patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia generate abundant and functional neoantigen-specific CD8+ T cell responses. Zamora AE, Crawford JC, Allen EK, Guo XJ, Bakke J, Carter RA, Abdelsamed HA, Moustaki A, Li Y, Chang TC, Awad W, Dallas MH, Mullighan CG, Downing JR, Geiger TL, Chen T, Green DR, Youngblood BA, Zhang J, Thomas PG. Sci Transl Med 11: 2019 eaat8549	49
Long-read sequencing unveils IGH-DUX4 translocation into the silenced IGH allele in B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Tian L, Shao Y, Nance S, Dang J, Xu B, Ma X, Li Y, Ju B, Dong L, Newman S, Zhou X, Schreiner P, Tseng E, Hon T, Ashby M, Li C, Easton J, Gruber TA, Zhang J. Nat Commun 10: 2019 2789	14
Functional interrogation of HOXA9 regulome in MLLr leukemia via reporter-based CRISPR/Cas9 screen. Zhang H, Zhang Y, Zhou X, Wright S, Hyle J, Zhao L, An J, Zhao X, Shao Y, Xu B, Lee HM, Chen T, Zhou Y, Chen X, Lu R, Li C. Elife 9: 2020 e57858	22
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DNA crosslinking and recombination-activating genes 1/2 (RAG1/2) are required for oncogenic splicing in acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Zhang H, Cheng N, Li Z, Bai L, Fang C, Li Y, Zhang W, Dong X, Jiang M, Liang Y, Zhang S, Mi J, Zhu J, Zhang Y, Chen SJ, Zhao Y, Weng XQ, Hu W, Chen Z, Huang J, Meng G. Cancer Commun (Lond) 41: 2021 1116-1136	6
Enhancer retargeting of CDX2 and UBTF::ATXN7L3 define a subtype of high-risk B-progenitor acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Kimura S, Montefiori L, Iacobucci I, Zhao Y, Gao Q, Paietta EM, Haferlach C, Laird AD, Mead PE, Gu Z, Stock W, Litzow M, Rowe JM, Luger SM, Hunger SP, Ryland GL, Schmidt B, Ekert PG, Oshlack A, Grimmond SM, Rehn J, Breen J, Yeung D, White DL, Aldoss I, Jabbour EJ, Pui CH, Meggendorfer M, Walter W, Kern W, Haferlach T, Brady S, Zhang J, Roberts KG, Blombery P, Mullighan CG. Blood 139: 2022 3519-3531	18
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia displays a distinct highly methylated genome. Hetzel S, Mattei AL, Kretzmer H, Qu C, Chen X, Fan Y, Wu G, Roberts KG, Luger S, Litzow M, Rowe J, Paietta E, Stock W, Mardis ER, Wilson RK, Downing JR, Mullighan CG, Meissner A. Nat Cancer 3: 2022 768-782	16
The genomic landscape of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Brady SW, Roberts KG, Gu Z, Shi L, Pounds S, Pei D, Cheng C, Dai Y, Devidas M, Qu C, Hill AN, Payne-Turner D, Ma X, Iacobucci I, Baviskar P, Wei L, Arunachalam S, Hagiwara K, Liu Y, Flasch DA, Liu Y, Parker M, Chen X, Elsayed AH, Pathak O, Li Y, Fan Y, Michael JR, Rusch M, Wilkinson MR, Foy S, Hedges DJ, Newman S, Zhou X, Wang J, Reilly C, Sioson E, Rice SV, Pastor Loyola V, Wu G, Rampersaud E, Reshmi SC, Gastier-Foster J, Guidry Auvil JM, Gesuwan P, Smith MA, Winick N, Carroll AJ, Heerema NA, Harvey RC, Willman CL, Larsen E, Raetz EA, Borowitz MJ, Wood BL, Carroll WL, Zweidler-McKay PA, Rabin KR, Mattano LA, Maloney KW, Winter SS, Burke MJ, Salzer W, Dunsmore KP, Angiolillo AL, Crews KR, Downing JR, Jeha S, Pui CH, Evans WE, Yang JJ, Relling MV, Gerhard DS, Loh ML, Hunger SP, Zhang J, Mullighan CG. Nat Genet 54: 2022 1376-1389	122
Pharmacotypes across the genomic landscape of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia and impact on treatment response. Lee SHR, Yang W, Gocho Y, John A, Rowland L, Smart B, Williams H, Maxwell D, Hunt J, Yang W, Crews KR, Roberts KG, Jeha S, Cheng C, Karol SE, Relling MV, Rosner GL, Inaba H, Mullighan CG, Pui CH, Evans WE, Yang JJ. Nat Med 29: 2023 170-179	28