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Embryonal precursors of Wilms tumor
Author(s) -
Tim H. H. Coorens,
Taryn D. Treger,
Reem AlSaadi,
Luiza Moore,
Maxine Tran,
Thomas J. Mitchell,
Suzanne Tugnait,
Christine Thevanesan,
Matthew D. Young,
Thomas R. W. Oliver,
Minou Oostveen,
Grace Collord,
Patrick Tarpey,
Alex Cagan,
Yvette Hooks,
Mark Brougham,
B. C. Reynolds,
Giuseppe Barone,
John Anderson,
Mette Jorgensen,
G. A. Amos Burke,
Johannes Visser,
James C. Nicholson,
Naima Smeulders,
Imran Mushtaq,
Grant D. Stewart,
Peter J. Campbell,
David C. Wedge,
Iñigo Martincorena,
Dyanne Rampling,
Liz Hook,
Anne Y. Warren,
Nicholas Coleman,
Tanzina Chowdhury,
Neil J. Sebire,
Jarno Drost,
Kourosh SaebParsy,
Michael R. Stratton,
Karin Straathof,
Kathy PritchardJones,
Sam Behjati
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 12.556
H-Index - 1186
eISSN - 1095-9203
pISSN - 0036-8075
DOI - 10.1126/science.aax1323
Subject(s) - wilms' tumor , somatic cell , biology , mutant , cancer , pathology , kidney , cancer research , mutation , genetics , medicine , gene
A childhood tumor—from the beginning Many adult cancers arise from clonal expansions of mutant cells in normal tissue. These premalignant expansions are defined by somatic mutations shared by the cancers. Whether pediatric cancers originate in a similar way is unknown. Coorenset al. studied Wilms tumor, a childhood kidney cancer. Phylogenetic analyses revealed large clones of mutant cells in histologically and functionally normal kidney tissue long before tumor development. Thus, like adult tumors, Wilms tumor appears to arise from a premalignant tissue bed.Science , this issue p.1247

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