Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Loss of phosphatase CTDNEP1 potentiates aggressive medulloblastoma by triggering MYC amplification and genomic instability

  • Zaili Luo,
  • Dazhuan Xin,
  • Yunfei Liao,
  • Kalen Berry,
  • Sean Ogurek,
  • Feng Zhang,
  • Liguo Zhang,
  • Chuntao Zhao,
  • Rohit Rao,
  • Xinran Dong,
  • Hao Li,
  • Jianzhong Yu,
  • Yifeng Lin,
  • Guoying Huang,
  • Lingli Xu,
  • Mei Xin,
  • Ryuichi Nishinakamura,
  • Jiyang Yu,
  • Marcel Kool,
  • Stefan M. Pfister,
  • Martine F. Roussel,
  • Wenhao Zhou,
  • William A. Weiss,
  • Paul Andreassen,
  • Q. Richard Lu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36400-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Group 3 medulloblastomas (MBs) have the worst prognosis amongst the subtypes of MBs and are associated with MYC amplifications. Here the authors identify that mutations in CTDNEP1 cause MYC activation, amplification, and genomic instability in this subtype of MBs.