Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

MYC activation cooperates with Vhl and Ink4a/Arf loss to induce clear cell renal cell carcinoma

  • Sean T. Bailey,
  • Aleisha M. Smith,
  • Jordan Kardos,
  • Sara E. Wobker,
  • Harper L. Wilson,
  • Bhavani Krishnan,
  • Ryoichi Saito,
  • Hyo Jin Lee,
  • Jing Zhang,
  • Samuel C. Eaton,
  • Lindsay A. Williams,
  • Ujjawal Manocha,
  • Dorien J. Peters,
  • Xinchao Pan,
  • Thomas J. Carroll,
  • Dean W. Felsher,
  • Vonn Walter,
  • Qing Zhang,
  • Joel S. Parker,
  • Jen Jen Yeh,
  • Richard A. Moffitt,
  • Janet Y. Leung,
  • William Y. Kim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15770
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a common and aggressive malignancy. Here, the authors generate two mouse models of the most common RCC subtypes: the human papillary RCC throughMYC activation and clear cell RCC through MYC activation combined with Vhl and Cdkn2adeletion.