Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Cross-species identification of genomic drivers of squamous cell carcinoma development across preneoplastic intermediates

  • Vida Chitsazzadeh,
  • Cristian Coarfa,
  • Jennifer A. Drummond,
  • Tri Nguyen,
  • Aaron Joseph,
  • Suneel Chilukuri,
  • Elizabeth Charpiot,
  • Charles H. Adelmann,
  • Grace Ching,
  • Tran N. Nguyen,
  • Courtney Nicholas,
  • Valencia D. Thomas,
  • Michael Migden,
  • Deborah MacFarlane,
  • Erika Thompson,
  • Jianjun Shen,
  • Yoko Takata,
  • Kayla McNiece,
  • Maxim A. Polansky,
  • Hussein A. Abbas,
  • Kimal Rajapakshe,
  • Adam Gower,
  • Avrum Spira,
  • Kyle R. Covington,
  • Weimin Xiao,
  • Preethi Gunaratne,
  • Curtis Pickering,
  • Mitchell Frederick,
  • Jeffrey N. Myers,
  • Li Shen,
  • Hui Yao,
  • Xiaoping Su,
  • Ronald P. Rapini,
  • David A. Wheeler,
  • Ernest T. Hawk,
  • Elsa R. Flores,
  • Kenneth Y. Tsai

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12601
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Cutaneous squamous cell of the skin is a common neoplasm that frequently arises from precancerous actinic keratoses. Here, the authors carry out genomic analysis on matched sets of human lesions and compare with those in ultraviolet treated mice and identify conserved drivers of tumour development.