Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Retinoblastoma from human stem cell-derived retinal organoids

  • Jackie L. Norrie,
  • Anjana Nityanandam,
  • Karen Lai,
  • Xiang Chen,
  • Matthew Wilson,
  • Elizabeth Stewart,
  • Lyra Griffiths,
  • Hongjian Jin,
  • Gang Wu,
  • Brent Orr,
  • Quynh Tran,
  • Sariah Allen,
  • Colleen Reilly,
  • Xin Zhou,
  • Jiakun Zhang,
  • Kyle Newman,
  • Dianna Johnson,
  • Rachel Brennan,
  • Michael A. Dyer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24781-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Retinoblastoma is a heritable pediatric cancer driven by mutations in RB1. Here, the authors demonstrate the first patient derived model of retinoblastoma using iPSCs from patients with germline mutations in RB1.