Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Identification of recurrent FHL2-GLI2 oncogenic fusion in sclerosing stromal tumors of the ovary

  • Sarah H. Kim,
  • Arnaud Da Cruz Paula,
  • Thais Basili,
  • Higinio Dopeso,
  • Rui Bi,
  • Fresia Pareja,
  • Edaise M. da Silva,
  • Rodrigo Gularte-Mérida,
  • Zhen Sun,
  • Sho Fujisawa,
  • Caitlin G. Smith,
  • Lorenzo Ferrando,
  • Ana Paula Martins Sebastião,
  • Yonina Bykov,
  • Anqi Li,
  • Catarina Silveira,
  • Charles W. Ashley,
  • Anthe Stylianou,
  • Pier Selenica,
  • Wesley R. Samore,
  • Achim A. Jungbluth,
  • Dmitriy Zamarin,
  • Nadeem R. Abu-Rustum,
  • Kristian Helin,
  • Robert A. Soslow,
  • Jorge S. Reis-Filho,
  • Esther Oliva,
  • Britta Weigelt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13806-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Little is known about the genetics of sclerosing stromal tumor of the ovary, a rare type of sex cord-stromal tumor. Here, the authors use sequencing strategies to show that in a cohort of 26 tumor samples 65% carry a FHL2-GLI2 fusion gene and demonstrate in vitro that the fusion gene has oncogenic properties.