Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

Glioblastoma epigenome profiling identifies SOX10 as a master regulator of molecular tumour subtype

  • Yonghe Wu,
  • Michael Fletcher,
  • Zuguang Gu,
  • Qi Wang,
  • Barbara Costa,
  • Anna Bertoni,
  • Ka-Hou Man,
  • Magdalena Schlotter,
  • Jörg Felsberg,
  • Jasmin Mangei,
  • Martje Barbus,
  • Ann-Christin Gaupel,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Tobias Weiss,
  • Roland Eils,
  • Michael Weller,
  • Haikun Liu,
  • Guido Reifenberger,
  • Andrey Korshunov,
  • Peter Angel,
  • Peter Lichter,
  • Carl Herrmann,
  • Bernhard Radlwimmer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20225-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Glioblastoma is divided into four subtypes based on molecular profiling at the methylome and transcriptome level. Here the authors perform an integrative analysis of these subtypes resulting in the identification of SOX10 whose loss induces a mesenchymal phenotype and promotes tumour progression.