Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Single allele loss-of-function mutations select and sculpt conditional cooperative networks in breast cancer

  • Nathan F. Schachter,
  • Jessica R. Adams,
  • Patryk Skowron,
  • Katelyn. J. Kozma,
  • Christian A. Lee,
  • Nandini Raghuram,
  • Joanna Yang,
  • Amanda J. Loch,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Aaron Kucharczuk,
  • Katherine L. Wright,
  • Rita M. Quintana,
  • Yeji An,
  • Daniel Dotzko,
  • Jennifer L. Gorman,
  • Daria Wojtal,
  • Juhi S. Shah,
  • Paul Leon-Gomez,
  • Giovanna Pellecchia,
  • Adam J. Dupuy,
  • Charles M. Perou,
  • Ittai Ben-Porath,
  • Rotem Karni,
  • Eldad Zacksenhaus,
  • Jim R. Woodgett,
  • Susan J. Done,
  • Livia Garzia,
  • A. Sorana Morrissy,
  • Jüri Reimand,
  • Michael D. Taylor,
  • Sean E. Egan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25467-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Transposon based screens carried out in mice can identify genes critical for tumourigensis. Here, the authors describe transposon screens in mouse models of breast cancer and highlight a large group of tumour suppressors that could underlie selection for common chromosome arm losses in cancer.