Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Molecular analysis of aggressive renal cell carcinoma with unclassified histology reveals distinct subsets

  • Ying-Bei Chen,
  • Jianing Xu,
  • Anders Jacobsen Skanderup,
  • Yiyu Dong,
  • A. Rose Brannon,
  • Lu Wang,
  • Helen H. Won,
  • Patricia I. Wang,
  • Gouri J. Nanjangud,
  • Achim A. Jungbluth,
  • Wei Li,
  • Virginia Ojeda,
  • A. Ari Hakimi,
  • Martin H. Voss,
  • Nikolaus Schultz,
  • Robert J. Motzer,
  • Paul Russo,
  • Emily H. Cheng,
  • Filippo G. Giancotti,
  • William Lee,
  • Michael F. Berger,
  • Satish K. Tickoo,
  • Victor E. Reuter,
  • James J. Hsieh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13131
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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A subset of renal cell carcinomas have uncertain histology and are aggressive in nature. Here, the authors examine this group of unclassified renal cancers using genomics techniques and identify further subclasses of the tumours that have differing prognoses.