Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Recurrent rearrangements of FOS and FOSB define osteoblastoma

  • Matthew W. Fittall,
  • William Mifsud,
  • Nischalan Pillay,
  • Hongtao Ye,
  • Anna-Christina Strobl,
  • Annelien Verfaillie,
  • Jonas Demeulemeester,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Fitim Berisha,
  • Maxime Tarabichi,
  • Matthew D. Young,
  • Elena Miranda,
  • Patrick S. Tarpey,
  • Roberto Tirabosco,
  • Fernanda Amary,
  • Agamemnon E. Grigoriadis,
  • Michael R. Stratton,
  • Peter Van Loo,
  • Cristina R. Antonescu,
  • Peter J. Campbell,
  • Adrienne M. Flanagan,
  • Sam Behjati

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04530-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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FOS has been linked to bone tumour pathogenesis, and viral homologue v-fos causes osteosarcoma in mice. Here, the authors report rearrangement of FOS and its paralogue FOSB in osteoblastoma and osteoid osteoma, revealing human bone tumours that are defined by mutations of FOS and FOSB.