Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

An integrated functional and clinical genomics approach reveals genes driving aggressive metastatic prostate cancer

  • Rajdeep Das,
  • Martin Sjöström,
  • Raunak Shrestha,
  • Christopher Yogodzinski,
  • Emily A. Egusa,
  • Lisa N. Chesner,
  • William S. Chen,
  • Jonathan Chou,
  • Donna K. Dang,
  • Jason T. Swinderman,
  • Alex Ge,
  • Junjie T. Hua,
  • Shaheen Kabir,
  • David A. Quigley,
  • Eric J. Small,
  • Alan Ashworth,
  • Felix Y. Feng,
  • Luke A. Gilbert

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24919-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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It is hypothesized that there are a number of tumor specific driver genes for metastatic prostate cancer. Here, the authors perform genome-wide CRISPRi screens and integrate these data with metastatic prostate cancer functional and clinical genomics data to show that KIF4A and WDR62 drive aggressive prostate cancer phenotypes.