Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

Genomic characterisation of Eμ-Myc mouse lymphomas identifies Bcor as a Myc co-operative tumour-suppressor gene

  • Marcus Lefebure,
  • Richard W. Tothill,
  • Elizabeth Kruse,
  • Edwin D. Hawkins,
  • Jake Shortt,
  • Geoffrey M. Matthews,
  • Gareth P. Gregory,
  • Benjamin P. Martin,
  • Madison J. Kelly,
  • Izabela Todorovski,
  • Maria A. Doyle,
  • Richard Lupat,
  • Jason Li,
  • Jan Schroeder,
  • Meaghan Wall,
  • Stuart Craig,
  • Gretchen Poortinga,
  • Don Cameron,
  • Megan Bywater,
  • Lev Kats,
  • Micah D. Gearhart,
  • Vivian J. Bardwell,
  • Ross A. Dickins,
  • Ross D. Hannan,
  • Anthony T. Papenfuss,
  • Ricky W. Johnstone

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14581
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The Eμ-Myc lymphoma mouse model has been invaluable in the study of this disease. Here, the authors use multiple sequencing strategies to analyse the tumours in these mice and find recurrent inactivating mutations in Bcor, suggesting that this gene has a negative role in Mycsignalling.