Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Mitogenic and progenitor gene programmes in single pilocytic astrocytoma cells

  • Zachary J. Reitman,
  • Brenton R. Paolella,
  • Guillaume Bergthold,
  • Kristine Pelton,
  • Sarah Becker,
  • Robert Jones,
  • Claire E. Sinai,
  • Hayley Malkin,
  • Ying Huang,
  • Leslie Grimmet,
  • Zachary T. Herbert,
  • Yu Sun,
  • Jessica L. Weatherbee,
  • John A. Alberta,
  • John F. Daley,
  • Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen,
  • Alexandra L. Condurat,
  • Kenin Qian,
  • Prasidda Khadka,
  • Rosalind A. Segal,
  • Daphne Haas-Kogan,
  • Mariella G. Filbin,
  • Mario L. Suva,
  • Aviv Regev,
  • Charles D. Stiles,
  • Mark W. Kieran,
  • Liliana Goumnerova,
  • Keith L. Ligon,
  • Alex K. Shalek,
  • Pratiti Bandopadhayay,
  • Rameen Beroukhim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11493-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Pilocytic astrocytoma is a low-grade pediatric glioma, characterized by a single BRAF rearrangement. Here, Reitman and colleagues use single-cell RNA sequencing to reveal molecular hallmarks of the disease that might be targeted therapeutically.