Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Noncoding mutations target cis-regulatory elements of the FOXA1 plexus in prostate cancer

  • Stanley Zhou,
  • James R. Hawley,
  • Fraser Soares,
  • Giacomo Grillo,
  • Mona Teng,
  • Seyed Ali Madani Tonekaboni,
  • Junjie Tony Hua,
  • Ken J. Kron,
  • Parisa Mazrooei,
  • Musaddeque Ahmed,
  • Christopher Arlidge,
  • Hwa Young Yun,
  • Julie Livingstone,
  • Vincent Huang,
  • Takafumi N. Yamaguchi,
  • Shadrielle M. G. Espiritu,
  • Yanyun Zhu,
  • Tesa M. Severson,
  • Alex Murison,
  • Sarina Cameron,
  • Wilbert Zwart,
  • Theodorus van der Kwast,
  • Trevor J. Pugh,
  • Michael Fraser,
  • Paul C. Boutros,
  • Robert G. Bristow,
  • Housheng Hansen He,
  • Mathieu Lupien

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14318-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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FOXA1 pioneer transcription factor is recurrently mutated in primary and metastatic prostate tumors. Here, authors identify a set of six cis-regulatory elements in the FOXA1 regulatory plexus harboring somatic SNVs in primary prostate tumors and characterize their role in regulating FOXA1 expression and prostate cancer cell growth.