Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

The occurrence of intracranial rhabdoid tumours in mice depends on temporal control of Smarcb1 inactivation

  • Zhi-Yan Han,
  • Wilfrid Richer,
  • Paul Fréneaux,
  • Céline Chauvin,
  • Carlo Lucchesi,
  • Delphine Guillemot,
  • Camille Grison,
  • Delphine Lequin,
  • Gaelle Pierron,
  • Julien Masliah-Planchon,
  • André Nicolas,
  • Dominique Ranchère-Vince,
  • Pascale Varlet,
  • Stéphanie Puget,
  • Isabelle Janoueix-Lerosey,
  • Olivier Ayrault,
  • Didier Surdez,
  • Olivier Delattre,
  • Franck Bourdeaut

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10421
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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SMARCB1 inactivation is prevalent in human atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumours but a mouse model that accurately phenocopies the human disease is lacking. Here, the authors show that inactivation of SMARCB1between E6 and E10 in mice results in tumours that better recapitulate the human phenotype, compared to previously reported models.