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Recurrent intragenic rearrangements of EGFR and BRAF in soft tissue tumors of infants.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Wegert, Jenny 
Vokuhl, Christian 
Del Castillo Velasco-Herrera, Martin  ORCID logo  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5956-0211
Farndon, Sarah J 

Abstract

Soft tissue tumors of infancy encompass an overlapping spectrum of diseases that pose unique diagnostic and clinical challenges. We studied genomes and transcriptomes of cryptogenic congenital mesoblastic nephroma (CMN), and extended our findings to five anatomically or histologically related soft tissue tumors: infantile fibrosarcoma (IFS), nephroblastomatosis, Wilms tumor, malignant rhabdoid tumor, and clear cell sarcoma of the kidney. A key finding is recurrent mutation of EGFR in CMN by internal tandem duplication of the kinase domain, thus delineating CMN from other childhood renal tumors. Furthermore, we identify BRAF intragenic rearrangements in CMN and IFS. Collectively these findings reveal novel diagnostic markers and therapeutic strategies and highlight a prominent role of isolated intragenic rearrangements as drivers of infant tumors.

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Keywords

Female, Fibrosarcoma, Gene Rearrangement, Genes, erbB-1, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Kidney Neoplasms, Male, Nephroma, Mesoblastic, Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf

Journal Title

Nat Commun

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2041-1723
2041-1723

Volume Title

9

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Springer Science and Business Media LLC