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DT Jones N Jäger M Kool T Zichner B Hutter M Sultan YJ Cho TJ Pugh V Hovestadt AM Stütz T Rausch HJ Warnatz M Ryzhova S Bender D Sturm S Pleier H Cin E Pfaff L Sieber A Wittmann M Remke H Witt S Hutter T Tzaridis J Weischenfeldt B Raeder M Avci V Amstislavskiy M Zapatka UD Weber Q Wang B Lasitschka CC Bartholomae M Schmidt C von Kalle V Ast C Lawerenz J Eils R Kabbe V Benes P van Sluis J Koster R Volckmann D Shih MJ Betts RB Russell S Coco GP Tonini U Schüller V Hans N Graf YJ Kim C Monoranu 《Nature》2012,488(7409):100-105
Medulloblastoma is an aggressively growing tumour, arising in the cerebellum or medulla/brain stem. It is the most common malignant brain tumour in children, and shows tremendous biological and clinical heterogeneity. Despite recent treatment advances, approximately 40% of children experience tumour recurrence, and 30% will die from their disease. Those who survive often have a significantly reduced quality of life. Four tumour subgroups with distinct clinical, biological and genetic profiles are currently identified. WNT tumours, showing activated wingless pathway signalling, carry a favourable prognosis under current treatment regimens. SHH tumours show hedgehog pathway activation, and have an intermediate prognosis. Group 3 and 4 tumours are molecularly less well characterized, and also present the greatest clinical challenges. The full repertoire of genetic events driving this distinction, however, remains unclear. Here we describe an integrative deep-sequencing analysis of 125 tumour-normal pairs, conducted as part of the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) PedBrain Tumor Project. Tetraploidy was identified as a frequent early event in Group 3 and 4 tumours, and a positive correlation between patient age and mutation rate was observed. Several recurrent mutations were identified, both in known medulloblastoma-related genes (CTNNB1, PTCH1, MLL2, SMARCA4) and in genes not previously linked to this tumour (DDX3X, CTDNEP1, KDM6A, TBR1), often in subgroup-specific patterns. RNA sequencing confirmed these alterations, and revealed the expression of what are, to our knowledge, the first medulloblastoma fusion genes identified. Chromatin modifiers were frequently altered across all subgroups. These findings enhance our understanding of the genomic complexity and heterogeneity underlying medulloblastoma, and provide several potential targets for new therapeutics, especially for Group 3 and 4 patients. 相似文献
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Reputation helps solve the 'tragedy of the commons'. 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
The problem of sustaining a public resource that everybody is free to overuse-the 'tragedy of the commons'-emerges in many social dilemmas, such as our inability to sustain the global climate. Public goods experiments, which are used to study this type of problem, usually confirm that the collective benefit will not be produced. Because individuals and countries often participate in several social games simultaneously, the interaction of these games may provide a sophisticated way by which to maintain the public resource. Indirect reciprocity, 'give and you shall receive', is built on reputation and can sustain a high level of cooperation, as shown by game theorists. Here we show, through alternating rounds of public goods and indirect reciprocity games, that the need to maintain reputation for indirect reciprocity maintains contributions to the public good at an unexpectedly high level. But if rounds of indirect reciprocation are not expected, then contributions to the public good drop quickly to zero. Alternating the games leads to higher profits for all players. As reputation may be a currency that is valid in many social games, our approach could be used to test social dilemmas for their solubility. 相似文献
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Large recurrent microdeletions associated with schizophrenia 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Stefansson H Rujescu D Cichon S Pietiläinen OP Ingason A Steinberg S Fossdal R Sigurdsson E Sigmundsson T Buizer-Voskamp JE Hansen T Jakobsen KD Muglia P Francks C Matthews PM Gylfason A Halldorsson BV Gudbjartsson D Thorgeirsson TE Sigurdsson A Jonasdottir A Jonasdottir A Bjornsson A Mattiasdottir S Blondal T Haraldsson M Magnusdottir BB Giegling I Möller HJ Hartmann A Shianna KV Ge D Need AC Crombie C Fraser G Walker N Lonnqvist J Suvisaari J Tuulio-Henriksson A Paunio T Toulopoulou T 《Nature》2008,455(7210):232-236
Reduced fecundity, associated with severe mental disorders, places negative selection pressure on risk alleles and may explain, in part, why common variants have not been found that confer risk of disorders such as autism, schizophrenia and mental retardation. Thus, rare variants may account for a larger fraction of the overall genetic risk than previously assumed. In contrast to rare single nucleotide mutations, rare copy number variations (CNVs) can be detected using genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism arrays. This has led to the identification of CNVs associated with mental retardation and autism. In a genome-wide search for CNVs associating with schizophrenia, we used a population-based sample to identify de novo CNVs by analysing 9,878 transmissions from parents to offspring. The 66 de novo CNVs identified were tested for association in a sample of 1,433 schizophrenia cases and 33,250 controls. Three deletions at 1q21.1, 15q11.2 and 15q13.3 showing nominal association with schizophrenia in the first sample (phase I) were followed up in a second sample of 3,285 cases and 7,951 controls (phase II). All three deletions significantly associate with schizophrenia and related psychoses in the combined sample. The identification of these rare, recurrent risk variants, having occurred independently in multiple founders and being subject to negative selection, is important in itself. CNV analysis may also point the way to the identification of additional and more prevalent risk variants in genes and pathways involved in schizophrenia. 相似文献