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Translational genomics of malignant rhabdoid tumours: Current impact and future possibilities.
Seminars in cancer biology - 1 Apr 2020
Finetti Martina A, Grabovska Yura, Bailey Simon, Williamson Daniel
Abstract excerpt
Malignant Rhabdoid Tumours (MRT) are the quintessential example of an epigenetic cancer. Mutation of a single gene, SMARCB1 or more rarely SMARCA4, is capable of causing one of the most aggressive and lethal cancers of early childhood and infancy. SMARCB1 encodes a core subunit of the SWI/SNF complex and its mutation evokes genome-wide downstream effects which may be counteracted therapeutically. Here we review...
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