Developmental timing distinguishes pediatric and adult cancers through retention and rewiring mechanisms.

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Oncogenic mutations can have fundamentally different consequences depending on the developmental state of the tissue in which they arise. We propose a unifying model in which early-life oncogenic events promote retention, stabilization of transient embryo-fetal transcriptional and epigenetic programs, whereas later-life mutations more often require rewiring, reactivating suppressed oncofetal states through...

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