Background: Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is characterized by a number of diverse molecular aberrations that differ among individuals. Recent approaches to molecularly classify RCC were based on clinical, pathological as well as on single molecular parameters. As a consequence, gene expression patterns reflecting the sum of genetic aberrations in individual tumors may not have been recognized. In an attempt to uncover such molecular features in RCC, we used a novel, unbiased and integrative approach.
Integrative genome-wide expression profiling identifies three distinct molecular subgroups of renal cell carcinoma with different patient outcome.
Sex, Specimen part, Disease, Disease stage, Cell line
View SamplesMany cases of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are associated with mutational activation of RTKs such as FLT3. However, RTK inhibitors have limited clinical efficacy as single agents, indicating that AML is driven by concomitant activation of different signaling molecules. We used a functional genomic approach to identify RET, encoding an RTK not previously implicated in AML, as essential gene in different AML subtypes, and observed that RET-dependent AML cells show activation of RET signaling via ARTN/GFRA3 and NRTN/GFRA2 ligand/co-receptor complexes.
RET-mediated autophagy suppression as targetable co-dependence in acute myeloid leukemia.
Specimen part, Disease
View SamplesHuman primordial germ cells and mouse neonatal and adult germline stem cells are pluripotent and derive embryonic stem cell properties.
Generation of pluripotent stem cells from adult human testis.
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