ERC Starting Grant · 2022
Oncogenic competence during development – When, Where and Why?
Childhood cancers are believed to be rooted in aberrant development, a notion supported by their (i) generally low mutational burden, (ii) high prevalence of single (often epigenetic) driver events and (iii) occurrence during confined developmental periods. Yet, the exact origins of developmental tumours remain one of the principal enigmas of pediatric oncology. A prime example are malignant rhabdoid tumours (MRTs): they are astoundingly genomically simple but extremely deadly childhood cancers that arise almost exclusively in the first two years of life, and are driven by biallelic inactivation of the SWI/SNF chromatin remodelling complex subunit SMARCB1 (>95% of cases). We still do not…
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