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SUBMITTER: Coorens THH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6914378 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Coorens Tim H H THH Treger Taryn D TD Al-Saadi Reem R Moore Luiza L Tran Maxine G B MGB Mitchell Thomas J TJ Tugnait Suzanne S Thevanesan Christine C Young Matthew D MD Oliver Thomas R W TRW Oostveen Minou M Collord Grace G Tarpey Patrick S PS Cagan Alex A Hooks Yvette Y Brougham Mark M Reynolds Ben C BC Barone Giuseppe G Anderson John J Jorgensen Mette M Burke G A Amos GAA Visser Johannes J Nicholson James C JC Smeulders Naima N Mushtaq Imran I Stewart Grant D GD Campbell Peter J PJ Wedge David C DC Martincorena Iñigo I Rampling Dyanne D Hook Liz L Warren Anne Y AY Coleman Nicholas N Chowdhury Tanzina T Sebire Neil N Drost Jarno J Saeb-Parsy Kourosh K Stratton Michael R MR Straathof Karin K Pritchard-Jones Kathy K Behjati Sam S
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20191201 6470
Adult cancers often arise from premalignant clonal expansions. Whether the same is true of childhood tumors has been unclear. To investigate whether Wilms tumor (nephroblastoma; a childhood kidney cancer) develops from a premalignant background, we examined the phylogenetic relationship between tumors and corresponding normal tissues. In 14 of 23 cases studied (61%), we found premalignant clonal expansions in morphologically normal kidney tissues that preceded tumor development. These clonal exp ...[more]