Project description:Gene expression analysis identified unique transcriptional changes in rhabdomyosarcoma when compared with normal muscle. Our studies focused on a gene called VANGL2 that regulated growth and self-renewal in embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma.
Project description:Genome-wide gene expression in 33 fusion-positive and 25 fusion-negative rhabdomyosarcoma cases was studied using GeneChip Human Genome U133 Plus2 (Affymetrix) Fusion-positive versus fusion-negative rhabdomyosarcoma tumors
Project description:Genome-wide gene expression in 33 fusion-positive and 25 fusion-negative rhabdomyosarcoma cases was studied using GeneChip Human Genome U133 Plus2 (Affymetrix)
Project description:We analyzed the expression of two fusion-negative established Rhabdomyosarcoma cell lines. Together with Chip-seq, we were able to identify transcribed loci bound by myogenic regulatory transcription factors (MYF5 and MYOD) that pertain to embryonic muscle development and cell cycle regulation pathways. Keywords: rhabdomyosarcoma, gene expression profiling, RD, Rh18
Project description:Genome-wide gene expression in 66 Rhabdomyosarcoma patients and 16 normal muscle samples were studied using Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array.
Project description:Rhabdomyosarcoma is a childhood tumor with features of aberrant muscle differentiation. We studied samples from 101 rhabdomyosarcoma patients to determine core gene expression signatures relevant in the disease.
Project description:Many pediatric malignancies are embryonal in nature, and one hypothesis for the origin of embryonal tumors is that they arise from a defect in differentiation, either by an inability to terminally differentiate or a reversion to a pluripotent state. There is emerging evidence that epigenetic regulation plays an important role in the transition from embryonic stem cell to a more committed cell fate, utilizing both de novo DNA methylation and poised M-bM-^@M-^XbivalentM-bM-^@M-^Y chromatin domains (H3K27me3 and H3K4me3) to abolish pluripotency and gain lineage- and cell-type-specific characteristics as a cell differentiates. Thus inappropriate epigenetic silencing by aberrant DNA methylation of bivalent genes required for differentiation could lead to the uncontrolled cell growth observed in cancer. Our broad hypothesis is that aberrant DNA methylation in cancer is targeted to a non-random subset of critical pathways used in normal development. This dysregulation of the normal epigenetic program used in development promotes cellular proliferation and provides a mechanism to block differentiation in pediatric cancers, such as rhabdomyosarcoma. Examination of DNA methylation in fourteen human rhabdomyosarcoma patient samples using RRBS. In addition, RRBS was used to examine DNA methylation in one human rhabdomyosarcoma cell line (RD) forced to terminally differentiate by expression of the forced heterodimer MyoD~E12 (MDE). Lastly, RRBS was used to examine DNA methylation changes during normal differentiation in one primary human normal myoblast cell line
Project description:To date, there are no known prognostic markers identified in patients with fusion gene-negative rhabdomyosarcoma. This study validates the 5-gene (MG5) signature as a prognostic marker in patients with fusion negative intermediate-risk rhabdomyosarcoma clearly stratifying this otherwise clinically homogenous population of patients into two risk groups based on outcome. In addition, this analysis was performed using nCounter assay on paraffin embedded tissues and the results were concordant to previously published results using frozen tissues in a different patient cohort. Therefore, this work holds tremendous translational relevance as the MG5 signature can be reliably assessed in readily available paraffin embedded tissues of fusion gene-negative rhabdomyosarcoma patients in prospective clinical trials to stratify them into prognostic risk groups as well as to potentially tailor future therapy based on these risk groups.