Project description:Neuroblastoma is an embryonal tumor arising from the neural crest. It can be mimicked in mice by neural crest-specific overepxression of oncogenes such as MYCN or mutated ALK. Expression profiling of murine neuroblastoma driven by MYCN were compared to those driven by mutated ALK and to mouse normal adrenal tissue.
Project description:Pediatric glioma of the subclass MYCN are highly aggressive tumors frequently carrying MYCN amplifications, TP53 mutations, or both alterations. In order to understand the biology of these tumors better and to improve treatment options, we generated a genetically engineered model by breeding hGFAP-cre::TP53Fl/Fl::lsl-MYCN mice. All such mice developed aggressive forebrain tumors early in lifetime that mimic their human counterparts regarding histology, DNA methylation, and gene expression.
Project description:Pediatric glioma of the subclass MYCN are highly aggressive tumors frequently carrying MYCN amplifications, TP53 mutations, or both alterations. In order to understand the biology of these tumors better and to improve treatment options, we generated a genetically engineered model by breeding hGFAP-cre::TP53Fl/Fl::lsl-MYCN mice. All such mice developed aggressive forebrain tumors early in lifetime that mimic their human counterparts regarding histology, DNA methylation, and gene expression.
Project description:Pediatric glioma of the subclass MYCN are highly aggressive tumors frequently carrying MYCN amplifications, TP53 mutations, or both alterations. In order to understand the biology of these tumors better and to improve treatment options, we generated a genetically engineered model by breeding hGFAP-cre::TP53Fl/Fl::lsl-MYCN mice. All such mice developed aggressive forebrain tumors early in lifetime that mimic their human counterparts regarding histology, DNA methylation, and gene expression.
Project description:Pediatric glioma of the subclass MYCN are highly aggressive tumors frequently carrying MYCN amplifications, TP53 mutations, or both alterations. In order to understand the biology of these tumors better and to improve treatment options, we generated a genetically engineered model by breeding hGFAP-cre::TP53Fl/Fl::lsl-MYCN mice. All such mice developed aggressive forebrain tumors early in lifetime that mimic their human counterparts regarding histology, DNA methylation, and gene expression.
Project description:Pediatric glioma of the subclass MYCN are highly aggressive tumors frequently carrying MYCN amplifications, TP53 mutations, or both alterations. In order to understand the biology of these tumors better and to improve treatment options, we generated a genetically engineered model by breeding hGFAP-cre::TP53Fl/Fl::lsl-MYCN mice. All such mice developed aggressive forebrain tumors early in lifetime that mimic their human counterparts regarding histology, DNA methylation, and gene expression.
Project description:To investigate the role of SHP2 (Ptpn11) in pancreatic carcinogenesis, murine pancreatic whole tissue RNA samples of 9 week old mice with the genotypes Ptf1a-Cre;LSL-KrasG12D (ID-labels Kxxx) and Ptf1a-Cre;LSL-KrasG12D;Ptpn11fl/fl (ID-labels Mxxxx) were analyzed by microarray.
Project description:Introgressed variants from other species can be an important source of genetic variation because they may arise rapidly, can include multiple mutations on a single haplotype, and have often been pretested by selection in the species of origin. Although introgressed alleles are generally deleterious, several studies have reported introgression as the source of adaptive alleles-including the rodenticide-resistant variant of Vkorc1 that introgressed from Mus spretus into European populations of Mus musculus domesticus. Here, we conducted bidirectional genome scans to characterize introgressed regions into one wild population of M. spretus from Spain and three wild populations of M. m. domesticus from France, Germany, and Iran. Despite the fact that these species show considerable intrinsic postzygotic reproductive isolation, introgression was observed in all individuals, including in the M. musculus reference genome (GRCm38). Mus spretus individuals had a greater proportion of introgression compared with M. m. domesticus, and within M. m. domesticus, the proportion of introgression decreased with geographic distance from the area of sympatry. Introgression was observed on all autosomes for both species, but not on the X-chromosome in M. m. domesticus, consistent with known X-linked hybrid sterility and inviability genes that have been mapped to the M. spretus X-chromosome. Tract lengths were generally short with a few outliers of up to 2.7 Mb. Interestingly, the longest introgressed tracts were in olfactory receptor regions, and introgressed tracts were significantly enriched for olfactory receptor genes in both species, suggesting that introgression may be a source of functional novelty even between species with high barriers to gene flow.
Project description:We collected whole genome testis expression data from hybrid zone mice. We integrated GWAS mapping of testis expression traits and low testis weight to gain insight into the genetic basis of hybrid male sterility.
