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NATURE GENETICS
Volume 46, Issue 10, Pages 1051-1059Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3073
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- National Cancer Institute of the US National Institutes of Health [K99-CA166228-01A1]
- National Cancer Institute of the US National Institutes of Health Breast SPORE program [P50-CA58223-09A1, RO1-CA148761-04]
- Breast Cancer Research Foundation
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Elucidating the molecular drivers of human breast cancers requires a strategy that is capable of integrating multiple forms of data and an ability to interpret the functional consequences of a given genetic aberration. Here we present an integrated genomic strategy based on the use of gene expression signatures of oncogenic pathway activity (n = 52) as a framework to analyze DNA copy number alterations in combination with data from a genome-wide RNA-mediated interference screen. We identify specific DNA amplifications and essential genes within these amplicons representing key genetic drivers, including known and new regulators of oncogenesis. The genes identified include eight that are essential for cell proliferation (FGD5, METTL6, CPT1A, DTX3, MRPS23, EIF2S2, EIF6 and SLC2A10) and are uniquely amplified in patients with highly proliferative luminal breast tumors, a clinical subset of patients for which few therapeutic options are effective. This general strategy has the potential to identify therapeutic targets within amplicons through an integrated use of genomic data sets. is of
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