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NATURE GENETICS
Volume 46, Issue 9, Pages 964-+Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3065
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Banting and Best Doctoral Research Award
- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) [09NOV-328]
- Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute (CCSRI) [2012 701468]
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Creating spontaneous yet genetically tractable human tumors from normal cells presents a fundamental challenge. Here we combined retroviral and transposon insertional mutagenesis to enable cancer gene discovery starting with human primary cells. We used lentiviruses to seed gain- and loss-of-function gene disruption elements, which were further deployed by Sleeping Beauty transposons throughout the genome of human bone explant mesenchymal cells. De novo tumors generated rapidly in this context were high-grade myxofibrosarcomas. Tumor insertion sites were enriched in recurrent somatic copy-number aberration regions from multiple cancer types and could be used to pinpoint new driver genes that sustain somatic alterations in patients. We identified HDLBP, which encodes the RNA-binding protein vigilin, as a candidate tumor suppressor deleted at 2q37.3 in greater than one out of ten tumors across multiple tissues of origin. Hybrid viral-transposon systems may accelerate the functional annotation of cancer genomes by enabling insertional mutagenesis screens in higher eukaryotes that are not amenable to germline transgenesis.
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