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    Chun, Hye-Jung E.; Lim, Emilia L.; Heravi-Moussavi, Alireza; Saberi, Saeed; Mungall, Karen L.; Bilenky, Mikhail; Carles, Annaick; Tse, Kane; Shlafman, Inna; Zhu, Kelsey; Qian, Jenny Q.; Palmquist, Diana L.; He, An; Long, William; Goya, Rodrigo; Ng, Michelle; LeBlanc, Veronique G.; Pleasance, Erin; Thiessen, Nina; Wong, Tina; Chuah, Eric; Zhao, Yong-Jun; Schein, Jacquie E.; Gerhard, Daniela S.; Taylor, Michael D.; Mungall, Andrew J.; Moore, Richard A.; Ma, Yussanne; Jones, Steven J.M.; Perlman, Elizabeth J.; Hirst, Martin; Marra, Marco A.

    Cancer cell, 03/2016, Volume: 29, Issue: 3
    Journal Article

    Malignant rhabdoid tumors (MRTs) are rare lethal tumors of childhood that most commonly occur in the kidney and brain. MRTs are driven by SMARCB1 loss, but the molecular consequences of SMARCB1 loss in extra-cranial tumors have not been comprehensively described and genomic resources for analyses of extra-cranial MRT are limited. To provide such data, we used whole-genome sequencing, whole-genome bisulfite sequencing, whole transcriptome (RNA-seq) and microRNA sequencing (miRNA-seq), and histone modification profiling to characterize extra-cranial MRTs. Our analyses revealed gene expression and methylation subgroups and focused on dysregulated pathways, including those involved in neural crest development. •Extra-cranial malignant rhabdoid tumors (MRTs) exhibit molecular heterogeneity•Evidence is presented for epigenetic reprogramming of HOX genes•MRTs exhibit dysregulated expression of genes involved in neural crest development•Dysregulation of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes is reported Chun et al. perform integrated molecular analyses of extra-cranial malignant rhabdoid tumors (MRTs) and show that, although SMARCB1 loss drives nearly all MRTs, there are two subgroups of MRTs that are associated with patient age and differentially expressed genes.