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Lance M. Farra

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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Germline pathogenic variants in 786 neuroblastoma patients

Jung Kim, Zalman Vaksman, Laura E. Egolf, Rebecca Kaufman, Perry Evans, Karina L. Conkrite, Arnavaz Danesh, Gonzalo López, Michael P. Randall, Maiah H. Dent, Lance M. Farra, Neil Menghani, Malwina Dymek, Heena Desai, Ryan M. Hausler, , Sharon J. Diskin

This study identifies 13.9% of neuroblastoma patients with pathogenic germline variants in cancer predisposition genes, associated with worse survival and enriched in DNA repair genes like BARD1.

medRxiv · Jan 23, 2023 · PreprintGenetic & Genomic Medicine

Somatic structural variation targets neurodevelopmental genes and identifies SHANK2 as a tumor suppressor in neuroblastoma

Gonzalo López, Karina L. Conkrite, Miriam Doepner, Komal S. Rathi, Apexa Modi, Zalman Vaksman, Lance M. Farra, Eric Hyson, Moataz Noureddine, Jun Stephen Wei, Malcolm Anders Smith, Shahab Asgharzadeh, Robert C. Seeger, Javed Iqbal Khan, Jaime M. Guidry Auvil, , Sharon J. Diskin

This study identifies somatic structural variations in neuroblastoma, showing their enrichment in neurodevelopmental genes and the tumor suppressor role of SHANK2.

Genome Research · Sep 1, 2020Peer-reviewedGenomics