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A Study of High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer Origins Implicates the SOX18 Transcription Factor in Tumor Development

  • Kate Lawrenson
  • , Marcos A.S. Fonseca
  • , Annie Y. Liu
  • , Felipe Segato Dezem
  • , Janet M. Lee
  • , Xianzhi Lin
  • , Rosario I. Corona
  • , Forough Abbasi
  • , Kevin C. Vavra
  • , Huy Q. Dinh
  • , Navjot Kaur Gill
  • , Ji Heui Seo
  • , Simon Coetzee
  • , Yvonne G. Lin
  • , Tanja Pejovic
  • , Paulette Mhawech-Fauceglia
  • , Amy C. Rowat
  • , Ronny Drapkin
  • , Beth Y. Karlan
  • , Dennis J. Hazelett
  • Matthew L. Freedman, Simon A. Gayther, Houtan Noushmehr

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Abstract

Lawrenson et al. profile gene expression and active chromatin in ∼200 ovarian and fallopian epithelial isolates and implement machine learning to demonstrate that most high-grade serous ovarian cancers (HGSOCs) derive from fallopian tube epithelial cells, but a subset may originate from ovarian epithelia. SOX18 induces mesenchymal features to drive early neoplasia in fallopian tube precursors.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)3726-3735.e4
JournalCell Reports
Volume29
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 10 2019
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • RNA-seq
  • SOX18
  • dual origins
  • fallopian tube secretory epithelial cell
  • high-grade serous ovarian cancer
  • machine learning
  • one-class logistic regression models
  • ovarian surface epithelial cell
  • single-cell RNA-seq
  • super enhancers
  • transcription factors

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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