In collaboration with the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) and Children’s Brain Tumor Tissue Consortium (CBTTC), we have published the first large-scale, comprehensive proteogenomic analysis of 218 tumors across seven histologic types of childhood brain cancer.
Integrated Proteogenomic Characterization across Major Histological Types of Pediatric Brain Cancer
Petralia et al. Cell. Dec 2020
Highlights
• Proteogenomics characterization of 218 pediatric brain tumor samples of 7 histologies
• Proteomic clusters reveal actionable biological features spanning histological boundaries
• Proteomics reveal downstream effects of DNA alterations not evident in transcriptomics
• Kinase activity analyses provide insights into pathway activities and druggable targets
The pediatric brain tumor data can be explored as interactive heatmap with our ProTrack web tool at http://pbt.cptac-data-view.org/
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