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Genomweite pan-hämatopoetische Transposon-Screens zur Entdeckung onkogener Netzwerke in der Maus

Antragsteller Professor Dr. Roland Rad
Fachliche Zuordnung Hämatologie, Onkologie
Allgemeine Genetik und funktionelle Genomforschung
Förderung Förderung von 2017 bis 2021
Projektkennung Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 386625870
 
Erstellungsjahr 2022

Zusammenfassung der Projektergebnisse

Whilst genome sequencing proved very powerful for the identification of genetic alterations in cancer, understanding other levels of gene dysregulation remains a challenge. There is, for example, a lack of tools to systematically search for targets or effector pathways downstream of mutated human cancer genes, or to pinpoint cancer drivers that are not mutated but are among the thousands of epigenetically, transcriptionally or post- transcriptionally dysregulated genes in a cancer cell. To address these issues, we developed new genomic tools allowing systematic interrogation of the non-mutated cancer genome and regulome. By using these systems for genome-wide screening in mice we discovered large numbers of genes and gene regulatory elements driving different haematopoietic cancers. Downstream mechanistic studies on selected discoveries gave new insights into the biology and evolution of different hematopoietic malignancies and their subentities. We also developed new mouse models, CRISPR genomic technologies and computational methods for structural and functional cancer genomics in mice. These resources are broadly applicable and already being widely used around the globe in different research areas.

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