Journal article
Mutations in SPRTN cause early onset hepatocellular carcinoma, genomic instability and progeroid features
Davor Lessel, Bruno Vaz, Swagata Halder, Paul J Lockhart, Ivana Marinovic-Terzic, Jaime Lopez-Mosqueda, Melanie Philipp, Joe CH Sim, Katherine R Smith, Judith Oehler, Elisa Cabrera, Raimundo Freire, Kate Pope, Amsha Nahid, Fiona Norris, Richard J Leventer, Martin B Delatycki, Gotthold Barbi, Simon von Ameln, Josef Hoegel Show all
Nature Genetics | NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2014
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3103
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Awarded by Cluster of Excellence 'Macromolecular Complexes' of Goethe University Frankfurt
Awarded by European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme/European Research Council
Awarded by European Commission (Marie Curie Reintegration)
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Awarded by US National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute
Awarded by NIH National Institute on Aging
Awarded by Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sport
Awarded by Australian Research Council
Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Funding Acknowledgements
We are thankful to the family members for participation, G. Gilles for assistance with patient samples, J. Schafer for zebrafish care and Z. Garajova for technical assistance. We thank A. Ray Chaudhuri for initial help with the DNA fiber assay. We thank F. Bohm, Y. Boge and A. Weber from the University of Zurich and L. Campo and K. Myers from the University of Oxford for providing healthy and HCC human liver biopsies and performing histological and immunohistochemical staining. The zebrafish gamma-H2AX antibody was a kind gift of J. Amatruda (University of Texas Southwestern). This work was supported by grants from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Cluster of Excellence 'Macromolecular Complexes' of Goethe University Frankfurt (EXC115), the Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-okonomischer Exzellenz program Ubiquitin Networks of the State of Hesse, Germany and the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/European Research Council grant agreement number 250241-LineUb to ID., the European Commission (Marie Curie Reintegration Grant 268333 to M.P.), the Deutsche Stiftung far Herzforschung (M.P.), the Medical Research Council (MC_PC_ 12001/1) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (31003A_141197) to K.R., grants from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (R24CA78088 and R24AG042328) to G.M.M., the NIH National Institute on Aging (R21AG033313) to J. Oshima, the Ellison Medical Foundation to J. Oshima, the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the framework of the Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases to C.K., an EMBO long-term fellowship to J.L.-M., a grant from the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sport (216-0000000-3348) and a City of Split grant to J.T. and I.D. K.R.S. is supported by a PhD scholarship funded by the Pratt Foundation. M.B. is supported by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT100100764). P.J.L. is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Career Development Fellowship (APP1032364). This work was made possible through Victorian State Government Operational Infrastructure Support and the Australian Government NHMRC Independent Research Institutes Infrastructure Support Scheme.