Our Publications

Researchers associated with the UC Santa Cruz Treehouse Initiative write publications in pediatric cancer, and other related fields.

2024

Mittal, K., Cooper, G.W., et al. (2024). Targeting TRIP13 in favorable histology Wilms tumor with nuclear export inhibitors synergizes with doxorubicin. Commun Biol 7, 1–13. doi: 10.1038/s42003-024-06140-6. PMID: 38383600

2023

Casillo SM, Gatesman TA…Vaske OM…Pollack IF, Agnihotri S, et al. An ERK5-PFKFB3 axis regulates glycolysis and represents a therapeutic vulnerability in pediatric diffuse midline glioma. Cell Rep. 2024 Jan 23;43(1):113557. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113557. PMID: 38113141

Lilly JV, Rokita JL…Vaske OM…Resnick AC, Waanders AJ, et al. The children’s brain tumor network (CBTN) – Accelerating research in pediatric central nervous system tumors through collaboration and open science. Neoplasia. 2023 Jan;35:100846. doi: 10.1016/j.neo.2022.100846. PMID: 36335802

Flores-Toro JA, Jagu S, Kibbe WA, Doroshow JH, et al. The Childhood Cancer Data Initiative: Using the Power of Data to Learn From and Improve Outcomes for Every Child and Young Adult With Pediatric Cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2023 Aug 20;41(24):4045-4053. doi: 10.1200/JCO.22.02208. PMID: 37267580

2022

Leong SP, Witz IP,  Vaske OM, Witte M, et al. Cancer microenvironment and genomics: evolution in process. Clin Exp Metastasis. 2022 Feb;39(1):85-99. doi: 10.1007/s10585-021-10097-9. PMID:33970362

Golbourn BJ, Halbert ME…Vaske OM…Mack SC, Agnihotri S, et al. Loss of MAT2A compromises methionine metabolism and represents a vulnerability in H3K27M mutant glioma by modulating the epigenome. Nat Cancer. 2022 May;3(5):629-648. doi: 10.1038/s43018-022-00348-3. PMID: 35422502

Chun-On P, Hinchie AM, Vaske OM, Greider CW, Alder JK, et al. TPP1 promoter mutations cooperate with TERT promoter mutations to lengthen telomeres in melanoma. Science. 2022 Nov 11;378(6620):664-668. doi: 10.1126/science.abq0607. PMID: 36356143

Sanders LM, Chandra R,  Salama SR, Vaske OM, et al. Machine learning multi-omics analysis reveals cancer driver dysregulation in pan-cancer cell lines compared to primary tumors. Commun Biol. 2022 Dec 13;5(1):1367. doi: 10.1038/s42003-022-04075-4.PMID: 36513728

2021

Beale HC, Roger JM, Haussler D, Vaske OM, et al. The case for using mapped exonic non-duplicate reads when reporting RNA-sequencing depth: examples from pediatric cancer datasets. Gigascience. 2021 Mar 13;10(3):giab011. doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giab011.PMID: 33712853

Thornlow B, Hinrichs AS…Vaske O…Kilpatrick AM, Corbett-Detig R, et al. A new SARS-CoV-2 lineage that shares mutations with known Variants of Concern is rejected by automated sequence repository quality control. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2021 Apr 6:2021.04.05.438352. doi: 10.1101/2021.04.05.438352.PMID: 33851162

Kerlavage AR, Kirchhoff AC…Vaske O…Nadaf S, Kibbe WA, et al. Cancer Informatics for Cancer Centers: Scientific Drivers for Informatics, Data Science, and Care in Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2021 Aug;5:881-896. doi: 10.1200/CCI.21.00040. PMID: 34428097 

Woods AD, Purohit R…Vaske O… Keller C, Wadhwa A, et al. Metastatic pediatric sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma. Cold Spring Harb Mol Case Stud. 2021 Oct 19;7(5):a006093. doi: 10.1101/mcs.a006093. PMID: 34362827 

Thakur S, Jain M… Vaske O…Murguia-Favela L, Narendran A, et al. Identification and in vitro validation of neoantigens for immune activation against high-risk pediatric leukemia cells. Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2021 Dec 2;17(12):5558-5562. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2021.2001243. PMID: 34844524 

Reed MR, Lyle AG, Vaske OM, Rodriguez A, et al. A Functional Precision Medicine Pipeline Combines Comparative Transcriptomics and Tumor Organoid Modeling to Identify Bespoke Treatment Strategies for Glioblastoma. Cells. 2021 Dec 2;10(12):3400. doi: 10.3390/cells10123400.PMID: 34943910

Chang T, Draper JM, Vaske O, Stone MD, Sanford JR, et al. A method for campus-wide SARS-CoV-2 surveillance at a large public university. PLoS One. 2021 Dec 17;16(12):e0261230. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0261230.PMID: 34919584

2020

Vivian J, Eizenga JM, Beale HC, Vaske OM, Paten B. Bayesian Framework for Detecting Gene Expression Outliers in Individual Samples. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2020 Feb;4:160-170. doi: 10.1200/CCI.19.00095. PMID: 32097024

Pfeil J, Sanders LM, Haussler D, Vaske OM, et al. Hydra: A mixture modeling framework for subtyping pediatric cancer cohorts using multimodal gene expression signatures. PLoS Comput Biol. 2020 Apr 10;16(4):e1007753. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007753. PMID: 32275708

Castilla-Vallmanya L, Selmer KK…Vaske OM…Grinberg D, Amiel J, et al. Phenotypic spectrum and transcriptomic profile associated with germline variants in TRAF7. Genet Med. 2020 Jul;22(7):1215-1226. doi: 10.1038/s41436-020-0792-7..PMID: 32376980

Sanders LM, Cheney A,  Salama SR, Vaske OM, et al. Identification of a differentiation stall in epithelial mesenchymal transition in histone H3-mutant diffuse midline glioma. Gigascience. 2020 Dec 15;9(12):giaa136. doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giaa136. PMID: 33319914

Petralia F, Tignor N, Rood BR, Wang P; Children’s Brain Tumor Network; Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium, et al. Integrated Proteogenomic Characterization across Major Histological Types of Pediatric Brain Cancer. Cell. 2020 Dec 23;183(7):1962-1985.e31. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.10.044. PMID: 33242424 

2019

Vaske OM, Haussler D. Data sharing for pediatric cancers. Science. 2019 Mar 15;363(6432):1125. doi: 10.1126/science.aax2739.PMID: 30872493 

Learned K, Durbin A, Vaske OM, Bjork IM, et al. Barriers to accessing public cancer genomic data. Sci Data. 2019 Jun 20;6(1):98. doi: 10.1038/s41597-019-0096-4.PMID: 31222016 

Vaske OM, Bjork I, Goldstein TC, Haussler D, et al. Comparative Tumor RNA Sequencing Analysis for Difficult-to-Treat Pediatric and Young Adult Patients With Cancer. JAMA Netw Open. 2019 Oct 2;2(10):e1913968. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.13968.PMID: 31651965

Sanders LM, Rangaswami A, Sweet-Cordero EA, Vaske OM, et al. Comparative RNA-seq analysis aids in diagnosis of a rare pediatric tumor. Cold Spring Harb Mol Case Stud. 2019 Oct 23;5(5):a004317. doi: 10.1101/mcs.a004317. PMID: 31645344 

Bjork I, Peralez J, Haussler D, Spunt SL, Vaske OM. Data sharing for clinical utility. Cold Spring Harb Mol Case Stud. 2019 Oct 23;5(5):a004689. doi: 10.1101/mcs.a004689. Print 2019 Oct.PMID: 31645349

Rokita JL, Rathi KS…Vaske OM…Wheeler DA, Maris JM, et all. Genomic Profiling of Childhood Tumor Patient-Derived Xenograft Models to Enable Rational Clinical Trial Design. Cell Rep. 2019 Nov 5;29(6):1675-1689.e9. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.09.071.PMID: 31693904

2018

Newton Y, Rassekh SR, Marra MA, Morozova O, et al. Comparative RNA-Sequencing Analysis Benefits a Pediatric Patient With Relapsed Cancer. JCO Precis Oncol. 2018;2:PO.17.00198. doi: 10.1200/PO.17.00198. PMID: 31372595 

 

Publications That Use Treehouse Data or Resources

Researchers use Treehouse’s resources or publicly available, processed data for their analysis: Treehouse is granted permission to use the data; we run it through our pipelines and make our processed data public as part of our compendium.

2024

Wang Y, Gao B, Wang XS, Lan L, et al. Meiotic protein SYCP2 confers resistance to DNA-damaging agents through R-loop-mediated DNA repair. Nat Commun. 2024 Feb 21;15(1):1568. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-45693-2.PMID: 38383600 

2022

Zhao G, Newbury P, Chen B, Hashizume R, et al. Reversal of cancer gene expression identifies repurposed drugs for diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma. Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2022 Oct 23;10(1):150. doi: 10.1186/s40478-022-01463-z.PMID: 36274161 

2021

Warren A, Chen Y, Tsherniak A, McFarland JM, et al. Global computational alignment of tumor and cell line transcriptional profiles. Nat Commun. 2021 Jan 4;12(1):22. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-20294-x.PMID: 33397959 

Zeng B, Glicksberg BS, Chow C, Chen B, et al. OCTAD: an open workspace for virtually screening therapeutics targeting precise cancer patient groups using gene expression features. Nat Protoc. 2021 Feb;16(2):728-753. doi: 10.1038/s41596-020-00430-z. Epub 2020 Dec 23.PMID: 33361798

Pan M, Wright WC, Easton J, Geeleher P, et al. The chemotherapeutic CX-5461 primarily targets TOP2B and exhibits selective activity in high-risk neuroblastoma. Nat Commun. 2021 Nov 9;12(1):6468. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-26640-x.PMID: 34753908 

2020

Savary C, Kim A, Blum Y, de Tayrac M, et al. Depicting the genetic architecture of pediatric cancers through an integrative gene network approach. Sci Rep. 2020 Jan 27;10(1):1224. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-58179-0.PMID: 31988326 

Gupta A, Taslim C, Tullius BP, Cripe TP. Therapeutic modulation of the CD47-SIRPα axis in the pediatric tumor microenvironment: working up an appetite. Cancer Drug Resist. 2020 May 11;3(3):550-562. doi: 10.20517/cdr.2020.12. PMID: 35582455 

Gupta A, Belsky JA, Cottrell CE, Setty BA, et al. Infantile fibrosarcoma-like tumor driven by novel RBPMS-MET fusion consolidated with cabozantinib. Cold Spring Harb Mol Case Stud. 2020 Oct 7;6(5):a005645. doi: 10.1101/mcs.a005645. PMID: 33028644

Song J, Zhao Q, Xu Y, Zhu L. A signature of 29 immune-related genes pairs to predict prognosis in patients with neuroblastoma. Int Immunopharmacol. 2020 Nov;88:106994. doi: 10.1016/j.intimp.2020.106994. PMID: 33182060