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CTF Biobank

General information

URL: http://www.synapse.org/cutaneousNF
Full name: Children tumor foundation biobank
Description: This project includes high-throughput data from 11 different patient tumors and matched blood samples. These data are then compared with one another to assess the distinct landscape of cutaneous NF for each patient.
Year founded: 2017
Last update: 2018
Version:
Accessibility:
Accessible
Country/Region: United States

Contact information

University/Institution: Children’s Tumour Foundation
Address: Children’s Tumour Foundation, New York, New York 10005, USA
City: New York
Province/State:
Country/Region: United States
Contact name (PI/Team): Annette Bakker
Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): abakker@ctf.org

Publications

28398289
A high-throughput molecular data resource for cutaneous neurofibromas. [PMID: 28398289]
Gosline SJ, Weinberg H, Knight P, Yu T, Guo X, Prasad N, Jones A, Shrestha S, Boone B, Levy SE, La Rosa S, Guinney J, Bakker A.

Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a genetic disorder with a range of clinical manifestations such as widespread growth of benign tumours called neurofibromas, pain, learning disorders, bone deformities, vascular abnormalities and even malignant tumours. With the establishment of the Children's Tumour Foundation biobank, neurofibroma samples can now be collected directly from patients to be analysed by the larger scientific community. This work describes a pilot study to characterize one class of neurofibroma, cutaneous neurofibromas, by molecularly profiling of ~40 cutaneous neurofibromas collected from 11 individual patients. Data collected from each tumour includes (1) SNP Arrays, (2) Whole genome sequencing (WGS) and (3) RNA-Sequencing. These data are now freely available for further analysis at http://www.synapse.org/cutaneousNF.

Sci Data. 2017:4() | 18 Citations (from Europe PMC, 2025-12-13)

Ranking

All databases:
3998/6895 (42.03%)
Gene genome and annotation:
1229/2021 (39.238%)
Health and medicine:
995/1738 (42.808%)
Metadata:
408/719 (43.394%)
3998
Total Rank
16
Citations
2
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Created on: 2018-01-27
Curated by:
Aniza Aziz [2018-04-06]
Yang Zhang [2018-01-27]