The Good, The Bad, and The Unexpected: Roles of DUX4 in Health and Disease.

Dev Cell

Department of Pharmacology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, NV 89557, USA. Electronic address:

Published: September 2019

In this issue of Developmental Cell, Chew et al. (2019) show that the pioneer factor DUX4 is misexpressed in tumors, where it suppresses anti-tumor immune activity. Their findings provide a new mechanism for immune evasion in cancer and highlight the pathogenic effects of re-expressing an embryonic program in adult cells.

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