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Critical oncogenic mutations in newly diagnosed pediatric diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma.
Pediatric blood & cancer - 1 Apr 2012
Grill Jacques, Puget Stephanie, Andreiuolo Felipe, Philippe Cathy, MacConaill Laura, Kieran Mark W
Abstract excerpt
Diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (DIPG) can not be cured with current treatment modalities. Targeted therapy in this disease would benefit from advanced technologies detecting relevant drugable mutations. Twenty patients with classic newly diagnosed DIPG underwent stereotactic biopsies and were analyzed for the presence of 983 different mutations in 115 oncogenes and tumor-suppressor genes using OncoMap, a mass...
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