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Diagnostic application of high resolution single nucleotide polymorphism array analysis for children with brain tumors.
Cancer genetics - 1 Apr 2014
Roth Jacquelyn J, Santi Mariarita, Rorke-Adams Lucy B, Harding Brian N, Busse Tracy M, Tooke Laura S, Biegel Jaclyn A
Abstract excerpt
Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array analysis is currently used as a first tier test for pediatric brain tumors at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The results from 100 consecutive patients are summarized in the present report. Eighty-seven percent of the tumors had at least one pathogenic copy number alteration. Nineteen of 56 low grade gliomas (LGGs) demonstrated a duplication in 7q34, which...
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