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Epidemiology.
Handbook of clinical neurology - 1 Jan 2016
Walsh Kyle M, Ohgaki Hiroko, Wrensch Margaret R
Abstract excerpt
More than 250,000 new cases of primary malignant brain tumors are diagnosed annually worldwide, 77% of which are gliomas. A small proportion of gliomas are caused by the inheritance of rare high-penetrance genetic variants or high-dose radiation. Since 2009, inherited genetic variants in 10 regions near eight different genes have been consistently associated with glioma risk via genome-wide association studies....
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