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Clinical, radiologic, and genetic characteristics of histone H3 K27M-mutant diffuse midline gliomas in adults
1 Jan 2020
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Abstract Background “Diffuse midline glioma (DMG), H3 K27M-mutant” is a new tumor entity established in the 2016 WHO classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System that comprises a set of diffuse gliomas arising in midline structures and is molecularly defined by a K27M mutation in genes encoding the histone 3 variants H3.3 or H3.1. While this tumor entity is associated with poor prognosis in children,...
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