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SUBMITTER: Dewire MD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3782106 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dewire Mariko D MD Ellison David W DW Patay Zoltan Z McKinnon Peter J PJ Sanders Robert P RP Gajjar Amar A
Pediatric blood & cancer 20091201 6
Medulloblastoma, the most common pediatric malignant brain tumor often arises sporadically; however, in a subgroup of patients, there exist familial conditions such as Fanconi anemia with biallelic BRCA2 mutation that predispose patients to developing medulloblastoma. Biallelic inactivation of BRCA2 in Fanconi anemia has been previously described in only 11 patients with medulloblastoma in the literature to date. Here we report two siblings diagnosed with central nervous system embryonal tumors ...[more]