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SUBMITTER: Buczkowicz P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3997489 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Nature genetics 20140406 5
Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is a fatal brain cancer that arises in the brainstem of children, with no effective treatment and near 100% fatality. The failure of most therapies can be attributed to the delicate location of these tumors and to the selection of therapies on the basis of assumptions that DIPGs are molecularly similar to adult disease. Recent studies have unraveled the unique genetic makeup of this brain cancer, with nearly 80% found to harbor a p.Lys27Met histone H3.3 or ...[more]