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SUBMITTER: Moriya K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4317937 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Moriya Kunihiko K Kaneko Mika K MK Liu Xing X Hosaka Masami M Fujishima Fumiyoshi F Sakuma Jun J Ogasawara Satoshi S Watanabe Mika M Sasahara Yoji Y Kure Shigeo S Kato Yukinari Y
Cancer science 20140301 3
We report on a 24-year-old woman who was diagnosed as having Maffucci syndrome with anaplastic astrocytoma. We analyzed the IDH1 and IDH2 mutations of enchondroma, hemangioma and anaplastic astrocytoma tissues and the same somatic mosaic mutation in IDH2 gene was identified in all these tissues. In addition, we identified additional mutation of the TP53 gene in anaplastic astrocytoma tissue but not in other benign tumors. This is the first report of the detection of an identical IDH2 mutation in ...[more]