Pediatric low-grade glioma in the era of molecular diagnostics

S Ryall, U Tabori, C Hawkins - Acta neuropathologica communications, 2020 - Springer
Low grade gliomas are the most frequent brain tumors in children and encompass a
spectrum of histologic entities which are currently assigned World Health Organisation …

Glioma

M Weller, W Wick, K Aldape, M Brada… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2015 - nature.com
Gliomas are primary brain tumours that are thought to derive from neuroglial stem or
progenitor cells. On the basis of their histological appearance, they have been traditionally …

Exome sequencing identifies BRAF mutations in papillary craniopharyngiomas

PK Brastianos, A Taylor-Weiner, PE Manley… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Craniopharyngiomas are epithelial tumors that typically arise in the suprasellar region of the
brain. Patients experience substantial clinical sequelae from both extension of the tumors …

Emerging insights into the molecular and cellular basis of glioblastoma

GP Dunn, ML Rinne, J Wykosky… - Genes & …, 2012 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Glioblastoma is both the most common and lethal primary malignant brain tumor. Extensive
multiplatform genomic characterization has provided a higher-resolution picture of the …

Long‐term outcome of 4,040 children diagnosed with pediatric low‐grade gliomas: an analysis of the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database

P Bandopadhayay, G Bergthold… - Pediatric blood & …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Background Children with pediatric low‐grade gliomas (PLGG) are known to have excellent
10‐year survival rates; however the outcomes of adult survivors of PLGG are unknown. We …

The use of exome capture RNA-seq for highly degraded RNA with application to clinical cancer sequencing

M Cieslik, R Chugh, YM Wu, M Wu, C Brennan… - Genome …, 2015 - genome.cshlp.org
RNA-seq by poly (A) selection is currently the most common protocol for whole
transcriptome sequencing as it provides a broad, detailed, and accurate view of the RNA …

Landscape of gene fusions in epithelial cancers: seq and ye shall find

C Kumar-Sinha, S Kalyana-Sundaram… - Genome medicine, 2015 - Springer
Enabled by high-throughput sequencing approaches, epithelial cancers across a range of
tissue types are seen to harbor gene fusions as integral to their landscape of somatic …

Molecular classification of gliomas

K Masui, PS Mischel, G Reifenberger - Handbook of clinical neurology, 2016 - Elsevier
The identification of distinct genetic and epigenetic profiles in different types of gliomas has
revealed novel diagnostic, prognostic, and predictive molecular biomarkers for refinement of …

Pilocytic astrocytoma: a review of general, clinical, and molecular characteristics

D Salles, G Laviola, ACM Malinverni… - Journal of Child …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Pilocytic astrocytomas are the primary tumors most frequently found in children and
adolescents, accounting for approximately 15.6% of all brain tumors and 5.4% of all gliomas …

Droplet digital PCR-based analyses for robust, rapid, and sensitive molecular diagnostics of gliomas

M Wolter, J Felsberg, B Malzkorn, K Kaulich… - Acta Neuropathologica …, 2022 - Springer
Classification of gliomas involves the combination of histological features with molecular
biomarkers to establish an integrated histomolecular diagnosis. Here, we report on the …