Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Alterations in ALK/ROS1/NTRK/MET drive a group of infantile hemispheric gliomas

  • Ana S. Guerreiro Stucklin,
  • Scott Ryall,
  • Kohei Fukuoka,
  • Michal Zapotocky,
  • Alvaro Lassaletta,
  • Christopher Li,
  • Taylor Bridge,
  • Byungjin Kim,
  • Anthony Arnoldo,
  • Paul E. Kowalski,
  • Yvonne Zhong,
  • Monique Johnson,
  • Claire Li,
  • Arun K. Ramani,
  • Robert Siddaway,
  • Liana Figueiredo Nobre,
  • Pasqualino de Antonellis,
  • Christopher Dunham,
  • Sylvia Cheng,
  • Daniel R. Boué,
  • Jonathan L. Finlay,
  • Scott L. Coven,
  • Inmaculada de Prada,
  • Marta Perez-Somarriba,
  • Claudia C. Faria,
  • Michael A. Grotzer,
  • Elisabeth Rushing,
  • David Sumerauer,
  • Josef Zamecnik,
  • Lenka Krskova,
  • Miguel Garcia Ariza,
  • Ofelia Cruz,
  • Andres Morales La Madrid,
  • Palma Solano,
  • Keita Terashima,
  • Yoshiko Nakano,
  • Koichi Ichimura,
  • Motoo Nagane,
  • Hiroaki Sakamoto,
  • Maria Joao Gil-da-Costa,
  • Roberto Silva,
  • Donna L. Johnston,
  • Jean Michaud,
  • Bev Wilson,
  • Frank K. H. van Landeghem,
  • Angelica Oviedo,
  • P. Daniel McNeely,
  • Bruce Crooks,
  • Iris Fried,
  • Nataliya Zhukova,
  • Jordan R. Hansford,
  • Amulya Nageswararao,
  • Livia Garzia,
  • Mary Shago,
  • Michael Brudno,
  • Meredith S. Irwin,
  • Ute Bartels,
  • Vijay Ramaswamy,
  • Eric Bouffet,
  • Michael D. Taylor,
  • Uri Tabori,
  • Cynthia Hawkins

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12187-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Infant gliomas behave differently to their childhood or adult counterparts. Here, the authors perform a large-scale genetic analysis of these tumours, revealing genetic alterations which may offer therapeutic opportunities.