Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Comprehensive molecular characterization of pediatric radiation-induced high-grade glioma

  • John DeSisto,
  • John T. Lucas,
  • Ke Xu,
  • Andrew Donson,
  • Tong Lin,
  • Bridget Sanford,
  • Gang Wu,
  • Quynh T. Tran,
  • Dale Hedges,
  • Chih-Yang Hsu,
  • Gregory T. Armstrong,
  • Michael Arnold,
  • Smita Bhatia,
  • Patrick Flannery,
  • Rakeb Lemma,
  • Lakotah Hardie,
  • Ulrich Schüller,
  • Sujatha Venkataraman,
  • Lindsey M. Hoffman,
  • Kathleen Dorris,
  • Jean M. Mulcahy Levy,
  • Todd C. Hankinson,
  • Michael Handler,
  • Arthur K. Liu,
  • Nicholas Foreman,
  • Rajeev Vibhakar,
  • Kenneth Jones,
  • Sariah Allen,
  • Jinghui Zhang,
  • Suzanne J. Baker,
  • Thomas E. Merchant,
  • Brent A. Orr,
  • Adam L. Green

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25709-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Radiation-induced high-grade gliomas (RIGs) are an incurable late complication of cranial radiation therapy. In the largest study to date, we report the results of DNA methylation profiling, RNA-Seq and genomic sequencing of 32 RIG tumors, and an in vitro drug screen in two RIG cell lines.