Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

Integrated genomic analyses of de novo pathways underlying atypical meningiomas

  • Akdes Serin Harmancı,
  • Mark W. Youngblood,
  • Victoria E. Clark,
  • Süleyman Coşkun,
  • Octavian Henegariu,
  • Daniel Duran,
  • E. Zeynep Erson-Omay,
  • Leon D. Kaulen,
  • Tong Ihn Lee,
  • Brian J. Abraham,
  • Matthias Simon,
  • Boris Krischek,
  • Marco Timmer,
  • Roland Goldbrunner,
  • S. Bülent Omay,
  • Jacob Baranoski,
  • Burçin Baran,
  • Geneive Carrión-Grant,
  • Hanwen Bai,
  • Ketu Mishra-Gorur,
  • Johannes Schramm,
  • Jennifer Moliterno,
  • Alexander O. Vortmeyer,
  • Kaya Bilgüvar,
  • Katsuhito Yasuno,
  • Richard A. Young,
  • Murat Günel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14433
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Meningiomas are mostly benign brain tumours with the potential for becoming atypical or malignant. Here, the authors show that primary atypical meningiomas are epigenetically and genetically distinct from benign and progressed tumours, highlighting possible therapeutic targets such as PRC2.