Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

A recurrent point mutation in PRKCA is a hallmark of chordoid gliomas

  • Shai Rosenberg,
  • Iva Simeonova,
  • Franck Bielle,
  • Maite Verreault,
  • Bertille Bance,
  • Isabelle Le Roux,
  • Mailys Daniau,
  • Arun Nadaradjane,
  • Vincent Gleize,
  • Sophie Paris,
  • Yannick Marie,
  • Marine Giry,
  • Marc Polivka,
  • Dominique Figarella-Branger,
  • Marie-Hélène Aubriot-Lorton,
  • Chiara Villa,
  • Alexandre Vasiljevic,
  • Emmanuèle Lechapt-Zalcman,
  • Michel Kalamarides,
  • Ariane Sharif,
  • Karima Mokhtari,
  • Stefano Maria Pagnotta,
  • Antonio Iavarone,
  • Anna Lasorella,
  • Emmanuelle Huillard,
  • Marc Sanson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04622-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Chordoid glioma is a slow growing diencephalic tumor whose mutational landscape is poorly characterized. Here, the authors perform whole-exome and RNA-sequencing and find that 15 of 16 chordoid glioma cases studied harbor the same PRKCA mutation which results in enhanced proliferation.