Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

Therapeutic radiation for childhood cancer drives structural aberrations of NF2 in meningiomas

  • Sameer Agnihotri,
  • Suganth Suppiah,
  • Peter D. Tonge,
  • Shahrzad Jalali,
  • Arnavaz Danesh,
  • Jeffery P. Bruce,
  • Yasin Mamatjan,
  • George Klironomos,
  • Lior Gonen,
  • Karolyn Au,
  • Sheila Mansouri,
  • Sharin Karimi,
  • Felix Sahm,
  • Andreas von Deimling,
  • Michael D. Taylor,
  • Normand J. Laperriere,
  • Trevor J. Pugh,
  • Kenneth D. Aldape,
  • Gelareh Zadeh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00174-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Radiation-induced meningiomas are often more aggressive than sporadic ones. In this study, the authors perform an exome, methylation and RNA-seq analysis of 31 cases of radiation-induced meningioma and show NF2 rearrangement, an observation previously unreported in the sporadic tumors.