Diffuse glioma heterogeneity and its therapeutic implications

JG Nicholson, HA Fine - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Diffuse gliomas represent a heterogeneous group of universally lethal brain tumors
characterized by minimally effective genotype-targeted therapies. Recent advances have …

[HTML][HTML] TERT Promoter Alterations in Glioblastoma: A Systematic Review

N Olympios, V Gilard, F Marguet, F Clatot, F Di Fiore… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Glioblastoma is the most common malignant primary brain tumor in adults.
Glioblastoma accounts for 2 to 3 cases per 100,000 persons in North America and Europe …

Functional diversity and cooperativity between subclonal populations of pediatric glioblastoma and diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma cells

M Vinci, A Burford, V Molinari, K Kessler, S Popov… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
The failure to develop effective therapies for pediatric glioblastoma (pGBM) and diffuse
intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is in part due to their intrinsic heterogeneity. We aimed to …

[HTML][HTML] Regional identity of human neural stem cells determines oncogenic responses to histone H3. 3 mutants

RB Bressan, B Southgate, KM Ferguson, C Blin… - Cell Stem Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Point mutations within the histone H3. 3 are frequent in aggressive childhood brain tumors
known as pediatric high-grade gliomas (pHGGs). Intriguingly, distinct mutations arise in …

High-grade gliomas in adolescents and young adults highlight histomolecular differences from their adult and pediatric counterparts

A Roux, J Pallud, R Saffroy, M Edjlali-Goujon… - Neuro …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Considering that pediatric high-grade gliomas (HGGs) are biologically distinct
from their adult counterparts, the objective of this study was to define the landscape of HGGs …

[PDF][PDF] Brain tumors in neurofibromatosis type 1

ADA Costa, DH Gutmann - Neuro-Oncology Advances, 2020 - academic.oup.com
AbstractAs a cancer predisposition syndrome, individuals with neurofibromatosis type 1
(NF1) are at increased risk for the development of both benign and malignant tumors. One of …

[HTML][HTML] Addressing blood-brain-tumor-barrier heterogeneity in pediatric brain tumors with innovative preclinical models

EK Morris, S Daignault-Mill, SJ Stehbens… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Brain tumors represent the leading cause of disease-related mortality and morbidity in
children, with effective treatments urgently required. One factor limiting the effectiveness of …

Targeting and therapeutic monitoring of H3K27M-mutant glioma

K Wierzbicki, K Ravi, A Franson, A Bruzek… - Current oncology …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review H3K27M is a frequent histone mutation within diffuse midline
gliomas and is associated with a dismal prognosis, so much so that the 2016 CNS WHO …

[HTML][HTML] H3G34-mutant gliomas—a review of molecular pathogenesis and therapeutic options

AV Nguyen, JM Soto, SM Gonzalez, J Murillo… - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
The 2021 World Health Organization Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System
reflected advances in understanding of the roles of oncohistones in gliomagenesis with the …

Structural variants shape driver combinations and outcomes in pediatric high-grade glioma

FPB Dubois, O Shapira, NF Greenwald, T Zack, J Wala… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
We analyzed the contributions of structural variants (SVs) to gliomagenesis across 179
pediatric high-grade gliomas (pHGGs). The most recurrent SVs targeted MYC isoforms and …