TERT promoter mutations occur frequently in gliomas and a subset of tumors derived from cells with low rates of self-renewal.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on March 25, 2013

Authors

Patrick J Killela1, Zachary J Reitman, Yuchen Jiao, Chetan Bettegowda, Nishant Agrawal, Luis A Diaz, Allan H Friedman, Henry Friedman, Gary L Gallia, Beppino C Giovanella, Arthur P Grollman, Tong-Chuan He, Yiping He, Ralph H Hruban, George I Jallo, Nils Mandahl, Alan K Meeker, Fredrik Mertens, George J Netto, B Ahmed Rasheed, Gregory J Riggins, Thomas A Rosenquist, Mark Schiffman, Ie-Ming Shih, Dan Theodorescu, Michael S Torbenson, Victor E Velculescu, Tian-Li Wang, Nicolas Wentzensen, Laura D Wood, Ming Zhang, Roger E McLendon, Darell D Bigner, Kenneth W Kinzler, Bert Vogelstein, Nickolas Papadopoulos, Hai Yan

Author Affiliations

1: Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation Institute at Duke, and Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

Associated clinical trials:

CCRT With Temozolomide Versus RT Alone in Patients With IDH Wild-type/TERT Promoter Mutation Grade II/III Gliomas | NCT02766270

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