Search Results - "Pfister, Stefan M"
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Pediatric Gliomas: Current Concepts on Diagnosis, Biology, and Clinical Management
Published in Journal of clinical oncology (20-07-2017)“…Gliomas are the most common CNS tumors in children and adolescents, and they show an extremely broad range of clinical behavior. The majority of pediatric…”
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The 2021 WHO Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System: a summary
Published in Neuro-oncology (Charlottesville, Va.) (02-08-2021)“…Abstract The fifth edition of the WHO Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System (CNS), published in 2021, is the sixth version of the…”
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Medulloblastomics revisited: biological and clinical insights from thousands of patients
Published in Nature reviews. Cancer (01-01-2020)“…Medulloblastoma, a malignant brain tumour primarily diagnosed during childhood, has recently been the focus of intensive molecular profiling efforts,…”
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EANO guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of ependymal tumors
Published in Neuro-oncology (Charlottesville, Va.) (27-03-2018)“…Ependymal tumors are rare CNS tumors and may occur at any age, but their proportion among primary brain tumors is highest in children and young adults. Thus,…”
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Practical implementation of DNA methylation and copy-number-based CNS tumor diagnostics: the Heidelberg experience
Published in Acta neuropathologica (01-08-2018)“…Recently, we described a machine learning approach for classification of central nervous system tumors based on the analysis of genome-wide DNA methylation…”
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RF_Purify: a novel tool for comprehensive analysis of tumor-purity in methylation array data based on random forest regression
Published in BMC bioinformatics (16-08-2019)“…With the advent of array-based techniques to measure methylation levels in primary tumor samples, systematic investigations of methylomes have widely been…”
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Risk stratification of childhood medulloblastoma in the molecular era: the current consensus
Published in Acta neuropathologica (01-06-2016)“…Historical risk stratification criteria for medulloblastoma rely primarily on clinicopathological variables pertaining to age, presence of metastases, extent…”
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Pan-cancer analysis of somatic copy-number alterations implicates IRS4 and IGF2 in enhancer hijacking
Published in Nature genetics (01-01-2017)“…Hanno Glimm, Jan Korbel and colleagues present a computational framework called cis expression structural alteration mapping (CESAM), which they use to…”
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Second-generation molecular subgrouping of medulloblastoma: an international meta-analysis of Group 3 and Group 4 subtypes
Published in Acta neuropathologica (01-08-2019)“…In 2012, an international consensus paper reported that medulloblastoma comprises four molecular subgroups (WNT, SHH, Group 3, and Group 4), each associated…”
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Maturation Block in Childhood Cancer
Published in Cancer discovery (01-03-2021)“…The key differences between tumors arising in children and those in adults stem from the cellular origin of cancer at different ages, with adult cancers…”
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Machine learning workflows to estimate class probabilities for precision cancer diagnostics on DNA methylation microarray data
Published in Nature protocols (01-02-2020)“…DNA methylation data-based precision cancer diagnostics is emerging as the state of the art for molecular tumor classification. Standards for choosing…”
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Developmental and evolutionary dynamics of cis-regulatory elements in mouse cerebellar cells
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (27-08-2021)“…Organ development is orchestrated by cell- and time-specific gene regulatory networks. In this study, we investigated the regulatory basis of mouse cerebellum…”
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HDAC and PI3K Antagonists Cooperate to Inhibit Growth of MYC-Driven Medulloblastoma
Published in Cancer cell (14-03-2016)“…Medulloblastoma (MB) is a highly malignant pediatric brain tumor. Despite aggressive therapy, many patients succumb to the disease, and survivors experience…”
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K27M mutation in histone H3.3 defines clinically and biologically distinct subgroups of pediatric diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas
Published in Acta neuropathologica (01-09-2012)“…Pediatric glioblastomas (GBM) including diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (DIPG) are devastating brain tumors with no effective therapy. Here, we investigated…”
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Genome Sequencing of Pediatric Medulloblastoma Links Catastrophic DNA Rearrangements with TP53 Mutations
Published in Cell (20-01-2012)“…Genomic rearrangements are thought to occur progressively during tumor development. Recent findings, however, suggest an alternative mechanism, involving…”
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BCAT1 promotes cell proliferation through amino acid catabolism in gliomas carrying wild-type IDH1
Published in Nature medicine (01-07-2013)“…Branched-chain amino acid transaminase 1, the enzyme that initiates the catabolism of branched-chain amino acids, is involved in glioma pathogenesis, making it…”
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Molecular neuro-oncology in clinical practice: a new horizon
Published in The lancet oncology (01-08-2013)“…Summary Primary brain tumours are heterogeneous in histology, genetics, and outcome. Although WHO's classification of tumours of the CNS has greatly helped to…”
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Duplications of KIAA1549 and BRAF screening by Droplet Digital PCR from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded DNA is an accurate alternative for KIAA1549-BRAF fusion detection in pilocytic astrocytomas
Published in Modern pathology (01-10-2018)“…Pilocytic astrocytomas represent the most common glioma subtype in young patients and account for 5.4% of all gliomas. They are characterized by alterations in…”
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Pediatric high-grade glioma: biologically and clinically in need of new thinking
Published in Neuro-oncology (Charlottesville, Va.) (01-02-2017)“…High-grade gliomas in children are different from those that arise in adults. Recent collaborative molecular analyses of these rare cancers have revealed…”
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Mutations in the SIX1/2 Pathway and the DROSHA/DGCR8 miRNA Microprocessor Complex Underlie High-Risk Blastemal Type Wilms Tumors
Published in Cancer cell (09-02-2015)“…Blastemal histology in chemotherapy-treated pediatric Wilms tumors (nephroblastoma) is associated with adverse prognosis. To uncover the underlying tumor…”
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