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Angiocentric glioma with MYB-QKI fusion located in the brainstem, rather than cerebral cortex

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C.N.K. is supported by the Campini Foundation, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, and Cannonball Kids’ Cancer Foundation. D.A.S. is supported by NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (DP5 OD021403).

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  1. Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Ave, Health Sciences West 451, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA

    Emily Chan, Andrew W. Bollen, Deepika Sirohi, Jessica Van Ziffle, James P. Grenert, Tarik Tihan, Arie Perry & David A. Solomon

  2. Clinical Cancer Genomics Laboratory, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Deepika Sirohi, Jessica Van Ziffle, James P. Grenert & David A. Solomon

  3. Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Cassie N. Kline

  4. Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Arie Perry & Nalin Gupta

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EC, AWB, TT, AP, and DAS performed pathologic assessment. DS, JVZ, JPG, and DAS performed genomic analysis. CNK provided neuro-oncology management. NG provided neurosurgical management. EC and DAS wrote the manuscript and created the figures. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Supplementary Figs.  1 –4: Figure S1. Magnetic resonance imaging features of the angiocentric glioma located in the brainstem. Figure S2. Cytologic features of the angiocentric glioma located in the brainstem. Figure S3. Histologic features of the angiocentric glioma located in the brainstem. Figure S4. Chromosomal copy number plot for the angiocentric glioma located in the brainstem. (PDF 8656 kb)

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Chan, E., Bollen, A.W., Sirohi, D. et al. Angiocentric glioma with MYB-QKI fusion located in the brainstem, rather than cerebral cortex. Acta Neuropathol 134, 671–673 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-017-1759-x

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