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Myxoid glioneuronal tumor of the septum pellucidum and lateral ventricle is defined by a recurrent PDGFRA p.K385 mutation and DNT-like methylation profile

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Acknowledgements

D.A.S. is supported by NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (DP5 OD021403) and the UCSF Physician-Scientist Scholar Program. B.C.B. is supported by an NCI Outstanding Investigator Award (R35 CA220481).

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  1. Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

    David A. Solomon, Jessica Van Ziffle, Courtney Onodera, James P. Grenert, Boris C. Bastian, Melike Pekmezci, Andrew W. Bollen & Arie Perry

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

    David A. Solomon, Jessica Van Ziffle, Courtney Onodera, James P. Grenert & Boris C. Bastian

  3. Department of Neuropathology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

    Andrey Korshunov

  4. Clinical Cooperation Unit Neuropathology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

    Andrey Korshunov

  5. Hopp Children’s Cancer Center at the NCT Heidelberg (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany

    Martin Sill, David T. W. Jones, Marcel Kool & Stefan M. Pfister

  6. Division of Pediatric Neuro-Oncology, German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

    Martin Sill, David T. W. Jones, Marcel Kool & Stefan M. Pfister

  7. Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

    Martin Sill & Stefan M. Pfister

  8. Department of Pathology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Xuemo Fan & Serguei Bannykh

  9. Department of Neurology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Jethro Hu

  10. Department of Neurosurgery, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Moise Danielpour

  11. Department of Pathology, Children’s Hospital of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Rong Li

  12. Department of Neurosurgery, Children’s Hospital of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA

    James Johnston

  13. Department of Pathology, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, Oakland, CA, USA

    Elaine Cham

  14. Department of Hematology/Oncology, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, Oakland, CA, USA

    Tabitha Cooney

  15. Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, Oakland, CA, USA

    Peter P. Sun

  16. Division of Neuro-Oncology, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Nancy Ann Oberheim Bush

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

    Michael McDermott & Arie Perry

  18. Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Javier E. Villanueva-Meyer

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Solomon, D.A., Korshunov, A., Sill, M. et al. Myxoid glioneuronal tumor of the septum pellucidum and lateral ventricle is defined by a recurrent PDGFRA p.K385 mutation and DNT-like methylation profile. Acta Neuropathol 136, 339–343 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-018-1883-2

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