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Circumscribed/non-diffuse histology confers a better prognosis in H3K27M-mutant gliomas

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The Venneti lab is supported by Grants from NCI K08 CA181475, Sidney Kimmel, St Baldrick’s, Claire McKenna, Chad Tough, Doris Duke, and Sontag Foundations, and the University of Michigan Pediatric Brain Tumor Initiative. We thank Dr. Kathryn McFadden's for original artwork.

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Pratt, D., Natarajan, S.K., Banda, A. et al. Circumscribed/non-diffuse histology confers a better prognosis in H3K27M-mutant gliomas. Acta Neuropathol 135, 299–301 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-018-1805-3

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