Paul A Northcott1,2, Ivo Buchhalter3,4,5, A Sorana Morrissy6

  • 1Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.

Nature
|July 21, 2017
PubMed
まとめ

この研究は 稀な小児脳がんである 髄芽細胞腫の 新しい遺伝的要因と 分子サブタイプを 特定しています これらの発見は,治療結果を改善し,患児の毒性を減らすための新しい治療目標を提供します.

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