Gene sequencing project discovers mutations tied to deadly brain tumors in young children

Monday, April 7, 2014 - 18:01 in Health & Medicine

The St. Jude Children's Research Hospital-Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project has identified new mutations in pediatric brain tumors known as high-grade gliomas (HGGs), which most often occur in the youngest patients. The research appears today as an advance online publication in the scientific journal Nature Genetics.

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