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. 2020 Jun 18;78(6):999-1001.
doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.05.020.

Understanding the Deadly Silence of Posterior Fossa A Ependymoma

Grant L Lin  1 , Michelle Monje  2
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Understanding the Deadly Silence of Posterior Fossa A Ependymoma

Grant L Lin et al. Mol Cell. .
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In a breakthrough study in a recent issue of Cell, Michealraj et al. (2020) demonstrate that posterior fossa A ependymoma, a lethal pediatric brain tumor with a silent genome, is dependent upon metabolic changes associated with hypoxia that drive the tumor's characteristic epigenetic dysregulation.

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