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Sporadic vestibular schwannoma: a molecular testing summary.

Katherine V SadlerNaomi L BowersClaire HartleyPhilip T SmithSimon TobiAndrew J WallaceAndrew KingSimon K W LloydScott RutherfordOmar N PathmanabanCharlotte Hammerbeck-WardSimon FreemanEmma StapletonAmy TaylorAdam ShawDorothy HallidayMiriam Jane SmithDafydd Gareth Evans
Published in: Journal of medical genetics (2020)
Undiagnosed schwannoma predisposition may account for a significant minority of apparently sVS cases, especially at lower presentation ages. Loss of NF2 function is a common event in VS tumours and may represent a targetable common pathway in VS tumourigenesis. These data also support the multi-hit mechanism of LZTR1-associated VS tumourigenesis.
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