Etiology and Pathogenesis > Familiality


CNS Tumors


Bondy M, Wiencke J, Wrensch M, Kyritsis AP
Genetics of primary brain tumors: a review
J Neurooncol 1994;18(1):69-81

Kari Hemminki, Xinjun Li, V. Peter Collins
Parental Cancer as a Risk Factor for Brain Tumors (Sweden)
Cancer Causes and Control, 12 (3): 195-199, April 2001


D. S. Keith, D. T. Blumenthal, L. A. Cannon-Albright
The familiality of primary brain tumors as studied in the Utah Population Database (UPDB)
40th ASCO Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA. June 5-8, 2004. Abstract No.1526 

Watkins D, Rouleau GA
Genetics, prognosis and therapy of central nervous system tumors
Cancer Detect Prev
1994;18(2):139-44 


Gliomas


Alicia Gonzalez-Martin, Daniel Muñoz-Espín, Andrés M. Alonso, Marta Izquierdo
Parent Phenotype and Age Dependence, on Rat Glioma Tumor Rejection
J Neurooncol, 70(1):29-34, Oct 2004. (Abstract+)

Gutmann DH, Rasmussen SA, Wolkenstein P, MacCollin MM, Guha A, Inskip PD, North KN, Poyhonen M, Birch PH, Friedman JM
Gliomas presenting after age 10 in individuals with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1)
Neurology 2002 Sep 10;59(5):759-61

Malmer B, Gronberg H, Andersson U, Jonsson BA, Henriksson R
Microsatellite instability, PTEN and p53 germline mutations in glioma families
Acta Oncol 2001;40(5):633-7

Victor A. McKusick
GLIOMA OF BRAIN, FAMILIAL
OMIM, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, 1986-2002 (HTML Full Text)

van Meyel DJ, Ramsay DA, Chambers AF, Macdonald DR, Cairncross JG
Absence of hereditary mutations in exons 5 through 9 of the p53 gene and exon 24 of the neurofibromin gene in families with glioma
Ann Neurol 1994 Jan;35(1):120-2 


Paunu N, Pukkala E, Laippala P, Sankila R, Isola J, Miettinen H, Simola KO, Helen P, Helin H, Haapasalo H
Cancer incidence in families with multiple glioma patients
Int J Cancer. 2002 Feb 20;97(6):819-22


Paunu N, Syrjakoski K, Sankila R, Simola KO, Helen P, Niemela M, Matikainen M, Isola J, Haapasalo H
Analysis of p53 tumor suppressor gene in families with multiple glioma patients
J Neurooncol 2001 Dec;55(3):159-65 


Lung Cancer


Tomizawa Y, Adachi J, Kohno T, Yamaguchi N, Saito R, Yokota J
Identification and characterization of families with aggregation of lung cancer
Jpn J Clin Oncol. 1998 Mar;28(3):192-5
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