Brain tumors in children: Hereditary genetic defect destabilizes protein regulation

(German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ)) The causes of 40 percent of all cases of certain medulloblastoma - dangerous brain tumors affecting children - are hereditary. These are the findings of a recent genetic analysis carried out by scientists from the Hopp Children's Cancer Center (KiTZ), the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and numerous colleagues around the world, which have just been published in the scientific journal Nature.