Margarita Raygada, Liny John, Anne Liu, Julianne Schultz, B J Thomas, Donna Bernstein, Markku Miettinen, Mark Raffeld, Liqiang Xi, Manoj Tyagi, Kenneth Aldape, John Glod, Karlyne M Reilly, Brigitte C Widemann, Mary Frances Wedekind
INTRODUCTION: Chordoma is a rare slow-growing tumor that occurs along the length of the spinal axis and arises from primitive notochordal remnants (Stepanek et al., Am J Med Genet 75:335-336, 1998). Most chordomas are sporadic, but a small percentage of cases are due to hereditary cancer syndromes (HCS) such as tuberous sclerosis 1 and 2 (TSC1/2), or constitutional variants in the gene encoding brachyury T (TBXT) (Pillay et al., Nat Genet 44:1185-1187, 2012; Yang et al., Nat Genet 41:1176-1178, 2009)...
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