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Gene expression profiling suggests primary central nervous system lymphomas to be derived from a late germinal center B cell

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To characterize the molecular origin of primary lymphomas of the central nervous system (PCNSL), 21 PCNSLs of immunocompetent patients were investigated by microarray-based gene expression profiling. Comparison of the transcriptional profile of PCNSL with various normal and neoplastic B-cell subsets demonstrated PCNSL (i) to display gene expression patterns most closely related to late germinal center B cells, (ii) to display a gene expression profile similar to systemic diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (DLBCLs) and (iii) to be in part assigned to the activated B-cell-like (ABC) or the germinal center B-cell-like (GCB) subtype of DLBCL.

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The expert technical assistance of Elena Fischer, Irmgard Henke, and Reina Zühlke-Jenisch is gratefully acknowledged. This study was supported by the Deutsche Krebshilfe/Dr Mildred Scheel Stiftung für Krebsforschung (Grant no. 10-2153-De 1).

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  1. Department of Neuropathology, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    M Montesinos-Rongen, A Brunn & M Deckert

  2. Institute for Cancer Genetics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    M Montesinos-Rongen, K Basso, W K Lim & R Dalla-Favera

  3. Institute for Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

    S Bentink & R Spang

  4. Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

    W Klapper

  5. Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    C Schaller

  6. Department of Neuropathology, Heinrich Heine University, D, ü, sseldorf, Germany

    G Reifenberger

  7. Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

    J Rubenstein

  8. German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

    O D Wiestler

  9. Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Germany

    R Siebert

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Montesinos-Rongen, M., Brunn, A., Bentink, S. et al. Gene expression profiling suggests primary central nervous system lymphomas to be derived from a late germinal center B cell. Leukemia 22, 400–405 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.leu.2405019

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