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Understanding brain tumors in children

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The causes of 40% of all cases of certain medulloblastomas — dangerous brain tumors affecting children — are hereditary. A genetic defect that occurs in 15% of these children plays a key role by destabilizing the production of proteins. The researchers suspect that protein metabolism defects could be a previously underestimated cause of other types of cancer.

Source: ScienceDaily.com