- Tokita, Mari J;
- Nahas, Shareef;
- Briggs, Benjamin;
- Malicki, Denise M;
- Mesirov, Jill P;
- Reyes, Iris Anne C;
- Farnaes, Lauge;
- Levy, Michael L;
- Kingsmore, Stephen F;
- Dimmock, David;
- Crawford, John R;
- Wechsler-Reya, Robert J
Genome sequencing was performed on matched normal and tumor tissue from a 6.5-yr-old boy with a diagnosis of recurrent medulloblastoma. A pathogenic heterozygous c.432+1G>A canonical splice donor site variant in GNAS was detected on analysis of blood DNA. Analysis of tumor DNA showed the same splice variant along with copy-neutral loss of heterozygosity on Chromosome 20 encompassing GNAS, consistent with predicted biallelic loss of GNAS in the tumor specimen. This case strengthens the evidence implicating GNAS as a tumor-suppressor gene in medulloblastoma and highlights a scenario in which therapeutics targeting the cAMP pathway may be of great utility.