Traditional and systems biology based drug discovery for the rare tumor syndrome neurofibromatosis type 2.

Neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) is a rare tumor suppressor syndrome that manifests with multiple schwannomas and meningiomas. There are no effective drug therapies for these benign tumors and conventional therapies have limited efficacy. Various model systems have been created and several drug targets hav...

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Main Authors: Synodos for NF2 Consortium, Robert Allaway, Steve P Angus, Roberta L Beauchamp, Jaishri O Blakeley, Marga Bott, Sarah S Burns, Annemarie Carlstedt, Long-Sheng Chang, Xin Chen, D Wade Clapp, Patrick A Desouza, Serkan Erdin, Cristina Fernandez-Valle, Justin Guinney, James F Gusella, Stephen J Haggarty, Gary L Johnson, Salvatore La Rosa, Helen Morrison, Alejandra M Petrilli, Scott R Plotkin, Abhishek Pratap, Vijaya Ramesh, Noah Sciaky, Anat Stemmer-Rachamimov, Tim J Stuhlmiller, Michael E Talkowski, D Bradley Welling, Charles W Yates, Jon S Zawistowski, Wen-Ning Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5999111?pdf=render