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. 2022 Jun 29;14(13):3197. doi: 10.3390/cancers14133197

Table 1.

Classification of gliomas according to the new 2021 WHO Classification [10]. The abbreviations are given in the Abbreviations section.

WHO Grade Most Common Molecular Features
Circumstribed gliomas
Pilocytic astrocytoma 1 KIAA1549-BRAF [11]
High-grade astrocytoma
with piloid features
new subtype specific DNA-methylation
profile [12]
Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma 2, 3 BRAF [13]
Subependymal giant
cell astrocytoma
1 TSC1, TSC2 [14]
Chordoid glioma 2 PRKCA [15]
Astroblastoma, MN1-altered new subtype MN1 [16]
Pediatric diffuse low grade gliomas
Diffuse astrocytoma,
MYB- or MYBL1-altered
1 MYB, MYBL1 [17]
Angiocentric glioma 1 MYB [10]
Polymorphous low-grade
neuroepithelial tumor of the young
1 PLNTYs, BRAF, FGFR [18]
Diffuse low-grade glioma,
MAPK pathway-altered
new subtype FGFR1, BRAF [19]
Pediatric-type diffuse high-grade gliomas
Diffuse midline glioma,
H3 K27-altered
4 H3 K27 [20]
Diffuse hemispheric glioma,
H3 G34-mutant
4 H3F3A (G34R/V) [21], GFAP [22], p53 [23]
Diffuse pediatric-type
high-grade glioma,
H3- and IDH-wt
4 IDH-wt, H3-wt,
MYCN, PDGFRA [24]
Infant-type hemispheric glioma new subtype NTRK, ALK, ROS1, MET [25]
Adult-type diffuse gliomas
Astrocytoma, IDH-mutant 2, 3, 4 IDH1, IDH2 [26], ATRX [27]
Oligodendroglioma, IDH-mutant,
and 1p/19q-codeleted
2, 3 IDH [28], 1p19q-codeletion,
ATRX, p53 [29]
Glioblastoma, IDH-wt 4 no IDH mutation (IDH-wt),
ATRX, TERT [30]