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What about the GCB Phenotype?...anything yet in the front line?

McCabe M T et al

. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA

2012;109:2989-2994

Enhancer of Zeste 2 (EZH2) is the enzyme

component of the Polycomb Repressive

Complex 2 (PRC2) that methylates histone

H3 on lysine 27 (H3K27)

Somatic activating mutations in EZH2 have

been identified in follicular and GCB-DLBCL

[Morin, 2010; Morin, 2011; Pasqualucci,

2011];

The frequency of the most prevalent

mutation, Y641, 22% in DLBCL.

Inhibitors in early phase investigation