However, this did not appear to be the case because in our analysis of glioma cell lines, which included astrocytoma, lower-grade glioma, and glioblastoma multiforme cell lines, mean APOBEC3B and FHIT expression levels were comparable to those in the pan-cancer dataset (Table 1). This evidence concerns the gene APOBEC3B and astrocytoma (excluding glioblastoma).