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In this study that included pretreatment thymoma cases from India and Germany (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 37 and <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 77, respectively) we compared i) the prevalence of the thymoma-specific chromosome 7 c.74146970T &amp;gt; A mutation of the <jats:italic>GTF2I<\/jats:italic> gene in type A and AB thymomas; ii) epidemiological features; and iii) the frequency of myasthenia gravis (MG). Due to a known predominance of GTF2I mutation in A and AB histotypes, we included only a marginal number of type B thymomas as a control group in both cohorts. While the distribution of histological types between the cohorts was similar (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.1622), Indian patients were strikingly younger (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.0001; median age 50 vs. 65\u00a0years) and showed significantly lower tumour stage (Masaoka-Koga stage I) at primary diagnosis (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.0005) than the German patients. 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