MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF PEDIATRIC GLIONEURONAL TUMOR WITH NEUROPIL-LIKE ISLANDS: A GENOME-WIDE COPY NUMBER ANALYSIS

GIGLIO, SABRINA RITA
Conceptualization
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2016-01-01

Abstract

Paediatric glioneuronal tumour with neuropil-like islands (GTNI) is a rare neoplasm of neuronal differentiation and diffusely infiltrating astroglial and oligodendrocyte-like components. The 2007 World Health Organization classification of central nervous system tumours considered it as a pattern variation of anaplastic astrocytoma. There are few data on paediatric GTNI probably both for their rarity and variable clinical aggressiveness. We studied by SNP/CGH array four tumour samples of GTNI from two males and two females (one new-born and three children aged from 4 to 8 years), in order to identify any possible common genomic alteration. All patients received chemo- and radiotherapy after their surgical treatment. No genomic instability nor recurrent alterations have been demonstrated in two of our GTNI cases. In the remaining two, we detected a mosaic trisomy 8 (15-20%) in one case, and an amplification at 5q14.1 involving DMGDH (partially), BHMT2 and BHMT genes, with the distal breakpoint falling at 23 Kbp from the 5’UTR of JMY, a p53 cofactor. Although the smallness of the sample impairs any clinical-histological correlation, GTNI appear different at the molecular level, with genomic imbalances playing a possible role in at least part of them. Our work gives an important contribution in knowledge and classification of this family of tumours.
2016
Inglese
19
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9
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Esperti anonimi
internazionale
scientifica
PEDIATRIC GLIONEURONAL TUMOR
GENOME-WIDE COPY NUMBER
glioneuronal tumour with neuropil-like islands (GTNI)
central nervous system tumours
anaplastic astrocytoma
surgical treatment
radiotherapy
mosaic trisomy 8
genomic imbalances
no
266
1 Contributo su Rivista::1.5 Abstract in rivista
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
1.5 Abstract in rivista
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Giunti, L; Lucchesi, M; Palazzo, Viviana; Guidi, M; Genitori, L; Giglio, SABRINA RITA; Sardi, I.
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