Masashi Nomura, Kuniaki Saito, Koki Aihara, Genta Nagae, Shogo Yamamoto, Kenji Tatsuno, Hiroki Ueda, Shiro Fukuda, Takayoshi Umeda, Shota Tanaka, Shunsaku Takayanagi, Ryohei Otani, Takahide Nejo, Taijun Hana, Satoshi Takahashi, Yosuke Kitagawa, Mayu Omata, Fumi Higuchi, Taishi Nakamura, Yoshihiro Muragaki, Yoshitaka Narita, Motoo Nagane, Ryo Nishikawa, Keisuke Ueki, Nobuhito Saito, Hiroyuki Aburatani, Akitake Mukasa
To elucidate the mechanisms of malignant progression of lower-grade glioma, molecular profiling using methylation array, whole-exome sequencing, and RNA sequencing was performed for 122, 36 and 31 gliomas, respectively. This cohort included 24 matched pairs of initial lower-grade gliomas and recurrent tumors, most of which showed malignant progression. Nearly half of IDH-mutant glioblastomas that had progressed from lower-grade gliomas exhibited characteristic partial DNA demethylation in previously methylated genomic regions of their corresponding initial tumors, which had the glioma CpG island methylator phenotype (G-CIMP)...
February 13, 2019: Scientific Reports