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.

Molecular characterization of paediatric glioneuronal tumours with neuropil-like islands: a genome-wide copy number analysis / Giunti, Laura; Buccoliero, Anna Maria; Pantaleo, Marilena; Lucchesi, Maurizio; Provenzano, Aldesia; Palazzo, Viviana; Guarducci, Silvia; Guidi, Milena; Genitori, Lorenzo; Zuffardi, Orsetta; Sardi, Iacopo; Giglio, Sabrina. - In: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CANCER RESEARCH. - ISSN 2156-6976. - ELETTRONICO. - 6:(2016), pp. 2910-2918.

Molecular characterization of paediatric glioneuronal tumours with neuropil-like islands: a genome-wide copy number analysis.

PROVENZANO, ALDESIA;PALAZZO, VIVIANA;GIGLIO, SABRINA RITA
2016

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
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2910
2918
Giunti, Laura; Buccoliero, Anna Maria; Pantaleo, Marilena; Lucchesi, Maurizio; Provenzano, Aldesia; Palazzo, Viviana; Guarducci, Silvia; Guidi, Milena...espandi
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