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Novel age-dependent targets in vestibular schwannomas
BACKGROUND: Schwannomas are the most common neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2)-associated tumors with significant phenotypic heterogeneity in patients. The most severe subtype has an early and rapid progression and the mild type has a later onset and a less aggressive course. The aim of this study was t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4097955/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24980480 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1479-7364-8-10 |
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author | Toren, Amos Reichardt, Juergen K Andalibi, Ali Hsu, Nancy Ya-Hsuan Doherty, Joni Slattery, William Mehrian-Shai, Ruty |
author_facet | Toren, Amos Reichardt, Juergen K Andalibi, Ali Hsu, Nancy Ya-Hsuan Doherty, Joni Slattery, William Mehrian-Shai, Ruty |
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description | BACKGROUND: Schwannomas are the most common neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2)-associated tumors with significant phenotypic heterogeneity in patients. The most severe subtype has an early and rapid progression and the mild type has a later onset and a less aggressive course. The aim of this study was to elucidate the underlying molecular differences between these groups. We compared the gene expression pattern between patients with early to late age of onset. RESULTS: A gene signature of 21 genes was constructed to differentiate between early-onset and late-onset patients. We confirmed these results by real-time PCR for SNF1LK2, NGFRAP1L1 (BEX 5), GMNN, and EPHA2. CONCLUSION: Genes identified here may be additional aberrations in merlin-depleted cells that govern the disease onset. A significant number of these genes have been suggested as having a role in carcinogenesis and are used as biomarkers for prognosis in several other cancers. The role of these genes in NF2 carcinogenesis and their potential as biomarkers or drug target are worthwhile exploring. |
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spelling | pubmed-40979552014-07-16 Novel age-dependent targets in vestibular schwannomas Toren, Amos Reichardt, Juergen K Andalibi, Ali Hsu, Nancy Ya-Hsuan Doherty, Joni Slattery, William Mehrian-Shai, Ruty Hum Genomics Primary Research BACKGROUND: Schwannomas are the most common neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2)-associated tumors with significant phenotypic heterogeneity in patients. The most severe subtype has an early and rapid progression and the mild type has a later onset and a less aggressive course. The aim of this study was to elucidate the underlying molecular differences between these groups. We compared the gene expression pattern between patients with early to late age of onset. RESULTS: A gene signature of 21 genes was constructed to differentiate between early-onset and late-onset patients. We confirmed these results by real-time PCR for SNF1LK2, NGFRAP1L1 (BEX 5), GMNN, and EPHA2. CONCLUSION: Genes identified here may be additional aberrations in merlin-depleted cells that govern the disease onset. A significant number of these genes have been suggested as having a role in carcinogenesis and are used as biomarkers for prognosis in several other cancers. The role of these genes in NF2 carcinogenesis and their potential as biomarkers or drug target are worthwhile exploring. BioMed Central 2014-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4097955/ /pubmed/24980480 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1479-7364-8-10 Text en Copyright © 2014 Toren et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Primary Research Toren, Amos Reichardt, Juergen K Andalibi, Ali Hsu, Nancy Ya-Hsuan Doherty, Joni Slattery, William Mehrian-Shai, Ruty Novel age-dependent targets in vestibular schwannomas |
title | Novel age-dependent targets in vestibular schwannomas |
title_full | Novel age-dependent targets in vestibular schwannomas |
title_fullStr | Novel age-dependent targets in vestibular schwannomas |
title_full_unstemmed | Novel age-dependent targets in vestibular schwannomas |
title_short | Novel age-dependent targets in vestibular schwannomas |
title_sort | novel age-dependent targets in vestibular schwannomas |
topic | Primary Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4097955/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24980480 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1479-7364-8-10 |
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