Abstract
The authors report an unusual case of a widely metastatic glioblastoma. DNA copy number microarray profile of the resected specimen revealed complex rearrangements found throughout chromosome 6, a phenomenon known as chromothripsis. Such chromothripsis pattern was not observed in 50 nonmetastatic glioblastoma specimens analyzed. Analysis of the 1000+ gliomas profiled by The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) data set revealed one case of chromosome 6 chromothripsis resembling the case described here. This TCGA patient died within 6 months of undergoing tumor resection. Implications of these findings are reviewed in the context of the current literature.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1472-1478 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Journal of neurosurgery |
Volume | 126 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© AANS, 2017.
Keywords
- Chromothripsis
- Glioblastoma
- Metastasis
- Oncology