Genomic events associated with progression of pleural malignant mesothelioma

Sergey V. Ivanov, Jeremy Miller, Robert Lucito, Chunlao Tang, Alla V. Ivanova, Jianming Pei, Michele Carbone, Christina Cruz, Amanda Beck, Craig Webb, Daisuke Nonaka, Joseph R. Testa, Harvey I. Pass

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Abstract

Pleural malignant mesothelioma (MM) is an aggressive cancer with a very long latency and a very short median survival. Little is known about the genetic events that trigger MM and their relation to poor outcome. The goal of our study was to characterize major genomic gains and losses associated with MM origin and progression and assess their clinical significance. We performed Representative Oligonucleotide Microarray Analysis (ROMA) on DNA isolated from tumors of 22 patients who recurred at variable interval with the disease after surgery. The total number of copy number alterations (CNA) and frequent imbalances for patients with short time (<12 months from surgery) and long time to recurrence were recorded and mapped using the Analysis of Copy Errors algorithm. We report a profound increase in CNA in the short-time recurrence group with most chromosomes affected, which can be explained by chromosomal instability associated with MM. Deletions in chromosomes 22q12.2, 19q13.32 and 17p13.1 appeared to be the most frequent events (55-74%) shared between MM patients followed by deletions in 1p, 9p, 9q, 4p, 3p and gains in 5p, 18q, 8q and 17q (23-55%). Deletions in 9p21.3 encompassing CDKN2A/ARF and CDKN2B were characterized as specific for the short-term recurrence group. Analysis of the minimal common areas of frequent gains and losses identified candidate genes that may be involved in different stages of MM: OSM (22q12.2), FUS1 and PL6 (3p21.3), DNAJA1 (9p21.1) and CDH2 (18q11.2-q12.3). Imbalances seen by ROMA were confirmed by Affymetrix genome analysis in a subset of samples.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)589-599
Number of pages11
JournalInternational Journal of Cancer
Volume124
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 1 2009

Keywords

  • CGH
  • Copy number alterations
  • Mesothelioma
  • Oncogenes
  • ROMA
  • Tumor suppressors

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