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- Reference
- The genomic landscape of TERT promoter wildtype-IDH wildtype glioblastoma.
- Paper ID
- COSP45424
- Authors
- Affiliation
- The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, 27710, NC, USA.
- Journal
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Nature communications, 2018;9(1):2087
ISSN: 2041-1723
PMID: 29802247 (view at PubMed or Europe PMC) - Abstract
- The majority of glioblastomas can be classified into molecular subgroups based on mutations in the TERT promoter (TERTp) and isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 or 2 (IDH). These molecular subgroups utilize distinct genetic mechanisms of telomere maintenance, either TERTp mutation leading to telomerase activation or ATRX-mutation leading to an alternative lengthening of telomeres phenotype (ALT). However, about 20% of glioblastomas lack alterations in TERTp and IDH. These tumors, designated TERTp<sup>WT</sup>-IDH<sup>WT</sup> glioblastomas, do not have well-established genetic biomarkers or defined mechanisms of telomere maintenance. Here we report the genetic landscape of TERTp<sup>WT</sup>-IDH<sup>WT</sup> glioblastoma and identify SMARCAL1 inactivating mutations as a novel genetic mechanism of ALT. Furthermore, we identify a novel mechanism of telomerase activation in glioblastomas that occurs via chromosomal rearrangements upstream of TERT. Collectively, our findings define novel molecular subgroups of glioblastoma, including a telomerase-positive subgroup driven by TERT-structural rearrangements (IDH<sup>WT</sup>-TERT<sup>SV</sup>), and an ALT-positive subgroup (IDH<sup>WT</sup>-ALT) with mutations in ATRX or SMARCAL1.
- Paper Status
- Curated
- Genes Analysed
- 4385
- Mutated Samples
- 23
- Total No. of Samples
- 23