The somatic genomic landscape of glioblastoma

Cameron W. Brennan*, Roel G.W. Verhaak, Aaron McKenna, Benito Campos, Houtan Noushmehr, Sofie R. Salama, Siyuan Zheng, Debyani Chakravarty, J. Zachary Sanborn, Samuel H. Berman, Rameen Beroukhim, Brady Bernard, Chang Jiun Wu, Giannicola Genovese, Ilya Shmulevich, Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, Lihua Zou, Rahulsimham Vegesna, Sachet A. Shukla, Giovanni CirielloW. K. Yung, Wei Zhang, Carrie Sougnez, Tom Mikkelsen, Kenneth Aldape, Darell D. Bigner, Erwin G. Van Meir, Michael Prados, Andrew Sloan, Keith L. Black, Jennifer Eschbacher, Gaetano Finocchiaro, William Friedman, David W. Andrews, Abhijit Guha, Mary Iacocca, Brian P. O'Neill, Greg Foltz, Jerome Myers, Daniel J. Weisenberger, Robert Penny, Raju Kucherlapati, Charles M. Perou, D. Neil Hayes, Richard Gibbs, Marco Marra, Gordon B. Mills, Eric Lander, Paul Spellman, Daniel Brat, TCGA Research Network

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Abstract

We describe the landscape of somatic genomic alterations based on multidimensional and comprehensive characterization of more than 500 glioblastoma tumors (GBMs). We identify several novel mutated genes as well as complex rearrangements of signature receptors, including EGFR and PDGFRA. TERT promoter mutations areshown tocorrelate with elevated mRNA expression, supporting a role in telomerase reactivation. Correlative analyses confirm that the survival advantage of the proneural subtype is conferred by the G-CIMP phenotype, and MGMT DNA methylation may be a predictive biomarker for treatment response only in classical subtype GBM. Integrative analysis of genomic and proteomic profiles challenges the notion of therapeutic inhibition of a pathway as an alternative to inhibition of the target itself. These data will facilitate the discovery of therapeutic and diagnostic target candidates, the validation of research and clinical observations and the generation of unanticipated hypotheses that can advance our molecular understanding of this lethal cancer.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)462
Number of pages1
JournalCell
Volume155
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 10 2013

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)

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