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NEURO-ONCOLOGY
Volume 14, Issue 5, Pages 574-583Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/nos061
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cancer stem cell; glioma; medulloblastoma; orthotopic xenograft model
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- Cancer Fighters of Houston
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We previously showed that primary tumor-based orthotopic xenograft mouse models of medulloblastoma replicated the histopathological phenotypes of patients original tumors. Here, we performed global gene expression profiling of 11 patient-specific xenograft models to further determine whether the xenograft tumors were molecularly accurate during serial subtransplantations in mouse brains and whether they represented all the molecular subtypes of medulloblastoma that were recently described. Analysis of the transcriptomes of 9 pairs of matched passage I xenografts and patients tumors revealed high correlation coefficients (r(2) 0.95 in 5 models, 0.9 in 3 models, and 0.85 in 1 model) and only identified 69 genes in which expressions were altered (FDR 0.0023). Subsequent pair-wise comparisons between passage I, III, and V xenografts from the 11 models further showed that no dramatic alterations were introduced (r(2) 0.9 in 8 models and 0.8 in 3 models). The genetic abnormalities of each model were then identified through comparison with control RNAs from 5 normal cerebella and 2 fetal brains. Hierarchical clustering using 3 previously published molecular signatures showed that our models span the whole spectrum of molecular subtypes, including SHH (n = 2), WNT (n = 2), and the most recently identified group C (n = 4) and group D (n = 3). In conclusion, we demonstrated that the 11 orthotopic medulloblastoma xenograft models were molecularly faithful to the primary tumors, and our comprehensive collection of molecularly distinct animal models should serve as a valuable resource for the development of new targeted therapies for medulloblastoma.
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