The majority of patients with low-grade glioma (LGG) experience epileptic seizures as their initial symptom, while the underlying mechanisms of tumor-related seizures are still far from being fully understood. In addition to tumor type and location, genetic changes of LGGs are considered to be influential factors in causing epileptic seizures. Nevertheless, the molecular biomarkers associated with tumor-related epilepsy have rarely been identified. RNA sequence data from 80 patients with histologically confirmed LGG were collected from the Chinese glioma genome atlas database and significant differences in expression levels of 33 genes were found. One of the genes, Very large G-protein-coupled receptor-1 (VLGR1), had been previously associated with seizures. Therefore, we investigated the association between LGG-related epilepsy and VLGR1, which played a role in idiopathic epilepsy. The level of VLGR1 expression was compared between patients with epileptic seizures and those without using the reads per kilobase transcriptome per million method. To evaluate the prognostic role of VLGR1 gene expression, the progression-free survival was determined by the Kaplan-Meier method and a multivariate Cox model. We demonstrated that VLGR1 had a significantly lower expression level in patients with epileptic seizures compared to seizure-free patients (p = 0.003). Furthermore, VLGR1 was highly associated with the presence of seizures in a multivariate statistical model. However, VLGR1 could not serve as an independent prognostic factor to determine progression-free survival of LGG patients. Based on RNA sequence data analysis, our results suggest that low expression of VLGR1 is a significant risk factor of epileptic seizures in patients with LGG.
基金:
National High Technology Research and Development ProgramNational High Technology Research and Development Program of China [2012AA02A508]; National Basic Research Program of ChinaNational Basic Research Program of China [2015CB755500]; National Key Technology Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of ChinaNational Key Technology R&D Program [2013BAI09B03]
第一作者机构:[1]Capital Med Univ, Beijing Neurosurg Inst, Dept Neuropathol, Beijing 100050, Peoples R China;[2]Capital Med Univ, Beijing Tiantan Hosp, Dept Neurosurg, Beijing 100050, Peoples R China;
通讯作者:
通讯机构:[1]Capital Med Univ, Beijing Neurosurg Inst, Dept Neuropathol, Beijing 100050, Peoples R China;[2]Capital Med Univ, Beijing Tiantan Hosp, Dept Neurosurg, Beijing 100050, Peoples R China;[4]Beijing Inst Brain Disorders, Ctr Brain Tumor, Beijing 100069, Peoples R China;[5]Capital Med Univ, Beijing Neurosurg Inst, Dept Neuropathol, 6 Tiantan Xili, Beijing 100050, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Wang Yinyan,Fan Xing,Zhang Wei,et al.Deficiency of very large G-protein-coupled receptor-1 is a risk factor of tumor-related epilepsy: a whole transcriptome sequencing analysis[J].JOURNAL OF NEURO-ONCOLOGY.2015,121(3):609-616.doi:10.1007/s11060-014-1674-0.
APA:
Wang, Yinyan,Fan, Xing,Zhang, Wei,Zhang, Chuanbao,Wang, Jiangfei...&Wang, Lei.(2015).Deficiency of very large G-protein-coupled receptor-1 is a risk factor of tumor-related epilepsy: a whole transcriptome sequencing analysis.JOURNAL OF NEURO-ONCOLOGY,121,(3)
MLA:
Wang, Yinyan,et al."Deficiency of very large G-protein-coupled receptor-1 is a risk factor of tumor-related epilepsy: a whole transcriptome sequencing analysis".JOURNAL OF NEURO-ONCOLOGY 121..3(2015):609-616