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Published in: BMC Cancer 1/2014

Open Access 01-12-2014 | Research article

Minichromosome Maintenance (MCM) Family as potential diagnostic and prognostic tumor markers for human gliomas

Authors: Cong Hua, Gang Zhao, Yunqian Li, Li Bie

Published in: BMC Cancer | Issue 1/2014

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Abstract

Background

Gliomas are the most common type of all central nervous system tumors. Almost all patients diagnosed with these tumors have a poor prognostic outcome. We aimed to identify novel glioma prognosis-associated candidate genes.

Methods

We applied WebArrayDB software to span platform integrate and analyze the microarray datasets. We focused on a subset of the significantly up-regulated genes, the minichromosome maintenance (MCM) family. We used frozen glioma samples to predict the relationship between the expression of MCMs and patients outcome by qPCR and western blot.

Results

We found that MCMs expression was significantly up-regulated in glioma samples. MCM2-7 and MCM10 expressions were associated with WHO tumor grade. High MCM2 mRNA expression appeared to be strongly associated with poor overall survival in patients with high grade glioma. Furthermore, we report that MCM7 is strongly correlated with patient outcome in patients with WHO grade II-IV tumor. MCM3 expression was found to be up-regulated in glioma and correlated with overall survival in patients with WHO grade III tumor. MCM2, MCM3 and MCM7 expression levels were of greater prognostic relevance than histological diagnosis according to the current WHO classification system.

Conclusions

High expression of MCM 2, MCM3 and MCM7 mRNA correlated with poor outcome and may be clinically useful molecular prognostic markers in glioma.
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Metadata
Title
Minichromosome Maintenance (MCM) Family as potential diagnostic and prognostic tumor markers for human gliomas
Authors
Cong Hua
Gang Zhao
Yunqian Li
Li Bie
Publication date
01-12-2014
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
BMC Cancer / Issue 1/2014
Electronic ISSN: 1471-2407
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-14-526

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