Clonal analysis of meningiomas.

Neurosurgery

Department of Neurosurgery, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Published: June 1996

Meningiomas are primary brain tumors arising from meningothelial cells. They usually grow slowly and are surgically easy to separate from the brain. A recent clonal analysis of meningiomas, using methylation-sensitive restriction fragment length polymorphisms, suggested a monoclonal origin. Using the same technique but with a highly informative X chromosome probe (M27 beta), we found that 17 (85%) of the 20 meningiomas analyzed were informative. Of the 17 informative tumors, 8 (47%) were monoclonal, 3 (18%) had loss of heterozygosity on the X chromosome, and, unexpectedly, 6 (35%) had a polyclonal pattern. Samples from two areas of one tumor showed a monoclonal pattern and loss of heterozygosity, respectively, on the X chromosome. A review of the histopathological and radiological features of the 17 informative tumors did not help to distinguish the clonal from the polyclonal tumors. We conclude that meningiomas are heterogeneous in clonal composition.

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