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Usefulness of MS-MLPA for detection of MGMT promoter methylation in the evaluation of pseudoprogression in glioblastoma patients

Pseudoprogression is a major diagnostic dilemma in current treatment protocols for malignant gliomas that involve concurrent chemoradiotherapy. We hypothesized that methylation-specific multiplex ligation probe amplification (MS-MLPA), an assay that permits semiquantitative evaluation of promoter me...

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Published in:Neuro-oncology (Charlottesville, Va.) Va.), 2011-02, Vol.13 (2), p.195-202
Main Authors: Park, Chul-Kee, Kim, JinWook, Yim, Su Youn, Lee, Ah Reum, Han, Jung Ho, Kim, Chae-Yong, Park, Sung-Hye, Kim, Tae Min, Lee, Se-Hoon, Choi, Seung Hong, Kim, Seung-Ki, Kim, Dong Gyu, Jung, Hee-Won
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Summary:Pseudoprogression is a major diagnostic dilemma in current treatment protocols for malignant gliomas that involve concurrent chemoradiotherapy. We hypothesized that methylation-specific multiplex ligation probe amplification (MS-MLPA), an assay that permits semiquantitative evaluation of promoter methylation, may be used to diagnose pseudoprogression based on the quantification of the methylation status of the O 6-methylguanine DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) promoter. We examined the methylation ratio of the MGMT promoter with MS-MLPA in 48 samples from glioblastoma patients. The results were compared with those from methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction (MSP), and protein levels were confirmed by immunohistochemical staining. We then evaluated the correlation between those molecular signatures and clinical outcomes. With regard to radiological progression after chemoradiotherapy, the diagnostic accuracy of the MS-MLPA method was 80% (using a cut-off value of 0.2). These results are better than those obtained with MSP (diagnostic accuracy of 68%). Combining the MS-MLPA and MSP methods resulted in a diagnostic accuracy of 93% for the identification of pseudoprogression among patients to whom these results were coherent. These results demonstrate that MS-MLPA is a useful method to predict radiological progression vs pseudoprogression in glioblastoma patients and that the interpretation of these results in combination with MSP results will provide good practical guidelines for clinical decision making in glioblastoma treatment.
ISSN:1522-8517
1523-5866
DOI:10.1093/neuonc/noq162