Downregulation of is a novel prognostic biomarker for glioma patients.

is a winged helix transcription factor structurally and functionally related to the forkhead family of transcription factors. Recent studies have highlighted its role in the central nervous system and revealed hints in the development of glioma. However, the expression profiles of , its association with clinicopathological characteristics, and potential functions in glioma remain unknown. In this study, we analyzed three publicly available datasets including CGGA, TCGA, and Rembrandt and revealed a grade-dependent reduction in expression in glioma ( < 0.001). Chi-square test demonstrated that low expression was significantly associated with older age at initial diagnosis ( < 0.001), less IDH1 mutation ( < 0.001), and advanced WHO grade ( < 0.001). Moreover, multivariate Cox regression analysis showed that expression may serve as a novel independent prognostic biomarker in glioma patients. Bioinformatic functional analysis (GSEA) predicted that was related to many key cancer pathways including P53 signaling pathway ( < 0.01), DNA replication ( < 0.05), homologous recombination ( < 0.05), and Wnt signaling pathway ( < 0.05). Taken together, these findings suggested that may be used as a novel predictive molecular biomarker for glioma grading and overall patient survival. Further investigations on the functional roles and therapeutic value of in glioma are warranted.