Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, The University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Laboratory of Pathology, Center Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Adv Exp Med Biol. 2023;1416:175-188. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-29750-2_13.
Epigenetic changes have been found to be increasingly important in tumor development and progression. These alterations can be present in tumors such as meningiomas in the absence of any gene mutations and alter gene expression without affecting the sequence of the DNA itself. Some examples of these alterations that have been studied in meningiomas include DNA methylation, microRNA interaction, histone packaging, and chromatin restructuring. In this chapter we will describe in detail each of these mechanisms of epigenetic modification in meningiomas and their prognostic significance.
表观遗传改变在肿瘤的发生和发展中变得越来越重要。这些改变可以在没有任何基因突变的情况下存在于肿瘤中,如脑膜瘤,并在不影响 DNA 本身序列的情况下改变基因表达。在脑膜瘤中研究过的这些改变的一些例子包括 DNA 甲基化、microRNA 相互作用、组蛋白包装和染色质重构。在本章中,我们将详细描述脑膜瘤中每种表观遗传修饰机制及其预后意义。