Ognibene Marzia, Piccolo Gianluca, Crocco Marco, Di Duca Marco, Verrico Antonio, Molteni Marta, Romano Ferruccio, Capra Valeria, Rossi Andrea, Zara Federico, De Marco Patrizia, Milanaccio Claudia
U.O.C. Genetica Medica, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, 16147 Genova, Italy.
U.O.S.D. Neuro Oncologia, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, 16147 Genova, Italy.
Int J Mol Sci. 2025 Jul 16;26(14):6848. doi: 10.3390/ijms26146848.
We report the first case of pleural mesothelioma (PM) occurring in a child affected by NF2-related schwannomatosis (NF2-SWN) and without any history of environmental exposure to asbestos. Mesothelioma is a rare secondary tumor in brain cancer patients and the association with NF2-SWN has been described only in a few anecdotal cases and never in the pediatric field. NF2-SWN is an autosomal dominant disease caused by inactivating germline mutations of the tumor suppressor gene, one of the most common mutations associated with human primary mesothelioma too. By MLPA assay, array-CGH analysis, and NGS on blood and tumor DNA, we determined the mutation profile of this rare -driven PM and we identified several atypical chromosomal aberrations in tumor cells, suggesting a different genomic signature between pediatric and adult mesothelioma.
我们报告了首例发生在患有与神经纤维瘤病2型(NF2)相关的神经鞘瘤病(NF2-SWN)且无任何石棉环境暴露史的儿童中的胸膜间皮瘤(PM)。间皮瘤是脑癌患者中罕见的继发性肿瘤,与NF2-SWN的关联仅在少数个别病例中有所描述,在儿科领域从未有过报道。NF2-SWN是一种常染色体显性疾病,由肿瘤抑制基因的种系失活突变引起,这种突变也是与人类原发性间皮瘤相关的最常见突变之一。通过多重连接探针扩增(MLPA)分析、比较基因组杂交阵列(array-CGH)分析以及对血液和肿瘤DNA进行的二代测序(NGS),我们确定了这种罕见的由基因突变驱动的PM的突变谱,并在肿瘤细胞中鉴定出几种非典型染色体畸变,这表明儿童和成人间皮瘤之间存在不同的基因组特征。