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SUBMITTER: Rajbhandari R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4627347 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rajbhandari Rajani R McFarland Braden C BC Patel Ashish A Gerigk Magda M Gray G Kenneth GK Fehling Samuel C SC Bredel Markus M Berbari Nicolas F NF Kim Hyunsoo H Marks Margaret P MP Meares Gordon P GP Sinha Tanvi T Chuang Jeffrey J Benveniste Etty N EN Nozell Susan E SE
Oncotarget 20150701 19
Glioblastomas (GBMs) are deadly tumors of the central nervous system. Most GBM exhibit homozygous deletions of the CDKN2A and CDKN2B tumor suppressors at 9p21.3, although loss of CDKN2A/B alone is insufficient to drive gliomagenesis. MIR31HG, which encodes microRNA-31 (miR-31), is a novel non-coding tumor suppressor positioned adjacent to CDKN2A/B at 9p21.3. We have determined that miR-31 expression is compromised in >72% of all GBM, and for patients, this predicts significantly shortened surviv ...[more]