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ArticleScientific reports2017

Heterogeneity of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes ascribed to local immune status rather than neoantigens by multi-omics analysis of glioblastoma multiforme.

Lin Feng, Haipeng Qian, Xuexin Yu, Kan Liu, Ting Xiao, Chengli Zhang, Manchao Kuang, Shujun Cheng, Xueji Li, Jinghai Wan and 1 more

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11 authors.

Lin FengNational Cancer Center/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China.
Haipeng QianDepartment of Neurosurgery, National Cancer Center/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China.
Xuexin YuNational Cancer Center/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China.
Kan LiuDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, National Cancer Center/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China.
Ting XiaoNational Cancer Center/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China.
Chengli ZhangNational Cancer Center/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China.
Manchao KuangNational Cancer Center/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China.
Shujun ChengNational Cancer Center/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China.
Xueji LiDepartment of Neurosurgery, National Cancer Center/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China. lixji@126.com.
Jinghai WanDepartment of Neurosurgery, National Cancer Center/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China. wanjinghai@sina.com.
Kaitai ZhangNational Cancer Center/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China. zhangkt@cicams.ac.cn.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hypothetically, intratumoral genomic heterogeneity has the potential to foster tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) diversity; however, no study has directly tested this hypothesis by simultaneously investigating somatic mutations, TIL diversity, and immune response activity. Thus, we performed whole-exome sequencing, immune repertoire sequencing and gene expression on ten spatially separated tumor samples obtained from two tumor masses excised from a glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) patient, and we included peripheral blood as control. We found that although the multi-region samples from one tumor shared more common mutations than those from different tumors, the TIL populations did not. TIL repertoire diversity did not significantly correlate with the number of non-synonymous mutations; however, TIL diversity was highly correlated with local immune activity, as the pathways were all immune-related pathways that highly positive correlated with local TIL diversity. Twenty-three genes with expression largely unaffected by the intratumor heterogeneity were extracted from these pathways. Fifty GBM patients were stratified into two clusters by the expression of these genes with significant difference in prognosis. This finding was validated by The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) GBM dataset, which indicated that despite the heterogeneity of intra-tumor immune status, the overall level of the immune response in GBM could be connected with prognosis.

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Antigens, NeoplasmBrain NeoplasmsComputational BiologyExome SequencingFemaleGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGenetic HeterogeneityGlioblastomaHumansLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingMutationReceptors, Antigen, T-CellAntigens, NeoplasmReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell

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PMCPMC5537248

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