Trial reportThe Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism2022
Genome-wide DNA Methylation Differences in Nonfunctioning Pituitary Adenomas With and Without Postsurgical Progression.
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- DNA methylation as a predictor of pituitary neuroendocrine tumour behaviour: A systematic review.Journal of neuroendocrinology · 2026Pooled it
- Exploring epigenome-proteome interactions underlying post-surgical progression of non-functioning pituitary adenomas using hypernetwork modelling.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Article
- DNA methylation profiling predicts postsurgical regrowth in SF1-lineage nonfunctioning pituitary neuroendocrine tumors.Neuro-oncology · 2026Article
- The sweet and the bitter sides of galectin-1 in immunity: its role in immune cell functions, apoptosis, and immunotherapies for cancer with a focus on T cells.Seminars in immunopathology · 2025Review
- DNA Methylation in Pituitary Adenomas: A Scoping Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- The 2022 WHO classification of tumors of the pituitary gland: An update on aggressive and metastatic pituitary neuroendocrine tumors.Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Genome-wide methylation profiling differentiates benign from aggressive and metastatic pituitary neuroendocrine tumors.Acta neuropathologica · 2024Article
- Genome-Wide DNA Methylation Profiling as a Prognostic Marker in Pituitary Adenomas-A Pilot Study.Cancers · 2024Article
- Proteomic Profiles Associated With Postsurgical Progression in Nonfunctioning Pituitary Adenomas.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2024Article
- Erythropoietin-producing hepatocellular receptor B6 is highly expressed in non-functioning pituitary neuroendocrine tumors and its expression correlates with tumor size.Molecular biology reports · 2024Article
- Recent advances in understanding and managing pituitary adenomas.Faculty reviews · 2023Review
- CircDDX17 inhibits invasive progression of pituitary adenomas by sponging miR-1279 and regulating CADM2 expression.Frontiers in oncology · 2023Article
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Abstract
contextTumor progression in surgically treated patients with nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas (NFPAs) is associated with excess mortality. Reliable biomarkers allowing early identification of tumor progression are missing.
objectiveTo explore DNA methylation patterns associated with tumor progression in NFPA patients.
methodsThis case-controlled exploratory trial at a university hospital studied patients who underwent surgery for NFPA that had immunohistochemical characteristics of a gonadotropinoma. Cases included patients requiring reintervention due to tumor progression (reintervention group, n = 26) and controls who had a postoperative residual tumor without tumor progression for at least 5 years (radiologically stable group, n = 17). Genome-wide methylation data from each tumor sample were analyzed using the Infinium MethylationEPIC BeadChip platform.
resultsThe analysis showed that 605 CpG positions were significantly differently methylated (differently methylated positions, DMPs) between the patient groups (false discovery rate adjusted P value < 0.05, beta value > 0.2), mapping to 389 genes. The largest number of DMPs were detected in the genes NUP93 and LGALS1. The 3 hypomethylated DMPs and the 3 hypermethylated DMPs with the lowest P values were all significantly (P < 0.05) and individually associated with reintervention-free survival. One of the hypermethylated DMPs with the lowest P value was located in the gene GABRA1.
conclusionIn this exploratory study, DNA methylation patterns in NFPA patients were associated with postoperative tumor progression requiring reintervention. The DMPs included genes that have been previously associated with tumor development. Our study is a step toward finding epigenetic signatures to predict tumor progression in patients with NFPA.
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