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(American Journal of Pathology. 2001;158:1253-1262.)
© 2001 American Society for Investigative Pathology

Technical Advance

Detection of 1p and 19q Loss in Oligodendroglioma by Quantitative Microsatellite Analysis, a Real-Time Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay

Janice M. Nigro^*, Michelle A. Takahashi^*, David G. Ginzinger, Mark Law, Sandra Passe, Robert B. Jenkins and Ken Aldape^*

From the Department of Pathology,^*
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California; the Department of Laboratory Medicine,
University of California, San Francisco Cancer Center, San Francisco, California; and the Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology,
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

The combined loss of chromosomes 1p and 19q has recently emerged as a genetic predictor of chemosensitivity in anaplastic oligodendrogliomas. Here, we describe a strategy that uses a novel method of real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction, quantitative microsatellite analysis (QuMA), for the molecular analysis of 1p and 19q loss in oligodendrogliomas and oligoastrocytomas in archival routinely processed paraffin material. QuMA is performed on the ABI 7700 and based on amplifications of microsatellite loci that contain (CA)n repeats where the repeat itself is the target for hybridization by the fluorescently labeled probe. This single probe can therefore be used to determine copy number of microsatellite loci spread throughout the human genome. In genomic DNA prepared from paraffin-embedded brain tumor specimens, QuMA detected combined loss of 1p and 19q in 64% (21 of 32) of oligodendrogliomas and 67% (6 of 9) of oligoastrocytomas. We validate the use of QuMA as a reliable method to detect copy number by showing concordance between QuMA and fluorescence in situ hybridization at 37 of 45 chromosomal arms tested. These results indicate that QuMA is an accurate, high-throughput assay for the detection of copy number at multiple loci; as many as 31 loci of an individual tumor can be analyzed on a 96-well plate in a single 2-hour run. In addition, it has advantages over standard allelic imbalance/loss of heterozygosity assays in that all loci are potentially informative, paired normal tissue is not required, and gain can be distinguished from loss. QuMA may therefore be a powerful molecular tool to expedite the genotypic analysis of human gliomas in a clinical setting for diagnostic/prognostic purposes.

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