Integrative analysis of expression profile in the glioma-related epilepsy

To investigate the potential pathogenic mechanism of glioma-related epilepsy (GRE), we have employed analyzing of the dynamic expression profiles of microRNA/ mRNA/ lncRNA in brain tissues of glioma patients. Brain tissues of 16 patients with GRE and nine patients with glioma without epilepsy (GNE) were collected. The total RNA was dephosphorylated, labeled, and hybridized to the Agilent Human miRNA Microarray, Release 19.0, 8x60K. The cDNA was labeled and hybridized to the Agilent LncRNA+mRNA Human Gene Expression Microarray V3.0, 4x180K. The raw data was extracted from hybridized images using Agilent Feature Extraction, and quantile normalization was performed using the Agilent GeneSpring. We found that three differentially expressed miRNAs (miR-10a-5p, miR-10b-5p, miR-629-3p), six differentially expressed lncRNAs (TTN-AS1, LINC00641, SNHG14, LINC00894, SNHG1, OIP5-AS1), and 49 differentially expressed mRNAs may play a vitally critical role in developing GRE. Brain tissues of 25 glioma patients with or without epilepsy were retrospectively obtained from the Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Xiangya School of Medicine (Changsha, Hunan, China) with informed consent.