scholarly journals Systematic Expression Analysis of the Diagnostic and Prognostic Value of HEPACAM Family Member 2 in Colon Adenocarcinoma

Author(s):  
Shuai Wang ◽  
Guo-Tian Ruan ◽  
Yi-Zhen Gong ◽  
Cun Liao ◽  
Lei Zhang ◽  
...  

Abstract Background: The diagnostic and prognostic value of HEPACAM family member 2 (HEPACAM2) gene in patients with colon adenocarcinoma (COAD) is rarely reported. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore the diagnostic and prognostic value of HEPACAM2 gene in patients with COAD.Methods: Firstly, we analyzed the differential expression levels of HEPACAM2 gene and diagnostic value analysis from different databases. Secondly, univariate and multivariate survival analysis of the prognostic value of HEPACAM2 gene in patients with COAD was performed. Finally, utilizing joint-effects analysis and comprehensive prognosis analysis to investigate the prognostic value of HEPACAM2 and related genes.Results: Differential analyses of multiple databases showed that the HEPACAM2 expression level in COAD tumor tissue was significantly lower than that of adjacent normal tissues. The diagnostic ROC curve results indicated that HEPACAM2 gene had a higher diagnostic value in COAD. The RT-qPCR verification results of COAD tissue in the Guangxi cohort showed that HEPACAM2 expression level in COAD tumor tissue was significantly higher than that of adjacent normal tissues (P<0.001), and the diagnostic value was high in COAD (AUC=0.892). The prognostic value analysis showed that low expression of HEPACAM2 gene had a poorer prognosis of overall survival (OS) in patients with COAD when compared with those patients with high expression of HEPACAM2 gene ((P = 0.038, HR (95% CI) = 0.635(0.414-0.976)). Joint-effects analysis and comprehensive prognosis analysis showed that high expression of HEPACAM2 combined with high expression of CLCA1, high expression of REP15, and high expression of B3GNT6 were associated with a better prognosis of overall COAD OS.Conclusion: The results of this study suggested that the HEPACAM2 may be an independent diagnostic and prognostic biomarker for COAD.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Melika Ameli-Mojarad ◽  
Mandana Ameli-Mojarad ◽  
Mitra Nourbakhsh ◽  
Ehsan Nazemalhosseini-Mojarad

Breast cancer (BC) is one of the most common lethal diseases in women worldwide. Recent evidence has shown that covalently closed Circular RNA (circRNA) deregulation is observed in different human malignancies and cancers. Lately, circRNAs are being considered as a new diagnostic biomarker; however, the mechanism and the correlation of action between circRNAs and BC are still unclear. In the present study, we try to investigate the expression level of hsa_circ_0005046 and hsa_circ_0001791 in BC. By using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR), expression profiles of candidate circRNAs were detected in 60 BC tissue and paired adjacent normal tissues. Furthermore, the clinicopathological relation and diagnostic value were estimated. Our results showed the higher expression levels of hsa_circ_0005046 and hsa_circ_0001791 in BC tissues compared to paired adjacent normal tissues with P value ( P < 0.0001 ) for both circRNAs, and the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was 0.857 and 1.0, respectively; in addition, a total 10 miRNAs that can be targeted by each candidate circRNAs was predicted base on bioinformatics databases. Taken together, for the first time, the results of our study presented high expression levels of hsa_circ_0005046 and hsa_circ_00017916 in BC; although there was no direct correlation between the high expression level of both circRNAs with clinic pathological factors, except hsa_circ_0001791 association with estrogen receptors (ER), high ROC curve in expressed samples indicated that both circRNAs could be used as a new diagnostic biomarker for BC. Moreover, miRNAs selection tools predicted that miR-215 and mir-383-5p which have a tumor suppressor role in BC can be targeted by our candidate circRNAs to affect the PI3K/AKT pathway; in conclusion, further studies are required to validate the oncogene role of our candidate circRNAs through the PI3k pathway.


2018 ◽  
Vol Volume 10 ◽  
pp. 5807-5824 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shijun Wang ◽  
Qiaoqi Wang ◽  
Xiqian Zhang ◽  
Xiwen Liao ◽  
Guixian Wang ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Wu ◽  
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Lixia Guo ◽  
Kaikai Zhen ◽  
Chao Sun

Review question / Objective: Background and aim: Increasing evidence has revealed the valuable diagnostic and prognostic applications of dysregulated microRNAs (miRNAs) in hepatoblastoma (HB), the most common hepatic malignancy during childhood. However, these results are inconsistent and remain to be elucidated. In the present study, we aimed to systematically compile up-to-date information regarding the clinical value of miRNAs in HB. Methods: Articles concerning the diagnostic and prognostic value of single miRNAs for HB were searched from databases. The sensitivity (SEN), specificity (SPE), positive and negative likelihood ratios (PLR and NLR), diagnostic odds ratio (DOR), area under the curve (AUC), and hazard ratios (HRs) were separately pooled to explore the diagnostic and prognostic performance of miRNA. Subgroup and meta-regression analyses were further carried out only in the event of heterogeneity. Results: In all, 20 studies, involving 264 HB patients and 206 healthy individuals, met the inclusion criteria in the six included literature articles. For the diagnostic analysis of miRNAs in HB, the pooled SEN and SPE were 0.76 (95% CI: 0.72–0.80) and 0.75 (95% CI: 0.70–0.80), respectively. Moreover, the pooled PLR was 2.79 (95% CI: 2.12–3.66), NLR was 0.34 (95% CI: 0.26–0.45), DOR was 10.24 (95% CI: 6.55–16.00), and AUC was 0.83, indicating that miRNAs had moderate diagnostic value in HB. For the prognostic analysis of miRNAs in HB, the abnormal expressions of miR-21, miR-34a, miR-34b, miR-34c, miR-492, miR-193, miR-222, and miR-224 in patients were confirmed to be associated with a worse prognosis. The pooled HR was 1.74 (95% CI: 1.20–2.29) for overall survival (OS) and 1.74 (95% CI: 1.31–2.18) for event-free survival (EFS), suggesting its potential as a prognostic indicator for HB. Conclusion: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis that examines the diagnostic and prognostic role of dysregulated miRNAs in HB patients. The combined meta-analysis results supported the previous individual finds that miRNAs might provide a new, noninvasive method for the diagnostic and prognostic analyses ofHB.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Wu ◽  
Pan Zhang ◽  
Penghui Wang ◽  
Zhen Fang ◽  
Yaqin Zhu

ObjectiveThis study aims to identify the potential value of flap endonuclease 1 (FEN1) as a diagnostic and prognostic marker for breast cancer (BC).MethodsELISA was used to measure serum FEN1 levels and ECLIA for CA153 and CEA levels. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis was used to evaluate the diagnostic value. Oncomine and UALCAN databases were used to analyze the differences in FEN1 mRNA and protein expressions. Kaplan-Meier Plotter database was then used to assess the prognostic value.ResultsBioinformatics analysis showed that the FEN1 mRNA and protein levels were significantly higher in BC tissues than in normal tissues. FEN1 was detected in culture medium of BC cell lines and serum FEN1 concentrations were significantly increased in BC patients than in cancer-free individuals. Besides, FEN1 exhibited higher diagnostic accuracy (AUC values&gt;0.800) than CA153 and CEA for distinguishing BC patients, especially early BC, from the healthy and benign groups, or individually. Additionally, serum FEN1 levels were significantly associated with the stage (P=0.001) and lymph invasion (P=0.016), and serum FEN1 levels were increased with the development of BC. Furthermore, serum FEN1 levels were significantly decreased in post-operative patients than in pre-operative patients (P=0.016). Based on the Kaplan-Meier Plotter database, the survival analysis indicated that FEN1 overexpression was associated with poor prognoses for overall survival (OS), relapse-free survival (RFS), and distant metastasis-free survival (DMFS) in BC patients.ConclusionFEN1 might be a novel diagnostic and prognostic marker for BC.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
xuyang ma ◽  
Ying Ding ◽  
Li Zeng

Abstract Background: The potential correlation between H2AFY (also known as MacroH2A1) and the clinical characteristics of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients was analysed through gene expression profiles and clinical data in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database, and the diagnostic and prognostic value of H2AFY in HCC was discussed. Methods: The gene expression data of HCC and the corresponding clinical characteristics of HCC patients were downloaded from the TCGA database. The differences in H2AFY in normal liver tissues and HCC were analysed. The relationship between H2AFY and clinical characteristics was analysed by Wilcoxon signed-rank test, logistic regression and Kruskal-Wallis test. The Kaplan-Meier method and the Cox regression method were used to analyse the relationship between overall survival and clinical characteristics of the patients. An ROC curve was used to predict the diagnostic value of H2AFY in HCC. Gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) was used to analyse the pathway enrichment of H2AFY. Result: Compared with normal liver tissues, H2AFY was significantly highly expressed in HCC. H2AFY was positively correlated with the age, clinical stage, G stage (grade) and T stage (tumor stage) of liver cancer patients. Higher H2AFY expression predicted a poor prognosis in HCC patients. Cox regression analysis suggested that H2AFY was an independent risk factor for the prognosis of HCC patients. The ROC curve suggested that H2AFY had certain diagnostic value in HCC. GSEA suggested that H2AFY was correlated with lipid metabolism and a variety of tumour pathways. Conclusion: Our study showed that H2AFY was significantly overexpressed in HCC. H2AFY may be a potential diagnostic and prognostic marker for HCC, and high expression of H2AFY predicts a poor prognosis in patients with HCC.


2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Yang ◽  
Biliang Chen

Ovarian cancer, a gynecological malignancy, is the most common cause of death in older women worldwide. The overall 5-year survival of ovarian cancer patients is only 20% because of late diagnosis, as well as distant metastasis and multidrug resistance. Therefore, predictive and prognostic markers are urgently required for the early diagnosis of ovarian cancer. CD147, an extracellular matrix metalloproteinase inducer, is overexpressed in ovarian cancers. Current knowledge suggests that CD147 is associated with the survival and progression of ovarian cancer, and is considered as a biomarker of poor outcome. Here, we specifically review the roles of CD147 in ovarian cancer progression and discuss the diagnostic and prognostic value of CD147 in patients with ovarian cancer. CD147 promotes ovarian cancer progression by its involvement in every facet of malignancy, including invasion, metastasis, survival, angiogenesis, and drug resistance. Although it is not fully confirmed, the combination of CD147 with other biomarkers might be of diagnostic value.


2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 390-401
Author(s):  
A. M. Chaulin ◽  
D. V. Duplyakov

The understanding of the diagnostic and prognostic value of many biomarkers of cardiovascular diseases (CVD), including cardiac troponins (cTnT and cTnI), is changing significantly with the development of methods for their determination. New highly sensitive immunoassays can detect minimal concentrations of cardiac troponin protein molecules in biological fluids (several ng/L or less), allowing the detection of cTnT and cTnI in all healthy individuals. Along with this, there are opportunities to use cTnT and cTnI both to assess the risk of developing CVD in healthy people, and to identify and monitor many early pathological conditions that pose a risk to the cardiovascular system and the life of patients. These pathological conditions include hypertension (HTN), which is the direct cause leading to coronary heart disease, acute myocardial infarction, stroke, and other CVD. A number of recent studies reported the possibility of using highly sensitive cTnT and cTnI in the management of HTN patients. In this article, we consider in detail the diagnostic and prognostic value of cardiac troponins in HTN, we also discuss the main possible mechanisms underlying the increase in cTnT and cTnI in human body fluids.


2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin Sun ◽  
Hongbin Zhou ◽  
Ying Yang ◽  
Jianguo Chen ◽  
Yong Wang ◽  
...  

Abstract In recent years, many studies on the relationship between the expression of microRNA-126 (miR-126) and the diagnostic and prognostic value of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have been made, but the results were still controversial. The aim is to explore the expression of miR-126 and the diagnosis and prognosis value of NSCLC, and to provide relevant evidence for clinical diagnosis and treatment. Literature related to miR-126 and NSCLC were searched in PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, CNKI, and Wanfang from the inception to February 2020. Stata 15.0 was used for meta-analysis. The diagnostic value data were used to calculate the pooled sensitivity, specificity, diagnostic odds ratio (DOR), positive likelihood ratio (PLR), negative likelihood ratio (NLR), and the prognostic value data were used to calculate the pooled risk ratio (hazard ratio, HR) of overall survival (OS) and its 95% confidence interval (95% CI). Thirteen studies were included, among which five were related to diagnosis containing 439 patients and 463 healthy controls, and eight related to prognosis containing 1102 patients. The results of miR-126 expression and diagnostic value of NSCLC showed that the pooled sensitivity was 0.83 (95% CI: 0.59–0.94), specificity = 0.83 (95% CI: 0.71–0.90), PLR = 4.78 (95% CI: 2.97–7.69), NLR = 0.20 (95% CI: 0.08–0.54), DOR = 23.48 (95% CI: 7.87–70.10), and the area under the summ ary receiver operating characteristic curve (SROC) was 0.89 (95% CI: 0.86–0.91). The results of prognostic value indicated that the expression of miR-126 was related to the OS of NSCLC (HR = 0.79, 95% CI: 0.63–0.98). In conclusion, the expression of miR-126 has medium diagnostic value, and it is related to the prognosis of patients with NSCLC, with poor prognosis of miR-126 low expression.


2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 551-558
Author(s):  
V. M. Motsiuk ◽  
N. O. Pentiuk

Annotation. Sarcopenia is a typical complication of liver cirrhosis (LC) and is associated with a poor prognosis. The skeletal muscle index is the most studied radiological marker of sarcopenia, but it’s using requires the qualification of a radiologist, specialized software, time reserve. The aim of the study: to investigate the relationship between different radiological markers of skeletal muscle mass, to determine their reference ranges for Ukrainian population and to assess their diagnostic and prognostic value in patients with LC. The study involved 216 healthy people and 147 patients with LC. During 18 months of follow-up 45 patients died from LC complications. Skeletal muscles were assessed by computed tomography. Skeletal muscle index (SMI), psoas muscle index (PMI), and transverse psoas muscle thickness (TPMT) at L3 were determined. Statistical data processing was performed in SPSS22. Diagnostic and prognostic value of SMI, PMI, TPMT were studied in ROC analysis. It was found that in Ukrainian population the reference ranges of SMI are >52.2 / 39.3 cm2/m2, PMI>6. 44 / 3.49 cm2/m2, TPMT>11.1 / 7.42 mm/m, in men / women, respectively. Sarcopenia was diagnosed in 54.9% and 86.3% of LC class B and C patients. PMI and TPMT had a high diagnostic value in sarcopenia detection (SMI≤52.2 and ≤39.3 cm2/m2) in male and female LC patients (AUC PMI 0.899 and 0.955, p˂0.001, AUC TPMT 0.884 and 0.942, p˂0.001). SMI, PMI and TPMT predicted one-and-a-half-year mortality in male and female LC patients (AUC SMI 0.815 and 0.786, p<0.001; AUC PMI 0.745 and 0.804, p<0.001; AUC TPMT 0.752 and 0.871, p<0.001). The optimal cut-off values for predicting death in male and female are: SMI≤49.1 and ≤38.4 cm2/m2; PMI≤5.99 and ≤3.30 cm2/m2; TPMT≤11.0 and ≤6.70 mm/m. Thus, routine assessment of PMI and TPMT in LC can identify patients with sarcopenia and high risk of complications.


2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 153303382098852
Author(s):  
Wenyan Du ◽  
Chengbin Lei ◽  
Yanzhen Wang ◽  
Yiwen Ding ◽  
Peng Tian

Background: Long noncoding RNAs have been demonstrated to play important roles in different kinds of human malignancy. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic and prognostic value of long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 1232 (LINC01232) in patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PAAD) and further explore the clinical significance of the potential miRNAs that might be sponged by LINC01232. Methods: The potential target miRNAs that might be sponged by LINC01232 were analyzed using bioinformatics analysis. The Real-Time quantitative PCR was adopted to measure the relative expression of LINC01232 and target miRNAs in PAAD serum and tissue samples. The diagnostic and prognostic value of LINC01232 was evaluated using the receiver operating characteristic analysis and Kaplan-Meier survival analysis, respectively. Results: LINC01232 expression was upregulated in PAAD serum and tissues and associated with patients’ TNM stage. Serum LINC01232 expression had diagnostic value, and the high levels of LINC01232 could predict unfavorable prognosis in PAAD patients. miR-204-5p, miR-370-5p and miR-654-3p were proposed as 3 targets of LINC01232 in PAAD, and their decreased expression levels in PAAD patients showed certain clinical significance in diagnosis and prognosis. Conclusion: The data of this study revealed that LINC01232 expression is upregulated in PAAD serum and tissue samples with considerable diagnostic and prognostic significance. In addition, miR-204-5p, miR-370-5p and miR-654-3p may be sponged by LINC01232 in PAAD, which also show potencies in PAAD diagnosis and prognosis.


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