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ArticleCancer research2010

Genetic variants in MicroRNA biosynthesis pathways and binding sites modify ovarian cancer risk, survival, and treatment response.

Dong Liang, Larissa Meyer, David W Chang, Jie Lin, Xia Pu, Yuanqing Ye, Jian Gu, Xifeng Wu, Karen Lu

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Article in Cancer research, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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75 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 134 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Dong LiangCollege of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas, USA.
Larissa Meyer
David W Chang
Jie Lin
Xia Pu
Yuanqing Ye
Jian Gu
Xifeng Wu
Karen Lu
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · USTexas Southern University · US

Funding

Training of Academic Gynecologic OncologistsT32CA101642 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI ANIL K SOOD, Kathleen Schmeler · 2005 to 2026
$9.2M
DNA repair, Cell cycle Checkpoints and Apoptosis and Bladder Cancer RiskK07CA134831 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI LIN, JIE · 2009 to 2012
$542k
NCI NIH HHS K07 CA134831NCI NIH HHS T32 CA101642
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

MicroRNAs (miRNA) play important roles in tumorigenesis. Genetic variations in miRNA processing genes and miRNA binding sites may affect the biogenesis of miRNA and the regulatory effect of miRNAs to their target genes, hence promoting tumorigenesis. This study analyzed 226 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in miRNA processing genes and miRNA binding sites in 339 ovarian cancer cases and 349 healthy controls to assess association with cancer risk, overall survival, and treatment response. Thirteen polymorphisms were found to have significant association with risk. The most significant were 2 linked SNPs (r(2) = 0.99), rs2740351 and rs7813 in GEMIN4 [odds ratio (OR) = 0.71; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.57-0.87 and OR = 0.71; 95% CI, 0.57-0.88, respectively]. Unfavorable genotype analysis showed the cumulative effect of these 13 SNPs on risk (P for trend < 0.0001). Potential higher order gene-gene interactions were identified, which categorized patients into different risk groups according to their genotypic signatures. In the clinical outcome study, 24 SNPs exhibited significant association with overall survival and 17 SNPs with treatment response. Notably, patients carrying a rare homozygous genotype of rs1425486 in PDGFC had poorer overall survival [hazard ratio (HR) = 2.69; 95% CI, 1.67-4.33] and worse treatment response (OR = 3.38; 95% CI, 1.39-8.19), compared to carriers of common homozygous and heterozygous genotypes. Unfavorable genotype analyses also showed a strong gene-dosage effect with decreased survival and increased risk of treatment nonresponse in patients with greater number of unfavorable genotypes (P for trend < 0.0001). Taken together, miRNA-related genetic polymorphisms may impact ovarian cancer predisposition and clinical outcome both individually and jointly.

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Polymorphism, Single NucleotideAdultAgedAged, 80 and overBinding SitesBiosynthetic PathwaysCell Line, TumorFemaleGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenotypeHaplotypesHumansKaplan-Meier EstimateLymphokinesMicroRNAsMiddle AgedGEMIN4 protein, humanLymphokinesMicroRNAsMinor Histocompatibility AntigensMIRN425 microRNA, humanPlatelet-Derived Growth Factorplatelet-derived growth factor CRibonucleoproteins, Small Nuclear

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PMCPMC5373101
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