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Trial reportPloS one2012

Iodine-131 dose dependent gene expression in thyroid cancers and corresponding normal tissues following the Chernobyl accident.

Michael Abend, Ruth M Pfeiffer, Christian Ruf, Maureen Hatch, Tetiana I Bogdanova, Mykola D Tronko, Armin Riecke, Julia Hartmann, Viktor Meineke, Houda Boukheris and 3 more

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In one paragraph

Trial report in PloS one, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
32citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 53 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Somatic health effects of Chernobyl: 30 years on.European journal of epidemiology · 2017
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  4. Thyroid Cancer in Regions Most Contaminated after the Chernobyl Disaster.Journal of biomedical physics & engineering · 2024
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  5. Radiation-Related Thyroid Cancer.Endocrine reviews · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Michael AbendBundeswehr Institute of Radiobiology, Munich, Germany. michaelabend@bundeswehr.org
Ruth M Pfeiffer
Christian Ruf
Maureen Hatch
Tetiana I Bogdanova
Mykola D Tronko
Armin Riecke
Julia Hartmann
Viktor Meineke
Houda Boukheris
Alice J Sigurdson
Kiyohiko Mabuchi
Alina V Brenner
Institut für Radiobiologie der BundeswehrNational Cancer Institute · USBundeswehr Medical Service Academy · DEDivision of Cancer Epidemiology and GeneticsV.P. Komisarenko Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism · UANova Research Company (United States) · US

Funding

Studies of Populations Exposed to Environmental Sources of RadiationZIACP010132 · NCI · DIVISION OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY AND GENETICS · PI CAHOON, ELIZABETH · 2009 to 2025
$35.2M
Intramural NIH HHS
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The strong and consistent relationship between irradiation at a young age and subsequent thyroid cancer provides an excellent model for studying radiation carcinogenesis in humans. We thus evaluated differential gene expression in thyroid tissue in relation to iodine-131 (I-131) doses received from the Chernobyl accident. Sixty three of 104 papillary thyroid cancers diagnosed between 1998 and 2008 in the Ukrainian-American cohort with individual I-131 thyroid dose estimates had paired RNA specimens from fresh frozen tumor (T) and normal (N) tissue provided by the Chernobyl Tissue Bank and satisfied quality control criteria. We first hybridized 32 randomly allocated RNA specimen pairs (T/N) on 64 whole genome microarrays (Agilent, 4×44 K). Associations of differential gene expression (log(2)(T/N)) with dose were assessed using Kruskall-Wallis and trend tests in linear mixed regression models. While none of the genes withstood correction for the false discovery rate, we selected 75 genes with a priori evidence or P kruskall/P trend <0.0005 for validation by qRT-PCR on the remaining 31 RNA specimen pairs (T/N). The qRT-PCR data were analyzed using linear mixed regression models that included radiation dose as a categorical or ordinal variable. Eleven of 75 qRT-PCR assayed genes (ACVR2A, AJAP1, CA12, CDK12, FAM38A, GALNT7, LMO3, MTA1, SLC19A1, SLC43A3, ZNF493) were confirmed to have a statistically significant differential dose-expression relationship. Our study is among the first to provide direct human data on long term differential gene expression in relation to individual I-131 doses and to identify a set of genes potentially important in radiation carcinogenesis.

Indexed as

Chernobyl Nuclear AccidentGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticAdultCohort StudiesDose-Response Relationship, RadiationFemaleHumansIodine RadioisotopesMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasms, Radiation-InducedReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA, NeoplasmThyroid NeoplasmsIodine RadioisotopesRNA, Neoplasm

Identifiers

PMID22848350
PMCPMC3405097
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