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ArticleCancers2012

The expression of embryonic liver development genes in hepatitis C induced cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma.

Martha Behnke, Mark Reimers, Robert Fisher

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Article in Cancers, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Regulation of hepatocyte identity and quiescence.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2015
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Martha BehnkeTransplant Program Administration, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, 1200 E. Broad St., Richmond, VA 23298, USA.
Mark Reimers
Robert Fisher
Virginia Commonwealth University · US

Funding

Genes Related to HCC Progression in LD and DD TransplantR01DK069859 · NIDDK · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI FISHER, ROBERT A · 2006 to 2010
$2.5M
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK069859
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains a difficult disease to study even after a decade of genomic analysis. Patient and disease heterogeneity, differences in statistical methods and multiple testing issues have resulted in a fragmented understanding of the molecular basis of tumor biology. Some researchers have suggested that HCC appears to share pathways with embryonic development. Therefore we generated targeted hypotheses regarding changes in developmental genes specific to the liver in HCV-cirrhosis and HCV-HCC. We obtained microarray studies from 30 patients with HCV-cirrhosis and 49 patients with HCV-HCC and compared to 12 normal livers. Genes specific to non-liver development have known associations with other cancer types but none were expressed in either adult liver or tumor tissue, while 98 of 179 (55%) genes specific to liver development had differential expression between normal and cirrhotic or HCC samples. We found genes from each developmental stage dysregulated in tumors compared to normal and cirrhotic samples. Although there was no single tumor marker, we identified a set of genes (Bone Morphogenetic Protein inhibitors GPC3, GREM1, FSTL3, and FST) in which at least one gene was over-expressed in 100% of the tumor samples. Only five genes were differentially expressed exclusively in late-stage tumors, indicating that while developmental genes appear to play a profound role in cirrhosis and malignant transformation, they play a limited role in late-stage HCC.

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hepatitis Chepatocellular carcinomamicroarray analysis

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PMID23667740
PMCPMC3650861
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