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ArticleThe Journal of molecular diagnostics : JMD2013

Prediction of lung cancer histological types by RT-qPCR gene expression in FFPE specimens.

Matthew D Wilkerson, Jason M Schallheim, D Neil Hayes, Patrick J Roberts, Roy R L Bastien, Michael Mullins, Xiaoying Yin, C Ryan Miller, Leigh B Thorne, Katherine B Geiersbach and 7 more

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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  13. An Expression Signature as an Aid to the Histologic Classification of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2016
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  14. Lung Cancer Gene Signatures and Clinical Perspectives.Microarrays (Basel, Switzerland) · 2013
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors.

Matthew D WilkersonLineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Jason M Schallheim
D Neil Hayes
Patrick J Roberts
Roy R L Bastien
Michael Mullins
Xiaoying Yin
C Ryan Miller
Leigh B Thorne
Katherine B Geiersbach
Kenneth L Muldrew
William K Funkhouser
Cheng Fan
Michele C Hayward
Steven Bayer
Charles M Perou
Philip S Bernard

Funding

Virology Research Program (Program 4)P30CA016086 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Deborah F. Tate · 1985 to 2026
$201.5M
Lung squamous cell carcinoma subtypes: genomic abberations and clinical detectionF32CA142039 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI WILKERSON, MATTHEW DEVIN · 2009 to 2011
$127k
NCI NIH HHS F32 CA142039NCI NIH HHS F32CA142039NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016086
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lung cancer histologic diagnosis is clinically relevant because there are histology-specific treatment indications and contraindications. Histologic diagnosis can be challenging owing to tumor characteristics, and it has been shown to have less-than-ideal agreement among pathologists reviewing the same specimens. Microarray profiling studies using frozen specimens have shown that histologies exhibit different gene expression trends; however, frozen specimens are not amenable to routine clinical application. Herein, we developed a gene expression-based predictor of lung cancer histology for FFPE specimens, which are routinely available in clinical settings. Genes predictive of lung cancer histologies were derived from published cohorts that had been profiled by microarrays. Expression of these genes was measured by quantitative RT-PCR (RT-qPCR) in a cohort of patients with FFPE lung cancer. A histology expression predictor (HEP) was developed using RT-qPCR expression data for adenocarcinoma, carcinoid, small cell carcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma. In cross-validation, the HEP exhibited mean accuracy of 84% and κ = 0.77. In separate independent validation sets, the HEP was compared with pathologist diagnoses on the same tumor block specimens, and the HEP yielded similar accuracy and precision as the pathologists. The HEP also exhibited good performance in specimens with low tumor cellularity. Therefore, RT-qPCR gene expression from FFPE specimens can be effectively used to predict lung cancer histology.

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Molecular Diagnostic TechniquesCarcinoma, Non-Small-Cell LungGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansLung NeoplasmsParaffin EmbeddingReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionTissue Fixation

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PMID23701907
PMCPMC3699698

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