Trial reportPloS one2013
Identification and validation of reference genes for qPCR detection of serum microRNAs in colorectal adenocarcinoma patients.
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70 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 127 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Reference miRNAs for colorectal cancer: analysis and verification of current data.Scientific reports · 2017Pooled it
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- MicroRNA-6826 and -6875 in plasma are valuable non‑invasive biomarkers that predict the efficacy of vaccine treatment against metastatic colorectal cancer.Oncology reports · 2017Trial
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- Identification of reference microRNAs in skeletal muscle of a canine model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.Wellcome open research · 2024Article
- Screening and validation of the optimal panel of reference genes in colonic epithelium and relative cancer cell lines.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Simultaneous Detection of Tumor Derived Exosomal Protein-MicroRNA Pairs with an Exo-PROS Biosensor for Cancer Diagnosis.ACS nano · 2023Article
- Selecting Normalizers for MicroRNA RT-qPCR Expression Analysis in Murine Preimplantation Embryos and the Associated Conditioned Culture Media.Journal of developmental biology · 2023Article
- Identification of circulating miRNAs differentially expressed in patients with Limb-girdle, Duchenne or facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophies.Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2022Article
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Abstract
Serum microRNAs (miRNAs) have become a highlighted research hotspot, especially for their great potential as a novel promising non-invasive biomarker in cancer diagnosis. The most frequently used approach for serum miRNAs detection is quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR). In order to obtain reliable qPCR data of miRNAs expression, the use of reference genes as endogenous control is undoubtly necessary. However, no systematic evaluation and validation of reference genes for normalizing qPCR analysis of serum miRNAs has been reported in colorectal adenocarcinoma. We firstly profiled pooled serum of colorectal adenocarcinoma, colorectal adenoma and healthy controls and selected a list of 13 miRNAs as candidate reference genes. U6 snRNA (U6) and above-mentioned 13 miRNAs were included in further confirmation by qPCR. As a result, 5 miRNAs (miR-151a-3p, miR-4446-3p, miR-221-3p, miR-93-5p and miR-3184-3p) were not detected in all samples and 2 miRNAs (miR-197-3p and miR-26a-5p) were relatively low with median Cq more than 35, and were excluded from further stability analysis. Then variable stability of other 6 miRNAs (miR-103b, miR-484, miR-16-5p, miR-3615, miR-18a-3p and miR-191-5p) and U6 were evaluated using two algorithms: geNorm and NormFinder which both identified miR-191-5p as the most stably expressed reference gene and selected miR-191-5p and U6 as the most stable pair of reference genes. After validating in an independent large cohorts and selecting miR-92a-3p as target miRNA to evaluate the effect of reference gene, we propose that combination of miR-191-5p and U6 could be used as reference genes for serum microRNAs qPCR data in colorectal adenocarcinoma, colorectal adenoma and healthy controls.
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