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ArticleScience advances2016

Portraying breast cancers with long noncoding RNAs.

Olivier Van Grembergen, Martin Bizet, Eric J de Bony, Emilie Calonne, Pascale Putmans, Sylvain Brohée, Catharina Olsen, Mingzhou Guo, Gianluca Bontempi, Christos Sotiriou and 2 more

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Article in Science advances, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 76 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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76citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

76 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 115 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Olivier Van GrembergenLaboratory of Cancer Epigenetics, Faculty of Medicine, ULB-Cancer Research Center (U-CRC), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), 1070 Brussels, Belgium.
Martin BizetLaboratory of Cancer Epigenetics, Faculty of Medicine, ULB-Cancer Research Center (U-CRC), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), 1070 Brussels, Belgium.; Machine Learning Group, Computer Science Department, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.; Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics Brussels, Université Libre de Bruxelles-Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Eric J de BonyLaboratory of Cancer Epigenetics, Faculty of Medicine, ULB-Cancer Research Center (U-CRC), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), 1070 Brussels, Belgium.
Emilie CalonneLaboratory of Cancer Epigenetics, Faculty of Medicine, ULB-Cancer Research Center (U-CRC), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), 1070 Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-3649-2129
Pascale PutmansLaboratory of Cancer Epigenetics, Faculty of Medicine, ULB-Cancer Research Center (U-CRC), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), 1070 Brussels, Belgium.
Sylvain BrohéeBreast Cancer Translational Research Laboratory, Jules Bordet Institute, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
Catharina OlsenMachine Learning Group, Computer Science Department, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Mingzhou GuoDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China.
Gianluca BontempiMachine Learning Group, Computer Science Department, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.; Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics Brussels, Université Libre de Bruxelles-Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Christos SotiriouBreast Cancer Translational Research Laboratory, Jules Bordet Institute, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
Matthieu DefranceLaboratory of Cancer Epigenetics, Faculty of Medicine, ULB-Cancer Research Center (U-CRC), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), 1070 Brussels, Belgium.; Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics Brussels, Université Libre de Bruxelles-Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
François FuksLaboratory of Cancer Epigenetics, Faculty of Medicine, ULB-Cancer Research Center (U-CRC), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), 1070 Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-4637-7287
Université Libre de Bruxelles · BEInstitut Jules Bordet · BEChinese People's Liberation Army · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Evidence is emerging that long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) may play a role in cancer development, but this role is not yet clear. We performed a genome-wide transcriptional survey to explore the lncRNA landscape across 995 breast tissue samples. We identified 215 lncRNAs whose genes are aberrantly expressed in breast tumors, as compared to normal samples. Unsupervised hierarchical clustering of breast tumors on the basis of their lncRNAs revealed four breast cancer subgroups that correlate tightly with PAM50-defined mRNA-based subtypes. Using multivariate analysis, we identified no less than 210 lncRNAs prognostic of clinical outcome. By analyzing the coexpression of lncRNA genes and protein-coding genes, we inferred potential functions of the 215 dysregulated lncRNAs. We then associated subtype-specific lncRNAs with key molecular processes involved in cancer. A correlation was observed, on the one hand, between luminal A-specific lncRNAs and the activation of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, fibroblast growth factor, and transforming growth factor-β pathways and, on the other hand, between basal-like-specific lncRNAs and the activation of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-dependent pathways and of the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition. Finally, we showed that a specific lncRNA, which we called CYTOR, plays a role in breast cancer. We confirmed its predicted functions, showing that it regulates genes involved in the EGFR/mammalian target of rapamycin pathway and is required for cell proliferation, cell migration, and cytoskeleton organization. Overall, our work provides the most comprehensive analyses for lncRNA in breast cancers. Our findings suggest a wide range of biological functions associated with lncRNAs in breast cancer and provide a foundation for functional investigations that could lead to new therapeutic approaches.

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Genome, HumanAdultAgedBreast NeoplasmsCell MovementCell ProliferationErbB ReceptorsFemaleGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansMiddle AgedNeoplasm ProteinsRNA, Long NoncodingEGFR protein, humanErbB ReceptorsNeoplasm ProteinsRNA, Long Noncodingbreast cancerEpigeneticslong non-coding RNA

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PMID27617288
PMCPMC5010371
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