SynthesisBMC cancer2018
MiR-20a, a novel promising biomarker to predict prognosis in human cancer: a meta-analysis.
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- Integrated analysis of miR-15a-5p, miR-20a-5p, and miR-33b-3p identifies EGR2-associated biomarkers in multiple myeloma.BMC cancer · 2026Article
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- Exploring the Vertical Transmission of Exosomes in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Targets for Pregnancy Complications.ACS biomaterials science & engineering · 2025Review
- Structural features within precursor microRNA-20a regulate Dicer-TRBP processing.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- MicroRNAs Associated with a Bad Prognosis in Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Their Impact on Macrophage Polarization.Biomedicines · 2024Review
- Unraveling Therapeutic Opportunities and the Diagnostic Potential of microRNAs for Human Lung Cancer.Pharmaceutics · 2023Review
- A preliminary model of football-related neural stress that integrates metabolomics with transcriptomics and virtual reality.iScience · 2022Article
- The Role of MiRNA in Cancer: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Treatment.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022Article
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- miR-20a/TCF4 axis-mediated inhibition of hepatocytes proliferation impairs liver regeneration in mice PHx model by regulating CDC2 and CDC6.Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2021Article
- Brain Perfusion Mediates the Relationship Between miRNA Levels and Postural Control.Cerebral cortex communications · 2020Article
- LncRNA-SNHG3 is an independent prognostic biomarker of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.International journal of clinical and experimental pathology · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundRecently, microRNA-20a (miR-20a) has been reported to influence the clinical features and may have prognostic value in human cancers. The present meta-analysis assessed the prognostic role of miR-20a in various carcinomas.
methodsLiterature searches of seven electronic databases were performed for eligible articles of the prognostic role of miR-20a in human cancers. Hazard ratios (HR) for overall survival (OS), disease free survival (DFS), progression-free survival (PFS) as well as their 95% confidence intervals (95%CIs) were used to assess the influence of miR-20a expression on patient prognosis. Odds ratio (OR) and 95%CIs were applied to evaluate the correlation between miR-20a expression and clinicopathological characteristics.
resultsBased on the OS analyzed by log rank tests, there was a significant association between miR-20a levels and OS by fixed effects model. By subgroup analyses, the significance was also observed in the studies of specimen derived from blood and gastrointestinal cancer group. The independent prognostic role of miR-20a expression for the OS was observed significantly by fixed effects model. In addition, we observed significant association between miR-20a expression levels and DFS of log rank tests, DFS of cox regression. Significant relation of gender/differentiation and the expression level of miR-20a was identified.
conclusionsBase on the findings, the elevated miR-20a expression level is related to poor prognosis of gastrointestinal cancer patients. As for other types of carcinomas, the results are still not stable and more studies are required to further identify miR-20a prognostic values. In addition, miR-20a expression level is relatively higher in women than that in men, and increased miR-20a expression level is linked to poor tumor differentiation.
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