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ArticleClinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association2020

Gene Variants That Affect Levels of Circulating Tumor Markers Increase Identification of Patients With Pancreatic Cancer.

Toshiya Abe, Chiho Koi, Shiro Kohi, Ki-Byung Song, Koji Tamura, Anne Macgregor-Das, Naoki Kitaoka, Miguel Chuidian, Madeline Ford, Mohamad Dbouk and 9 more

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Article in Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02000089 (The Cancer of the Pancreas Screening-5 CAPS5)Study), which is not on this map. Cited by 41 papers.

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41citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT02000089 phase3recruitingnot on this map

The Cancer of the Pancreas Screening-5 CAPS5)Study

TypeinterventionalSponsorJohns Hopkins UniversityRan2014 to 2029Enrolled9,000ConditionsPancreas Cancer, Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome (PJS), Gene Mutation, Germline Mutation CarrierArmsSecretin, MRI, Tumor marker gene test with CA19-9
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. A New CA19-9 Cutoff Value Identifies Lewis Antigen Status and Refines Prognostic Stratification in PDAC.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2026
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  10. Personalizing CA125 Levels Using Tumor Marker Variants: A Case-Control Analysis of Diagnostic Performance for Pancreatic Cancer.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2025
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  19. Early detection of pancreatic cancer: Study design and analytical considerations in biomarker discovery and early phase validation studies.Pancreatology : official journal of the International Association of Pancreatology (IAP) ... [et al.] · 2024
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  20. Progress of Exosomal LncRNAs in Pancreatic Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

19 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Toshiya AbeDepartment of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.
Chiho KoiDepartment of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.
Shiro KohiDepartment of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.
Ki-Byung SongDepartment of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.
Koji TamuraDepartment of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.
Anne Macgregor-DasDepartment of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.
Naoki KitaokaDepartment of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.
Miguel ChuidianDepartment of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.
Madeline FordDepartment of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.
Mohamad DboukDepartment of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.
Michael BorgesDepartment of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.
Jin HeDepartment of Surgery, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.
Richard BurkhartDepartment of Surgery, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.
Christopher L WolfgangDepartment of Surgery, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.
Alison P KleinDepartment of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland; Department of Oncology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.
James R EshlemanDepartment of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland; Department of Oncology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.
Ralph H HrubanDepartment of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland; Department of Oncology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.
Marcia Irene CantoDepartment of Oncology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland; Department of Medicine, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.
Michael GogginsDepartment of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland; Department of Oncology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland; Department of Medicine, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland. Electronic address: mgoggins@jhmi.edu.
Johns Hopkins University · US

Funding

Tumor Antigens for Individual Signatures and TherapyP50CA062924 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI LENNON, ANNE MARIE · 1993 to 2022
$54.6M
Using markers to improve pancreatic cancer screening and surveillance: a multi-center studyU01CA210170 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Michael G. Goggins · 2016 to 2026
$9.3M
Using Markers to Improve Pancreatic Cancer ScreeningR01CA176828 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI GOGGINS, MICHAEL G. · 2013 to 2024
$4.1M
NCI NIH HHS P50 CA062924NCI NIH HHS R01 CA176828NCI NIH HHS U01 CA210170
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BACKGROUND &

aimsLevels of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9), and cancer antigen 125 (CA-125) in blood are used as markers to determine the response of patients with cancer to therapy, but are not used to identify patients with pancreatic cancer.

methodsWe obtained blood samples from 504 patients undergoing pancreatic surveillance from 2002 through 2018 who did not develop pancreatic cancer and measured levels of the tumor markers CA19-9, CEA, CA-125, and thrombospondin-2. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in FUT3, FUT2, ABO, and GAL3ST2 that have been associated with levels of tumor markers were used to establish SNP-defined ranges for each tumor marker. We also tested the association between additional SNPs (in FUT6, MUC16, B3GNT3, FAM3B, and THBS2) with levels of tumor markers. To calculate the diagnostic specificity of each SNP-defined range, we assigned the patients under surveillance into training and validation sets. After determining the SNP-defined ranges, we determined the sensitivity of SNP-adjusted tests for the tumor markers, measuring levels in blood samples from 245 patients who underwent resection for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) from 2010 through 2017.

resultsA level of CA19-9 that identified patients with PDAC with 99% specificity had 52.7% sensitivity. When we set the cut-off levels of CA19-9 based on each SNP, the test for CA19-9 identified patients with PDAC with 60.8% sensitivity and 98.8% specificity. Among patients with FUT3 alleles that encode a functional protein, levels of CA19-9 greater than the SNP-determined cut-off values identified 66.4% of patients with PDAC, with 99.3% specificity. In the validation set, levels of CEA varied among patients with vs without SNP in FUT2, by blood group, and among smokers vs nonsmokers; levels of CA-125 varied among patients with vs without the SNP in GAL3ST2. The use of the SNPs to define the ranges of CEA and CA-125 did not significantly increase the diagnostic accuracy of the assays for these proteins. Combining data on levels of CA19-9 and CEA, CA19-9 and CA-125, or CA19-9 and thrombospondin-2 increased the sensitivity of detection of PDAC, but slightly reduced specificity.

conclusionsIncluding information on SNPs associated with levels of CA19-9, CEA, and CA-125 can improve the diagnostic accuracy of assays for these tumor markers in the identification of patients with PDAC. Clinicaltrials.gov no: NCT02000089.

Indexed as

Carcinoma, Pancreatic DuctalPancreatic NeoplasmsBiomarkers, TumorCA-19-9 AntigenCase-Control StudiesCytokinesHumansNeoplasm ProteinsBiomarkers, TumorCA-19-9 AntigenCytokinesFAM3B protein, humanNeoplasm ProteinsDiagnosisEarly DetectionGenotypeScreening

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