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ArticleCancer cell international2020

Integrated characterization and validation of the prognostic significance of microRNA-200s in colorectal cancer.

Qiliang Peng, Ming Cheng, Ting Li, Xiangying Chen, Yi Shen, Yaqun Zhu, Bo Xu

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Qiliang Peng *1Department of Radiotherapy & Oncology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Ming Cheng *3Department of General Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, San Xiang Road No. 1055, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215004 China.
Ting Li1Department of Radiotherapy & Oncology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Xiangying Chen1Department of Radiotherapy & Oncology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Yi Shen4Department of Radiation Oncology, The Affiliated Suzhou Science & Technology Town Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Suzhou, China.
Yaqun Zhu1Department of Radiotherapy & Oncology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Bo Xu3Department of General Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, San Xiang Road No. 1055, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215004 China.ORCID 0000-0003-0724-1555

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backgroundAccumulating evidence has demonstrated that microRNA-200s (miR-200a, miR-200b and miR-200c) could serve as promising molecular biomarkers for cancer prognosis. Nevertheless, the associations between miR-200s expression and colorectal cancer (CRC) prognosis remain controversial.

methodsWe applied two mainstream approaches combining meta-analysis and bioinformatics analysis to answer whether miR-200s were associated with the prognosis of CRC patients and why miR-200s could be used as prognostic biomarkers for CRC.

resultsConsequently, low expression of miR-200s was associated with unfavorable overall survival (OS) in CRC patients (HR: 1.09; 95% CI 1.01-1.17; P = 0.025). According to the subgroup analysis, the prognostic role of miR-200s was more significant for tissue samples, large samples, American patients and miR-200a subgroups. Then the target genes of miR-200s were predicted and applied for functional enrichment analyses. The results showed that the target genes of miR-200s were mainly enriched into some vital ontology subjects such as regulation ability, key cell structures and binding function. Moreover, a series of important signaling pathways were identified, which were significantly linked with the initiation and progression of CRC. Additionally, a protein‑protein interaction (PPI) network of miR-200s targets was constructed to screen hub genes and modules. The identified hub genes and modules were validated to be highly involved in the occurrence and development of CRC.

conclusionsCurrent evidences revealed that miR-200s could be promising biomarkers for CRC prognosis. However, the findings still need to be validated with more larger-scale prospective studies and biological experiments before miR-200s could be applied into clinical application.

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