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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020

Epigenetic Alterations Associated with the Overall Survival and Recurrence Free Survival among Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients.

Yasmen Ghantous, Aysar Nashef, Imad Abu-Elnaaj

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Systems genetics analysis of oral squamous cell carcinoma susceptibility using the mouse model: current position and new perspective.Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yasmen GhantousDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Baruch Padeh medical center Poriya, The lower Galilee 15208, Israel.
Aysar NashefDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Baruch Padeh medical center Poriya, The lower Galilee 15208, Israel.
Imad Abu-ElnaajDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Baruch Padeh medical center Poriya, The lower Galilee 15208, Israel.
Poriya Medical Center · ILBar-Ilan University · IL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is a fatal disease caused by complex interactions between environmental, genomic, and epigenetic alterations. In the current study, we aimed to identify clusters of genes whose promoter methylation status correlated with various tested clinical features. Molecular datasets of genetic and methylation analysis based on whole-genome sequencing of 159 OSCC patients were obtained from the The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) data portal. Genes were clustered based on their methylation status and were tested for their association with demographic, pathological, and clinical features of the patients. Overall, seven clusters of genes were revealed that showed a significant association with the overall survival/recurrence free survival of patients. The top ranked genes within cluster 4, which showed the worst prognosis, primarily acted as paraneoplastic genes, while the genes within cluster 6 primarily acted as anti-tumor genes. A significant difference was found regarding the mean age in the different clusters. No significant correlation was found between the tumor staging and the different clusters. In conclusion, our result provided a proof-of-principle for the existence of phenotypic diversity among the epigenetic clusters of OSCC and demonstrated the utility of the use epigenetics alterations in devolving new prognostic and therapeutics tools for OSCC patients.

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methylation biomarkersOSCC recurrenceOSCC survivalTCGA data

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PMID32272578
PMCPMC7231254
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