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ArticleBioscience reports2020

PEG3 mutation is associated with elevated tumor mutation burden and poor prognosis in breast cancer.

Min Zhang, Jin Zhang

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Article in Bioscience reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Min ZhangThe Third Department of Breast Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin 300060, China.
Jin ZhangThe Third Department of Breast Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin 300060, China.
Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundBreast cancer is the second most common malignancy in women and considered as a severe health burden. PEG3 mutations have been observed in several cancers. However, the associations of PEG3 mutation with tumor mutation burden (TMB) and prognosis in breast cancer have not been investigated.

methodsIn our study, the somatic mutation data of 986 breast cancer patients from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) were analyzed.

resultsIt showed that PEG3 had a relatively high mutation rate (2%). After calculated the TMB in PEG3 mutant and PEG3 wild-type groups, we found the TMB value was significantly higher in PEG3 mutant samples than that in PEG3 wild-type samples (P = 5.6e-07), which was independent of the confounding factors including age, stage, mutations of BRCA1, BRCA2 and POLE (odd ratio, 0.45; 95% CI, 0.20-0.98; P=0.044). Survival analysis revealed that PEG3 mutant samples had inferior survival outcome compared with the PEG3 wild-type samples after adjusted for the confounding factors above (hazard ratio, 0.27; 95% CI: 0.12-0.57; P<0.001).

conclusionThese results illustrated that PEG3 mutation was associated with high TMB and inferior prognosis, suggesting PEG3 mutation might play a guiding role in prognosis prediction and immunotherapy selection in breast cancer.

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MutationBiomarkers, TumorBreast NeoplasmsDatabases, GeneticDNA Mutational AnalysisFemaleGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseHumansKruppel-Like Transcription FactorsPrognosisRisk AssessmentRisk FactorsTranscriptomeBiomarkers, TumorKruppel-Like Transcription FactorsPEG3 protein, humanbreast cancerhigh tumor mutation burdenimmunotherapyinferior prognosisPEG3 mutation

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