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ArticleFrontiers in genetics2020

Gender Differential Transcriptome in Gastric and Thyroid Cancers.

Abel Sousa, Marta Ferreira, Carla Oliveira, Pedro G Ferreira

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Article in Frontiers in genetics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Abel SousaInstituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Marta FerreiraInstituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Carla OliveiraInstituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Pedro G FerreiraInstituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto · PTEuropean Bioinformatics Institute · GB

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer has an important and considerable gender differential susceptibility confirmed by several epidemiological studies. Gastric (GC) and thyroid cancer (TC) are examples of malignancies with a higher incidence in males and females, respectively. Beyond environmental predisposing factors, it is expected that gender-specific gene deregulation contributes to this differential incidence. We performed a detailed characterization of the transcriptomic differences between genders in normal and tumor tissues from stomach and thyroid using Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) and The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) data. We found hundreds of sex-biased genes (SBGs). Most of the SBGs shared by normal and tumor belong to sexual chromosomes, while the normal and tumor-specific tend to be found in the autosomes. Expression of several cancer-associated genes is also found to differ between sexes in both types of tissue. Thousands of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between paired tumor-normal tissues were identified in GC and TC. For both cancers, in the most susceptible gender, the DEGs were mostly under-expressed in the tumor tissue, with an enrichment for tumor-suppressor genes (TSGs). Moreover, we found gene networks preferentially associated to males in GC and to females in TC and correlated with cancer histological subtypes. Our results shed light on the molecular differences and commonalities between genders and provide novel insights in the differential risk underlying these cancers.

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differential expressiongastric cancergender differencesgene co-expression networksGenotype-Tissue ExpressionRNA-seqThe Cancer Genome Atlasthyroid cancer

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