ArticleThe Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism2021
DNA Methylation Haplotype Block Markers Efficiently Discriminate Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma from Follicular Adenoma.
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- Machine learning model for differentiating malignant from benign thyroid nodules based on the thyroid function data.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Blood leukocytes as a non-invasive diagnostic tool for thyroid nodules: a prospective cohort study.BMC medicine · 2024Article
- Role of hypermethylated SLC5A8 in follicular thyroid cancer diagnosis and prognosis prediction.World journal of surgical oncology · 2023Article
- Methylation haplotypes of the insulin gene promoter in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes: Can a dimensionality reduction approach predict the disease?Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2023Article
- The utility of serum anti-thyroglobulin antibody and thyroglobulin in the preoperative differential diagnosis of thyroid follicular neoplasms.Endocrine · 2022Article
- ASMdb: a comprehensive database for allele-specific DNA methylation in diverse organisms.Nucleic acids research · 2022Article
- DNA Methylation Haplotype Block Markers Efficiently Discriminate Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma from Follicular Adenoma.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2021Article
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Abstract
contextFollicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) is the second most common type of thyroid carcinoma and must be pathologically distinguished from benign follicular adenoma (FA). Additionally, the clinical assessment of thyroid tumors with uncertain malignant potential (TT-UMP) demands effective indicators.
objectiveWe aimed to identify discriminating DNA methylation markers between FA and FTC.
methodsDNA methylation patterns were investigated in 33 FTC and 33 FA samples using reduced representation bisulfite sequencing and methylation haplotype block-based analysis. A prediction model was constructed and validated in an independent cohort of 13 FTC and 13 FA samples. Moreover, 36 TT-UMP samples were assessed using this model.
resultsA total of 70 DNA methylation markers, approximately half of which were located within promoters, were identified to be significantly different between the FTC and FA samples. All the Gene Ontology terms enriched among the marker-associated genes were related to "DNA binding," implying that the inactivation of DNA binding played a role in FTC development. A random forest model with an area under the curve of 0.994 was constructed using those markers for discriminating FTC from FA in the validation cohort. When the TT-UMP samples were scored using this model, those with fewer driver mutations also exhibited lower scores.
conclusionAn FTC-predicting model was constructed using DNA methylation markers, which distinguished between FA and FTC tissues with a high degree of accuracy. This model can also be used to help determine the potential of malignancy in TT-UMP.
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