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ArticleBioscience reports2021

CDKN2A is a prognostic biomarker and correlated with immune infiltrates in hepatocellular carcinoma.

Jun-Peng Luo, Jing Wang, Jin-Hua Huang

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Article in Bioscience reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 49 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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49 citing papers in PubMed, 90 citations in OpenAlex.

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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.

Jun-Peng Luo *Department of Minimally Invasive Interventional Therapy, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Cancer for Cancer Medicine, 651 Dongfeng Road East, Guangzhou 510060, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China.
Jing Wang *Department of General Medicine, the First Medical Center, Department of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
Jin-Hua HuangDepartment of Minimally Invasive Interventional Therapy, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Cancer for Cancer Medicine, 651 Dongfeng Road East, Guangzhou 510060, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0003-2960-6148
Sun Yat-sen University · CNChinese PLA General Hospital · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor 2A (CDKN2A) is an essential regulator of immune cell functionality, but the mechanisms whereby it drives immune infiltration in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remain unclear. In the present study, we studied the association with CDKN2A expression and immune invasion with the risk of developing HCC. A totally of 2207 different genes were found between HCC and adjacent liver tissues from TCGA and GEO databases. CDKN2A was highly expressed in HCC and associated with poorer overall survival and disease-free survival. Notably, CDKN2A expression was positively correlated with infiltrating levels into purity, B cell, CD+8 T cell, CD+4 T cell, macrophage, neutrophil, and dendritic cells in HCC. CDKN2A expression showed strong correlations between diverse immune marker sets in HCC. These findings suggest that CDKN2A expression potentially contributes to regulation of tumor-associated macrophages and can be used as a prognostic biomarker for determining prognosis and immune infiltration in HCC.

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Tumor MicroenvironmentBiomarkers, TumorCarcinoma, HepatocellularCyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p16Databases, GeneticDisease-Free SurvivalFemaleHumansLiver NeoplasmsLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingMaleMiddle AgedTumor-Associated MacrophagesBiomarkers, TumorCDKN2A protein, humanCyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p16CDKN2AHepatocellular carcinomaImmune signaturePrognostic biomarkerSurvivalTumor-infiltrating

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PMID34405225
PMCPMC8495430
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