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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2022

Biomarkers of Castrate Resistance in Prostate Cancer: Androgen Receptor Amplification and T877A Mutation Detection by Multiplex Droplet Digital PCR.

Francis P Young, Therese M Becker, Mohammed Nimir, Thomas Opperman, Wei Chua, Bavanthi Balakrishnar, Paul de Souza, Yafeng Ma

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Droplet Digital PCR Improves Detection ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  6. Liquid Biopsy and Cancer: An Ongoing Story.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023
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  7. The androgen receptor-targeted proteolysis targeting chimera and other alternative therapeutic choices in overcoming the resistance to androgen deprivation treatment in prostate cancer.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Francis P YoungCentre for Circulating Tumour Cell Diagnostics and Research, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, Liverpool, NSW 2170, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-3111-3879
Therese M BeckerCentre for Circulating Tumour Cell Diagnostics and Research, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, Liverpool, NSW 2170, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-5636-9902
Mohammed NimirCentre for Circulating Tumour Cell Diagnostics and Research, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, Liverpool, NSW 2170, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-8215-6882
Thomas OppermanCentre for Circulating Tumour Cell Diagnostics and Research, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, Liverpool, NSW 2170, Australia.
Wei ChuaSchool of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Campbelltown, NSW 2560, Australia.
Bavanthi BalakrishnarLiverpool Hospital, Liverpool, NSW 2170, Australia.
Paul de SouzaSouth Western Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Liverpool, NSW 2170, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-7380-1170
Yafeng MaCentre for Circulating Tumour Cell Diagnostics and Research, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, Liverpool, NSW 2170, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-0522-8771

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Androgen Receptor (AR) alterations (amplification, point mutations, and splice variants) are master players in metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) progression and central therapeutic targets for patient management. Here, we have developed two multiplexed droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) assays to detect AR copy number (CN) and the key point mutation T877A. Overcoming challenges of determining gene amplification from liquid biopsies, these assays cross-validate each other to produce reliable AR amplification and mutation data from plasma cell free DNA (cfDNA) of advanced prostate cancer (PC) patients. Analyzing a mixed PC patient cohort consisting of CRPC and hormone sensitive prostate cancer (HSPC) patients showed that 19% (9/47) patients had AR CN amplification. As expected, only CRPC patients were positive for AR amplification, while interestingly the T877A mutation was identified in two patients still considered HSPC at the time. The ddPCR based analysis of AR alterations in cfDNA is highly economic, feasible, and informative to provide biomarker detection that may help to decide on the best follow-up therapy for CRPC patients.

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amplificationandrogen receptorcell free DNAliquid biopsymutationprostate cancer

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PMID35011998
PMCPMC8745706

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