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ArticleHeliyon2024

Ferritin light chain as a potential biomarker for the prognosis of liver hepatocellular carcinoma.

Aoqun Li, Yue Li, Xiaoqing Li, Chunxiao Tang, Yang Yang, Nan Li, Yun Jin

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Article in Heliyon, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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7 authors.

Aoqun LiCentral Laboratory, The Affiliated Hospital of Yanbian University, Yanji, 133000, China.
Yue LiCentral Laboratory, The Affiliated Hospital of Yanbian University, Yanji, 133000, China.
Xiaoqing LiCentral Laboratory, The Affiliated Hospital of Yanbian University, Yanji, 133000, China.
Chunxiao TangCentral Laboratory, The Affiliated Hospital of Yanbian University, Yanji, 133000, China.
Yang YangCentral Laboratory, The Affiliated Hospital of Yanbian University, Yanji, 133000, China.
Nan LiInstitute of Virology, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, 325000, China.
Yun JinCentral Laboratory, The Affiliated Hospital of Yanbian University, Yanji, 133000, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High expression of the ferritin light chain (FTL) in cancer promotes its onset and progression and is associated with tumour evolution. However, the significance of FTL in pan-cancer progression and prognosis in humans remains unclear. Therefore, we selected various bioinformatics databases to perform a pan-cancer analysis on a public dataset. Our results showed that FTL was differentially expressed in pan-cancer tissues compared to normal tissues. High FTL expression significantly correlated with the clinicopathological characteristics of patients with liver hepatocellular carcinoma (LIHC). The subsequent validation experiments confirmed these observations. Notably, our study found for the first time that FTLs are closely associated with LIHC and that FTLs have important clinical diagnostic and prognostic value for patients with LIHC. We confirmed that FTL expression was closely associated with altered DNA cycles and immune infiltration in LIHC. In conclusion, high levels of FTL expression are associated with poor prognosis in LIHC patients and are expected to be a potential prognostic and immune marker for LIHC.

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BiomarkerFTLImmune infiltrationLiver hepatocellular carcinomaPan-cancerTME

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PMID39224384
PMCPMC11367121

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