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ArticleScientific reports2025

COL4A1 as a potential prognostic biomarker with functional roles in colon cancer progression.

Qiusheng Li, Changjing Wang, Guiying Wang

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Article in Scientific reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Qiusheng LiDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, 050000, China.
Changjing WangDepartment of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, 050000, China.
Guiying WangDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, 050000, China. wangguiying@hebmu.edu.cn.

Funding

Hebei Province central guide local science and technology special project 236Z7757GHebei Province natural innovation group project H2022206355The National Natural Science Foundation of China 82272909
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

COL4A1, a key component of the basement membrane, has been increasingly implicated in tumor progression, yet its role in colon cancer remains incompletely understood. In this study, we conducted a comprehensive integrative analysis using transcriptomic data from the TCGA-COAD cohort, combined with functional validation in colon cancer cell lines. Gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) revealed that high COL4A1 expression was associated with oncogenic pathways including epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), KRAS signaling, and inflammatory responses. Immune infiltration analysis indicated that COL4A1 expression negatively correlated with CD8

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Biomarkers, TumorCollagen Type IVColonic NeoplasmsCell Line, TumorCell MovementCell ProliferationDisease ProgressionEpithelial-Mesenchymal TransitionGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansPrognosisBiomarkers, TumorCOL4A1 protein, humanCollagen Type IVCOL4A1Colon cancerPrognosis

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PMID40858897
PMCPMC12381163

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