Circulating microRNA-92a and microRNA-21 as novel minimally invasive biomarkers for primary breast cancer

Autor: Hai-yan Si, Huanchun Wang, Xiaoming Sun, Chengjin Hu, Yuan Cao, Shimin Chen, Yingjian Chen
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology
ISSN: 1432-1335
0171-5216
DOI: 10.1007/s00432-012-1315-y
Popis: Purpose MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play an essential role in breast malignant tumor development and progression. The development of clinically validated biomarkers for primary breast cancer (BC) has remained an insurmountable task despite other advances in the field of cancer molecular biology. The objective of this study is to investigate the differential expression of miRNAs and the potential of circulating microRNAs as novel primary breast cancer biomarkers. Methods Our analyses were performed on 48 tissue and 100 serum samples of patients with primary BC and a set of 20 control samples of healthy women, respectively. The relative expression of ten candidate miRNAs (miR-106b, miR-125b, miR-17, miR-185, miR-21, miR-558, miR-625, miR-665, miR-92a, and miR-93) from the results of four bioinformatics approaches and literature curation was measured by real-time quantitative reverse transcription PCR (qRT-PCR). Results The level of miR-92a was significantly lower, while miR-21 was higher, as previous reports, in tissue and serum samples of BC than that of healthy controls (p
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