Tumor and reproductive traits are linked by RNA metabolism genes in the mouse ovary: a transcriptome-phenotype association analysis
| Autor: | Garrison A. Owens, John J Sharp, Gen-Mu Zhang, Ulises Urzúa, James Cherry, David J. Munroe |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Mice Inbred Strains Ovary Biology Polymerase Chain Reaction Andrology Transcriptome Mice Ovarian tumor Species Specificity Inbred strain Genetics medicine Animals Ovulation media_common Ovarian Neoplasms Analysis of Variance Gene Expression Profiling Reproduction Microarray Analysis medicine.disease Molecular biology Phenotype Proceedings medicine.anatomical_structure Linear Models RNA Female Folliculogenesis Ovarian cancer Genome-Wide Association Study Biotechnology |
| Zdroj: | BMC Genomics |
| ISSN: | 1471-2164 |
| Popis: | Background The link between reproductive life history and incidence of ovarian tumors is well known. Periods of reduced ovulations may confer protection against ovarian cancer. Using phenotypic data available for mouse, a possible association between the ovarian transcriptome, reproductive records and spontaneous ovarian tumor rates was investigated in four mouse inbred strains. NIA15k-DNA microarrays were employed to obtain expression profiles of BalbC, C57BL6, FVB and SWR adult ovaries. Results Linear regression analysis with multiple-test control (adjusted p ≤ 0.05) resulted in ovarian tumor frequency (OTF) and number of litters (NL) as the top-correlated among five tested phenotypes. Moreover, nearly one-hundred genes were coincident between these two traits and were decomposed in 76 OTF(–) NL(+) and 20 OTF(+) NL(–) genes, where the plus/minus signs indicate the direction of correlation. Enriched functional categories were RNA-binding/mRNA-processing and protein folding in the OTF(–) NL(+) and the OTF(+) NL(–) subsets, respectively. In contrast, no associations were detected between OTF and litter size (LS), the latter a measure of ovulation events in a single estrous cycle. Conclusion Literature text-mining pointed to post-transcriptional control of ovarian processes including oocyte maturation, folliculogenesis and angiogenesis as possible causal relationships of observed tumor and reproductive phenotypes. We speculate that repetitive cycling instead of repetitive ovulations represent the actual link between ovarian tumorigenesis and reproductive records. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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