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ABSTRACT: Background
Gastric cancer is common cancer. Discovering novel genetic biomarkers might help to identify high-risk individuals. Copy number variation (CNV) has recently been shown to influence risk for several cancers. The aim of the present study was sought to test the association between copy number at a variant region and GC.Methods
A total of 110 gastric cancer patients and 325 healthy volunteers were enrolled in this study. We searched for a CNV and found a CNV (Variation 7468) containing part of the APC gene, the SRP19 gene and the REEP5 gene. We chose four probes targeting at APC-intron8, APC-exon9, SRP19 and REEP5 to interrogate this CNV. Specific Taqman probes labeled by different reporter fluorophores were used in a real-time PCR platform to obtain copy number. Both the original non-integer data and transformed integer data on copy number were used for analyses.Results
Gastric caner patients had a lower non-integer copy number than controls for the APC-exon9 probe (Adjusted p?=?0.026) and SRP19 probe (Adjusted p?=?0.002). The analysis of integer copy number yielded a similar pattern although less significant (Adjusted p?=?0.07 for APC-exon9 probe and Adjusted p?=?0.02 for SRP19 probe).Conclusions
Losses of a CNV at 5q22, especially in the DNA region surrounding APC-exon 9, may be associated with a higher risk of gastric cancer.
SUBMITTER: Tsai PC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4161348 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tsai Pei-Chien PC Huang Szu-Wei SW Tsai Hsiang-Lin HL Ma Cheng-Jen CJ Hou Ming-Feng MF Yang I-Ping IP Wang Yung-Song YS Juo Suh-Hang Hank SH Wang Jaw-Yuan JY
PloS one 20140911 9
<h4>Background</h4>Gastric cancer is common cancer. Discovering novel genetic biomarkers might help to identify high-risk individuals. Copy number variation (CNV) has recently been shown to influence risk for several cancers. The aim of the present study was sought to test the association between copy number at a variant region and GC.<h4>Methods</h4>A total of 110 gastric cancer patients and 325 healthy volunteers were enrolled in this study. We searched for a CNV and found a CNV (Variation 746 ...[more]