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Association between TMPRSS2:ERG fusion gene and the prostate cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: Introduction:To identify the association between the TMPRSS2:ERG fusion gene, their variants and the onset of localized prostate cancer. Material and methods:A systematic search strategy was carried out through MEDLINE, EMBASE, LILACS, CENTRAL and unpublished literature. We included randomized control trials, cohort, case-control and cross-sectional studies that involved patients >18 years-old assessing the association between TMPRSS2 fusion gene, its single nucleotide polymorphisms and prostate cancer. The primary outcome was prostate cancer defined by histology of the tumor coming from transrectal ultrasound guided biopsy, transurethral resection of the prostate or radical prostatectomy. We assessed the risk of bias with QUADAS2 and performed a meta-analysis with Stata 14. Results:We found 241 records with the search strategies. After duplicates were removed, 18 studies were included in qualitative analysis and 15 studies in meta-analysis. All included studies that had no applicability concerns and low risk of bias for flow and timing. Nine studies had an unclear risk of bias for index and reference tests, since they did not describe the blinding assessment appropriately. Regarding the association between TMPRSS2:ERG and prostate cancer, we found an odds ratio (OR) 2.24 and a 95% confidence interval (CI) (1.29 to 3.91). Regarding the kind of sample, urine showed an OR 2.79 and a 95% CI (1.12 to 6.98) and when using a DNA molecular template, the OR was 3.55 with a 95% CI (1.08 to 11.65). Conclusions:There was an association between TMPRSS2:ERG fusion gene with the diagnosis of prostate cancer, mainly in urine samples and DNA-based molecular templates. TMPRSS2:ERG might be used as the gold standard biomarker for diagnosis and stratification of PCa.

SUBMITTER: Garcia-Perdomo HA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6338815 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Association between TMPRSS2:ERG fusion gene and the prostate cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis.

García-Perdomo Herney Andrés HA Chaves Maria Juliana MJ Osorio Julio Cesar JC Sanchez Adalberto A

Central European journal of urology 20181105 4

<h4>Introduction</h4>To identify the association between the TMPRSS2:ERG fusion gene, their variants and the onset of localized prostate cancer.<h4>Material and methods</h4>A systematic search strategy was carried out through MEDLINE, EMBASE, LILACS, CENTRAL and unpublished literature. We included randomized control trials, cohort, case-control and cross-sectional studies that involved patients >18 years-old assessing the association between TMPRSS2 fusion gene, its single nucleotide polymorphis ...[more]

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Project description:Gene fusions involving ETS family transcription factors (mainly TMPRSS2-ERG and TMPRSS2-ETV1 fusions) have been found in ~50% of human prostate cancer cases. Although expression of TMPRSS2-ERG or TMPRSS2-ETV1 fusion alone is insufficient to initiate prostate tumorigenesis, they appear to sensitize prostate epithelial cells for cooperation with additional oncogenic mutations to drive frank prostate adenocarcinoma. To search for such ETS-cooperating oncogenic events, we focused on a well-studied prostate tumor suppressor NKX3.1, as loss of NKX3.1 is another common genetic alteration in human prostate cancer. Previous studies have shown that deletions at 8p21 (harboring NKX3.1) and 21q22 (resulting in TMPRSS2-ERG fusion) were both present in a subtype of prostate cancer cases, and that ERG can lead to epigenetic silencing of NKX3.1 in prostate cancer cells, whereas NKX3.1 can in turn negatively regulate TMPRSS2-ERG fusion expression via suppression of the TMPRSS2 promoter activity. We recently generated knockin mouse models for TMPRSS2-ERG and TMPRSS2-ETV1 fusions, utilizing the endogenous Tmprss2 promoter. We crossed these knockin models to an Nkx3.1 knockout mouse model. In Tmprss2-ERG;Nkx3.1+/- (or -/-) male mice, although we observed a slight but significant upregulation of Tmprss2-ERG fusion expression upon Nkx3.1 loss, we did not detect any significant cooperation between these two genetic events to enhance prostate tumorigenesis in vivo. Furthermore, retrospective analysis of a previously published human prostate cancer dataset revealed that within ERG-overexpressing prostate cancer cases, NKX3.1 loss or deletion did not predict biochemical relapse after radical prostatectomy. Collectively, these data suggest that although TMPRSS2-ERG fusion and loss of NKX3.1 are among the most common mutational events found in prostate cancer, and although each of them can sensitize prostate epithelial cells for cooperating with other oncogenic events, these two events themselves do not appear to cooperate at a significant level in vivo to enhance prostate tumorigenesis.

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Association between TMPRSS2:ERG fusion gene and the prostate cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Association between TMPRSS2:ERG fusion gene and the prostate cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis.

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