Project description:Prostate cancer is the most common malignancy in men. Yet, the modest benefit of treatment highlights the unmet need for prognostic biomarkers in prostate cancer (1). Few large prostate oncogenome resources currently exist that combine the molecular and clinical outcome data necessary for prognostic discovery. To determine the extent to which genomic aberrations reflect the risk of prostate cancer-specific outcomes, we profiled more than 100 primary prostate cancers with long-term follow-up for genome-wide copy number alterations (CNA). We also updated the long-term clinical outcome (median 8 years) of an additional independent cohort of 181 primary prostate cancers that we previously profiled for CNA and expression changes (2). Together, we found that CNA burden across the genome, defined as the percent of the tumor genome affected by CNA, is prognostic for recurrence and metastasis in these two cohorts. This prognostic significance of CNA is independent of Gleason grade, a major existing histopathological prognostic variable in prostate cancer. Moreover, in intermediate-risk Gleason 7 prostate cancers that show a wide range of outcomes, CNA burden is also prognostic for biochemical recurrence, independent of prostate-specific antigen or nomogram score. CNA burden therefore has the potential to stratify patients by their risk of recurrence in an otherwise intermediate risk subpopulation. We further demonstrate that CNA burden can be established in diagnostic FFPE needle biopsies using low-input whole genome sequencing. Together, this work highlights the potential of oncogenomics to identify useful and clinically amenable prognostic factors that may inform prostate cancer outcome and treatment. Human prostate samples were profiled on Agilent 1M aCGH arrays per manufacturer's instructions. A pooled reference normal DNA was used as the reference.

2014-06-30 | E-GEOD-54691 | biostudies-arrayexpress

Breast cancer prevention with liquiritigenin

Project description:Breast cancer risk continues to increase post menopause. Anti-estrogen therapies are available to prevent postmenopausal breast cancer in high-risk women. However, their adverse effects have reduced acceptability and overall success in cancer prevention. Natural products such as hops (Humulus lupulus) and three pharmacopeial licorice (Glycyrrhiza) species have demonstrated estrogenic and chemopreventive properties, but little is known regarding their effects on aromatase expression and activity as well as pro-proliferation pathways in human breast tissue. We show that Gycyrrhiza inflata (GI) has the highest aromatase inhibition potency among these plant extracts. Moreover, phytoestrogens such as liquiritigenin which is common in all licorice species have potent aromatase inhibitory activity, which is further supported by computational docking of their structures in the binding pocket of aromatase. In addition, GI extract and liquiritigenin suppress aromatase expression in the breast tissue of high-risk postmenopausal women. Although liquiritigenin has estrogenic effects in vitro, with preferential activity through estrogen receptor (ER)-β, it reduces estradiol-induced uterine growth in vivo. It downregulates RNA translation, protein biosynthesis, and metabolism in high-risk women’s breast tissue. Finally, it reduces the rate of MCF-7 cell proliferation, with repeated dosing. Collectively, these data suggest that liquiritigenin has breast cancer prevention potential for high-risk postmenopausal women. We then performed gene expression profiling analysis using data obtained from RNA-seq of 4 different cells at two time points.

2023-08-30 | GSE223524 | GEO

CIDR-Whole Genome Sequencing: Prospective Birth Cohort to Elucidate Etiology of ADHD in US Minority Children

Project description:CIDR-Whole Genome Sequencing: Prospective Birth Cohort to Elucidate Etiology of ADHD in US Minority Children

| PRJNA1022567 | ENA

CIDR GWAS of Breast Cancer in High Risk Women

Project description:CIDR GWAS of Breast Cancer in High Risk Women

| PRJNA286266 | ENA

CIDR Alcohol Dependence

Project description:CIDR Alcohol Dependence

| PRJNA75517 | ENA