Project description:Background: suitable diagnostic markers for cancers are urgently required in clinical practice. Long noncoding RNAs, which have been reported in many cancer types, are a potential new class of biomarkers for tumor diagnosis. Method: LncRNA gene expression profiles were analyzed in two pairs of human gastric cancer and adjacent non-tumor tissues by microarray analysis. Nine gastric cancer-associated lncRNAs were selected and assessed by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction in gastric tissues, and 5 of them were further analyzed in gastric cancer patients’plasma. Results: Five lncRNAs, including AK001058, INHBA-AS1, MIR4435-2HG, UCA1 and CEBPA-AS1 were validated to be increased in gastric cancer tissues. Furthermore, we found that plasma level of these five lncRNAs were significantly higher in gastric cancer patients compared with normal controls. By receiver operating characteristic analysis, we found that the combination of plasma lncRNAs with the area under the curve up to 0.921, including AK001058, INHBA-AS1, MIR4435-2HG, and CEBPA-AS1, is a better indicator of gastric cancer than their individual levels or other lncRNA combinations. Simultaneously, we found that the expression levels of a series of MIR4435-2HG fragments are different in gastric cancer plasma samples, but most of them higher than that in healthy control plasma samples. Conclusion: Our results demonstrate that certain lncRNAs, such as AK001058, INHBA-AS1, MIR4435-2HG, and CEBPA-AS1, are enriched in human gastric cancer tissues and significantly elevated in the plasma of patients with gastric cancer. These findings indicate that the combination of these four lncRNAs might be used as diagnostic or prognostic markers for gastric cancer patients.
Project description:LncRNA and mRNA expression profiling for 7 human gastric cancr samples (3 tumor tissues and 3 tumor lymph node and 1 normal tissue) We have completed the metastasis-related Long Noncoding RNA expression profiling data microarray analysis of the 7 human gastric cancer related samples In the study presented here, a consecutively operated, well-defined cohort of three gastric cancer tissues and three metastatic lymph nodes tissues compared with the normal tissues and lymph nodes tissues, followed up more than five years, was used to acquire expression profiles of a total of 1942 lncRNA and 1976 mRNA, leading to the successful construction of supervised
Project description:Long noncoding RNAs (LncRNAs) are an important class if pervasive genes involved in a variety of biological functions. LncRNAs have been recently implicated as having oncogenic and tumor suppressor roles. To further investigate the function of lncRNA in gastric cancer, we use lncRNA microarray to describe LncRNAs profiles in 6 pairs of human gastric adenocarcinoma and the corresponding adjacent nontumorous tissues. The experimental samples are divided into two groups(normal and tumor) to compare lncRNA expression profiling of those