Project description:Small RNAs of 49 thyroid tissues were extracted and isolated to investigate the correlation of miRNome profiles with specific clinic-pathological and molecular features of the tumors.
Project description:We report data obtaibed from high-throughput sequencing of small RNAs in 20 samples of follicular thyroid tumors. We analyzed a total of 4.7±1.5million reads per sample with 3 different pipelines. The main goal was to evaluate the usefulness of next generation sequencing in small RNA profiling and the concordance of its results with microarrays and qPCR. Additionally we verified published follicular thyroid tumor biomarkers in the set of our samples. Small RNA expression profiling with High Throughput Sequencing of 20 thyroid tumor samples, performed on an Illumina HiScan-SQ.
Project description:We report data obtaibed from high-throughput sequencing of small RNAs in 20 samples of follicular thyroid tumors. We analyzed a total of 4.7±1.5million reads per sample with 3 different pipelines. The main goal was to evaluate the usefulness of next generation sequencing in small RNA profiling and the concordance of its results with microarrays and qPCR. Additionally we verified published follicular thyroid tumor biomarkers in the set of our samples.
Project description:Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) is the most aggressive form of thyroid cancer, and often derives from pre-existing well-differentiated tumors. We have engineered the first mouse model of ATC by combining in the mouse thyroid follicular cells two molecular hallmarks of human ATC: activation of PI3K (via Pten deletion) and inactivation of p53. By 9 months of age, over 75% of the compound mutant mice develop aggressive, undifferentiated thyroid tumors that evolve from pre-existing follicular hyperplasia and carcinoma. These tumors display all the features of their human counterpart, including pleomorphism, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, aneuploidy, local invasion and distant metastases. We have performed expression profiling of thyroids from control, single mutants, compound mutants, follicular tumors from Pten-/- mice, and anaplastic tumors from Pten, p53-/- mice.
Project description:Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) is the most aggressive form of thyroid cancer, and often derives from pre-existing well-differentiated tumors. We have engineered the first mouse model of ATC by combining in the mouse thyroid follicular cells two molecular hallmarks of human ATC: activation of PI3K (via Pten deletion) and inactivation of p53. By 9 months of age, over 75% of the compound mutant mice develop aggressive, undifferentiated thyroid tumors that evolve from pre-existing follicular hyperplasia and carcinoma. These tumors display all the features of their human counterpart, including pleomorphism, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, aneuploidy, local invasion and distant metastases.
Project description:Recently, we demonstrated that RDRs had a general function to synthesize antisense RNAs from sense transcripts of protein-coding genes. In this study, we analyzed whether RDR-mediated antisense RNAs were processed into small RNAs by deep sequencing using SOLiD. Deep sequencing identified 1,645 RDR1/2/6-mediated smRNA loci in drought stress and control conditions.
Project description:CONTEXT: BRAF V600E mutation (BRAF-mut.) confers aggressiveness in papillary thyroid carcinoma, but unidentified genomic abnormalities may be required for full phenotypic expression. OBJECTIVE: To perform deep sequencing to identify genes differentially expressed between BRAF-mut. and BRAF-wild-type (BRAF-WT) tumors, and to compare to patient clinical status. DESIGN: BRAF-mut. and BRAF-WT tumors were identified in patients with T1N0 and with T23N1 tumors. Expression levels of genes were determined from RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) data and fusion transcripts were detected. NanoString was used to validate the RNA-Seq data for immune genes. SETTING: Patients were seen at two sites of a major referral medical center. PATIENTS: Twenty patients were studied. BRAF-mut. patients included 9 women, 3 men; 9 were TNM stage I and 3 were stage III; 3 (25%) had lymphocytic thyroiditis. BRAF-WT included 5 women; 3 men; all were stage I; 5 (62.5%) had lymphocytic thyroiditis. RESULTS: 560 of 13,085 genes were differentially expressed by RNA-Seq, and MetaCore analysis identified 55 immune function genes that were differentially expressed as a function of BRAF mutational status. Immune function genes were broadly underexpressed in BRAF-mut. tumors, with only 4 genes (HLA-G, CXCL14, TIMP1, IL1RAP) more highly expressed. NanoString validated the RNA Seq data for immune genes. Eleven high confidence fusion transcripts were detected, four being inter-chromosomal and seven intra-chromosomal. CONCLUSION: BRAF-mut. papillary thyroid cancers have less expression of immune and inflammatory response genes than BRAF-WT tumors. Thirteen of 20 (65%) tumors had between one and three fusion transcripts. Functional studies will be required to determine the potential role of the newly identified genomic abnormalities in contributing to the aggressiveness of BRAF-mut. and wild-type tumors. RNA-seq was performed on 20 thyroid carcinoma tumors