Project description:In order to identify the deregulated genes in hepatocellular carcinama, we applied the Agilent two-color chip cDNA microarray to explore the expression of genes in hepatocellular carcinoma and nontumor liver tissue samples. Hepatocellular carcinoma tissues and nontumor liver tissues were obtained from hepatocellular carcinoma patients during surgery. In these samples, RNA was extracted and cDNA microarray was performed to identify the differentially expressed genes in these samples. Hepatocellular carcinoma tissues and nontumor liver tissues were obtained from hepatocellular carcinoma patients during surgery. We included four hepatocellular carcinoma patients in this study, and there are four nontumor tissues and four hepatocellular carcinoma tissues.
Project description:<p>Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In this study we sequenced the whole genome (~80X) and transcriptome of tumor and non-tumor samples from four HCC patients and identified over two hundred HBV integration sites. We found significant clonal expansion of HBV-integrated hepatocytes specifically in the tumor samples. We observed a diverse collection of genomic perturbations near viral integration sites, including gene disruption, viral promoter-driven human transcription, viral-human transcript fusion and DNA copy number alteration. We also sequenced one patient at ultra-high coverage (~240X) to build the most comprehensive HBV-integration landscape yet attempted. Our data suggest that the viral integration significantly expands carcinogenic opportunities in HBV-infected individuals.</p>
Project description:Tumor samples and matching healthy tissue from 23 human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients and one hepatocellular adenoma patient were collected after surgical resection. Total RNA was harvested and sequenced with a strand-specific single-end RNA-seq protocol.
Project description:Aberrant gene expression analysis between peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) samples from healthy individuals and patients with pancreatic carcinoma, gastric carcinoma and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) were identified using Affymetrix gene arrays.
Project description:Aberrant gene expression analysis between peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) samples from healthy individuals and patients with pancreatic carcinoma, gastric carcinoma and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) were identified using Affymetrix gene arrays. Peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) from healthy individuals, patients with pancreatic carcinoma, gastric carcinoma and HCC were isolated and total RNA was extracted for Affymetrix gene microarray analysis.
Project description:Background: It is a challenge to identify those patients who, after undergoing potentially curative treatments for hepatocellular carcinoma, are at greatest risk of recurrence. Such high-risk patients could receive novel interventional measures. An obstacle to the development of genome-based predictors of outcome in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma has been the lack of a means to carry out genomewide expression profiling of fixed, as opposed to frozen, tissues. Methods: We aimed to demonstrate the feasibility of gene-expression profiling of more than 6000 human genes in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues. We applied the method to tissues from 307 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, from four series of patients, to discover and validate a gene-expression signature associated with survival. Results: The expression-profiling method for formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue was highly effective: samples from 90% of the patients yielded data of high quality, including samples that had been archived for more than 24 years. Gene-expression profiles of tumor tissue failed to yield a significant association with survival. In contrast, profiles of the surrounding nontumoral liver tissue were highly correlated with survival in a training set of 82 Japanese patients, and the signature was validated in tissues from an independent group of 225 patients from the United States and Europe (p = 0.04). Conclusions: We have demonstrated the feasibility of genomewide expression profiling of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues and have shown that a reproducible gene-expression signature correlating with survival is present in liver tissue adjacent to the tumor in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE10140: Gene Expression in Fixed Tissues and Outcome in Hepatocellular Carcinoma (Training Set, Liver) GSE10141: Gene Expression in Fixed Tissues and Outcome in Hepatocellular Carcinoma (Training Set, HCC) GSE10142: Gene Expression in Fixed Tissues and Outcome in Hepatocellular Carcinoma (Validation Set) Keywords: Hepatocellular carcinoma, Expression array, Illumina, Signatures, Outcome prediction Training cohort: 80 tumor and 82 non-tumor liver tissues surgically resected from patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC); Validation cohort: 225 non-tumor liver tissues surgically resected from patients with HCC. Clinical data has been withheld from GEO due to privacy concerns.