| Literature DB >> 22371711 |
Ismael A Vergara1, Nicholas Erho, Timothy J Triche, Mercedeh Ghadessi, Anamaria Crisan, Thomas Sierocinski, Peter C Black, Christine Buerki, Elai Davicioni.
Abstract
Prostate cancer is the most diagnosed cancer among men in the United States. While the majority of patients who undergo surgery (prostatectomy) will essentially be cured, about 30-40% men remain at risk for disease progression and recurrence. Currently, patients are deemed at risk by evaluation of clinical factors, but these do not resolve whether adjuvant therapy will significantly attenuate or delay disease progression for a patient at risk. Numerous efforts using mRNA-based biomarkers have been described for this purpose, but none have successfully reached widespread clinical practice in helping to make an adjuvant therapy decision. Here, we assess the utility of non-coding RNAs as biomarkers for prostate cancer recurrence based on high-resolution oligonucleotide microarray analysis of surgical tissue specimens from normal adjacent prostate, primary tumors, and metastases. We identify differentially expressed non-coding RNAs that distinguish between the different prostate tissue types and show that these non-coding RNAs can predict clinical outcomes in primary tumors. Together, these results suggest that non-coding RNAs are emerging from the "dark matter" of the genome as a new source of biomarkers for characterizing disease recurrence and progression. While this study shows that non-coding RNA biomarkers can be highly informative, future studies will be needed to further characterize the specific roles of these non-coding RNA biomarkers in the development of aggressive disease.Entities:
Keywords: clinical progression; microarrays; non-coding RNA; prognosis; prostate cancer
Year: 2012 PMID: 22371711 PMCID: PMC3284255 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2012.00023
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Front Genet ISSN: 1664-8021 Impact factor: 4.599
Summary of the clinical characteristics of the dataset used in this study.
| Primary tumor | Metastasis | |
|---|---|---|
| 131 | 19 | |
| Median age at Dx (years) | 58 | 58 |
| <10 | 108 | 7 |
| ≥10 < 20 | 16 | 1 |
| ≥20 | 6 | 9 |
| NA | 1 | 2 |
| ≤6 | 41 | 0 |
| 7 | 74 | 2 |
| ≥8 | 15 | 7 |
| NA | 1 | 10 |
| T2 | 85 | 1 |
| T3 | 40 | 7 |
| T4 | 6 | 2 |
| NA | 0 | 9 |
Figure 1Venn diagram of exonic (A) and non-exonic (B) features found differentially expressed in the following comparisons: normal vs. primary tumor tissue (N vs. P), primary tumor vs. metastatic tissue (P vs. M), and normal vs. metastatic tissue (N vs. M).
Figure 2Distribution of non-exonic features (left) and overlapping annotated non-coding transcripts (right) found to be differentially expressed between normal and primary tumor (A,D), primary tumor and metastatic tissue (B,E), and normal vs. metastatic tissue (C,F). Features in the NC TRANSCRIPT slice of each pie chart (left) are assessed for their overlap with non-coding transcripts to generate the distribution of transcripts (shown at the right for each pairwise comparison). AS, antisense. UTR, untranslated region; lincRNA, long intergenic ncRNA.
Definitions of Ensembl “Transcript Biotype” annotations for non-coding transcripts found differentially expressed.
| Name | Definition |
|---|---|
| Processed transcript | Non-coding transcript that does not contain an ORF |
| Retained intron | Non-coding transcript containing intronic sequence |
| LincRNA | Large intergenic non-coding RNA, or long non-coding RNA, usually associated with open chromatin signatures such as histone modification sites |
| Antisense | Non-coding transcript believed to be an antisense product used in the regulation of the gene to which it belongs |
| Sense overlapping | Has a long non-coding transcript that contains a coding gene in its intron on the same strand |
| Processed pseudogene | Non-coding pseudogene produced by integration of a reverse transcribed mRNA into the genome |
Long non-coding RNAs previously reported as differentially expressed in prostate cancer.
| Gene type | Gene | Probe set ID | Comparison | MFD ratio | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LncRNA | 3165014 | Primary vs. normal | <0.01 | −1.17 | Yap et al. ( | |
| 3165015 | Metastatic vs. normal | <0.01 | 1.49 | |||
| 3165015 | Metastatic vs. primary | <0.02 | 1.33 | |||
| 3359101 | Primary vs. normal | <0.01 | 1.32 | Berteaux et al. ( | ||
| 3359097 | Metastatic vs. normal | <0.01 | 1.43 | |||
| 3359095 | Metastatic vs. primary | <0.01 | −1.12 | |||
| 3175541 | Primary vs. normal | <0.01 | 14.3 | Bussemakers et al. ( | ||
| 3175545 | Metastatic vs. normal | <0.01 | 4.46 | |||
| 3175541 | Metastatic vs. primary | <0.01 | −3.44 | |||
| 3335195 | Primary vs. normal | <0.01 | −1.64 | Lin et al. ( | ||
| 3335195 | Metastatic vs. normal | <0.01 | −3.33 | |||
| 3335195 | Metastatic vs. primary | <0.01 | −2.63 | |||
| 2520747 | Primary vs. normal | <0.01 | 1.75 | Srikantan et al. ( | ||
| 2520749 | Metastatic vs. normal | <0.2 | −1.58 | |||
| 2520749 | Metastatic vs. primary | <0.01 | −4.00 | |||
| 3203669 | Primary vs. normal | <0.01 | −1.34 | Poliseno et al. ( | ||
| 3203666 | Metastatic vs. normal | <0.6 | −1.09 | |||
| 3203669 | Metastatic vs. primary | <0.04 | 1.50 | |||
| miRNA | 2835118 | Metastatic vs. primary | <0.01 | −1.78 | Clape et al. ( | |
| 2835126 | Metastatic vs. primary | <0.01 | −4.77 | Zaman et al. ( | ||
| 2835126 | Metastatic vs. normal | <0.01 | −7.98 | |||
| 4006597 | Metastatic vs. primary | <0.01 | −1.52 | Porkka et al. ( | ||
| 4006597 | Metastatic vs. normal | <0.01 | −2.11 |
MFD: median fold difference in this dataset in various comparisons. The MFD value is computed as the ratio of the median between the first tissue type and the second tissue type in the “Comparison” column. Gray cells indicate statistical significance after multiple testing correction. Genes .
Figure A1Multidimensional scaling plots of the distribution of primary tumor samples with (yellow) and without (blue) metastatic events compared to metastatic (red) and normal (green) tissues for exonic (A) and non-exonic (B) features. Metastatic and normal data points are included in the figure for illustrative purposes only.
Figure A2Multidimensional scaling plots of the distribution of primary tumor samples with Gleason score of 6 (blue), 7 (purple), 8 and 9 (both in yellow) compared to metastatic (red) and normal (green) tissues for exonic (A) and non-exonic (B) features. Metastatic and normal data points are included in the figure for illustrative purposes only.
Figure 3Kaplan–Meier plots of the two groups of primary tumor samples classified by KNN (“normal-like” vs. “metastatic-like”) using the BCR end point for exonic (A) and non-exonic (B) features.
Multivariable logistic regression analysis for prediction of the probability of metastatic disease progression.
| Classifier | Exonic | Non-exonic | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Predictor | OR | OR CI (95%) | OR | OR CI (95%) | ||
| KNN-positive | 9.76 | 0.9–109.8 | <0.07 | 11.7 | 1.7–80.8 | <0.02 |
| Nomogram | 14.8 | 2.4–92 | <0.004 | 9.12 | 1.4–61.1 | <0.03 |
Gray cells indicate statistical significance at the 5% significance level.
*KNN-positive: metastatic-like.
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OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval.