Circulating cf-miRNA as a more appropriate surrogate liquid biopsy marker than cfDNA for ovarian cancer / Aoife Ward Gahlawat, Tania Witte, Peter Sinn & Sarah Schott

Ovarian cancer (OC) is an aggressive disease, primarily diagnosed in late stages with only 20% of patients surviving more than 5 years. Liquid biopsy markers have great potential to improve current diagnostic and prognostic methods. Here, we compared miRNAs and DNA methylation in matched plasma, whole blood and tissues as a surrogate marker for OC. We found that while both cfDNA and cf-miRNAs levels were upregulated in OC compared to patients with benign lesions or healthy controls, only cf-miRNA levels were an independent prognosticator of survival. Following on our previous work, we found members of the miR-200 family, miR-200c and miR-141 to be upregulated in both plasma and matched tissues of OC patients which correlated with adverse clinical features. We could also show that the upregulation of miR-200c and -141 correlated with promoter DNA hypomethylation in tissues, but not in plasma or matched whole blood samples. As cf-miRNAs are more easily obtained and very stable in blood, we conclude that they might serve as a more appropriate surrogate liquid biopsy marker than cfDNA for OC..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

04 April 2023

2023

Erschienen:

04 April 2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Scientific reports - 13(2023) vom: Apr., Artikel-ID 5503, Seite 1-9

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gahlawat, Aoife Ward [VerfasserIn]
Witte, Tania [VerfasserIn]
Sinn, Peter, 1957- [VerfasserIn]
Schott, Sarah, 1981- [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

MiRNAs
Molecular medicine
Ovarian cancer

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Umfang:

9

doi:

10.1038/s41598-023-32243-x

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1850525889