Project description:In this study, 19 tumor samples from patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC)-end-stage renal disease (ESRD) were analyzed by array comparative genomic hybridization (array CGH) using the Agilent Whole Human Genome 4× Array.
Project description:In this study, eighty tumor samples from 63 patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC)-end-stage renal disease (ESRD) were analyzed by array comparative genomic hybridization (array CGH) using the Agilent Whole Human Genome 4×44K Oligo Micro Array.
Project description:Using CapitalBio Technology Human CircRNA Array v2 (4x180K) microarray, we compared the expression of circular RNAs in the plasma from five hepatitis B virus-related hepatocellular carcinoma patients and five chronic hepatitis B patients.
Project description:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) has been etiologically linked to human malignancies including Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma (NPC). Although EBV-encoded miRNAs have been shown to contribute to viral latency, host cell survival and immune evasion, their direct impact on cancer progression in their human host remains unclear. In the current study, based on a miRNA expression profiling analysis of a larger number of clinical specimens using a miRNA array platform containing human, EBV and other species miRNA probes., we found that some EBV-miR-BARTs were highly expressed in NPC. Accordingly, further exploration of the potential roles and regulatory mechanisms of some important EBV-miR-BARTs in NPC progression was carried out. We applied a miRNA expression profiling analysis in 20 poor or undifferentiated NPC (Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma) matched with 20 benign chronic nasopharyngitis (CNP) specimens using a miRNA array platform containing human, EBV and other species miRNA probes.
Project description:We aim to identify profiling of circRNAs in renal tissue from renal cell carcinoma patients. In this study, seven paired frozen carcinoma tissues as well as normal tissues from patients with renal cell carcinoma were used for circRNA profiling by second generation of RNA sequencing.
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. Keywords: Hepatocellular carcinoma, Expression array, Illumina, Signatures, Outcome prediction