Identification of metastamirs as metastasis-associated microRNAs in clear cell renal cell carcinomas

ABSTRACT: Background/Objective: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play a pivotal role in cancerogenesis and cancer progression, but their specific role in metastasis of clear cell renal cell carcinomas (ccRCCs) as so-called metastamirs is still limited. Based on microRNA microarray analyses from normal (n=12) and cancerous (n=12) samples of ccRCC specimens and from bone metastases (n=9) of ccRCC patients, we identified a set of 57 differentially expressed microRNAs between those three sample groups of ccRCC. A selected panel of 33 miRNAs, including miRNAs reported in the literature as differentially expressed in non-metastatic RCC, was validated by RT-qPCR on 57 clinical samples. 30 of the 33 examined miRNAs were confirmed to be deregulated. A stepwise down-regulated miRNA expression from normal over primary tumor

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Hellmuth-A Meyer 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-37989 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress