Project description:Luminal B breast carcinoma samples were taken prior to chemotherapy in order to identify epigenomic profiles predictive of neoadjuvant chemotherapy efficacy
Project description:Triple negative breast carcinoma samples were taken prior to chemotherapy in order to identify epigenomic profiles predictive of neoadjuvant chemotherapy efficacy
Project description:A targeted gene screen of 365 known cancer genes in luminal breast cancer samples pre-chemotherapy and at resection post-chemotherapy to evalaute clonal expansion of chemotherapy cancer cells.
Project description:Gene expression profiles of malignant carcinomas surgically removed from ovarian cancer patients pre-treated with chemotherapy (neo-adjuvant) prior to surgery group into two distinct clusters. One group clusters with carcinomas from patients not pre-treated with chemotherapy prior to surgery (C-L) while the other clusters with non-malignant adenomas (A-L). Although the C-L cluster is preferentially associated with p53 loss-of-function (LOF) mutations, the C-L cluster cancer patients display a more favorable clinical response to chemotherapy as evidenced by enhanced long-term survivorships. Experiment Overall Design: A set of 43 ovarian tumors was obtained from the Ovarian Cancer Institute (Atlanta). Tissue was collected at the time of surgery and preserved in RNAlater (Ambion, Austin, TX) within one minute of collection. Labeled probe was hybridized to the Affymetrix HG-U95Av2 arrays.
Project description:Despite the advantages of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT), associated toxicity is a serious complication that renders monitoring of the patients response to NACT highly important. Thus, prediction of tumor response to treatment is imperative to avoid exposure of potential non-responders to deleterious complications. We have performed genome-wide analysis of DNA methylation by XmaI-RRBS and selected CpG dinucleotides differential methylation of which discriminates luminal B breast cancer samples with different sensitivity to NACT. With this data, we have developed multiplex methylation sensitive restriction enzyme PCR (MSRE-PCR) protocol for determining the methylation status of 10 genes (SLC9A3, C1QL2, DPYS, IRF4, ADCY8, KCNQ2, TERT, SYNDIG1, SKOR2 and GRIK1) that distinguish BC samples with different NACT response. Analysis of these 10 markers by MSRE-PCR in biopsy samples allowed us to reveal three top informative combinations of markers, (1) IRF4 and C1QL2; (2) IRF4, C1QL2, and ADCY8; (3) IRF4, C1QL2, and DPYS, with the areas under ROC curves (AUCs) of 0.75, 0.78 and 0.74, respectively. A classifier based on IRF4 and C1QL2 better meets the diagnostic panel simplicity requirements, as it consists of only two markers. Diagnostic accuracy of the panel of these two markers is 0.75, with the sensitivity of 75% and specificity of 75%.
Project description:Determination of genes demonstrating differential methylation of CpG islands in tumor samples before and after treatment for revealing main metabolic, regulatory and biological processes
Project description:Prior to implantation, embryonic development occurs in the confinement of the reproductive tract lumen. The endometrial epithelia determines the uterine luminal composition and, consequently, the molecular milieu available to the pre-implantation embryo. This cow RNA-seq study was especially designed to (i) evaluate the impact that progesterone concentration has on the transcriptome of luminal epithelial cells, and (ii) evaluate the impact that endometrial gene expression has on pregnancy outcome. Luminal epithelial cells were collected using a cytology brush three days prior to embryo transfer, so that the molecular evaluation and the pregnancy outcome, measured 30 days after estrus, pertained to the same reproductive cycle.