Project description:This study aimed to perform microarray analysis of the peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) transcriptome to evaluate differential lncRNA expression in women with luminal A breast cancer
Project description:Biomarkers of response are needed in breast cancer to stratify patients to appropriate therapies and avoid unnecessary toxicity. Peripheral blood gene expression and cell type abundance were used to identify biomarkers of response and recurrence in neoadjuvant chemotherapy treated breast cancer patients. Higher peripheral blood monocyte abundance after neoadjuvant chemotherapy was associated with improved prognosis in multiple independent cohorts of breast cancer patients.
Project description:In the present study through microarray analysis we looked into the mRNA differential expression in peripheral blood of PCOS patients v/s control women. The results implicated that many signalling networks as MAPK pathway, Androgen signaling, Insulin signaling and Immune signaling are regulated in peripheral blood of PCOS patients. The data indicate that there is generic PCOS specific gene expression in peripheral blood of PCOS subjects which can reflect the same from other PCO tissues. Total RNA was extracted from peripheral blood of 4 PCOS patients and 4 control subjects and compared for mRNA diferential expression through microarray.
Project description:Bilaterality of breast cancer is an indicator of constitutional cancer susceptibility, however, the molecular causes underlying this predisposition in the majority of cases is not known. We hypothesize that epigenetic misregulation of cancer related genes could partially account for this predisposition. We have performed methylation microarray analysis of peripheral blood DNA from 14 women with bilateral breast cancer compared to 14 unaffected matched controls throughout 17 candidate breast cancer susceptibility genes including BRCA1, BRCA2, CHEK2, ATM, ESR1, SFN, CDKN2A, TP53, GSTP1, CDH1, CDH13, HIC1, PGR, SFRP1, MLH1, RARB and HSD17B4. We show that the majority of methylation variability is associated with intragenic repetitive elements. Detailed validation of the tiled region around ATM was performed by bisulfite modification and pyrosequencing of the same samples and in a second set of peripheral blood DNA from 190 bilateral breast cancer patients compared to 190 controls. We show significant hypermethylation of one intragenic repetitive element in breast cancer cases compared to controls (p=0.0017) with the highest quartile of methylation associated with a three-fold increased risk of breast cancer (OR = 3.20, 95% C.I.=1.78-5.86, p=0.000083). Increased methylation of this locus is associated with lower steady state ATM mRNA level and correlates with age of cancer patients but not controls, suggesting a combined age-phenotype related association. This research demonstrates the potential for gene-body epigenetic misregulation of ATM and other cancer related genes in peripheral blood DNA that may be useful as a novel marker to estimate breast cancer risk. Keywords: Differential Methylation Hybridisation
Project description:The limited benefit of immune checkpoint inhibitor in breast cancer indicates the pressing need to identify biomarkers of response to minimize risk and maximize benefit. In this study, we performed single cell RNA sequencing and T cell receptor sequencing on peripheral blood mononuclear cells to monitor the peripheral immune dynamics of an exploratory cohort of hormone receptor positive breast cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant nab-paclitaxel+pembrolizumab with the ultimate goal of identifying potential peripheral blood predictive biomarkers.
Project description:Peripheral blood CD8+ T-lymphocytes play a crucial role in cell-mediated immunity and tumour-related immune responses in breast cancer. The protein profile analysis of CD8+ T-lymphocytes in benign, Luminal A, Luminal B and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients in comparison to healthy control via a label-free proteomic quantification and gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) were performed. The results confirmed that the most significantly of RNA degradation signalling pathway was down-regulated in all groups (benign, Luminal A, Luminal B, TNBC) was observed. Given the immunological role that T cells play in the treatment of disease, a better knowledge of RNA metabolism, i.e., the role that mRNA degradation pathways play in human physiology and pathology may lead to novel approaches to the therapeutic use of T cells.