Integrated analysis of long non-coding RNA competing interactions reveals the potential role in progression of human gastric cancer

  • Authors:
    • Cheng-Yun Li
    • Ge-Yu Liang
    • Wen-Zhuo Yao
    • Jing Sui
    • Xian Shen
    • Yan-Qiu Zhang
    • Hui Peng
    • Wei-Wei Hong
    • Yan-Cheng Ye
    • Zhi-Yi Zhang
    • Wen-Hua Zhang
    • Li-Hong Yin
    • Yue-Pu Pu
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  • Published online on: February 24, 2016     https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.2016.3407
  • Pages: 1965-1976
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Abstract

Abnormal expression of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been shown to play an important role in tumor biology. The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) platform is a large sample sequencing database of lncRNAs, and further analysis of the associations between these data and patients' clinical related information can provide new approaches to find the functions of lncRNA. In the present study, 361 RNA sequencing profiles of gastric cancer (GC) patients were selected from TCGA. Then, we constructed the lncRNA-miRNA-mRNA competitive endogenous RNA (ceRNA) network of GC. There were 25 GC specific lncRNAs (fold change >2, p<0.05) identified, 19 of them were included in ceRNA network. Subsequently, we selected these 19 key lncRNAs and analyzed the correlations with clinical features and overall survival, 14 of them were discriminatively expressed with tumor size, tumor grade, TNM stage and lymphatic metastasis (p<0.05). In addition, eight lncRNAs (RPLP0P2, FOXD2-AS1, H19, TINCR, SLC26A4-AS1, SMIM10L2A, SMIM10L2B and SNORD116-4) were found to be significantly associated with overall survival (log-rank p<0.05). Finally, two key lncRNAs HOTAIR and UCA1 were selected for validation of their expression levels in 82 newly diagnosed GC patients by qRT-PCR. Results showed that the fold changes between TCGA and qRT-PCR were 100% in agreement. In addition, we also found that HOTAIR was significantly correlated with tumor size and lymphatic metastasis (p<0.05), and UCA1 was significantly correlated with tumor size, TNM stage and lymphatic metastasis (p<0.05). The clinical relevance of the two lncRNAs and the bioinformatics analysis results were almost the same. Overall, our study showed the GC specific lncRNAs expression patterns and a ceRNA network in GC. Clinical features related to GC specific lncRNAs also suggested these lncRNAs are worthwhile for further study as novel candidate biomarkers for the clinical diagnosis of GC and potential indicators for prognosis.
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Li C, Liang G, Yao W, Sui J, Shen X, Zhang Y, Peng H, Hong W, Ye Y, Zhang Z, Zhang Z, et al: Integrated analysis of long non-coding RNA competing interactions reveals the potential role in progression of human gastric cancer. Int J Oncol 48: 1965-1976, 2016
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Li, C., Liang, G., Yao, W., Sui, J., Shen, X., Zhang, Y. ... Pu, Y. (2016). Integrated analysis of long non-coding RNA competing interactions reveals the potential role in progression of human gastric cancer. International Journal of Oncology, 48, 1965-1976. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.2016.3407
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Li, C., Liang, G., Yao, W., Sui, J., Shen, X., Zhang, Y., Peng, H., Hong, W., Ye, Y., Zhang, Z., Zhang, W., Yin, L., Pu, Y."Integrated analysis of long non-coding RNA competing interactions reveals the potential role in progression of human gastric cancer". International Journal of Oncology 48.5 (2016): 1965-1976.
Chicago
Li, C., Liang, G., Yao, W., Sui, J., Shen, X., Zhang, Y., Peng, H., Hong, W., Ye, Y., Zhang, Z., Zhang, W., Yin, L., Pu, Y."Integrated analysis of long non-coding RNA competing interactions reveals the potential role in progression of human gastric cancer". International Journal of Oncology 48, no. 5 (2016): 1965-1976. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.2016.3407