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Lin S, Wang Z, Xing M. Association Between a History of Breast Cancer and Decreased Thyroid Cancer-specific Mortality. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2024; 109:1222-1230. [PMID: 38064679 PMCID: PMC11031237 DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgad722] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2023] [Indexed: 04/21/2024]
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CONTEXT The clinical relevance of the well-known association between thyroid cancer (TC) and breast cancer (BC) remains to be further defined. OBJECTIVE This work aimed to investigate the effect of history of BC on the prognosis of TC. METHODS This was a comparative cohort study of tumor behaviors and TC-specific mortality in 5598 patients with papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) and 604 patients with follicular thyroid cancer (FTC), all with a history of BC (TC-BC patients), and their propensity score-matched TC patients without a history of BC (TCnoBC patients) in Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) 18. The main outcome measure was TC-specific mortality. RESULTS Lower TC distant metastasis rates of 2.4% vs 3.0% in PTC and 6.1% vs 9.1% in FTC and TC-specific mortality rates of 1.3% vs 2.6% in PTC and 5.8% vs 8.4% in FTC were found in TC-BC patients vs matched TCnoBC patients (all P < .05). Comparing TC-BC patients with matched TCnoBC patients, hazard ratios (HRs) for mortality were 0.472 (95% CI, 0.370-0.601) in PTC and 0.656 (95% CI, 0.461-0.934) in FTC (all P < .05). Such HRs for mortality in PTC were 0.397 (95% CI, 0.268-0.588; P < .001) when TC occurred before BC vs 0.607 (95% CI, 0.445-0.827; P = .002) when BC occurred before TC. CONCLUSION This study demonstrates a robust protective effect of a history of BC on TC-specific patient survival, which has strong implications for more precise prognostication of TC in such patients.
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- Shuhuang Lin
- Thyroid Research Institute, School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China
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- Thyroid Research Institute, School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China
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- Thyroid Research Institute, School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China
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Liu R, Zhu G, Tan J, Shen X, Xing M. Genetic Trio of BRAF and TERT Mutations and rs2853669TT in Papillary Thyroid Cancer Aggressiveness. J Natl Cancer Inst 2023:djad265. [PMID: 38113409 DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djad265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2023] [Revised: 10/20/2023] [Accepted: 12/13/2023] [Indexed: 12/21/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND BRAF V600E and TERT promoter mutations are core components in current genetic-based risk assessment for precision management of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). It remains unknown whether this could be refined to even better precision by a widely recognized prognostic single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), rs2853669T>C, in the TERT promoter. METHODS Genetic status of mutations and SNP were examined by sequencing genomic DNA from PTC in 608 patients (427 women and 181 men) aged 47 years (IQR 37-57), with a median follow-up time of 75 months (IQR 36 to 123), and their relationship with clinical outcomes was analyzed. Luciferase reporter assay was performed to examine TERT promoter activities. RESULTS TERT promoter mutations showed a strong association with PTC recurrence in the presence of genotype TT of rs2853669 (adjusted HR = 2.12, 95% CI 1.10-4.12) but not TC/CC (adjusted HR = 1.17, 95% CI 0.56-2.41). TERT and BRAF mutations commonly coexisted and synergistically promoted PTC recurrence. With this genetic duet, TT of rs2853669 showed a robustly higher disease recurrence compared with TC/CC (adjusted HR = 14.26, 95% CI 2.86-71.25). Patients with the genetic trio of BRAF V600E, TERT mutation and TT of rs2853669 had a recurrence of 76.5% vs recurrence of 8.4% with neither mutation and with TC/CC (HR = 13.48, 95% CI 6.44-28.21). T allele of rs2853669 strongly increased TERT promoter, particularly the mutant promoter. CONCLUSIONS SNP rs2853669T>C dramatically refines the prognostic power of BRAF V600E and TERT promoter mutations to a higher precision, suggesting the need for including this SNP in the current genetic-based risk prognostication of PTC.
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- Rengyun Liu
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Baltimore, 21287, MD, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Baltimore, 21287, MD, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Baltimore, 21287, MD, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Baltimore, 21287, MD, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Baltimore, 21287, MD, USA
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Sui F, Chen P, Feng C, Yang Q, Zhang S, Ji M, Wang Y, Guan H, Xing M, Hou P. A Feedback Loop Involving Exosomal miR-146a and NG2 to Propel the Development and Progression of Hypothyroidism. Thyroid 2023; 33:1064-1077. [PMID: 37416988 DOI: 10.1089/thy.2022.0676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/08/2023]
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Background: Thyrotropin receptor (TSHR) plays a central role in maintaining thyroid function and TSHR impairment causes hypothyroidism, which is often associated with metabolic disarrangement. The most common type of hypothyroidism is autoimmune disease-related and the mechanism, particularly with respect to the role of microRNAs (miRNAs), has not been delineated. Methods: Serum from 30 patients with subclinical hypothyroidism (SCH) and 30 healthy individuals were collected and exosomal miR-146a (exo-miR-146a) was examined, followed by extensive mechanistic investigation using various molecular and cellular experimental approaches and genetic-knockout mouse models. Results: Our clinical investigation showed that exo-miR-146a was systemically elevated in the serum of patients with SCH (p = 0.04) compared with healthy individuals, prompting us to investigate the biological effects of miR-146a in cells. We found that miR-146a could target and down-regulate neuron-glial antigen 2 (Ng2), with consequent down-regulation of TSHR. We next generated a thyroid-specific Ng2 knockout (Thy-Ng2-/-) mouse model and found a significant down-regulation of TSHR in Thy-Ng2-/- mice, accompanied by the development of hypothyroidism and metabolic disorders. We further found that a decrease in NG2 resulted in decreased receptor tyrosine kinase-linked downstream signaling and down-regulation of c-Myc, consequently resulting in up-regulation of miR-142 and miR-146a in thyroid cells. Up-regulated miR-142 targeted the 3'-untranslated region (UTR) of TSHR messenger RNA (mRNA) and post-transcriptionally down-regulated TSHR, explaining the development of hypothyroidism above. Local up-regulation of miR-146a in thyroid cells augments the earlier cited processes initiated by systemically elevated miR-146a, thereby forming a feedback loop to propel the development and progression of hypothyroidism. Conclusions: This study has uncovered a self-augmenting molecular loop initiated by elevated exo-miR-146a to suppress TSHR through targeting and down-regulating NG2, thereby initiating and propelling the development and progression of hypothyroidism.
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- Fang Sui
- Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, P.R. China
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, P.R. China
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- Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, P.R. China
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- Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, P.R. China
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- Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, P.R. China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, P.R. China
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- Center for Translational Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, P.R. China
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, P.R. China
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- Thyroid Research Institute, School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, P.R. China
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- Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, P.R. China
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Xing M, Fu QY, Lin SS, Fu X, Wang XX, Wang LC, Zhu X, Ouyang TL. [Analysis of fast-growing culturable bacteria and pathogenic bacteria in the surface water of the northeast coast of Hainan Island in China]. Zhonghua Yu Fang Yi Xue Za Zhi 2023; 57:1206-1216. [PMID: 37574314 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112150-20230221-00142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/15/2023]
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Objective: To obtain the diversity and abundance of fast-growing bacteria in the surface water of the northeast coast of Hainan Island in China, different cultivation methods were employed. This study also aims to provide a reference for isolating bacterial samples from seawater sources and preventing marine-derived pathogens. Methods: Based on the principles of taxonomic design, surface seawater samples were collected from six locations along the northeast coast of Hainan Island in China in March, June, October, and December 2021. Then, bacterial enrichment was performed based on traditional cultivation methods for Salmonella, Vibrio, Burkholderia pseudomallei, Actinomycetes, and general marine bacteria. After that, bacterial species identification was conducted by 16S rDNA amplicon sequencing and metagenomic sequencing. Results: A total of 1 151 fast-growing cultivable bacteria belonging to 66 genera and 213 species were identified using five different culture protocols. In different cultivation protocols, Bacillus and Klebsiella demonstrated extensive discriminatory advantages and ranked among the top genera in terms of abundance. Protocol 1 had Escherichia, Klebsiella, and Citrobacter as dominant genera. Pathogenic bacteria detected by protocol 1 included Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli, with 37 and 29 strains respectively, while Salmonella enterica was uniquely detected with seven isolates. Proteus, Enterococcus, and Providencia were the dominant genera in protocol 2, and Proteus mirabilis was the most abundant pathogenic bacteria detected with 66 isolates. Vibrio cholerae was uniquely detected with six isolates at a higher abundance. Klebsiella, Escherichia, and Acinetobacter were the dominant genera in protocol 3, and Klebsiella pneumoniae was the most abundant pathogenic bacteria detected with 53 isolates, while Acinetobacter nosocomialis was uniquely detected with seven isolates. Vibrio and Pseudoalteromonas were the dominant genera in protocol 4, and they showed advantages in isolating and cultivating Marine-derived Vibrio. Exiguobacterium, Staphylococcus, and Bacillus were the dominant genera in protocol 5. Bacillus cereus and Lactococcus lactis were the most abundant pathogenic bacteria detected with 20 and 15 isolates, respectively, while Lactococcus lactis was uniquely detected at higher abundance. Metagenomic sequencing showed that Klebsiella pneumoniae was significantly dominant with a gene abundance of 51.11%, followed by Alcanivorax sp. at 12.57%. Conclusion: The surface water of the northeast coast of Hainan Island in China exhibits a rich diversity of bacteria, with Klebsiella pneumoniae being highly abundant in the studied area. Different cultivation methods demonstrate distinct selective advantages in culturing bacterial genera and pathogens. Therefore, it is necessary to optimize cultivation conditions for specific marine bacteria.
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- M Xing
- Department of Clinical Laboratory,Wenchang People's Hospital, Wenchang 571300, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory,Wenchang People's Hospital, Wenchang 571300, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory,Wenchang People's Hospital, Wenchang 571300, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory,Wenchang People's Hospital, Wenchang 571300, China
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- Department of Clinical & Central Laboratory,Sanya People's Hospital, Sanya 572000, China
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- Department of Clinical & Central Laboratory,Sanya People's Hospital, Sanya 572000, China
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- Department of Clinical & Central Laboratory,Sanya People's Hospital, Sanya 572000, China
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- Department of Clinical & Central Laboratory,Sanya People's Hospital, Sanya 572000, China
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Yang Q, Dang H, Liu J, Wang X, Wang J, Lan X, Ji M, Xing M, Hou P. Hypoxia switches TET1 from being tumor-suppressive to oncogenic. Oncogene 2023; 42:1634-1648. [PMID: 37020036 PMCID: PMC10181935 DOI: 10.1038/s41388-023-02659-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2022] [Revised: 03/01/2023] [Accepted: 03/02/2023] [Indexed: 04/07/2023]
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The classical oxidizing enzymatic activity of Ten Eleven Translocation 1 (TET1) and its tumor suppressor role are well known. Here, we find that high TET1 expression is associated with poor patient survival in solid cancers often having hypoxia, which is inconsistent with its tumor suppressor role. Through a series of in vitro and in vivo studies, using thyroid cancer as a model, we demonstrate that TET1 plays a tumor suppressor function in normoxia and, surprisingly, an oncogenic function in hypoxia. Mechanistically, TET1 mediates HIF1α-p300 interaction by acting as a co-activator of HIF1α to promote CK2B transcription under hypoxia, which is independent of its enzymatic activity; CK2 activates the AKT/GSK3β signaling pathway to promote oncogenesis. Activated AKT/GSK3β signaling in turn maintains HIF1α at elevated levels by preventing its K48-linked ubiquitination and degradation, creating a feedback loop to enhance the oncogenicity of TET1 in hypoxia. Thus, this study uncovers a novel oncogenic mechanism in which TET1 promotes oncogenesis and cancer progression through a non-enzymatic interaction between TET1 and HIF1α in hypoxia, providing novel therapeutic targeting implications for cancer.
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- Qi Yang
- Key Laboratory for Tumor Precision Medicine of Shaanxi Province, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, PR China.
- Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, PR China.
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, PR China.
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- Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, PR China
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- Key Laboratory for Tumor Precision Medicine of Shaanxi Province, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, PR China
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- Key Laboratory for Tumor Precision Medicine of Shaanxi Province, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, PR China
- Department of Structural Heart Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, PR China
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- Key Laboratory for Tumor Precision Medicine of Shaanxi Province, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, PR China
- Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, PR China
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- Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, PR China
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- Key Laboratory for Tumor Precision Medicine of Shaanxi Province, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, PR China.
- Center for Translational Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, PR China.
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- School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, Guangdong, PR China.
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- Key Laboratory for Tumor Precision Medicine of Shaanxi Province, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, PR China.
- Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, PR China.
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Villalobos A, Xing M, Dabbous H, Aslanyan L, Bode A, Lilly M, Bercu Z, Kokabi N. Abstract No. 8 Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Percutaneous Cryoablation and Microwave Ablation for T1a Renal Cell Carcinomas. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2022.12.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/27/2023] Open
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Ryce A, Smith R, Hanna T, Newsome J, Duszak R, Ahmed O, Xing M, Kokabi N. Abstract No. 39 Contemporary Management and Outcomes of Blunt Splenic Trauma: An Analysis of the Trauma Quality Improvement Program Registry. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2022.12.081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/27/2023] Open
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Xu H, Zhang Y, Wu H, Zhou N, Li X, Pineda JP, Zhu Y, Fu H, Ying M, Yang S, Bao J, Yang L, Zhang B, Guo L, Sun L, Lu F, Wang H, Huang Y, Zhu T, Wang X, Wei Q, Sheng C, Qu S, Lv Z, Xu D, Li Q, Dong Y, Qin J, Cheng T, Xing M. High Diagnostic Accuracy of Epigenetic Imprinting Biomarkers in Thyroid Nodules. J Clin Oncol 2023; 41:1296-1306. [PMID: 36378996 PMCID: PMC9937101 DOI: 10.1200/jco.22.00232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To explore the novel diagnostic value of epigenetic imprinting biomarkers in thyroid nodules. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 550 patients with fine-needle aspiration (FNA)-evaluated and histopathologically confirmed thyroid nodules were consecutively recruited from eight medical centers. Quantitative chromogenic imprinted gene in situ hybridization (QCIGISH) was used to assess the allelic expression of imprinted genes SNRPN and HM13, on the basis of which a diagnostic grading model for thyroid nodules was developed. The model was retrospectively trained on 124 postsurgical thyroid samples, optimized on 32 presurgical FNA samples, and prospectively validated on 394 presurgical FNA samples. Blinded central review-based cytopathologic and histopathologic diagnoses were used as the reference standard. RESULTS For thyroid malignancy, the QCIGISH test achieved an overall diagnostic sensitivity of 100% (277/277), a specificity of 91.5% (107/117; 95% CI, 86.4 to 96.5), a positive predictive value (PPV) of 96.5% (95% CI, 94.4 to 98.6), and a negative predictive value (NPV) of 100% in the prospective validation, with a diagnostic accuracy of 97.5% (384/394; 95% CI, 95.9 to 99.0). QCIGISH demonstrated a PPV of 97.8% (95% CI, 94.7 to 100) and NPV of 100%, with a diagnostic accuracy of 98.2% (111/113; 95% CI, 95.8 to 100), for indeterminate Bethesda III-V thyroid nodules. QCIGISH demonstrated a PPV of 96.6% (95% CI, 91.9 to 100) and a NPV of 100%, with a diagnostic accuracy of 97.5% (79/81; 95% CI, 94.2 to 100), for Bethesda III-IV. For Bethesda VI, QCIGISH showed a 100% (184/184) accuracy. CONCLUSION This imprinting biomarker-based test can effectively distinguish malignant from benign thyroid nodules. The high PPV and NPV make the test both an excellent rule-in and rule-out diagnostic tool. With such a diagnostic performance and its technical simplicity, this novel thyroid molecular test is clinically widely applicable.
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- Huixiong Xu
- Department of Medical Ultrasound, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Ultrasound Research and Education Institute, Tongji University Cancer Center, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Ultrasound Diagnosis and Treatment, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.,The Thyroid Research Center of Shanghai, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.,Department of Ultrasound, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Medical Ultrasound, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Ultrasound Research and Education Institute, Tongji University Cancer Center, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Ultrasound Diagnosis and Treatment, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.,The Thyroid Research Center of Shanghai, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
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- Departments of Endocrinology, Ultrasound and Pathology, JiangYuan Hospital Affiliated to Jiangsu Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
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- Lisen Imprinting Diagnostics Inc, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
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- Lisen Imprinting Diagnostics Inc, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
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- Lisen Imprinting Diagnostics Inc, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
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- Departments of Endocrinology, Ultrasound and Pathology, JiangYuan Hospital Affiliated to Jiangsu Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
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- The Thyroid Research Center of Shanghai, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.,Department of Pathology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
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- Departments of Ultrasound and Endocrinology, Taizhou People's Hospital, Taizhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Departments of Ultrasound and Endocrinology, Taizhou People's Hospital, Taizhou, Jiangsu, China.,Department of Endocrinology, Taizhou Third People's Hospital, Taizhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Departments of Endocrinology, Ultrasound and Pathology, JiangYuan Hospital Affiliated to Jiangsu Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Pathology, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Departments of Endocrinology, Ultrasound and Pathology, JiangYuan Hospital Affiliated to Jiangsu Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Medical Ultrasound, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Ultrasound Research and Education Institute, Tongji University Cancer Center, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Ultrasound Diagnosis and Treatment, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.,The Thyroid Research Center of Shanghai, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Medical Ultrasound, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Ultrasound Research and Education Institute, Tongji University Cancer Center, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Ultrasound Diagnosis and Treatment, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.,The Thyroid Research Center of Shanghai, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Medical Ultrasound, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Ultrasound Research and Education Institute, Tongji University Cancer Center, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Ultrasound Diagnosis and Treatment, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.,The Thyroid Research Center of Shanghai, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Medical Ultrasound, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Ultrasound Research and Education Institute, Tongji University Cancer Center, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Ultrasound Diagnosis and Treatment, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.,The Thyroid Research Center of Shanghai, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
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- Lisen Imprinting Diagnostics Inc, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
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- The Thyroid Research Center of Shanghai, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.,Department of Pathology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
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- The Thyroid Research Center of Shanghai, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.,Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
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- The Thyroid Research Center of Shanghai, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.,Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
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- The Thyroid Research Center of Shanghai, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.,Department of Nuclear Medicine, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, Cancer Hospital of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, Henan Cancer Hospital, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, Henan Cancer Hospital, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Department of Thyroid and Breast Surgery, Henan Cancer Hospital, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Lisen Imprinting Diagnostics Inc, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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Xing M. Response to Letter to the Editor From Boucai et al: "BRAF V600E Status Sharply Differentiates Lymph Node Metastasis-associated Mortality Risk in Papillary Thyroid Cancer". J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2022; 107:e3103-e3104. [PMID: 35262688 PMCID: PMC9202685 DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgac135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Mingzhao Xing
- Correspondence: Mingzhao Xing, MD, PhD, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
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Tao Y, Wang F, Shen X, Zhu G, Liu R, Viola D, Elisei R, Puxeddu E, Fugazzola L, Colombo C, Jarzab B, Czarniecka A, Lam AK, Mian C, Vianello F, Yip L, Riesco-Eizaguirre G, Santisteban P, O’Neill CJ, Sywak MS, Clifton-Bligh R, Bendlova B, Sýkorová V, Zhao S, Wang Y, Xing M. BRAF V600E Status Sharply Differentiates Lymph Node Metastasis-associated Mortality Risk in Papillary Thyroid Cancer. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2021; 106:3228-3238. [PMID: 34273152 PMCID: PMC8530728 DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgab286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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CONTEXT How lymph node metastasis (LNM)-associated mortality risk is affected by BRAF V600E in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) remains undefined. OBJECTIVE To study whether BRAF V600E affected LNM-associated mortality in PTC. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS We retrospectively analyzed the effect of LNM on PTC-specific mortality with respect to BRAF status in 2638 patients (2015 females and 623 males) from 11 centers in 6 countries, with median age of 46 [interquartile range (IQR) 35-58] years and median follow-up time of 58 (IQR 26-107) months. RESULTS Overall, LNM showed a modest mortality risk in wild-type BRAF patients but a strong one in BRAF V600E patients. In conventional PTC (CPTC), LNM showed no increased mortality risk in wild-type BRAF patients but a robustly increased one in BRAF V600E patients; mortality rates were 2/659 (0.3%) vs 4/321 (1.2%) in non-LNM vs LNM patients (P = 0.094) with wild-type BRAF, corresponding to a hazard ratio (HR) (95% CI) of 4.37 (0.80-23.89), which remained insignificant at 3.32 (0.52-21.14) after multivariate adjustment. In BRAF V600E CPTC, morality rates were 7/515 (1.4%) vs 28/363 (7.7%) in non-LNM vs LNM patients (P < 0.001), corresponding to an HR of 4.90 (2.12-11.29) or, after multivariate adjustment, 5.76 (2.19-15.11). Adjusted mortality HR of coexisting LNM and BRAF V600E vs absence of both was 27.39 (5.15-145.80), with Kaplan-Meier analyses showing a similar synergism. CONCLUSIONS LNM-associated mortality risk is sharply differentiated by the BRAF status in PTC; in CPTC, LNM showed no increased mortality risk with wild-type BRAF but a robust one with BRAF mutation. These results have strong clinical relevance.
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- Yubing Tao
- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Endocrine Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Endocrine Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan and Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Italy
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- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan and Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Italy
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice,Poland
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice,Poland
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- Cancer Molecular Pathology of School of Medicine, Griffith University–Gold Coast, Australia
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- Department of Medicine, Endocrinology Unit, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles, Madrid, Spain
- Biomedical Research Institute “Alberto Sols,” Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Biomedical Research Institute “Alberto Sols,” Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Endocrine Surgical Unit, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Molecular Endocrinology, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Molecular Endocrinology, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Correspondence: Mingzhao Xing, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1830 East Monument Street, Suite 333, Baltimore, MD 21207, USA.
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Xing M, Mohapatra J, Elkins J, Guragain D, Mishra SR, Ping Liu J. Exchange bias and Verwey transition in Fe 5C 2/Fe 3O 4 core/shell nanoparticles. Nanoscale 2021; 13:15837-15843. [PMID: 34518851 DOI: 10.1039/d1nr04520b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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This report presents new findings of exchange bias and related structural and magnetic properties in iron carbide/magnetite (Fe5C2/Fe3O4) core/shell nanoparticles. The exchange bias emerges from an energetic landscape, namely a first-order phase transition-the Verwey transition at 125 K, during which the Fe3O4 shell changes from the cubic to monoclinic structure. The phase transition leads to the exchange bias because it results in abrupt changes in magnetocrystalline anisotropy and exchange coupling. Another unique phenomenon identified in this composite system is enhanced magnetic coercivity due to the uniaxial anisotropy of the monoclinic phase. An analysis of the correlations between the observed phenomena is given based on the temperature dependence of the coercivity, the exchange bias field values, and the Verwey transition temperature.
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- M Xing
- Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA.
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- Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA.
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- Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA.
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- Department of Physics and Materials Science, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA
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- Department of Physics and Materials Science, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA
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- Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA.
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Zhao J, Yang Y, Huang H, Li D, Gu D, Lu X, Zhang Z, Liu L, Liu T, Liu Y, He Y, Sun B, Wei M, Yang G, Wang X, Zhang L, Zhou X, Xing M, Wang PG. Relationship Between the ABO Blood Group and the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Susceptibility. Clin Infect Dis 2021; 73:328-331. [PMID: 32750119 PMCID: PMC7454371 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 316] [Impact Index Per Article: 105.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2020] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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To explore any relationship between the ABO blood group and the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) susceptibility, we compared ABO blood group distributions in 2173 COVID-19 patients with local control populations, and found that blood group A was associated with an increased risk of infection, whereas group O was associated with a decreased risk.
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- Jiao Zhao
- School of Medicine, The Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology; Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- School of Medicine, The Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology; Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology; Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- School of Statistics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- School of Medicine, The Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- School of Medicine, The Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- School of Medicine, The Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- School of Medicine, The Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- School of Medicine, The Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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Zhao J, Yang Y, Huang H, Li D, Gu D, Lu X, Zhang Z, Liu L, Liu T, Liu Y, He Y, Sun B, Wei M, Yang G, Wang X, Zhang L, Zhou X, Xing M, Wang PG. Relationship Between the ABO Blood Group and the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Susceptibility. Clin Infect Dis 2021; 73:328-331. [PMID: 32750119 DOI: 10.1101/2020.03.11.20031096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 41.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2020] [Indexed: 05/23/2023] Open
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To explore any relationship between the ABO blood group and the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) susceptibility, we compared ABO blood group distributions in 2173 COVID-19 patients with local control populations, and found that blood group A was associated with an increased risk of infection, whereas group O was associated with a decreased risk.
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- Jiao Zhao
- School of Medicine, The Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology; Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- School of Medicine, The Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology; Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology; Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- School of Statistics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- School of Medicine, The Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- School of Medicine, The Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- School of Medicine, The Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- School of Medicine, The Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- School of Medicine, The Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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Zhao J, Xing M, Wang PG. Reply to Delanghe et al, Boudin et al, and Focosi et al. Clin Infect Dis 2021; 72:e920. [PMID: 32986816 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Jiao Zhao
- School of Medicine, The Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- School of Medicine, The Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- School of Medicine, The Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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He LF, Hou XX, Chen T, Zhang L, Wen S, Miao GQ, Xing M, Hao Q, Zhu X. [Serological study of Lyme disease antibody in 2 311 patients with arthritis symptoms in Hainan Province]. Zhonghua Yu Fang Yi Xue Za Zhi 2021; 55:379-385. [PMID: 33730831 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112150-20200527-00787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Objective: To understand the infectious status of Lyme disease among patients with arthritis symptoms in Hainan Province, and to provide a theoretical basis for prevention and control of Lyme disease. Methods: From 2013 to 2018, sampling surveys had been conducted in medical institutions in 8 cities in Hainan Province(Haikou, Sanya, Danzhou, Dongfang, Wenchang, Qionghai, Qiongzhong, Wuzhishan), 2 311 patients serum samples were collected with arthritis symptoms, and descriptive research were conducted base on the collected clinical data. The Indirect Fluorescent-Antibody Test (IFA) method was used for preliminary screening of Lyme disease antibody, the Western Blot (WB) method was used for IFA positive samples confirmation. Statistical analysis using χ2 test. Results: 2 311 serum samples were tested by IFA, and 166 were positive with the positive rate of 7.18%. Further confirmed by WB method, 62 samples were positive, the positive rate of Lyme disease antibody was 2.68%(62/2 311). The positive rate of Lyme disease antibody among patients with arthritis in different regions of Hainan was statistically significant (χ²=40.636,P<0.001), and the positive rate in Qiongzhong city was the highest (8.81%, 14/159). Danzhou's positive rate was the second highest, 5.62%(5/89). Dongfang city had the lowest positive rate (0.51%, 2/394). The positive rates of Lyme disease serum antibody in men and women were 2.79% (33/1 182) and 2.57% (29/1 129), respectively; the positive rates of antibodies between each age groups were in the range of 1.74% to 3.64%. The antibody positive rate of Lyme disease showed no significant difference between gender and age (χ²=0.110,P=0.740 ;χ²=1.938,P=0.747). Conclusion: Patients with arthritis symptoms caused by Borrelia burgdorferi infection were found in 8 cities in Hainan province, but the Lyme disease antibody positive rate was different among cities, with Qiongzhong County being the highest.
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- L F He
- Department of Central Laboratory, People's Hospital of Sanya, Sanya 572000, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China
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- Department of Central Laboratory, People's Hospital of Sanya, Sanya 572000, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, People's Hospital of Qiongzhong County, Qiongzhong 572900, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, People's Hospital of Wenchang City, Wenchang 571300, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China
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- Department of Central Laboratory, People's Hospital of Sanya, Sanya 572000, China
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Mohapatra J, Elkins J, Xing M, Guragain D, Mishra SR, Liu JP. Magnetic-field-induced self-assembly of FeCo/CoFe 2O 4 core/shell nanoparticles with tunable collective magnetic properties. Nanoscale 2021; 13:4519-4529. [PMID: 33620040 DOI: 10.1039/d1nr00136a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Self-assembly of nanoparticles into ordered patterns is a novel approach to build up new consolidated materials with desired collective physical properties. Herein, nanoparticle assemblies of composition-modulated bimagnetic nanoparticles have been produced via slow evaporation of their colloidal suspension in the absence or presence of magnetic fields. The assemblies obtained in the presence of the magnetic fields exhibit oriented nanoparticle chains in face-centered cubic superlattice structures, compared with the hexagonal closed-packed superlattice obtained without the magnetic field. The oriented structure has an alignment of the easy magnetization axis along the chains. This alignment leads to enhanced intra-superlattice interactions. As a result, the field-induced assembly displays collective magnetic properties with significantly enhanced magnetic anisotropy, remanent magnetization and coercivity. It is also found that the bimagnetic FeCo/CoFe2O4 core/shell nanostructure enhances the intra-particle interaction and thus is beneficial for the growth of oriented assembly of nanoparticles. Furthermore, the collective magnetic behavior is evidenced by the observation of a superferromagnetic-like magnetization relaxation in the ac-susceptibility curves.
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- J Mohapatra
- Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA.
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- Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA.
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- Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA.
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- Department of Physics and Materials Science, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA
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- Department of Physics and Materials Science, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA
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- Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA.
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Wang Y, Li Y, Li C, Jiang Y, Han X, Liu S, Xu X, Tang W, Ou Q, Bao H, Wu X, Shao Y, Xing M, Zhang Y. MA08.06 Stratifying PD-L1 Expression Level Based on Multimodal Genomic Features for the Prediction of Immunotherapy Benefit in NSCLC. J Thorac Oncol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2021.01.193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Zhao J, Liao X, Wang H, Wei L, Xing M, Liu L, Zhang Z. Early Virus Clearance and Delayed Antibody Response in a Case of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) With a History of Coinfection With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 and Hepatitis C Virus. Clin Infect Dis 2020; 71:2233-2235. [PMID: 32270178 PMCID: PMC7184426 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2020] [Accepted: 04/08/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The effect of host immune status on SARS-CoV-2 infection remains unknown. Here, we report the first case of COVID-19 with HIV-1 and HCV co-infection, who showed a persistently negative SARS-CoV-2 RNA test, but delayed antibody response in the plasma. This case highlights the influence of HIV-1-induced immune dysfunction on the early SARS-CoV-2 clearance.
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- Juanjuan Zhao
- Institute of Hepatology, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Disease, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Institute of Hepatology, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Disease, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Institute of Hepatology, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Disease, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Institute of Hepatology, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Disease, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Institute of Hepatology, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Disease, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.,School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Institute of Hepatology, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Disease, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.,School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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Shinn K, Hanna T, Fan S, Hawkins C, Risk B, Chahine A, Johnson J, Xing M, Duszak R, Newsome J, Kokabi N. 4:12 PM Abstract No. 164 The role of interventional radiology in the contemporary management of pediatric blunt splenic trauma: a National Trauma Data Bank analysis. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2019.12.199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Kim KJ, Kim SG, Tan J, Shen X, Viola D, Elisei R, Puxeddu E, Fugazzola L, Colombo C, Jarzab B, Czarniecka A, Lam AK, Mian C, Vianello F, Yip L, Riesco-Eizaguirre G, Santisteban P, O'Neill CJ, Sywak MS, Clifton-Bligh R, Bendlova B, Sýkorová V, Xing M. BRAF V600E status may facilitate decision-making on active surveillance of low-risk papillary thyroid microcarcinoma. Eur J Cancer 2019; 124:161-169. [PMID: 31790974 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2019.10.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2019] [Revised: 10/05/2019] [Accepted: 10/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Conservative active surveillance has been proposed for low-risk papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC), defined as ≤1.0 cm and lacking clinical aggressive features, but controversy exists with accepting it as not all such PTMCs are uniformly destined for benign prognosis. This study investigated whether BRAF V600E status could further risk stratify PTMC, particularly low-risk PTMC, and can thus help with more accurate case selection for conservative management. METHODS This international multicenter study included 743 patients treated with total thyroidectomy for PTMC (584 women and 159 men), with a median age of 49 years (interquartile range [IQR], 39-59 years) and a median follow-up time of 53 months (IQR, 25-93 months). RESULTS On overall analyses of all PTMCs, tumour recurrences were 6.4% (32/502) versus 10.8% (26/241) in BRAF mutation-negative versus BRAF mutation-positive patients (P = 0.041), with a hazard ratio (HR) of 2.44 (95% CI (confidence interval), 1.15-5.20) after multivariate adjustment for confounding clinical factors. On the analyses of low-risk PTMC, recurrences were 1.3% (5/383) versus 4.3% (6/139) in BRAF mutation-negative versus BRAF mutation-positive patients, with an HR of 6.65 (95% CI, 1.80-24.65) after adjustment for confounding clinical factors. BRAF mutation was associated with a significant decline in the Kaplan-Meier recurrence-free survival curve in low-risk PTMC. CONCLUSIONS BRAF V600E differentiates the recurrence risk of PTMC, particularly low-risk PTMC. Given the robust negative predictive value, conservative active surveillance of BRAF mutation-negative low-risk PTMC is reasonable whereas the increased recurrence risk and other well-known adverse effects of BRAF V600E make the feasibility of long-term conservative surveillance uncertain for BRAF mutation-positive PTMC.
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- Kyeong J Kim
- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA; Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul 02841, South Korea
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- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul 02841, South Korea
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Section of Endocrinology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Section of Endocrinology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Division of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, IRCCS Instituto Auxologico Italiano, and Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Division of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, IRCCS Instituto Auxologico Italiano, and Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute-Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute-Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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- Cancer Molecular Pathology of School of Medicine and Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia
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- Department of Medicine, Endocrinology Unit, University of Padua, Italy
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- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital, Universitario De Mostoles, 28029 Madrid, Spain; Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols", Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas and Univeridad Autonoma de Madrid, 28029, Madrid, Spain; Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols", Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas and Univeridad Autonoma de Madrid, 28029, Madrid, Spain; Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Endocrine Surgical Unit, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Molecular Endocrinology, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Molecular Endocrinology, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
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Liu Z, Shen X, Liu R, Zhu G, Huang T, Xing M. Stage II Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Is a High-Risk Disease in Patients <45/55 Years Old. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2019; 104:4941-4948. [PMID: 31116377 PMCID: PMC7453036 DOI: 10.1210/jc.2018-02809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2019] [Accepted: 05/16/2019] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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PURPOSE The mortality risk of stage II differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) based on the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging system requires further investigation. METHODS Retrospective study of DTC in the US Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program for disease-specific mortality risk in various AJCC stages, with patient age stratification of stage II disease. RESULTS Using AJCC staging system 6.0, hazard ratios (HRs) of mortality for stage II DTC in patients <45 yo and patients ≥45 yo and stages III, IVA, IVB, and IVC compared with stage I were 46.95, 4.95, 9.82, 57.37, 222.10, and 468.68, respectively, showing a robustly higher mortality risk in stage II disease in patients <45 yo than in older patients (P < 0.001), comparable with stage IVA (P = 0.482). Similar results were obtained with AJCC 7.0. With AJCC 8.0, HRs of mortality for stage II in patients <55 yo and patients ≥55 yo and stages III, IVA, and IVB compared with stage I were 75.16, 11.23, 69.45, 134.94, and 235.70, respectively, showing a robustly higher risk in stage II disease in patients <55 yo than in older patients (P < 0.001), comparable with stage III (P = 0.57). Kaplan-Meier survival curves displayed a sharp decline with stage II disease in patients <45/55 yo compared with older patients. CONCLUSIONS The mortality risk of stage II DTC was sharply differentiated at patient age 45/55 years, being robustly high in younger patients and comparable with stage III/IVA. This emphasizes the importance of considering age when managing stage II DTC and not treating it as a uniformly low-risk disease.
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- Zeming Liu
- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine; Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
- Department of Plastic Surgery, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine; Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine; Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine; Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine; Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
- Correspondence and Reprint Requests: Mingzhao Xing, MD, School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology, 1088 Xueyuan Road, Nanshan District, Shenzen, 518055 Guangdong, China. E-mail:
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Previous studies have documented an intrinsic association between breast cancer (BC) and thyroid cancer (TC), but the clinical relevance of this relationship is not well defined. In the present study, we specifically investigated the impact of a history of TC on clinical outcomes of BC. We performed a population-based comparative analysis of tumor behaviors and BC-specific mortalities in 427,893 female patients with BC in the USA Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results 9 database (1973–2013). In this cohort of subjects, 2,569 patients also had a history of differentiated TC (BC/TC), including BC diagnosed before TC (BC-1st) and BC diagnosed after TC (TC-1st), with the median follow-up time of 81 (IQR, 33–160) months. We found that, compared with matched BC-only patients, less aggressive BC tumor behaviors occurred in BC/TC patients, as exemplified by a distant metastasis rate of 7.0% in the former versus 3.3% in the latter (P<0.001). In BC/TC, BC-1st, and TC-1st patients versus their matched BC-only patients, BC-specific mortalities were 11.3% versus 21.0%, 9.9% versus 26.4%, and 12.4% versus 16.9%. These corresponded to hazard ratios (HR) (95% CI) of 0.47 (0.42–0.53), 0.31 (0.26–0.37), and 0.72 (0.61–0.84), respectively (all P<0.001), being lowest in BC-1st patients <50 years old [HR = 0.22 (0.16–0.31)], which remained significant after adjustment for clinicopathological and socioeconomic factors. Estrogen/progesterone receptor expression in BC tumors was significantly higher in patients with BC/TC than matched BC-only patients, providing evidence that BC in the former was biologically unique. Thus, a history of TC, particularly in younger BC-1st patients, may identify BC as a unique disease entity characterized by a decreased disease-specific mortality risk. The results have potentially important clinical and biological implications for BC in this special patient population and encourage further studies to confirm.
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- Weiwei Cheng
- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Liu J, Liu R, Shen X, Zhu G, Li B, Xing M. The Genetic Duet of BRAF V600E and TERT Promoter Mutations Robustly Predicts Loss of Radioiodine Avidity in Recurrent Papillary Thyroid Cancer. J Nucl Med 2019; 61:177-182. [DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.119.227652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2019] [Accepted: 06/18/2019] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling is often aberrantly activated, particularly when genetically altered, in human cancers. mTOR inhibitors targeting the activated mTOR signaling are highly promising anti-cancer drugs. Knowing the activating genetic change in mTOR can help guide the use of mTOR inhibitors for cancer treatment. This study was conducted to identify and characterize novel oncogenic mTOR mutations that can potentially be therapeutic targets in human cancer. We sequenced 30 exons of the mTOR gene in 12 thyroid cancer cell lines, 3 melanoma cell lines, 20 anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC) tumors, and 23 melanoma tumors and functionally characterized the identified novel mTOR mutations in vitro and in vivo. We identified a novel point mutation A1256G in ATC cell line and G7076A in melanoma tumor in exon 9 and exon 51 of the mTOR gene, respectively. Over-expression of the corresponding mTOR mutants H419R and G2359E created through induced mutagenesis showed markedly elevated protein kinase activities associated with the activation of mTOR/p70S6K signaling in HEK293T cells. Stable expression of the two mTOR mutants in NIH3T3 cells strongly activated the mTOR/p70S6K signaling pathway and induced morphologic transformation, cell focus formation, anchorage-independent cell growth, and invasion. Inoculation of these mutant-expressing cells in athymic nude mice induced rapid tumor development, showing their driving oncogenicity. We also demonstrated that transfection with the novel mutants conferred cells high sensitivities to the mTOR inhibitor temsirolimus. We speculate that human cancers harboring these mTOR mutations, such as ATC and melanoma, may be effectively treated with inhibitors targeting mTOR.
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- Avaniyapuram Kannan Murugan
- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
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Horný M, Cronan J, Duszak R, Spies J, Newsome J, Carlos R, Hughes D, Xing M, Kokabi N, Cronan J. 03:18 PM Abstract No. 260 Comparison of direct procedural and episode of care cost for invasive therapies in management of uterine fibroid embolization and associated patient-incurred financial burden. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2018.12.322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Cronan J, Horný M, Spies J, Newsome J, Carlos R, Hughes D, Duszak R, Xing M, Kokabi N, Cronan J. 03:27 PM Abstract No. 261 National variation in management of symptomatic uterine fibroids in contemporary clinical practice. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2018.12.323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Controversies exist on how to optimally manage thyroid cancer because the prognosis is often uncertain based on clinical backgrounds. This can now be helped with prognostic genetic markers in thyroid cancer, exemplified by BRAF V600E and TERT promoter mutations, which have been well characterized and widely appreciated. The genetic duet of BRAF V600E/RAS and TERT promoter mutations is a most robust prognostic genetic pattern for poor prognosis of differentiated thyroid cancer. The high negative predictive values of the prognostic genetic markers are equally valuable. The best prognostic value of genetic markers in thyroid cancer is achieved through a clinical risk level-based and genotype-individualized manner.
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- Mingzhao Xing
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1830 East Monument Street, Suite 333, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
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- Mingzhao Xing
- School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China; Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21207, USA.
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Wang F, Zhao S, Shen X, Zhu G, Liu R, Viola D, Elisei R, Puxeddu E, Fugazzola L, Colombo C, Jarzab B, Czarniecka A, Lam AK, Mian C, Vianello F, Yip L, Riesco-Eizaguirre G, Santisteban P, O'Neill CJ, Sywak MS, Clifton-Bligh R, Bendlova B, Sýkorová V, Wang Y, Xing M. BRAF V600E Confers Male Sex Disease-Specific Mortality Risk in Patients With Papillary Thyroid Cancer. J Clin Oncol 2018; 36:2787-2795. [PMID: 30070937 DOI: 10.1200/jco.2018.78.5097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Purpose To test whether the prognostic risk of male sex in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is determined by BRAF V600E and can thus be stratified by BRAF status. Patients and Methods We retrospectively investigated the relationship between male sex and clinicopathologic outcomes in PTC, particularly mortality, with respect to BRAF status in 2,638 patients (male, n = 623; female, n = 2,015) from 11 centers in six countries, with median age of 46 years (interquartile range, 35-58 years) at diagnosis and median follow-up time of 58 months (interquartile range, 26-107 months). Results Distant metastasis rates in men and women were not different in wild-type BRAF PTC but were different in BRAF V600E PTC: 8.9% (24 of 270) and 3.7% (30 of 817; P = .001), respectively. In wild-type BRAF PTC, mortality rates were 1.4% (five of 349) versus 0.9% (11 of 1175) in men versus women ( P = .384), with a hazard ratio (HR) of 1.59 (95% CI, 0.55 to 4.57), which remained insignificant at 0.70 (95% CI, 0.23 to 2.09) after clinicopathologic multivariable adjustment. In BRAF V600E PTC, mortality rates were 6.6% (18 of 272) versus 2.9% (24 of 822) in men versus women ( P = .006), with an HR of 2.43 (95% CI, 1.30 to 4.53), which remained significant at 2.74 (95% CI, 1.38 to 5.43) after multivariable adjustment. In conventional-variant PTC, male sex similarly had no effect in wild-type BRAF patients; mortality rates in BRAF V600E patients were 7.2% (16 of 221) versus 2.9% (19 of 662) in men versus women ( P = .004), with an HR of 2.86 (95% CI, 1.45 to 5.67), which remained significant at 3.51 (95% CI, 1.62 to 7.63) after multivariable adjustment. Conclusion Male sex is a robust independent risk factor for PTC-specific mortality in BRAF V600E patients but not in wild-type BRAF patients. The prognostic risk of male sex in PTC can thus be stratified by BRAF status in clinical application.
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- Fei Wang
- Fei Wang, Shihua Zhao, and Yangang Wang, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China; Fei Wang, Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto di Recovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute Oncology Center, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols" and Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Fei Wang, Shihua Zhao, and Yangang Wang, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China; Fei Wang, Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto di Recovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute Oncology Center, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols" and Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Fei Wang, Shihua Zhao, and Yangang Wang, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China; Fei Wang, Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto di Recovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute Oncology Center, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols" and Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Fei Wang, Shihua Zhao, and Yangang Wang, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China; Fei Wang, Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto di Recovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute Oncology Center, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols" and Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Fei Wang, Shihua Zhao, and Yangang Wang, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China; Fei Wang, Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto di Recovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute Oncology Center, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols" and Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Fei Wang, Shihua Zhao, and Yangang Wang, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China; Fei Wang, Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto di Recovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute Oncology Center, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols" and Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Fei Wang, Shihua Zhao, and Yangang Wang, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China; Fei Wang, Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto di Recovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute Oncology Center, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols" and Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Fei Wang, Shihua Zhao, and Yangang Wang, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China; Fei Wang, Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto di Recovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute Oncology Center, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols" and Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Fei Wang, Shihua Zhao, and Yangang Wang, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China; Fei Wang, Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto di Recovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute Oncology Center, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols" and Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - Carla Colombo
- Fei Wang, Shihua Zhao, and Yangang Wang, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China; Fei Wang, Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto di Recovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute Oncology Center, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols" and Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - Barbara Jarzab
- Fei Wang, Shihua Zhao, and Yangang Wang, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China; Fei Wang, Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto di Recovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute Oncology Center, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols" and Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - Agnieszka Czarniecka
- Fei Wang, Shihua Zhao, and Yangang Wang, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China; Fei Wang, Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto di Recovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute Oncology Center, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols" and Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - Alfred K Lam
- Fei Wang, Shihua Zhao, and Yangang Wang, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China; Fei Wang, Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto di Recovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute Oncology Center, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols" and Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - Caterina Mian
- Fei Wang, Shihua Zhao, and Yangang Wang, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China; Fei Wang, Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto di Recovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute Oncology Center, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols" and Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - Federica Vianello
- Fei Wang, Shihua Zhao, and Yangang Wang, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China; Fei Wang, Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto di Recovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute Oncology Center, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols" and Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - Linwah Yip
- Fei Wang, Shihua Zhao, and Yangang Wang, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China; Fei Wang, Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto di Recovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute Oncology Center, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols" and Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre
- Fei Wang, Shihua Zhao, and Yangang Wang, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China; Fei Wang, Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto di Recovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute Oncology Center, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols" and Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - Pilar Santisteban
- Fei Wang, Shihua Zhao, and Yangang Wang, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China; Fei Wang, Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto di Recovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute Oncology Center, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols" and Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - Christine J O'Neill
- Fei Wang, Shihua Zhao, and Yangang Wang, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China; Fei Wang, Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto di Recovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute Oncology Center, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols" and Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - Mark S Sywak
- Fei Wang, Shihua Zhao, and Yangang Wang, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China; Fei Wang, Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto di Recovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute Oncology Center, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols" and Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - Roderick Clifton-Bligh
- Fei Wang, Shihua Zhao, and Yangang Wang, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China; Fei Wang, Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto di Recovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute Oncology Center, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols" and Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - Bela Bendlova
- Fei Wang, Shihua Zhao, and Yangang Wang, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China; Fei Wang, Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto di Recovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute Oncology Center, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols" and Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - Vlasta Sýkorová
- Fei Wang, Shihua Zhao, and Yangang Wang, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China; Fei Wang, Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto di Recovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute Oncology Center, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols" and Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - Yangang Wang
- Fei Wang, Shihua Zhao, and Yangang Wang, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China; Fei Wang, Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto di Recovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute Oncology Center, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols" and Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - Mingzhao Xing
- Fei Wang, Shihua Zhao, and Yangang Wang, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China; Fei Wang, Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto di Recovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute Oncology Center, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols" and Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Xiaopei Shen and Mingzhao Xing, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Xiaopei Shen and Mingzhao Xing, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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Huang Y, Qu S, Zhu G, Wang F, Liu R, Shen X, Viola D, Elisei R, Puxeddu E, Fugazzola L, Colombo C, Jarzab B, Czarniecka A, Lam AK, Mian C, Vianello F, Yip L, Riesco-Eizaguirre G, Santisteban P, O’Neill CJ, Sywak MS, Clifton-Bligh R, Bendlova B, Sýkorová V, Xing M. BRAF V600E Mutation-Assisted Risk Stratification of Solitary Intrathyroidal Papillary Thyroid Cancer for Precision Treatment. J Natl Cancer Inst 2018; 110:362-370. [PMID: 29165667 PMCID: PMC6658860 DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djx227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2017] [Revised: 07/26/2017] [Accepted: 09/08/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Background Precise risk stratification-based treatment of solitary intrathyroidal papillary thyroid cancer (SI-PTC) that is larger than 1.0 cm and 4.0 cm or less is undefined. Methods A genetic-clinical risk study was performed on BRAF V600E in 955 patients (768 women and 187 men) with SI-PTC, with median age of 46 years and median clinical follow-up time of 64 months at 11 medical centers in six countries. The chi-square test or, for analyses with small numbers, Fisher's exact test was performed to compare recurrence rates. Recurrence-free probability was estimated by Kaplan-Meier (KM) analysis, and the independent effect of BRAF mutation on the recurrence was analyzed by Cox regression and Cox proportional hazard analyses. All statistical tests were two-sided. Results Recurrence of SI-PTC larger than 1.0 cm and 4.0 cm or less was 9.5% (21/221) vs 3.4% (11/319) in BRAF mutation vs wild-type BRAF patients, with a hazard ratio (HR) of 3.03 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.46 to 6.30) and a patient age- and sex-adjusted hazard ratio of 3.10 (95% CI = 1.49 to 6.45, P = .002). Recurrence rates of SI-PTC larger than 2.0 cm and 4.0 cm or less were 16.5% (13/79) vs 3.6% (5/139) in mutation vs wild-type patients (HR = 5.44, 95% CI = 1.93 to 15.34; and adjusted HR = 5.58, 95% CI = 1.96 to 15.85, P = .001). Recurrence rates of SI-PTC larger than 3.0 cm and 4 cm or less were 30.0% (6/20) vs 1.9% (1/54) in mutation vs wild-type patients (HR = 18.40, 95% CI = 2.21 to 152.98; and adjusted HR = 14.73, 95% CI = 1.74 to 124.80, P = .01). Recurrences of mutation-positive SI-PTC were comparable with those of counterpart invasive solitary PTC, around 20% to 30%, in tumors larger than 2.0 cm to 3.0 cm. BRAF mutation was associated with a statistically significant decrease in recurrence-free patient survival on KM analysis, particularly in SI-PTC larger than 2.0 cm and 4.0 cm or less. Similar results were obtained in conventional SI-PTC. The negative predictive values of BRAF mutation for recurrence were 97.8% (95% CI = 96.3% to 98.8%) for general SI-PTC and 98.2% (95% CI = 96.3% to 99.3%) for conventional SI-PTC. Conclusions BRAF V600E identifies a subgroup of SI-PTC larger than 1.0 cm and 4.0 cm or less, particularly tumors larger than 2.0 cm and 4.0 cm or less, that has high risk for recurrence comparable with that of invasive solitary PTC, making more aggressive treatment reasonable.
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- Yueye Huang
- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism and the Shanghai Research Center of Thyroid Diseases, The Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism and the Shanghai Research Center of Thyroid Diseases, The Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Endocrine Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Endocrine Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Division of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, and Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan Italy
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- Division of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, and Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan Italy
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland
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- Cancer Molecular Pathology of School of Medicine and Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia
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- Department of Medicine, Endocrinology Unit, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital, Universitario de Mostoles, 28029 Madrid, Spain
- Biomedical Research Institute “Alberto Sols,” Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas and Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, 28029 Madrid, Spain
- Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Biomedical Research Institute “Alberto Sols,” Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas and Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, 28029 Madrid, Spain
- Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Endocrine Surgical Unit, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Molecular Endocrinology Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Molecular Endocrinology Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Y Liu
- Department of Urology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China
- Department of Reproductive Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
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- Department of Reproductive Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
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- Department of Urology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China
- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Yuhuangding Hospital of Yantai, Yantai, China
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- Department of Reproductive Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
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- Department of Urology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
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- Department of Urology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China
- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Yuhuangding Hospital of Yantai, Yantai, China
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Zhang T, Shen X, Liu R, Zhu G, Bishop J, Xing M. Epigenetically upregulated WIPF1 plays a major role in BRAF V600E-promoted papillary thyroid cancer aggressiveness. Oncotarget 2018; 8:900-914. [PMID: 27863429 PMCID: PMC5352205 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.13400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2016] [Accepted: 10/24/2016] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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How the BRAF V600E mutation promotes the pathogenesis and aggressiveness of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is not completely understood. Here we explored a novel mechanism involving WASP interacting protein family member 1 (WIPF1). In PTC tumors, compared with the wild-type BRAF, BRAF V600E was associated with over-expression and hypomethylation of the WIPF1 gene. In thyroid cancer cell lines with wild-type BRAF, WIPF1 expression was robustly upregulated upon introduced expression of BRAF V600E (P=0.03) whereas the opposite was seen upon BRAF knockdown or treatment with BRAF V600E or MEK inhibitors in cells harboring BRAF V600E. Methylation of a functionally critical region of the WIPF1 promoter was decreased by expressing BRAF V600E in cells harboring the wild-type BRAF and increased by BRAF knockdown or treatment with BRAF V600E or MEK inhibitors in cells harboring BRAF V600E mutation. Under-expression and hypermethylation of WIPF1 induced by stable BRAF knockdown was reversed by DNA demethylating agent 5′-azadeoxycytidine. Knockdown of WIPF1 robustly inhibited anchorage-independent colony formation, migration, and invasion of thyroid cancer cells and suppressed xenograft thyroid cancer tumor growth and vascular invasion, mimicking the effects of BRAF knockdown. In human PTC tumors, WIPF1 expression was associated with extrathyroidal invasion (P=0.01) and lymph node metastasis (P=2.64E-05). In summary, BRAF V600E-activated MAP kinase pathway causes hypomethylation and overexpression of WIPF1; WIPF1 then functions like an oncoprotein to robustly promote aggressive cellular and tumor behaviors of PTC. This represents a novel mechanism in BRAF V600E-promoted PTC aggressiveness and identifies WIPF1 as a novel therapeutic target for thyroid cancer.
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- Tao Zhang
- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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Liu S, Wang X, Zou H, Ge Y, Wang F, Wang Y, Yan S, Xia H, Xing M. Identification and characterization of novel PAX8 mutations in Congenital Hypothyroidism(CH) in a Chinese population. Oncotarget 2018; 8:8707-8716. [PMID: 28060725 PMCID: PMC5352434 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.14419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2016] [Accepted: 11/30/2016] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Objective Based on mutations in PAX8 is associated with thyroid dysgenesis. We aim to identify and characterize PAX8 mutations in a large cohort of congenital hypothyroidism(CH) from thyroid dysgenesis in Chinese population. Methods We screened 453 unrelated Chinese patients with CH from thyroid dysgenesis for PAX8 mutations by sequencing the whole coding regions of PAX8 on genomic DNA isolated from blood. Cell transfection assays using various vector constructs and induced mutagenesis as well as electrophoretic mobility shift assays were used to investigate the effects of selected mutations on the transcribing and binding activities of PAX8 at the promoters of target genes for thyroglobulin (TG) and thyroperoxidase (TPO). Results Five PAX8 mutations were found, yielding a mutation prevalence of 5/453 (1.1%). We selected two mutations in the critical paired domain of PAX8 and generated mutants D94N and G41V. We demonstrated G41V was unable to bind the specific sequence in the promoters of TG and TPO and activate them. D94N could bind to TG and TPO promoters and normally activate the TG promoter transcription but not the TPO promoter transcription. We also demonstrated a dominant negative role of the PAX8 mutants in impairing the function of the wild-type PAX8. Conclusion We for the first time documented the prevalence and characterized the function of PAX8 mutations in CH in Chinese population. The study specifically demonstrated the role of novel mutations D94N and G41V in impairing the function of PAX8, providing further evidence for genetic PAX8 defects as a disease mechanism in CH.
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- Shiguo Liu
- Prenatal Diagnosis Center, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China.,Genetic Laboratory, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China.,National Research Institute for Family Planning, Beijing, China
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- Neonatal Screening Center, Jinan Women & Children Medical Healthcare Center, Jinan, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
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- National Research Institute for Family Planning, Beijing, China.,Graduate School, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.,World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research in Human Reproduction, Beijing, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China.,Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
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Shen X, Zhu G, Liu R, Viola D, Elisei R, Puxeddu E, Fugazzola L, Colombo C, Jarzab B, Czarniecka A, Lam AK, Mian C, Vianello F, Yip L, Riesco-Eizaguirre G, Santisteban P, O'Neill CJ, Sywak MS, Clifton-Bligh R, Bendlova B, Sýkorová V, Xing M. Patient Age-Associated Mortality Risk Is Differentiated by BRAF V600E Status in Papillary Thyroid Cancer. J Clin Oncol 2018; 36:438-445. [PMID: 29240540 PMCID: PMC5807010 DOI: 10.1200/jco.2017.74.5497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Purpose For the past 65 years, patient age at diagnosis has been widely used as a major mortality risk factor in the risk stratification of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC), but whether this is generally applicable, particularly in patients with different BRAF genetic backgrounds, is unclear. The current study was designed to test whether patient age at diagnosis is a major mortality risk factor. Patients and Methods We conducted a comparative study of the relationship between patient age at diagnosis and PTC-specific mortality with respect to BRAF status in 2,638 patients (623 men and 2,015 women) with a median age of 46 years (interquartile range, 35 to 58 years) at diagnosis and a median follow-up time of 58 months (interquartile range, 26 to 107 months). Eleven medical centers from six countries participated in this study. Results There was a linear association between patient age and mortality in patients with BRAF V600E mutation, but not in patients with wild-type BRAF, in whom the mortality rate remained low and flat with increasing age. Kaplan-Meier survival curves rapidly declined with increasing age in patients with BRAF V600E mutation but did not decline in patients with wild-type BRAF, even beyond age 75 years. The association between mortality and age in patients with BRAF V600E was independent of clinicopathologic risk factors. Similar results were observed when only patients with the conventional variant of PTC were analyzed. Conclusion The long-observed age-associated mortality risk in PTC is dependent on BRAF status; age is a strong, continuous, and independent mortality risk factor in patients with BRAF V600E mutation but not in patients with wild-type BRAF. These results question the conventional general use of patient age as a high-risk factor in PTC and call for differentiation between patients with BRAF V600E and wild-type BRAF when applying age to risk stratification and management of PTC.
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- Xiaopei Shen
- Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Istituto Auxologico Italiano and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols," Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Istituto Auxologico Italiano and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols," Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Istituto Auxologico Italiano and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols," Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Istituto Auxologico Italiano and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols," Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Istituto Auxologico Italiano and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols," Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Istituto Auxologico Italiano and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols," Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Istituto Auxologico Italiano and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols," Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Istituto Auxologico Italiano and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols," Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Istituto Auxologico Italiano and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols," Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Istituto Auxologico Italiano and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols," Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Istituto Auxologico Italiano and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols," Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Istituto Auxologico Italiano and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols," Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Istituto Auxologico Italiano and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols," Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Istituto Auxologico Italiano and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols," Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Istituto Auxologico Italiano and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols," Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Istituto Auxologico Italiano and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols," Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Istituto Auxologico Italiano and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols," Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Istituto Auxologico Italiano and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols," Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Istituto Auxologico Italiano and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols," Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Istituto Auxologico Italiano and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols," Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Istituto Auxologico Italiano and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols," Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Xiaopei Shen, Guangwu Zhu, Rengyun Liu, and Mingzhao Xing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; David Viola and Rossella Elisei, University of Pisa, Pisa; Efisio Puxeddu, University of Perugia, Perugia; Laura Fugazzola and Carla Colombo, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Istituto Auxologico Italiano and University of Milan, Milan; Caterina Mian, University of Padua; Federica Vianello, Veneto Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Padua, Italy; Barbara Jarzab and Agnieszka Czarniecka, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland; Alfred K. Lam, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland; Christine J. O'Neill, Mark S. Sywak, and Roderick Clifton-Bligh, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Linwah Yip, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre, Hospital Universitario La Paz and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Biomedical Research Institute "Alberto Sols," Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Garcilaso Riesco-Eizaguirre and Pilar Santisteban, Ciberonc, Health Institute Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Bela Bendlova and Vlasta Sýkorová, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic
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Liu R, Zhang T, Zhu G, Xing M. Regulation of mutant TERT by BRAF V600E/MAP kinase pathway through FOS/GABP in human cancer. Nat Commun 2018; 9:579. [PMID: 29422527 PMCID: PMC5805723 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03033-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2017] [Accepted: 01/15/2018] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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The unique oncogene duet of coexisting BRAF V600E and TERT promoter mutations are widely found to be a robust genetic background promoting human cancer aggressiveness, but the mechanism is unclear. Here, we demonstrate that the BRAF V600E/MAP kinase pathway phosphorylates and activates FOS, which in turn acts as a transcription factor to bind and activate the GABPB promoter, increasing GABPB expression and driving formation of GABPA-GABPB complex; the latter selectively binds and activates mutant TERT promoter, upregulating TERT expression. Elevated TERT functions as a strong oncoprotein, robustly promoting aggressive behaviors of cancer cells and tumor development. We thus identify a molecular mechanism for the activation of mutant TERT by the BRAF V600E/MAP kinase pathway, in which FOS as a transcriptional factor of GABPB promoter plays a key role in functionally bridging the two oncogenes in cooperatively promoting oncogenesis, providing important cancer biological and clinical implications. The mechanism of tumor progression robustly promoted by co-existing BRAF V600E and TERT promoter mutations is not known. Here, the authors show a mechanism of mutant TERT activation by BRAF V600E and MAPK pathways in which FOS, as a transcription factor of the GABPB promoter, functionally links the two oncogenes.
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- Rengyun Liu
- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
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Zhou D, Wang Z, Li M, Xing M, Xian T, Tu K. Carvacrol and eugenol effectively inhibitRhizopus stoloniferand control postharvest soft rot decay in peaches. J Appl Microbiol 2017; 124:166-178. [DOI: 10.1111/jam.13612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2017] [Revised: 09/16/2017] [Accepted: 10/09/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- D. Zhou
- College of Food Science and Technology; Nanjing Agricultural University; Nanjing China
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- College of Food Science and Technology; Nanjing Agricultural University; Nanjing China
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- College of Food Science and Technology; Nanjing Agricultural University; Nanjing China
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- College of Food Science and Technology; Nanjing Agricultural University; Nanjing China
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- College of Food Science and Technology; Nanjing Agricultural University; Nanjing China
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- College of Food Science and Technology; Nanjing Agricultural University; Nanjing China
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Liu R, Xing M. When Somatic Mutations Are Associated With a Higher Aggressive Behavior-Reply. JAMA Oncol 2017; 3:1428-1429. [PMID: 28617916 DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2017.1513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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- Rengyun Liu
- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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Leung AM, Xing M. 87th Annual Meeting of the American Thyroid Association October 18-22, 2017, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Thyroid 2017; 27:1213-1214. [PMID: 28961086 DOI: 10.1089/thy.2017.29049.aml] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Wang F, Yu X, Shen X, Zhu G, Huang Y, Liu R, Viola D, Elisei R, Puxeddu E, Fugazzola L, Colombo C, Jarzab B, Czarniecka A, Lam AK, Mian C, Vianello F, Yip L, Riesco-Eizaguirre G, Santisteban P, O’Neill CJ, Sywak MS, Clifton-Bligh R, Bendlova B, Sýkorová V, Wang Y, Liu S, Zhao J, Zhao S, Xing M. The Prognostic Value of Tumor Multifocality in Clinical Outcomes of Papillary Thyroid Cancer. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2017; 102:3241-3250. [PMID: 28582521 PMCID: PMC5587077 DOI: 10.1210/jc.2017-00277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2017] [Accepted: 05/31/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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CONTEXT Multifocality is often treated as a risk factor for papillary thyroid cancer (PTC), prompting aggressive treatments, but its prognostic value remains unestablished. OBJECTIVE To investigate the role of tumor multifocality in clinical outcomes of PTC. METHODS Multicenter study of the relationship between multifocality and clinical outcomes of PTC in 2638 patients (623 men and 2015 women) with median [interquartile range (IQR)] age of 46 (35 to 58) years and median (IQR) follow-up time of 58 (26 to 107) months at 11 medical centers in six countries. Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) data were used for validation. RESULTS Disease recurrence in multifocal and unifocal PTC was 198 of 1000 (19.8%) and 221 of 1624 (13.6%) (P < 0.001), with a hazard ratio of 1.55 [95% confidence interval (CI), 1.28 to 1.88], which became insignificant at 1.13 (95% CI, 0.93 to 1.37) on multivariate adjustment. Similar results were obtained in PTC variants: conventional PTC, follicular-variant PTC, tall-cell PTC, and papillary thyroid microcarcinoma. There was no association between multifocality and mortality in any of these PTC settings, whereas there was a strong association between classic risk factors and cancer recurrence or mortality, which remained significant after multivariate adjustment. In 1423 patients with intrathyroidal PTC, disease recurrence was 20 of 455 (4.4%) and 41 of 967 (4.2%) (P = 0.892) and mortality was 0 of 455 (0.0%) and 3 of 967 (0.3%) (P = 0.556) in multifocal and unifocal PTC, respectively. The results were reproduced in 89,680 patients with PTC in the SEER database. CONCLUSIONS Tumor multifocality has no independent risk prognostic value in clinical outcomes of PTC; its indiscriminate use as an independent risk factor, prompting overtreatments of patients, should be avoided.
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- Fei Wang
- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287
- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao 266003, China
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287
- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao 266003, China
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287
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- Endocrine Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa School of Medicine, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Endocrine Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa School of Medicine, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Perugia, 06100 Perugia, Italy
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- Division of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano and Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, 20122 Milan, Italy
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- Division of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano and Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, 20122 Milan, Italy
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, 44-101 Gliwice, Poland
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, 44-101 Gliwice, Poland
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- Cancer Molecular Pathology of School of Medicine and Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast 4222, Australia
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- Department of Medicine, Endocrinology Unit, University of Padua, Padua 35128, Italy
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- Veneto Institute of Oncology, Instituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Padua 35128, Italy
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Endocrine Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
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- Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition, Hospital La Paz, Health Research Institute, and Hospital Universitario de Móstoles, Department of Endocrinology, Hospital Universitario de Móstoles, 28029 Madrid, Spain
- Biomedical Research Institute, “Alberto Sols,” Spanish Council of Research Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Autonomous University of Madrid, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Biomedical Research Institute, “Alberto Sols,” Spanish Council of Research Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Autonomous University of Madrid, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Endocrine Surgical Unit, The University of Sydney, Sydney 2052, Australia
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- Department of Molecular Endocrinology, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague 11694, Czech Republic
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- Department of Molecular Endocrinology, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague 11694, Czech Republic
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao 266003, China
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- Prenatal Diagnosis Center, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao 266003, China
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shandong Provincial Hospital, Jinan 250021, China
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao 266003, China
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287
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Magnetta M, Ghodadra A, Close O, Xing M, Kim H. IVC filter implantation time correlates with risk of thromboembolic complication. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2016.12.804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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Mills A, Thayer D, Tao Y, Xing M, Saad N, Martin R, Akinwande O. Thermal ablation vs. surgical resection for AJCC I and II hepatocellular carcinoma: a propensity matched population study using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2016.12.826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Liu R, Bishop J, Zhu G, Zhang T, Ladenson PW, Xing M. Mortality Risk Stratification by Combining BRAF V600E and TERT Promoter Mutations in Papillary Thyroid Cancer: Genetic Duet of BRAF and TERT Promoter Mutations in Thyroid Cancer Mortality. JAMA Oncol 2017; 3:202-208. [PMID: 27581851 DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2016.3288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 177] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Importance BRAF V600E and TERT promoter mutations can coexist in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). This genetic duet was indicated to be involved in the aggressiveness of PTC, but its prognostic value in PTC-related mortality remains to be specifically established. Objective To establish the prognostic power of this genetic duet in PTC-specific mortality. Design, Setting, and Participants This genetic-clinical correlation study examined BRAF V600E and TERT promoter mutations (chr5:1,295,228C>T and chr5:1,295,250C>T) and PTC-specific mortality in 1051 patients (764 women and 287 men) with a median (interquartile range [IQR]) age of 46 (36-57) years, with a median (IQR) follow-up time of 89 (48-142) months (7.4 years). Main Outcomes and Measures BRAF V600E and TERT promoter mutation patterns and associated patient deaths caused by PTC. Results Papillary thyroid cancer-specific mortality occurred in 4 of 629 patients (0.6%) with neither mutation; 7 of 292 (2.4%) with BRAF V600E alone; 4 of 64 (6.3%) with TERT promoter mutation alone; and 15 of 66 (22.7%) with the genetic duet; and deaths per 1000-person years in patients harboring neither mutation, BRAF V600E alone, TERT mutation alone, or both mutations were 0.80 (95% CI, 0.30-2.13), 3.08 (95% CI, 1.47-6.46), 6.62 (95% CI, 2.48-17.64), and 29.86 (95% CI, 18.00-49.52), respectively. Compared with patients harboring neither mutation, HRs (95% CIs) for PTC-specific mortality were 3.08 (0.87-10.84) for BRAF V600E alone; 8.18 (2.04-32.75) with TERT mutation alone; and 37.77 (12.50-114.09) with both mutations. Papillary thyroid cancer-specific mortality for cases with both mutations remained significant (HR, 9.34; 95% CI, 2.53-34.48) after adjustment for clinicopathological factors, and the genetic duet showed a strong incremental and synergistic impact over either mutation alone. Kaplan-Meier analyses revealed a flat PTC-specific patient survival curve with neither mutation, a modest decline in the curve with either mutation alone, and a sharp decline in the curve with coexisting mutations. Even more robust mortality associations of the genetic duet were seen when only conventional-variant PTC (CPTC) was analyzed (HR, 54.46; 95% CI, 12.26-241.82), which remained strongly significant (HR, 18.56; 95% CI, 2.97-116.18) after adjustment for clinicopathological factors. Conclusions and Relevance These results demonstrate a simple 4-genotype classification of PTC, particularly CPTC, with a disease-specific mortality risk order of the genetic duet>>>>BRAF V600E alone = TERT promoter mutation alone > wild-type for both genes, representing a powerful molecular prognostic system that can help pinpoint patients with the highest mortality risk.
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- Rengyun Liu
- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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A unique prognostic role of the genetic duet of BRAF V600E and TERT promoter mutations in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) has been recently established, but the role of RAS mutation in this genetic interplay remains to be established. Using The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) data of patients with PTC from 19 medical centers, we investigated the interactions among the three mutations in clinical outcomes of PTC. We found that BRAF and RAS mutations were mutually exclusive, but both were associated with TERT promoter mutations, with the genetic duet of BRAF/RAS and TERT mutations occurring in 34/388 (8.76%) patients. BRAF/RAS or TERT mutation had no or minimal effect alone, whereas coexisting BRAF/RAS and TERT mutations had a robust synergistic effect on poor clinicopathologic outcomes of PTC, including disease recurrence and patient mortality. For example, PTC recurrence rate was 52% with coexisting BRAF V600E/RAS and TERT promoter mutations vs 6.9% with no mutation, corresponding to a HR of 8.17 (95% CI 3.09-21.58), which remained significant at 14.71 (95% CI 2.79-77.61) after adjustment for clinicopathologic factors and institution. BRAF/RAS mutation or TERT mutation alone minimally affected Kaplan-Meier patient survival curves, whereas the genetic duet was associated with a sharp curve decline. Thus, by confirming and expanding previous findings in single-institution studies, this multicenter data analysis establishes a six-genotype genetic prognostic model for poor outcomes of PTC with a risk order of genetic duet of BRAF V600E/RAS mutation and TERT mutation >>>>BRAF V600E = TERT mutation alone >RAS mutation alone = wild-type genes.
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- Xiaopei Shen
- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid ResearchDivision of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid ResearchDivision of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid ResearchDivision of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Williamson AJ, Doscas ME, Ye J, Heiden KB, Xing M, Li Y, Prinz RA, Xu X. The sonic hedgehog signaling pathway stimulates anaplastic thyroid cancer cell motility and invasiveness by activating Akt and c-Met. Oncotarget 2016; 7:10472-85. [PMID: 26859575 PMCID: PMC4891133 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.7228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2015] [Accepted: 01/27/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The sonic hedgehog (Shh) pathway is highly activated in thyroid neoplasms and promotes thyroid cancer stem-like cell phenotype, but whether the Shh pathway regulates thyroid tumor cell motility and invasiveness remains unknown. Here, we report that the motility and invasiveness of two anaplastic thyroid tumor cell lines, KAT-18 and SW1736, were inhibited by two inhibitors of the Shh pathway (cyclopamine and GANT61). Consistently, the cell motility and invasiveness was decreased by Shh and Gli1 knockdown, and was increased by Gli1 overexpression in KAT-18 cells. Mechanistic studies revealed that Akt and c-Met phosphorylation was decreased by a Gli1 inhibitor and by Shh and Gli1 knockdown, but was increased by Gli1 overexpression. LY294002, a PI-3 kinase inhibitor, and a c-Met inhibitor inhibited the motility and invasiveness of Gli1-transfected KAT-18 cells more effectively than the vector-transfected cells. Knockdown of Snail, a transcription factor regulated by the Shh pathway, led to decreased cell motility and invasiveness in KAT-18 and SW1736 cells. However, key epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) markers including E-cadherin and vimentin as well as Slug were not affected by cyclopamine and GANT61 in either SW1736 or WRO82, a well differentiated follicular thyroid carcinoma cell line. Our data suggest that the Shh pathway-stimulated thyroid tumor cell motility and invasiveness is largely mediated by AKT and c-Met activation with little involvement of EMT.
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of General Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center and Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Surgery, NorthShore University Health System, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Center for Comparative Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China.,Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.,Department of General Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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Yin DT, Xu J, Lei M, Li H, Wang Y, Liu Z, Zhou Y, Xing M. Characterization of the novel tumor-suppressor gene CCDC67 in papillary thyroid carcinoma. Oncotarget 2016; 7:5830-41. [PMID: 26716505 PMCID: PMC4868724 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.6709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2015] [Accepted: 11/25/2015] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Background Some studies showed an association of coiled-coil domain-containing (CCDC) genes with cancers. Our previous limited data specifically suggested a possible pathogenic role of CCDC67 in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC), but this has not been firmly established. The present study was to further investigate and establish this role of CCDC67 in PTC. Results The expression of CCDC67, both at mRNA and protein levels, was sharply down-regulated in PTC compared with normal thyroid tissues. Lower CCDC67 expression was significantly associated with aggressive tumor behaviors, such as advanced tumor stages and lymph node metastasis, as well as BRAF mutation. Introduced expression of CCDC67 in TPC-1 cells robustly inhibited cell proliferation, colony formation and migration, induced G1 phase cell cycle arrest, and increased cell apoptosis. Methods Primary PTC tumors and matched normal thyroid tissues were obtained from 200 unselected patients at the initial surgery for detection of CCDC67 mRNA and protein by RT-PCR and Western blotting analyses, respectively. Genomic DNA sequencing was performed to detect BRAF mutation in PTC tumors. Clinicopathological data were retrospectively reviewed for correlation analyses. PTC cell line TPC-1 with stable transfection of CCDC67 was used to investigate the functions of CCDC67. Conclusions This large study demonstrates down-regulation of CCDC67 in PTC, an inverse relationship between CCDC67 expression and PTC aggressiveness and BRAF mutation, and a robust inhibitory effect of CCDC67 on PTC cellular activities. These results are consistent with CCDC67 being a novel and impaired tumor suppressor gene in PTC, providing important prognostic and therapeutic implications for this cancer.
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- De Tao Yin
- Department of Thyroid Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450052, P. R. China.,Key Discipline Laboratory of Clinical Medicine Henan, Zhengzhou 450052, P. R. China
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- Department of Thyroid Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450052, P. R. China.,Key Discipline Laboratory of Clinical Medicine Henan, Zhengzhou 450052, P. R. China
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- Department of Thyroid Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450052, P. R. China.,Key Discipline Laboratory of Clinical Medicine Henan, Zhengzhou 450052, P. R. China
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- Department of Thyroid Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450052, P. R. China.,Key Discipline Laboratory of Clinical Medicine Henan, Zhengzhou 450052, P. R. China
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- Department of Thyroid Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450052, P. R. China.,Key Discipline Laboratory of Clinical Medicine Henan, Zhengzhou 450052, P. R. China
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- Department of Thyroid Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450052, P. R. China.,Key Discipline Laboratory of Clinical Medicine Henan, Zhengzhou 450052, P. R. China
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- Department of Pharmacy, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450052, P. R. China
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- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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Chai YJ, Yi JW, Jee HG, Kim YA, Kim JH, Xing M, Lee KE. Significance of the BRAF mRNA Expression Level in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: An Analysis of The Cancer Genome Atlas Data. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0159235. [PMID: 27410688 PMCID: PMC4943731 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2016] [Accepted: 06/29/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Background BRAFV600E is the most common mutation in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), and it is associated with high-risk prognostic factors. However, the significance of the BRAF mRNA level in PTC remains unknown. We evaluated the significance of BRAF mRNA expression level by analyzing PTC data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database. Methods Data from 499 patients were downloaded from the TCGA database. After excluding other PTC variants, we selected 353 cases of classic PTC, including 193 cases with BRAFV600E and 160 cases with the wild-type BRAF. mRNA abundances were measured using RNA-Seq with the Expectation Maximization algorithm. Results The mean BRAF mRNA level was significantly higher in BRAFV600E patients than in patients with wild-type BRAF (197.6 vs. 179.3, p = 0.031). In wild-type BRAF patients, the mean BRAF mRNA level was higher in cases with a tumor > 2 cm than those with a tumor ≤ 2.0 cm (189.4 vs. 163.8, p = 0.046), and was also higher in cases with lymph node metastasis than in those without lymph node metastasis (188.5 vs. 157.9, p = 0.040). Within BRAFV600E patients, higher BRAF mRNA expression was associated with extrathyroidal extension (186.4 vs. 216.4, p = 0.001) and higher T stage (188.1 vs. 210.2, p = 0.016). Conclusions A higher BRAF mRNA expression level was associated with tumor aggressiveness in classic PTC regardless of BRAF mutational status. Evaluation of BRAF mRNA level may be helpful in prognostic risk stratification of PTC.
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- Young Jun Chai
- Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, 20 Boramae-ro 5-gil, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 156–70, Korea
- Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 110–744, Korea
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- Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 110–744, Korea
- Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital and College of Medicine, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 110–744, Korea
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- Center for Chronic Disease, Research Institute, National Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Pathology, Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, 20 Boramae-ro 5-gil, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 156–70, Korea
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- Division of Biomedical Informatics, Systems Biomedical Informatics Research Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 110–744, Korea
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- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1830E Monument St, Ste 333, Baltimore, Maryland, 21287, United States of America
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- Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 110–744, Korea
- Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital and College of Medicine, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 110–744, Korea
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Nie XL, Jia LL, Peng XX, Li HR, Xing M, Lin N, Li MX, Wang XL. [Cross-sectional study of family drug stockpile and children medication in China]. Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi 2016; 37:921-924. [PMID: 27453097 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0254-6450.2016.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the current situation of family medicine stockpile and children medication in China, analyze the existing problems and provide the rationalized suggestions. METHODS The questionnaire was designed and convenient sampling survey was performed in 20 children hospitals in China. Descriptive analysis was conducted on the survey results. RESULTS A total of 13 940 completed questionnaires were returned, 98.33% of the families had medicine stockpile, the top three types of the medicine for children were cold medicine(73.95%), oral paregoric/febrifuge(48.01%)and external used drugs for skin disease(wound)(41.10%). The medicine was bought according to physician's prescription and guide(71.18%). Drug poisoning occurred in children of 238 families(1.71%), overdose use was the first cause(44.96%). 22.33% of the parents didn't read the specification carefully before medicine use. The non-appropriate medication for children were mainly the use of adult medicine(32.70%), untimely medication(30.90%), non-rational or unneeded use of febrifuge(26.35%). CONCLUSIONS In China, the families mainly store common medicine for their children. The parents bought medicine mainly according to physician' s prescription and paid attention to the safety and efficiency of the medicine, but non-appropriate use of medicine was still common. It is necessary to improve the rational use of medicine for children through expert counsel and guidance.
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- Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence-based Medicine, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100045, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100045, China
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- Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence-based Medicine, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100045, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100045, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100045, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100045, China
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- China Nonprescription Medicines Association, Beijing 100098, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100045, China
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Zhang T, Shen X, Xing M. Response. J Natl Cancer Inst 2016; 108:djw124. [PMID: 27154967 DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djw124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2016] [Accepted: 03/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Tao Zhang
- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (TZ, XS, MX)
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- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (TZ, XS, MX)
| | - Mingzhao Xing
- Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Thyroid Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (TZ, XS, MX)
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