Journal
PEDIATRIC BLOOD & CANCER
Volume 69, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.29553
Keywords
microarray; microRNA; pediatric adrenocortical tumor; prognosis
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- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estadode Sao Paulo (FAPESP) [2010/07020-9, 2014/20341-0]
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq) [471885/2013-4]
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This study reveals associations between miRNA profiles and childhood ACT prognosis, suggesting that miRNAs could serve as useful biomarkers to distinguish patients with favorable and unfavorable clinical outcomes.
Pediatric adrenocortical tumors (ACT) are rare aggressive neoplasms with heterogeneous prognosis. Despite extensive efforts, identifying reliable prognostic factors for pediatric patients with ACT remains a challenge. MicroRNA (miRNA) signatures have been associated with cancer diagnosis, treatment response, and prognosis of several types of cancer. However, the role of miRNAs has been poorly explored in pediatric ACT. In this study, we performed miRNA microarray profiling on a cohort of 37 pediatric ACT and nine nonneoplastic adrenal (NNA) samples and evaluated the prognostic significance of abnormally expressed miRNAs using Kaplan-Meier plots, log-rank test, and Cox regression analysis. We identified a total of 98 abnormally expressed miRNAs; their expression profile discriminated ACT from NNAs. Among the 98 deregulated miRNAs, 17 presented significant associations with patients' survival. In addition, higher expression levels of hsa-miR-630, -139-3p, -125a-3p, -574-5p, -596, -564, -1321, and -423-5p and lower expression levels of hsa-miR-377-3p, -126-3p, -410, -136-3p, -29b-3p, -29a-3p, -337-5p, -143-3p, and 140-5p were significantly associated with poor prognosis, tumor relapse, and/or death. Importantly, the expression profile of these 17 miRNAs stratified patients into two groups of ACTs with different clinical outcomes. Although some individual miRNAs exhibit potential prognostic values in ACTs, only the 17 miRNA-based expression clustering was considered an independent prognostic factor for 5-year event-free survival (EFS) compared to other clinicopathological features. In conclusion, our study reports for the first time associations between miRNA profiles and childhood ACT prognosis, providing evidence that miRNAs could be useful biomarkers to discriminate patients with favorable and unfavorable clinical outcomes.
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