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Copy number alterations and allelic ratio in relation to recurrence of rectal cancer

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Title
Copy number alterations and allelic ratio in relation to recurrence of rectal cancer
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BMC Genomics, June 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12864-015-1550-0
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Inès J Goossens-Beumer, Jan Oosting, Wim E Corver, Marjolein JFW Janssen, Bart Janssen, Wilbert van Workum, Eliane CM Zeestraten, Cornelis JH van de Velde, Hans Morreau, Peter JK Kuppen, Tom van Wezel

Abstract

In rectal cancer, total mesorectal excision surgery combined with preoperative (chemo)radiotherapy reduces local recurrence rates but does not improve overall patient survival, a result that may be due to the harmful side effects and/or co-morbidity of preoperative treatment. New biomarkers are needed to facilitate identification of rectal cancer patients at high risk for local recurrent disease. This would allow for preoperative (chemo)radiotherapy to be restricted to high-risk patients, thereby reducing overtreatment and allowing personalized treatment protocols. We analyzed genome-wide DNA copy number (CN) and allelic alterations in 112 tumors from preoperatively untreated rectal cancer patients. Sixty-six patients with local and/or distant recurrent disease were compared to matched controls without recurrence. Results were validated in a second cohort of tumors from 95 matched rectal cancer patients. Additionally, we performed a meta-analysis that included 42 studies reporting on CN alterations in colorectal cancer and compared results to our own data. The genomic profiles in our study were comparable to other rectal cancer studies. Results of the meta-analysis supported the hypothesis that colon cancer and rectal cancer may be distinct disease entities. In our discovery patient study cohort, allelic retention of chromosome 7 was significantly associated with local recurrent disease. Data from the validation cohort were supportive, albeit not statistically significant, of this finding. We showed that retention of heterozygosity on chromosome 7 may be associated with local recurrence in rectal cancer. Further research is warranted to elucidate the mechanisms and effect of retention of chromosome 7 on the development of local recurrent disease in rectal cancer.

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Country Count As %
Iran, Islamic Republic of 1 3%
Unknown 38 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 15%
Researcher 5 13%
Student > Bachelor 4 10%
Other 3 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 5%
Other 5 13%
Unknown 14 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 12 31%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 10%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 5%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 3%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 16 41%
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