Circulating cf-miRNA as a more appropriate surrogate liquid biopsy marker than cfDNA for ovarian cancer

Ovarian cancer (OC) is an aggressive disease, primarily diagnosed in late stages with only 20% of patients surviving more than 5 years. Liquid biopsy markers have great potential to improve current diagnostic and prognostic methods. Here, we compared miRNAs and DNA methylation in matched plasma, wh...

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Hauptverfasser: Gahlawat, Aoife Ward (VerfasserIn) , Witte, Tania (VerfasserIn) , Sinn, Peter (VerfasserIn) , Schott, Sarah (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 04 April 2023
In: Scientific reports
Year: 2023, Jahrgang: 13, Pages: 1-9
ISSN:2045-2322
DOI:10.1038/s41598-023-32243-x
Online-Zugang:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-32243-x
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Verfasserangaben:Aoife Ward Gahlawat, Tania Witte, Peter Sinn & Sarah Schott
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Zusammenfassung:Ovarian cancer (OC) is an aggressive disease, primarily diagnosed in late stages with only 20% of patients surviving more than 5 years. Liquid biopsy markers have great potential to improve current diagnostic and prognostic methods. Here, we compared miRNAs and DNA methylation in matched plasma, whole blood and tissues as a surrogate marker for OC. We found that while both cfDNA and cf-miRNAs levels were upregulated in OC compared to patients with benign lesions or healthy controls, only cf-miRNA levels were an independent prognosticator of survival. Following on our previous work, we found members of the miR-200 family, miR-200c and miR-141 to be upregulated in both plasma and matched tissues of OC patients which correlated with adverse clinical features. We could also show that the upregulation of miR-200c and -141 correlated with promoter DNA hypomethylation in tissues, but not in plasma or matched whole blood samples. As cf-miRNAs are more easily obtained and very stable in blood, we conclude that they might serve as a more appropriate surrogate liquid biopsy marker than cfDNA for OC.
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ISSN:2045-2322
DOI:10.1038/s41598-023-32243-x