Journal
GENES
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/genes12020197
Keywords
microsatellite instability (MSI); short tandem repeats (STRs); tumors; hypermutability
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- National High-level Talent Special Support Plan [WRQB2019]
- National Natural Science Fund of China [82072123, 81930056]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFA0500600]
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The study compared MSI and STR status in eight tumor types, and predicted the potential threshold for hypermutability of BC, HCC, CRC, GC, LC, EC, and RCC.
A growing number of studies have shown immunotherapy to be a promising treatment strategy for several types of cancer. Short tandem repeats (STRs) have been proven to be alternative markers for the evaluation of hypermutability in gastrointestinal (GI) cancers. However, the status of STRs and microsatellite instability (MSI) in other tumors have not yet been investigated. To further compare STR and MSI alterations in different tumors, a total of 407 paired DNAs were analyzed from the following eight tumor types: breast cancer (BC), hepatocellular cancer (HCC), pancreatic cancer (PC), colorectal cancer (CRC), gastric cancer (GC), lung cancer (LC), esophageal cancer (EC), and renal cell cancer (RCC). The STR alteration frequencies varied in different tumors as expected. Interestingly, none of the patients possessed MSI-low (MSI-L) or MSI-high (MSI-H), except for the GI patients. The highest STR alteration was detected in EC (77.78%), followed by CRC (69.77%), HCC (63.33%), GC (54.55%), LC (48.00%), RCC (40.91%), BC (36.11%), and PC (25.71%). The potential cutoff for hypermutability was predicted using the published objective response rate (ORR), and the cutoff of LC and HCC was the same as that of GI cancers (26.32%). The cutoffs of 31.58% and 10.53% should be selected for BC and RCC, respectively. In summary, we compared MSI and STR status in eight tumor types, and predicted the potential threshold for hypermutability of BC, HCC, CRC, GC, LC, EC, and RCC.
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