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CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY BIOMARKERS & PREVENTION
卷 21, 期 10, 页码 1735-1744出版社
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-12-0451
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- National Cancer Institute and National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences [U01-ES019472, R01-CA138255, R01-ES017400, U01-ES019548, U01-ES019466, P50CA058223]
- Avon Foundation
- University Cancer Research Fund at the University of North Carolina
Background: Age is the strongest breast cancer risk factor, with overall breast cancer risk increasing steadily beginning at approximately 30 years of age. However, while breast cancer risk is lower among younger women, young women's breast cancer may be more aggressive. Although, several genomic and epidemiologic studies have shown higher prevalence of aggressive, estrogen-receptor negative breast cancer in younger women, the age-related gene expression that predisposes to these tumors is poorly understood. Characterizing age-related patterns of gene expression in normal breast tissues may provide insights on etiology of distinct breast cancer subtypes that arise from these tissues. Methods: To identify age-related changes in normal breast tissue, 96 tissue specimens from patients with reduction mammoplasty, ages 14 to 70 years, were assayed by gene expression microarray. Results: Significant associations between gene expression levels and age were identified for 802 probes (481 increased, 321 decreased with increasing age). Enriched functions included aging of cells, shape change, and chemotaxis, and enriched pathways included Wnt/beta-catenin signaling, Ephrin receptor signaling, and JAK/Stat signaling. Applying the age-associated genes to publicly available tumor datasets, the age-associated pathways defined two groups of tumors with distinct survival. Conclusion: The hazard rates of young-like tumors mirrored that of high-grade tumors in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program, providing a biologic link between normal aging and age-related tumor aggressiveness. Impact: These data show that studies of normal tissue gene expression can yield important insights about the pathways and biologic pressures that are relevant during tumor etiology and progression. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev; 21(10); 1735-44. (c) 2012 AACR.
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