16 results on '"Larry Ka-Yue Chow"'
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2. Epigenomic landscape study reveals molecular subtypes and EBV-associated regulatory epigenome reprogramming in nasopharyngeal carcinomaResearch in context
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Larry Ka-Yue Chow, Dittman Lai-Shun Chung, Lihua Tao, Kui Fat Chan, Stewart Yuk Tung, Roger Kai Cheong Ngan, Wai Tong Ng, Anne Wing-Mui Lee, Chun Chung Yau, Dora Lai-Wan Kwong, Victor Ho-Fun Lee, Ka-On Lam, Jiayan Liu, Honglin Chen, Wei Dai, and Maria Li Lung
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Epstein-Barr virus ,Nasopharyngeal carcinoma ,Host-virus interaction ,Whole-genome bisulfite sequencing ,Chromatin accessibility ,Tumor microenvironment ,Medicine ,Medicine (General) ,R5-920 - Abstract
Summary: Background: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) latent infection is associated with genome-wide epigenomic changes in several malignancies, but its role in epigenetic dysregulation remains unclear in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Methods: To investigate EBV-associated epigenetic dysregulation, we performed a multi-omics study by integrating whole-genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS), assay for transposase-accessible chromatin using sequencing (ATAC-Seq), whole-exome sequencing (WES), and single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-Seq) data. Findings: In addition to the known global DNA hypermethylated subtype, we discovered a novel subtype with global hypomethylation in EBV + NPC. The consistent EBV-specific differentially methylated regions (EBV-DMRs) in the human genome were identified from both subtypes and associated with loss of CTCF binding (P
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3. DNTTIP1 promotes nasopharyngeal carcinoma metastasis via recruiting HDAC1 to DUSP2 promoter and activating ERK signaling pathway
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Shirong Ding, Ying Gao, Dongming Lv, Yalan Tao, Songran Liu, Chen Chen, Zilu Huang, Shuohan Zheng, Yujun Hu, Larry Ka-Yue Chow, Yinghong Wei, Ping Feng, Wei Dai, Xin Wang, and Yunfei Xia
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Nasopharyngeal carcinoma ,DNTTIP1 ,DUSP2 ,ERK signaling pathway ,Tumor metastasis ,Chidamide ,Medicine ,Medicine (General) ,R5-920 - Abstract
Summary: Background: Distant metastasis remains the leading cause of treatment failure in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), making it critical to identify efficient therapeutic targets for metastatic NPC. Previous studies have demonstrated that deoxynucleotidyltransferase terminal-interacting protein 1 (DNTTIP1) is associated with the development of various types of cancer. However, its role and mechanism in NPC have not been explored. Methods: RNA-seq profiling was performed for three pairs of NPC and normal nasopharynx tissues. DNTTIP1 expression in NPC specimens was detected by immunohistochemistry. In vitro and in vivo assays were used to investigate the function of DNTTIP1. The molecular mechanism was determined using RT-qPCR, western blotting, RNA-seq, luciferase reporter assays, ChIP assays, and co-IP assays. Findings: DNTTIP1 was found to be significantly upregulated in NPC tissues. Furthermore, DNTTIP1 promoted NPC growth and metastasis in vitro and in vivo. Upregulation of DNTTIP1 in NPC indicated poor clinical outcomes. Mechanistically, DNTTIP1 suppressed DUSP2 gene expression via recruiting HDAC1 to its promoter and maintaining a deacetylated state of histone H3K27. The downregulation of DUSP2 resulted in aberrant activation of the ERK signaling and elevated MMP2 levels, promoting NPC metastasis. Chidamide, an HDAC inhibitor, was shown to suppress NPC metastasis by regulating the DNTTIP1/HDAC1-DUSP2 axis. Interpretation: Our findings demonstrate that DNTTIP1 not only regulates NPC metastasis but also independently predicts NPC prognosis. Furthermore, targeting DNTTIP1/HDAC1 by Chidamide may benefit NPC patients with metastasis. Funding: This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81872464, 82073243).
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- 2022
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4. Comprehensive single-cell sequencing reveals the stromal dynamics and tumor-specific characteristics in the microenvironment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma
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Lanqi Gong, Dora Lai-Wan Kwong, Wei Dai, Pingan Wu, Shanshan Li, Qian Yan, Yu Zhang, Baifeng Zhang, Xiaona Fang, Li Liu, Min Luo, Beilei Liu, Larry Ka-Yue Chow, Qingyun Chen, Jinlin Huang, Victor Ho-Fun Lee, Ka-On Lam, Anthony Wing-Ip Lo, Zhiwei Chen, Yan Wang, Anne Wing-Mui Lee, and Xin-Yuan Guan
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Science - Abstract
The tumor microenvironment can influence patient survival response to therapy. Here, the authors used single-cell sequencing to investigate the microenvironment of nasopharyngeal cancer and identify tumor-specific signatures in five stromal clusters of cells that may influence patient survival.
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- 2021
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5. Prognostic Biomarkers for Survival in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: A Systematic Review of the Literature
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Kazi Anisha Islam, Larry Ka-Yue Chow, Ngar Woon Kam, Ying Wang, Chi Leung Chiang, Horace Cheuk-Wai Choi, Yun-Fei Xia, Anne Wing-Mui Lee, Wai Tong Ng, and Wei Dai
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nasopharyngeal carcinoma ,prognosis ,biomarkers ,survival ,systematic review ,Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens ,RC254-282 - Abstract
This systematic review aims to identify prognostic molecular biomarkers which demonstrate strong evidence and a low risk of bias in predicting the survival of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients. The literature was searched for on PubMed to identify original clinical studies and meta-analyses which reported associations between molecular biomarkers and survival, including ≥150 patients with a survival analysis, and the results were validated in at least one independent cohort, while meta-analyses must include ≥1000 patients with a survival analysis. Seventeen studies fulfilled these criteria—two studies on single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), three studies on methylation biomarkers, two studies on microRNA biomarkers, one study on mutational signature, six studies on gene expression panels, and three meta-analyses on gene expressions. The comparison between the hazard ratios of high-risk and low-risk patients along with a multivariate analysis are used to indicate that these biomarkers have significant independent prognostic values for survival. The biomarkers also indicate a response to certain treatments and whether they could be used as therapeutic targets. This review highlights that patients’ genetics, epigenetics, and signatures of cancer and immune cells in the tumor microenvironment (TME) play a vital role in determining their survival.
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6. CR2Cancer: a database for chromatin regulators in human cancer.
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Beibei Ru, Jianlong Sun, Yin Tong, Ching Ngar Wong, Aditi Chandra, Acacia Tsz So Tang, Larry Ka Yue Chow, Wai Lam Wun, Zarina Levitskaya, and Jiangwen Zhang
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- 2018
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7. Data from Clinical Outcome–Related Mutational Signatures Identified by Integrative Genomic Analysis in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
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Maria Li Lung, Josephine Mun-Yee Ko, Candy King-Chi Chan, Merrin Man-Long Leong, Lisa Chan Lei, Valen Zhuoyou Yu, Larry Ka-Yue Chow, Dittman Lai-Shun Chung, and Wei Dai
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Purpose:Investigation of biological mechanisms underlying genetic alterations in cancer can assist the understanding of etiology and identify the potential prognostic biomarkers.Experimental Design:We performed an integrative genomic analysis for a total of 731 nasopharyngeal carcinoma cases from five independent nasopharyngeal carcinoma cohorts to identify the genetic events associated with clinical outcomes.Results:In addition to the known mutational signatures associated with aging, APOBEC and mismatch repair (MMR), a new signature for homologous recombination deficiency (BRCAness) was discovered in 64 of 216 (29.6%) cases in the discovery set including three cohorts. This signature appeared more frequently in the recurrent and metastatic tumors and significantly correlated with shorter overall survival (OS) in the primary tumors. Independent prognostic value of MMR and BRCAness signatures was revealed by multivariable Cox analysis after adjustment for clinical parameters and stratification by studies. The cases with both signatures had much worse clinical outcome than those without these signatures [hazard ratio (HR), 12.4; P = 0.002]. This correlation was confirmed in the validation set (HR, 8.9; P = 0.003). The BRCAness signature is highly associated with BRCA2 pathogenic germline or somatic alterations (7.8% vs. 0%; P = 0.002). Targeted sequencing results from a prospective nasopharyngeal carcinoma cohort (N = 402) showed that the cases carrying BRCA2 germline rare variants are more likely to have poor OS and progression-free survival.Conclusions:Our study highlights importance of defects of DNA repair machinery in nasopharyngeal carcinoma pathogenesis and their prognostic values for clinical implications. These signatures will be useful for patient stratification to evaluate conventional and new treatment for precision medicine in nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
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8. Supplementary Figure S5 from Clinical Outcome–Related Mutational Signatures Identified by Integrative Genomic Analysis in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
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Maria Li Lung, Josephine Mun-Yee Ko, Candy King-Chi Chan, Merrin Man-Long Leong, Lisa Chan Lei, Valen Zhuoyou Yu, Larry Ka-Yue Chow, Dittman Lai-Shun Chung, and Wei Dai
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Figure S5: Methylation of selected genes between NPC and adjacent non-tumor tissues.
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9. Supplementary Legend from Clinical Outcome–Related Mutational Signatures Identified by Integrative Genomic Analysis in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
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Maria Li Lung, Josephine Mun-Yee Ko, Candy King-Chi Chan, Merrin Man-Long Leong, Lisa Chan Lei, Valen Zhuoyou Yu, Larry Ka-Yue Chow, Dittman Lai-Shun Chung, and Wei Dai
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10. Supplementary Tables S1-S8 (clean version) from Clinical Outcome–Related Mutational Signatures Identified by Integrative Genomic Analysis in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
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Maria Li Lung, Josephine Mun-Yee Ko, Candy King-Chi Chan, Merrin Man-Long Leong, Lisa Chan Lei, Valen Zhuoyou Yu, Larry Ka-Yue Chow, Dittman Lai-Shun Chung, and Wei Dai
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Table S1: Clinical parameters for the HK-3 cohort for targeted sequencing (N=402);Table S2: Sample size estimation and power calculation for study cohorts;Table S3: Mutational signatures and clinical parameters in primary NPC (N=178);Table S4: All the pathogenic germline and somatic alterations at BRCA2 (NM_000059) detected in NPC (N=216);Table S5: Germline and somatic alterations at the selected DNA damage and repair genes in 216 NPC cases for the genes with differential expression and SCNAs in NPC;Table S6: Germline rare variants detected at BRCA2 (NM_000059) in the HK-3 cohort (N=402);Table S7: Association of BRCA2 germline rare variants with clinical parameters in the HK-3 cohort (N=402);Table S8: Differentially methylated CpG sites between signature 3-positive and -negative cases
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11. Abstract 4716: Characterization of 3D genome in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC)
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Dittman Lai-Shun Chung, Larry Ka-Yue Chow, and Wei Dai
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Cancer Research ,Oncology - Abstract
Background: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) can be detected in more than 90% of NPC patients in Hong Kong. It has been shown that EBV infection could hijack the human epigenome in B cell lymphoma and EBV+ gastric cancer, however, the role of EBV in epigenetic dysregulation remains largely unknown in NPC. Recently, our epigenomic landscape study demonstrated EBV was associated with changes of chromatin accessibility in NPC, which were largely involved in the binding sites of CTCF, a master regulator of chromosome organization. Therefore, we aim to further characterize the 3D chromatin structure in NPC. Methods: We used the Hi-C (Omni-C Seq) to profile the chromatin interactions in the EBV-positive (EBV+) NPC, EBV-negative (EBV-) NPC, and normal immortalized epithelial (NPE) cell lines. The Omni-C Seq data were integrated with the ATAC-Seq, RNA-Seq, and CUT&RUN-Seq data. The histone markers including H3K4me3, H3K27ac, and H3K27me3, were applied to classify the active and inactive status of the chromatins. The chromatin looping and topologically associated domains (TADs) were defined by the CTCF binding sites. Results: We observed a much larger compartmentalization size in EBV+ NPC with a consistent increase of active to inactive (A to B) compartments, compared to NPE and EBV- NPC. Pathway enrichment analysis showed that these changes potentially influenced immune response, cell differentiation and development, metabolism, ERBB pathway, and calcium signaling transduction. In addition to the changes in compartmentalization, we observed a reduction of CTCF binding signals at the TADs boundaries and the loss of chromatin looping at the 10kb resolution. Consistently, the aggregate peak analysis has shown a significant reduction of the CTCF anchor, indicating the abandonment of architectural CTCF in EBV+ NPC. More importantly, we found EBV tethering to the host chromatins. In the EBV genome, the tethering sites were often located at the regions associated with OriP, EBNA1, and BARTs. In the human genome, the tethering sites were dramatically enriched in the inactive to active (B to A) compartments, which were highly associated with the enhancer regions with H3K27ac. We identified a specific target gene CD74 with EBV tethering at the nearby super-enhancer region. Our results suggest the upregulation of CD74 could be controlled via remodulating the host 3D genome in EBV+ NPC. The spatial transcriptome analysis indicated that the expression of CD74 was highly correlated with HLA-DRA. The spatial analysis further showed that the NPC patients with upregulated HLA-DRA often had de novo distant metastasis after treatment (p=0.007). Conclusions: The EBV tethering to the host genome has a significant impact on host 3D genome organization, affecting chromatin accessibility and gene regulation, providing survival advantages of cancer cell growth and potentially contributing to immune suppression and metastasis. Citation Format: Dittman Lai-Shun Chung, Larry Ka-Yue Chow, Wei Dai. Characterization of 3D genome in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2023; Part 1 (Regular and Invited Abstracts); 2023 Apr 14-19; Orlando, FL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2023;83(7_Suppl):Abstract nr 4716.
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12. DNTTIP1 promotes nasopharyngeal carcinoma metastasis via recruiting HDAC1 to DUSP2 promoter and activating ERK signaling pathway
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Shirong Ding, Ying Gao, Dongming Lv, Yalan Tao, Songran Liu, Chen Chen, Zilu Huang, Shuohan Zheng, Yujun Hu, Larry Ka-Yue Chow, Yinghong Wei, Ping Feng, Wei Dai, Xin Wang, and Yunfei Xia
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Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma ,Dual Specificity Phosphatase 2 ,Histone Deacetylase 1 ,Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms ,General Medicine ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,DNA-Binding Proteins ,Cell Movement ,Cell Line, Tumor ,Humans ,Neoplasm Invasiveness ,Neoplasm Metastasis ,Cell Proliferation ,Signal Transduction ,Transcription Factors - Abstract
Distant metastasis remains the leading cause of treatment failure in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), making it critical to identify efficient therapeutic targets for metastatic NPC. Previous studies have demonstrated that deoxynucleotidyltransferase terminal-interacting protein 1 (DNTTIP1) is associated with the development of various types of cancer. However, its role and mechanism in NPC have not been explored.RNA-seq profiling was performed for three pairs of NPC and normal nasopharynx tissues. DNTTIP1 expression in NPC specimens was detected by immunohistochemistry. In vitro and in vivo assays were used to investigate the function of DNTTIP1. The molecular mechanism was determined using RT-qPCR, western blotting, RNA-seq, luciferase reporter assays, ChIP assays, and co-IP assays.DNTTIP1 was found to be significantly upregulated in NPC tissues. Furthermore, DNTTIP1 promoted NPC growth and metastasis in vitro and in vivo. Upregulation of DNTTIP1 in NPC indicated poor clinical outcomes. Mechanistically, DNTTIP1 suppressed DUSP2 gene expression via recruiting HDAC1 to its promoter and maintaining a deacetylated state of histone H3K27. The downregulation of DUSP2 resulted in aberrant activation of the ERK signaling and elevated MMP2 levels, promoting NPC metastasis. Chidamide, an HDAC inhibitor, was shown to suppress NPC metastasis by regulating the DNTTIP1/HDAC1-DUSP2 axis.Our findings demonstrate that DNTTIP1 not only regulates NPC metastasis but also independently predicts NPC prognosis. Furthermore, targeting DNTTIP1/HDAC1 by Chidamide may benefit NPC patients with metastasis.This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81872464, 82073243).
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13. Comprehensive single-cell sequencing reveals the stromal dynamics and tumor-specific characteristics in the microenvironment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma
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Ka-On Lam, Anthony Wing Ip Lo, Baifeng Zhang, Victor Ho-Fun Lee, Xiaona Fang, Wei Dai, Qing-Yun Chen, Xin Yuan Guan, Jinlin Huang, Lanqi Gong, Beilei Liu, Shan-Shan Li, Qian Yan, Yu Zhang, Anne Wing-Mui Lee, Larry Ka-Yue Chow, Zhiwei Chen, P.M. Wu, Min Luo, Yan Wang, Li Liu, and Dora L.W. Kwong
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0301 basic medicine ,Cancer microenvironment ,Stromal cell ,Science ,T-Lymphocytes ,Population ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Biology ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Article ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Immune system ,medicine ,Tumor Microenvironment ,Humans ,Myeloid Cells ,education ,Head and neck cancer ,education.field_of_study ,Tumor microenvironment ,B-Lymphocytes ,Multidisciplinary ,Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma ,Sequence Analysis, RNA ,Cancer ,Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms ,General Chemistry ,Fibroblasts ,medicine.disease ,Prognosis ,Phenotype ,Progression-Free Survival ,Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic ,030104 developmental biology ,Single cell sequencing ,Nasopharyngeal carcinoma ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Cancer research ,Stromal Cells - Abstract
The tumor microenvironment (TME) of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) harbors a heterogeneous and dynamic stromal population. A comprehensive understanding of this tumor-specific ecosystem is necessary to enhance cancer diagnosis, therapeutics, and prognosis. However, recent advances based on bulk RNA sequencing remain insufficient to construct an in-depth landscape of infiltrating stromal cells in NPC. Here we apply single-cell RNA sequencing to 66,627 cells from 14 patients, integrated with clonotype identification on T and B cells. We identify and characterize five major stromal clusters and 36 distinct subpopulations based on genetic profiling. By comparing with the infiltrating cells in the non-malignant microenvironment, we report highly representative features in the TME, including phenotypic abundance, genetic alternations, immune dynamics, clonal expansion, developmental trajectory, and molecular interactions that profoundly influence patient prognosis and therapeutic outcome. The key findings are further independently validated in two single-cell RNA sequencing cohorts and two bulk RNA-sequencing cohorts. In the present study, we reveal the correlation between NPC-specific characteristics and progression-free survival. Together, these data facilitate the understanding of the stromal landscape and immune dynamics in NPC patients and provides deeper insights into the development of prognostic biomarkers and therapeutic targets in the TME., The tumor microenvironment can influence patient survival response to therapy. Here, the authors used single-cell sequencing to investigate the microenvironment of nasopharyngeal cancer and identify tumor-specific signatures in five stromal clusters of cells that may influence patient survival.
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14. Clinical Outcome-Related Mutational Signatures Identified by Integrative Genomic Analysis in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
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Valen Zhuoyou Yu, Larry Ka-Yue Chow, Merrin Man-Long Leong, Maria Li Lung, Josephine Mun Yee Ko, Candy King-Chi Chan, Wei Dai, Lisa Chan Lei, and Dittman Lai-Shun Chung
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0301 basic medicine ,Oncology ,APOBEC ,Male ,Cancer Research ,medicine.medical_specialty ,DNA repair ,Germline ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Biomarkers, Tumor ,Humans ,Retrospective Studies ,Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma ,business.industry ,Gene Expression Profiling ,Hazard ratio ,Cancer ,Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms ,Genomics ,Middle Aged ,Precision medicine ,medicine.disease ,Prognosis ,Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic ,Survival Rate ,030104 developmental biology ,Nasopharyngeal carcinoma ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Mutation ,DNA mismatch repair ,Female ,business ,Follow-Up Studies - Abstract
Purpose: Investigation of biological mechanisms underlying genetic alterations in cancer can assist the understanding of etiology and identify the potential prognostic biomarkers. Experimental Design: We performed an integrative genomic analysis for a total of 731 nasopharyngeal carcinoma cases from five independent nasopharyngeal carcinoma cohorts to identify the genetic events associated with clinical outcomes. Results: In addition to the known mutational signatures associated with aging, APOBEC and mismatch repair (MMR), a new signature for homologous recombination deficiency (BRCAness) was discovered in 64 of 216 (29.6%) cases in the discovery set including three cohorts. This signature appeared more frequently in the recurrent and metastatic tumors and significantly correlated with shorter overall survival (OS) in the primary tumors. Independent prognostic value of MMR and BRCAness signatures was revealed by multivariable Cox analysis after adjustment for clinical parameters and stratification by studies. The cases with both signatures had much worse clinical outcome than those without these signatures [hazard ratio (HR), 12.4; P = 0.002]. This correlation was confirmed in the validation set (HR, 8.9; P = 0.003). The BRCAness signature is highly associated with BRCA2 pathogenic germline or somatic alterations (7.8% vs. 0%; P = 0.002). Targeted sequencing results from a prospective nasopharyngeal carcinoma cohort (N = 402) showed that the cases carrying BRCA2 germline rare variants are more likely to have poor OS and progression-free survival. Conclusions: Our study highlights importance of defects of DNA repair machinery in nasopharyngeal carcinoma pathogenesis and their prognostic values for clinical implications. These signatures will be useful for patient stratification to evaluate conventional and new treatment for precision medicine in nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
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15. CR2Cancer: a database for chromatin regulators in human cancer
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Aditi Chandra, Jianlong Sun, Wai Lam Wun, Zarina Levitskaya, Larry Ka-Yue Chow, Acacia Tsz So Tang, CN Wong, Yin Tong, Beibei Ru, and Jiangwen Zhang
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0301 basic medicine ,Databases, Factual ,Gene Dosage ,Information Storage and Retrieval ,Biology ,medicine.disease_cause ,computer.software_genre ,Genome ,Chromatin remodeling ,Epigenesis, Genetic ,Substrate Specificity ,Transcriptome ,User-Computer Interface ,03 medical and health sciences ,Protein Domains ,Neoplasms ,Databases, Genetic ,Genetics ,medicine ,Database Issue ,Data Mining ,Humans ,RNA, Neoplasm ,Cancer epigenetics ,Databases, Protein ,Epigenomics ,Mutation ,Database ,Data Collection ,Cancer ,Molecular Sequence Annotation ,DNA Methylation ,Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly ,medicine.disease ,Enzymes ,High-Throughput Screening Assays ,Chromatin ,Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic ,Histone Code ,030104 developmental biology ,computer ,Forecasting - Abstract
Chromatin regulators (CRs) can dynamically modulate chromatin architecture to epigenetically regulate gene expression in response to intrinsic and extrinsic signalling cues. Somatic alterations or misexpression of CRs might reprogram the epigenomic landscape of chromatin, which in turn lead to a wide range of common diseases, notably cancer. Here, we present CR2Cancer, a comprehensive annotation and visualization database for CRs in human cancer constructed by high throughput data analysis and literature mining. We collected and integrated genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, clinical and functional information for over 400 CRs across multiple cancer types. We also built diverse types of CR-associated relations, including cancer type dependent (CR-target and miRNA-CR) and independent (protein-protein interaction and drug-target) ones. Furthermore, we manually curated around 6000 items of aberrant molecular alterations and interactions of CRs in cancer development from 5007 publications. CR2Cancer provides a user-friendly web interface to conveniently browse, search and download data of interest. We believe that this database would become a valuable resource for cancer epigenetics investigation and potential clinical application. CR2Cancer is freely available at http://cis.hku.hk/CR2Cancer.
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16. Abstract 4734: Nasopharyngeal carcinoma molecular subgroups for somatic copy number alterations (SCNAs)
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Maria Li Lung, Larry Ka-Yue Chow, Candy King-Chi Chan, Dittman Lai-Shun Chung, Wei Dai, Josephine Mun Yee Ko, and Merrin Man-Long Leong
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Cancer Research ,Oncology ,Nasopharyngeal carcinoma ,Somatic cell ,Cancer research ,medicine ,Biology ,medicine.disease - Abstract
Background: Investigation of biological mechanisms underlying genetic alterations in cancer can assist the understanding of the inter-patient heterogeneity and identify new therapeutic targets. Although multiple genomic studies have been carried out in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), the detailed mechanisms underlying these genetic alterations and NPC pathogenesis remain unclear. Aims: We aim to identify the additional genetic events driving tumorigenesis by increasing the statistical power to distinguish the infrequent driver events from passengers, gain insights in the mechanisms underlying genetic alterations and evaluate their prognostic value for overall survival. Our ultimate goal is to identify potential new therapeutic targets for NPC treatment. Methods: We performed an integrative genomic and transcriptomic analysis for a total of 216 NPC cases from three genomics studies to catalogue the somatic mutational signatures, somatic copy number alterations (SCNAs) and gene expression changes in NPC. Results: Three clusters with distinct SCNA patterns were uncovered. Cluster 1 (SCNA-L-gain), accounting for 66.7% of total cases, has consistent CN loss in chromosomes 3, 14 and 16, which are typical SCNAs in NPC; Cluster 2 (SCNA-M-gain, 8.2%) is characterized as a moderate level of CN gain involved in selected chromosomes 17, 19 and 22. Strikingly, Cluster 3 (SCNA-H-gain, 25.1%) has extensive CN gains across the genome with regional loss near telomeres in several chromosomes. Noticeably, a new mutational signature relevant to the deficiency of the homologous recombination (HR) repair pathway (BRCAness) was discovered in a subset of NPC cases (29.6%). The survival analysis indicates that this mutational signature is significantly associated with shorter overall survival after adjustment for stage, gender and age and stratification by studies (P=0.018, HR=2.2, 95% CI 1.1-4.4). All the cases harboring the pathogenic BRCA2 germline and somatic mutations carry this mutational signature, but only account for 7.8% of such cases. A strong BRCAness signature is more frequently found in the SCNA-H-gain cluster (P=0.012), indicating HR deficiency may play a role for genomic instability in this subset of NPC patients. Conclusions: In NPC, there is a molecular subtype with extensively high copy number gain and a strong BRCAness signature. Discovery of this molecular subtype supports prospective clinical trials investigating agents, such as PARP inhibitor, to target this subset of patients. Acknowledgements: This study was funded by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council grant (AoE/M-06/08) to MLL Citation Format: Wei Dai, Dittman Lai-Shun Chung, Larry Ka-Yue Chow, Merrin Man-Long Leong, Candy King-Chi Chan, Josephine Mun-Yee Ko, Maria Li Lung. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma molecular subgroups for somatic copy number alterations (SCNAs) [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research 2020; 2020 Apr 27-28 and Jun 22-24. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2020;80(16 Suppl):Abstract nr 4734.
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- 2020
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