microRNA Expression in Ethnic Specific Early Stage Breast Cancer: an Integration and Comparative Analysis

Sci Rep. 2017 Dec 4;7(1):16829. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-16978-y.

Abstract

Breast cancer (BC) has a higher incidence in young Lebanese woman as compared to the West. We assessed the microRNA (miRNA) microarray profile of tissues derived from Lebanese patients with early BC and performed mRNA-miRNA integration analysis. 173 miRNAs were significantly dysregulated in 45 BC versus 17 normal adjacent breast tissues, including 74 with a fold change more than two of which 17 were never reported before in cancer. Integration analysis of mRNA-miRNA microarray data revealed a potential role of 51 dysregulated miRNA regulating 719 tumor suppressive or oncogenic mRNA associated with increased proliferation and decreased migration and invasion. We then performed a comparative miRNA microarray profile analysis of BC tissue between these 45 Lebanese and 197 matched American BC patients. Notably, Lebanese BC patients had 21 exclusively dysregulated miRNA (e.g. miR-31, 362-3p, and 663) and 4 miRNA with different expression manner compared to American patients (e.g. miR-1288-star and 324-3p). Some of these differences could reflect variation in patient age at diagnosis or ethnic variation affecting miRNA epigenetic regulation or sequence of miRNA precursors. Our data provide a basis for genetic/epigenetic investigations to explore the role of miRNA in early stage BC in young women, including ethnic specific differences.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Breast Neoplasms / ethnology
  • Breast Neoplasms / genetics
  • Breast Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Carcinoma, Ductal / ethnology
  • Carcinoma, Ductal / genetics
  • Carcinoma, Ductal / pathology
  • Cell Movement
  • Cell Proliferation
  • Epigenesis, Genetic
  • Female
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
  • Humans
  • Lebanon
  • MicroRNAs / metabolism*
  • Neoplasm Staging
  • Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
  • RNA, Messenger / metabolism
  • Transcriptome
  • Tumor Cells, Cultured
  • United States

Substances

  • MicroRNAs
  • RNA, Messenger