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Genetic Impact of HOTAIR, LINC00951, POLR2E and HULC Polymorphisms in Histopathological and Laboratory Prognostic Factors in Esophageal Cancer in the West: A Case-Control Study.

Efstratia Baili, Maria Gazouli, Andreas C Lazaris, Prodromos Kanavidis, Maria Boura, Adamantios Michalinos, Alexandros Charalabopoulos, Theodore Liakakos, Andreas Alexandrou

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Article in Cancers, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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9 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Efstratia BailiUpper Gastrointestinal and General Surgery Unit, First Department of Surgery, Laiko General Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15772 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-8745-2269
Maria GazouliLaboratory of Biology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15772 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-3295-6811
Andreas C LazarisFirst Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15772 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-8118-7780
Prodromos KanavidisUpper Gastrointestinal and General Surgery Unit, First Department of Surgery, Laiko General Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15772 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-2819-472X
Maria BouraUpper Gastrointestinal and General Surgery Unit, First Department of Surgery, Laiko General Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15772 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-9958-9083
Adamantios MichalinosSchool of Medicine, European University of Cyprus, Nicosia 1516, Cyprus.
Alexandros CharalabopoulosUpper Gastrointestinal and General Surgery Unit, First Department of Surgery, Laiko General Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15772 Athens, Greece.
Theodore LiakakosUpper Gastrointestinal and General Surgery Unit, First Department of Surgery, Laiko General Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15772 Athens, Greece.
Andreas AlexandrouUpper Gastrointestinal and General Surgery Unit, First Department of Surgery, Laiko General Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15772 Athens, Greece.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GREuropean University Cyprus · CY

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Long non-coding RNAs' HOTAIR rs920778, LINC00951 rs11752942, POLR2E rs3787016, and HULC rs7763881 are progressively reported having a close genetic affinity with esophageal carcinogenesis in the East. Nonetheless, their correlation with variables already endorsed as significant prognostic factors in terms of staging, guiding treatment and predicting recurrence, metastasis, and survival have yet to be explored. Herein, we investigated their prognostic value by correlating them with clinicopathological and laboratory prognostic markers in esophageal cancer in the West. Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue specimens from 95 consecutive patients operated on for esophageal cancer between 2014 and 2018 were compared with 121 healthy community controls. HULC was not detected differently in any of the cancer prognostic subgroups. LINC00951 was underrepresented in Ca19.9 elevated subgroup. HOTAIR was more frequent in both worse differentiation grade and positive Signet-Ring-Cell and Ca19.9 subgroups. POLR2E was identified less frequently in Adenocarcinoma, Signet-Ring-Cell, and Diffuse histologies, as well as in Perineural, Lymphovascular, and Perivascular Invasion positive, while it was overrepresented in CEA positive subgroup. These lncRNAs polymorphisms may hold great potential not only as future therapeutic agents but also as novel markers for predictive analysis of esophageal cancer risk, clinical outcome, and survival. Clinical implications of these findings need to be validated with prospective larger sample-size studies.

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esophageal canceresophagogastric junction carcinomaHOTAIR rs920778HULC rs7763881LINC00951 rs11752942lncRNAsPOLR2E rs3787016Single-Nucleotide-Polymorphisms (SNPs)

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