PMID- 31798767 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20200928 IS - 1947-6019 (Print) IS - 1947-6027 (Electronic) IS - 1947-6019 (Linking) VI - 10 IP - 5-6 DP - 2019 TI - Genomic alterations of Tenascin C in highly aggressive prostate cancer: a meta-analysis. PG - 150-159 LID - 10.18632/genesandcancer.196 [doi] AB - Tenascin C (TNC), an extra-cellular matrix (ECM) family gene, is expressed in several cancer tissues of breast, lung, colon, and gastrointestinal tract leading to proliferation, migration, invasion, angiogenesis and metastasis, but its role in tumorigenesis of prostate cancer is poorly understood. We took a meta-analysis approach to characterize the alterations of TNC gene in prostate cancer using publicly available databases (cBioportal Version 2.2.0, http://www.cBioportal.org/index.do). The analysis identified TNC alterations (gene amplification) significantly in the neuroendocrine prostate cancer dataset (Trento/Broad/Cornell, N = 114), which was further validated in other prostate cancer datasets, including The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) prostate cancer (2015). In the TCGA prostate cancer dataset (N = 498), high TNC (alteration frequency, 36%) revealed a strong association with high diagnostic Gleason score. Genomic alterations of TNC was also significantly associated (P < 0.05) with expression level of genes from NOTCH, SOX and WNT family, implicating a link between TNC and poorly differentiated aggressive phenotype in NEPC. TCGA prostate adenocarcinoma cases with TNC alteration also demonstrated prominent decrease in disease-free survival (P = 0.0637). These findings indicate a possible association of TNC to the aggressive subtype of prostate cancer and warrant further functional studies to evident the involvement of TNC in prostate cancer progression. CI - Copyright: (c) 2019 Mishra et al. FAU - Mishra, Prachi AU - Mishra P AD - Henry Jackson Foundation for Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA. AD - Center for Prostate Disease Research, USU-Walter Reed Surgery, Bethesda, MD, USA. FAU - Kiebish, Michael A AU - Kiebish MA AD - BERG LLC., Framingham, MA, USA. FAU - Cullen, Jennifer AU - Cullen J AD - Henry Jackson Foundation for Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA. AD - Center for Prostate Disease Research, USU-Walter Reed Surgery, Bethesda, MD, USA. FAU - Srinivasan, Alagarsamy AU - Srinivasan A AD - Center for Prostate Disease Research, USU-Walter Reed Surgery, Bethesda, MD, USA. FAU - Patterson, Aliyah AU - Patterson A AD - Division of Science and Mathematics, University of the District of Columbia, Washington DC, USA. FAU - Sarangarajan, Rangaprasad AU - Sarangarajan R AD - BERG LLC., Framingham, MA, USA. FAU - Narain, Niven R AU - Narain NR AD - BERG LLC., Framingham, MA, USA. FAU - Dobi, Albert AU - Dobi A AD - Henry Jackson Foundation for Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA. AD - Center for Prostate Disease Research, USU-Walter Reed Surgery, Bethesda, MD, USA. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - Genes Cancer JT - Genes & cancer JID - 101516546 PMC - PMC6872669 OTO - NOTNLM OT - TCGA OT - Tenascin C OT - biomarkers OT - neuroendocrine subtype OT - prostate cancer COIS- CONFLICTS OF INTEREST M.A.K., R.S., and N.R.N. are current or former employees of BERG LLC. and have stock options. N.R.N is co-founder of BERG, LLC. Other authors have no conflict of interest to disclose. EDAT- 2019/12/05 06:00 MHDA- 2019/12/05 06:01 PMCR- 2019/01/01 CRDT- 2019/12/05 06:00 PHST- 2019/12/05 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/12/05 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/12/05 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2019/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 196 [pii] AID - 10.18632/genesandcancer.196 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Genes Cancer. 2019;10(5-6):150-159. doi: 10.18632/genesandcancer.196.