Upregulation of LncRNA FEZF-AS1 is associated with advanced clinical stages and family history of cancer in patients with NSCLC.

Upregulation of LncRNA FEZF-AS1 is associated with advanced clinical stages and family history of cancer in patients with NSCLC. Pathol Res Pract. 2018 Apr 24;: Authors: Gong W, Cao Y, Wang Y, Yang L, Su W, Qiu F, Datta S, Rao B, Xian J, Lin M, Feng Y, Zhang X, Zhou Y, Gao X, Lu J Abstract Antisense RNA (AS) is a type of long non-coding RNAs that functions as a post-transcriptional regulatory element on regulating parental coding gene expression via directly binding to complementary mRNA sequences. We aimed to investigate the effect of the AS to FEZF1 gene on non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) development. The expression level of lncRNA FEZF-AS1 and FEZF1 was determined by the quantitative Real-time PCR in 160 cases of NSCLC tissues and their adjacent non-tumour tissues. We found that lncRNA FEZF-AS1 was significantly up-regulated in tumour tissues when compared to the adjacent non-cancerous tissues (P = 0.001), and it's high expression correlated with advanced stages (P = 0.002) and Tumour Family History (P = 0.029). Meanwhile, In 58 cases of NSCLC tissues the expression of lncRNA FEZF-AS1 was positively associated with that of FEZF1expression (r = 0.8810, p = 1.6575E-20). By GEPIA database analysis, we also found that the expression of lncRNA FEZF-AS1 and FEZF1 were significantly higher in tumour tissues than those of the adjacent non-cancerous tissues in 969 NSCLC patients (P < 0.05), and lncRNA FEZF-AS1...
Source: Pathology, Research and Practice - Category: Pathology Authors: Tags: Pathol Res Pract Source Type: research