Leukocyte-associated immunoglobulin-like receptor-1 (LAIR-1) is an immune inhibitory receptor which is expressed within most types of hematopoietic cells and negatively regulates immune responses. Recently, we found LAIR-1 expression to be present within tumors of nonhematopoietic lineages. However, the roles of LAIR-1 in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have yet to be examined. The purpose of this study was to investigate the expression of LAIR-1 in HCC tissue and assess its clinical significance at this site.
Materials and methods
Expression levels of LAIR-1 within HCC samples collected from 90 patients and compared with that of slides of normal liver tissue collected from 9 non-HCC patients were measured by immunohistochemistry using tissue microarrays. A semiquantitative score was assigned, as was based on staining intensity and percent of positive cells and a Spearman Rank correlation test was used to assess any potential significant correlations between LAIR-1 expression and clinicopathological factors. Overall survival analysis was performed using the Kaplan-Meier and Log Rank statistical test.
Results
LAIR-1 expression was detected in cancer tissue and adjacent tumor tissue, but not in normal liver tissue. The percent of LAIR-1-positive expression in cancer tissue of HCC samples was 97.78% (88/90) while that in adjacent tumor tissue was 96.67% (87/90). Significantly greater expression levels of LAIR-1 were obtained from cancer tissue (Mean?±?SD?=?5.722?±?2.145) than that in adjacent tumor tissue (4.141?±?1.486). In addition, LAIR-1 expression was found to be significantly correlated with pathological grade of HCC, T stage, and age. Expression levels of LAIR-1 were related with worse overall survival rates of HCC patients, especially in HCC patients with hepatic cirrhosis.
Conclusion
Results of this study show that LAIR-1 is expressed in HCC tissues and that high levels of LAIR-1 expression are associated with the poor cancer differentiation. In addition, overexpression of LAIR-1 was significantly associated with worse overall survival in the patients with HCC. These data suggest that LAIR-1 may be an independent predictor for clinical outcomes in patients with HCC. 相似文献
Background: Previous genome-wide association study (GWAS) has revealed the association between MYP10 at 8p23 and MYP15 at 10q21.1 and high myopia (HM) in a French population. This study is managed to discover the connection between some single nucleotide polymorphism (located at MYP10 and MYP15) and Han Chinese HM.
Methods and Results: This case-control association study contained 1673 samples, including 869 ophthalmic patients and 804 controls. Twelve tag SNPs have been selected from the MYP10 and MYP15 loci and genotyped by SNaPshot method. Among 12 SNPs, rs4840437 and rs6989782 in TNKS gene were found significant association with HM. Carriers of rs4840437G allele and rs4840437GG genotype created a low risk of high myopia (P = .036, OR = 0.81, 95%CI = 0.71–0.93; P = .016, OR = 0.73, 95%CI = 0.56–0.96; respectively). Carriers of rs6989782T allele and rs6989782TT+CT genotype also had a decreased risk of high myopia (P = .048, OR = 0.82, 95%CI = 0.71–0.94; P = .006, OR = 0.74, 95%CI = 0.59–0.92; respectively). Other 10 SNPs displaced nonsignificant association with HM. Additionally, the risk haplotype AC and the protective haplotype GT, generated by two SNPs in TNKS, were considerably more likely to be association with HM (for AC, P = .002 and OR = 1.26; for GT, P = .027 and OR = 0.84).
Conclusions: Our results demonstrated that some heritable variants in the TNKS gene are associated with HM in the Han population. The possible functions of TNKS in the development and pathogenesis of hereditary high myopia still require further researches to identify. 相似文献