Detection of doublecortin domain-containing 2 (DCDC2), a new candidate tumor suppressor gene of hepatocellular carcinoma, by triple combination array analysis

Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research

Yasuhiro Kodera¹  Suguru Yamada¹  Tsutomu Fujii¹  Hiroyuki Sugimoto¹  Shin Takeda¹  Yoko Nishikawa¹  Mitsuro Kanda¹  Masamichi Hayashi¹  Mitsuhiro Hishida¹  Shuji Nomoto¹  Yoshikuni Inokawa¹ 

[1] Gastroenterological Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan

关键词: Triple combination array;    Methylation;    Hepatocellular carcinoma;    DCDC2;   

Others  :  815150
DOI  :  10.1186/1756-9966-32-65

 received in 2013-07-13, accepted in 2013-09-09,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

To detect genes correlated with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), we developed a triple combination array consisting of methylation array, gene expression array and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array analysis.

Methods

A surgical specimen obtained from a 68-year-old female HCC patient was analyzed by triple combination array, which identified doublecortin domain-containing 2 (DCDC2) as a candidate tumor suppressor gene of HCC. Subsequently, samples from 48 HCC patients were evaluated for their DCDC2 methylation and expression status using methylation specific PCR (MSP) and semi-quantitative reverse transcriptase (RT) PCR, respectively. Then, we investigated the relationship between clinicopathological factors and methylation status of DCDC2.

Results

DCDC2 was revealed to be hypermethylated (methylation value 0.846, range 0–1.0) in cancer tissue, compared with adjacent normal tissue (0.212) by methylation array in the 68-year-old female patient. Expression array showed decreased expression of DCDC2 in cancerous tissue. SNP array showed that the copy number of chromosome 6p22.1, in which DCDC2 resides, was normal. MSP revealed hypermethylation of the promoter region of DCDC2 in 41 of the tumor samples. DCDC2 expression was significantly decreased in the cases with methylation (P = 0.048). Furthermore, the methylated cases revealed worse prognosis for overall survival than unmethylated cases (P = 0.048).

Conclusions

The present study indicates that triple combination array is an effective method to detect novel genes related to HCC. We propose that DCDC2 is a tumor suppressor gene of HCC.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Inokawa et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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