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High expression of HOXA5 is associated with poor prognosis in acute myeloid leukemia
You Yang1, Fangfang Zhong1, Xiaoming Huang2
1State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China; Department of Pediatrics, Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Sichuan Clinical Research Center for Birth Defects, Luzhou, Sichuan, China.
Background:
HOXA5 is considered as an oncogene in many tumors. This study in- vestigated the HOXA5 expression in Chinese acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients and evaluated the predictive significance of HOXA5 with a single-center retrospective study.
Methods:
We investigated the expression pattern and prognostic value of HOXA5 in patients with AML through by using a series of databases and various datasets, including the ONCOMINE, TCGA, and STRING datasets. The bone marrow samples of 53 newly diagnosed AML patients (non-M3 subtype) and 19 benign individuals were collected in our center. HOXA5 mRNA expression levels were detected by real-time qPCR, HOXA5 protein expression levels were detected by Western Blot. Clinical data was obtained from inpatient medical records.
Results:
Two microarrays in Oncomine showed that the expression level of HOXA5 was significantly upregulated in AML. Our data revealed that AML patients had higher HOXA5 mRNA and protein expression levels than the controls (P < 0.001). The blast percentage in bone marrow of HOXA5 high-expression group was higher that of HOXA5 low-expression group (P < 0.05). Higher expression level of HOXA5 revealed a worse OS in AML (P < 0.05).
Conclusion:
Our findings suggested that HOXA5 might have the potential ability to act as a diagnostic biomarker and potential therapeutic target for AML.
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