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Genome-Wide Analysis of DNA Methylation in Gastrointestinal Cancer
Published on: September 18, 2020
Microsatellite instability in Chinese gastric cancer and its correlation with clinical characteristics
Xinyu Li1, Lan Zhang2, Chunxiao Wang3
1Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The First Hospital of Quanzhou Affiliated to Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, China.
Background:
Microsatellite instability (MSI) remains a focus of interest in cancer research, but the characteristics of MSI in gastric cancer (GC) are ambiguous.
Methods:
In this retrospective study, we analyzed the prevalence of MSI and the expression of programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) and cluster of differentiation 8 (CD8) cells in Chinese GC patients. A total of 393 GC patients admitted to two centers from January 2010 to December 2017 were enrolled.
Results:
The prevalence of MSI in this cohort was 3.4% and most frequently occurred in females, patients aged between 59 and 69 years, and patients at a lower clinical stage. All MSI GCs had CD8 expression but lacked PD-L1 expression, indicating that MSI was related to CD8 expression but irrelevant to PD-L1 expression. However, there was no significant difference in the expression of CD8/PD-L1 between MSI GC and microsatellite stable (MSS) GC. Kaplan-Meier survival curves revealed that patients with MSI had a significantly longer overall survival (OS) than patients with MSS.
Conclusions:
In Chinese GC patients, MSI frequently occurred in females, patients aged between 59 and 69, and patients with lower clinical stages. Patients with MSI-High (MSI-H) and MSI-Low (MSI-L) had a longer OS than patients with MSS. MSI was related to CD8 expression but irrelevant to PD-L1 expression.
