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Maryam Honardoost1, Zohreh Maghsoomi1, Arman Karimi Behnagh1
1Endocrine Research Center, Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Background:
Detection of cancer in patients with thyroid nodules requires sensitive and specific diagnostic modalities that are accurate and inexpensive. This study aimed to identify a potential microRNA(miRNA) panel to detect papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC).
Methods:
Following a comprehensive literature review as well as miRNA target predictor databases, Real-time PCR was used to quantify the expression of candidate miRNAs in 59 tissue specimens from 30 patients with PTC and 29 patients with benign nodules. A receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis was used to assess the accuracy of miRNA expression levels compared to the pathology report as the gold standard. Based on prediction results, four miRNAs, including miR-9, miR-20b, miR-221, and miR-222, were selected to evaluate their expression level in Iranian thyroid samples.
Results:
A significant difference between the tissue expression level of miR-20b, miR-9, miR-222, and miR-221 was detected in the PTC group compared with non-PTC (P < 0.05). The area under the curves for the included miRs were 1, 0.98, 0.99, 0.98, and 1, respectively.
Conclusion:
Our results confirmed deregulations of miR-20b as well as miR-222, miR-221, and miR-9 in PTC and, therefore, could be used as a helpful miRNA panel to differentiate PTC from benign nodules, which results in the more efficient clinical management of PTC patients.
