Identification of Circulating lncRNAs Associated with Gallbladder Cancer Risk by Tissue-Based Preselection, Cis-eQTL Validation, and Analysis of Association with Genotype-Based Expression

Alice Blandino; Dominique Scherer; Trine B. Rounge; Sinan U. Umu; Felix Boekstegers; Carol Barahona Ponce; Katherine Marcelain; Valentina Gárate-Calderón; Melanie Waldenberger; Erik Morales; Armando Rojas; César Munoz; Javier Retamales; Gonzalo de Toro; Olga Barajas; María Teresa Rivera; Analía Cortés; Denisse Loader; Javiera Saavedra; Lorena Gutiérrez; Alejandro Ortega; Maria Enriqueta Bertrán; Fernando Gabler; Mónica Campos; Juan Alvarado; Fabrizio Moisán; Loreto Spencer; Bruno Nervi; Daniel E. Carvajal-Hausdorf; Héctor Losada; Mauricio Almau; Plinio Fernández; Ivan Gallegos; Jordi Olloquequi; Macarena Fuentes-Guajardo; Rolando Gonzalez-Jose; Maria Cátira Bortolini; Carla Gallo; Andres Ruiz Linares; Francisco Rothhammer; Justo Lorenzo Bermejo

doi:10.3390/cancers14030634

Identification of Circulating lncRNAs Associated with Gallbladder Cancer Risk by Tissue-Based Preselection, Cis-eQTL Validation, and Analysis of Association with Genotype-Based Expression

Alice Blandino
, Dominique Scherer
, Trine B. Rounge
, Sinan U. Umu
, Felix Boekstegers
, Carol Barahona Ponce
, Katherine Marcelain
, Valentina Gárate-Calderón
, Melanie Waldenberger
, Erik Morales
, Armando Rojas
, César Munoz
, Javier Retamales
, Gonzalo de Toro
, Olga Barajas
, María Teresa Rivera
, Analía Cortés
, Denisse Loader
, Javiera Saavedra
, Lorena Gutiérrez

Alejandro Ortega, Maria Enriqueta Bertrán, Fernando Gabler, Mónica Campos, Juan Alvarado, Fabrizio Moisán, Loreto Spencer, Bruno Nervi, Daniel E. Carvajal-Hausdorf, Héctor Losada, Mauricio Almau, Plinio Fernández, Ivan Gallegos, Jordi Olloquequi, Macarena Fuentes-Guajardo, Rolando Gonzalez-Jose, Maria Cátira Bortolini, Carla Gallo, Andres Ruiz Linares, Francisco Rothhammer, Justo Lorenzo Bermejo

School of Science and Engineering

Heidelberg University
Cancer Registry of Norway
University of Oslo
Universidad de Chile
German Research Center for Environmental Health
Unidad de Anatomía Patológica del Hospital Regional de Talca
Catholic University of the Maule
Instituto Nacional del Cáncer, Chile
Hospital de Puerto Montt
Universidad Austral de Chile
Hospital Clínico Universidad De Chile
Hospital del Salvador
Hospital Padre Hurtado
Hospital San Juan de Dios, Santiago de Chile
Hospital Regional
Hospital Base Valdivia
Hospital Clínico “San Borja Arriarán”
Hospital Regional Guillermo Grant Benavente
Escuela de Medicina
Faculty of Medicine Clinica Alemana Universidad del Desarrollo
Hospital “Dr. Hernán Henríquez Aravena”
Hospital de Rancagua
Universitat de Barcelona
Universidad Autónoma de Chile
Instituto de Alta Investigación Universidad de Tarapacá
CENPAT-CONICET
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Fudan University
ADES
University College London

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Abstract

Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play key roles in cell processes and are good candi-dates for cancer risk prediction. Few studies have investigated the association between individual genotypes and lncRNA expression. Here we integrate three separate datasets with information on lncRNA expression only, both lncRNA expression and genotype, and genotype information only to identify circulating lncRNAs associated with the risk of gallbladder cancer (GBC) using robust linear and logistic regression techniques. In the first dataset, we preselect lncRNAs based on expression changes along the sequence “gallstones → dysplasia → GBC”. In the second dataset, we validate associations between genetic variants and serum expression levels of the preselected lncR-NAs (cis-lncRNA-eQTLs) and build lncRNA expression prediction models. In the third dataset, we predict serum lncRNA expression based on individual genotypes and assess the association between genotype-based expression and GBC risk. AC084082.3 and LINC00662 showed increasing expression levels (p-value = 0.009), while C22orf34 expression decreased in the sequence from gallstones to GBC (p-value = 0.04). We identified and validated two cis-LINC00662-eQTLs (r² = 0.26) and three cis-C22orf34-eQTLs (r² = 0.24). Only LINC00662 showed a genotyped-based serum expression associated with GBC risk (OR = 1.25 per log2 expression unit, 95% CI 1.04–1.52, p-value = 0.02). Our results suggest that preselection of lncRNAs based on tissue samples and exploitation of cis-lncRNA-eQTLs may facilitate the identification of circulating noncoding RNAs linked to cancer risk.

Original language	English
Article number	634
Journal	Cancers
Volume	14
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers14030634
State	Published - 1 Feb 2022

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Keywords

EQTLs
Genetic association study
LncRNAs
Molecular phenotypes
gallbladder cancer

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Blandino, A., Scherer, D., Rounge, T. B., Umu, S. U., Boekstegers, F., Barahona Ponce, C., Marcelain, K., Gárate-Calderón, V., Waldenberger, M., Morales, E., Rojas, A., Munoz, C., Retamales, J., de Toro, G., Barajas, O., Rivera, M. T., Cortés, A., Loader, D., Saavedra, J., ... Bermejo, J. L. (2022). Identification of Circulating lncRNAs Associated with Gallbladder Cancer Risk by Tissue-Based Preselection, Cis-eQTL Validation, and Analysis of Association with Genotype-Based Expression. Cancers, 14(3), Article 634. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers14030634

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Identification of Circulating lncRNAs Associated with Gallbladder Cancer Risk by Tissue-Based Preselection, Cis-eQTL Validation, and Analysis of Association with Genotype-Based Expression

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