Balkan Journal of Medical Genetics

DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION OF FGFRs SIGNALING PATHWAY COMPONENTS IN BLADDER CANCER: A STEP TOWARD PERSONALIZED MEDICINE
Ousati Ashtiani Z1,2, Tavakkoly-Bazzaz J2,*, Salami SA3, Pourmand MR4, Mansouri F5,6, Mashahdi R1, Pourmand G1,*
*Corresponding Author: Professor Gholamreza Pourmand, Urology Research Center, Sina Hospital, Tehran University Medical Sciences, Hasan Abad Square, Tehran, 113746911, Iran. Tel: +98-216-634-8560. Fax: +98-216-634-8561. Email: pourmand@tums.ac.ir and/ or Associate Professor Javad Tavakkoly-Bazzaz, Department of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Poursina Street, Tehran, 1417613151, Iran. Tel: +98-218-895-3005. Fax: +98-218-895-3005. Email: tavakkolybazzazj@tums.ac.ir
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RESULTS

Patient Characteristics. This study comprised 50 BC patients including 43 (86.0%) men and seven (14.0%) women. Analyses of the subjects showed that 36 (72.0%) cases had high-grade and 14 (28.0%) had low-grade tumors. Their median age was 66 years (range 33-84 years). There were 34 patients (68.0%) with a smoking habit, of which 94.0% (32/34) had been cigarette smokers for ≥10 years and 20.0% (10/50) were opium addicts. Of these subjects, 16.0% (8/50) had diabetes and 46.0% (23/50) showed cardiovascular and/or respiratory diseases. The rate of occupational exposure was about 54.0% (27/50). Table 2 shows the demographic and clinicopathological characteristics of all subjects. Increased mRNA expression of FGFR3 was observed in 92.0% (46/50) of tumors. Analysis by a multi variable regression method with a stepwise selection variable demonstrated that there was significant association between increased expression of FGFR3 and cigarette smoking (p = 0.037) and family history of cancer (p = 0.004) (Table 3). We could not find a significant relationship between FGFR3 mRNA over expression and age (p = 0.094) and other relevant clinicopathological parameters including stage, grade and types of the tumor. The comparison of normalized expression in tumor and non tumor tissues showed significant difference (fold change 5.7; p = 0.01) (Figure 1). Unexpectedly, FGFR1 mRNA expression in our BC cases was decreased in 60.0% (30/50) of samples. The majority of high grade tumor (75.0%) (27/36) reflected a significant association with decreased level of FGFR1 mRNA expression (p = 0.047). About 64.2% (9/14) of low-grade tumors showed increased expression of FGFR1. There was also a significant association between normalized expression in tumor vs. non tumor tissue (fold change –4.5; p = 0.01) (Figure 2). Other clinicopathological parameters did not represent any significant difference with FGFR1 expression.

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