Zhen Zeng, Mingshan Jiang, Xi Li, Jing Yuan, Hu Zhang
{"title":"Precision medicine in inflammatory bowel disease","authors":"Zhen Zeng, Mingshan Jiang, Xi Li, Jing Yuan, Hu Zhang","doi":"10.1093/pcmedi/pbad033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/pcmedi/pbad033","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an incurable disease characterized by remission-relapse cycles throughout its course. Both Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), the two main forms of IBD, exhibit tendency to develop complications and substantial heterogeneity in terms of frequency and severity of relapse, thus posing great challenges to the clinical management for IBD. Current treatment strategies are effective in different ways in induction and maintenance therapies for IBD. Recent advances in studies of genetics, pharmacogenetics, proteomics and microbiome provide a strong driving force for identifying molecular markers of prognosis and treatment response, which should help clinicians manage IBD patients more effectively, and then, improve clinical outcomes and reduce treatment costs of patients. In this review, we summarize and discuss precision medicine in IBD, focusing on predictive markers of disease course and treatment response, and monitoring indices during therapeutic drug monitoring.","PeriodicalId":33608,"journal":{"name":"Precision Clinical Medicine","volume":"143 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138965021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The significance of long non-coding RNAs in the pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease.","authors":"Fei Jiang, Min Wu, Rongpeng Li","doi":"10.1093/pcmedi/pbad031","DOIUrl":"10.1093/pcmedi/pbad031","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are a group of chronic relapsing gastrointestinal inflammatory diseases with significant global incidence. Although the pathomechanism of IBD has been extensively investigated, several aspects of its pathogenesis remain unclear. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are transcripts with more than 200 nucleotides in length that have potential protein-coding functions. LncRNAs play important roles in biological processes such as epigenetic modification, transcriptional regulation and post-transcriptional regulation. In this review, we summarize recent advances in research on IBD-related lncRNAs from the perspective of the overall intestinal microenvironment, as well as their potential roles as immune regulators, diagnostic biomarkers and therapeutic targets or agents for IBD.</p>","PeriodicalId":33608,"journal":{"name":"Precision Clinical Medicine","volume":"6 4","pages":"pbad031"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10757071/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139075226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chao Ye, Anmin Wang, Wei Li, Wenyuan Li, Qi shen, Zhangfei Wang, Li Xie, Qiuxia Jiang, Kaiguang Zhang, Shu Zhu
{"title":"Prealbumin as a prognostic indicator for hospital readmission of ulcerative colitis patients","authors":"Chao Ye, Anmin Wang, Wei Li, Wenyuan Li, Qi shen, Zhangfei Wang, Li Xie, Qiuxia Jiang, Kaiguang Zhang, Shu Zhu","doi":"10.1093/pcmedi/pbad026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/pcmedi/pbad026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33608,"journal":{"name":"Precision Clinical Medicine","volume":" 392","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135186888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Loss of chromosome 9p21 is associated with a poor prognosis in adenosquamous carcinoma of the pancreas","authors":"Yina Jiang, YinYing Wu, Liwen Zhang, Yan Wang, Guiping Xu, Yuan Deng, Liang Han, Enxiao Li, Qingyong Ma, Mian Xu, Zheng Wu, Zheng Wang","doi":"10.1093/pcmedi/pbad030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/pcmedi/pbad030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Adenosquamous carcinoma of the pancreas (ASCP) is a rare histological subtype of pancreatic cancer with a poor prognosis and a high metastasis rate. However, little is known about its genomic landscape and prognostic biomarkers. Forty-eight ASCP specimens and 98 pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) tumours pecimens were sequenced to explore the genomic landscape and prognostic biomarkers. The homozygous deletion of the 9p21.3 region (including CDKN2A, CDKN2B, and MTAP) (9p21 loss) occurred in both ASCP and PDAC, and a higher frequency of 9p21 loss was observed in ASCP (12.5% vs. 2.0%, p = 0.022). Notably, 9p21 loss was significantly associated with poor disease-free survival (DFS) in ASCP patients (mDFS = 4.17 vs. 7.33 months, HR = 3.70, p = 0.009). The most common gene alterations in patients with ASCP were KRAS (96%), TP53 (81%), CDKN2A (42%), SMAD4 (21%), CDKN2B (13%), and FAT3 (13%). The mutation rates of ACVR2A (6.25% vs. 0), FANCA (6.25% vs. 0), RBM10 (6.25% vs. 0), and SPTA1 (8.33% vs. 1.02%) were significantly higher in ASCP than in PDAC. In conclusion, we have comprehensively described the genomic landscape of the largest cohort of ASCP patients to date and highlight that 9p21 loss may be a promising prognostic biomarker for ASCP, which provides a molecular basis for prognosis prediction and new therapeutic strategies for ASCP.","PeriodicalId":33608,"journal":{"name":"Precision Clinical Medicine","volume":"121 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135541640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A pairwise radiomics algorithm - lesion pair relation estimation (PRE) model for distinguishing multiple primary lung cancer (MPLC) from intrapulmonary metastasis (IPM)","authors":"Ting-Fei Chen, Lei Yang, Hai-Bin Chen, Zhi-Guo Zhou, Zhen-Tian Wu, Hong-He Luo, Qiong Li, Ying Zhu","doi":"10.1093/pcmedi/pbad029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/pcmedi/pbad029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Background Distinguishing multiple primary lung cancer (MPLC) from intrapulmonary metastasis (IPM) is critical for their disparate treatment strategy and prognosis. This study aimed to establish a non-invasive model to make the differentiation pre-operatively. Methods We retrospectively studied 168 patients with multiple lung cancers (307 pairs of lesions) including 118 cases for modeling and internal validation, and 50 cases for independent external validation. Radiomic features on computed tomography (CT) were extracted to calculate the absolute deviation of paired lesions. Features were then selected by correlation coefficients and random forest classifier five-fold cross-validation, based on which the lesion pair relation estimation (PRE) model was developed. A major voting strategy was used to decide diagnosis for cases with multiple pairs of lesions. Cases from another institute were included as the external validation set for the PRE model to compete with two experienced clinicians. Results Seven radiomic features were selected for the PRE model construction. With major voting strategy, the mean area under receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC), accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of the training vs. internal validation vs. external validation cohort to distinguish MPLC were 0.983 vs. 0.844 vs. 0.793, 0.942 vs. 0.846 vs. 0.760, 0.905 vs. 0.728 vs. 0.727, and 0.962 vs. 0.910 vs. 0.769, respectively. AUCs of the two clinicians were 0.619 and 0.580. Conclusions The CT radiomic feature-based lesion PRE model is potentially an accurate diagnostic tool for the differentiation of MPLC and IPM, which could help with clinical decision making.","PeriodicalId":33608,"journal":{"name":"Precision Clinical Medicine","volume":"4 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136069325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigating the gut microbiota's influence on psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis risk: a Mendelian randomization analysis.","authors":"Nianzhou Yu, Jiayi Wang, Yuancheng Liu, Yeye Guo","doi":"10.1093/pcmedi/pbad023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/pcmedi/pbad023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Numerous investigations have revealed the interplay between gut microbiota (GM) and psoriasis (Ps) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA). However, the causal relationship between them remains unknown.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We curated a collection of genetic variants (<i>P</i> < 1 × 10<sup>-5</sup>) associated with GM (<i>n</i> = 18 340) derived from the MiBioGen study. To explore the intricate relationship between GM and Ps as well as PsA, we harnessed the comprehensive resources of the FinnGen database, encompassing a vast cohort of individuals, including 4510 Ps cases and 212 242 controls and 1637 PsA cases and 212 242 controls. Mendelian randomization (MR) was used, including an inverse variance weighting method, followed by a sensitivity analysis to verify the robustness of the results.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>For Ps, some bacterial taxa, including <i>Lactococcus, Ruminiclostridium 5</i>, and <i>Eubacterium fissicatena</i>, were identified as risk factors; but <i>Odoribacter</i> demonstrated a protective effect against Ps. In the case of PsA, <i>Lactococcus, Verrucomicrobiales, Akkermansia, Coprococcus 1</i>, and <i>Verrucomicrobiaceae</i> were identified as risk factors; <i>Odoribacter</i> and <i>Rikenellaceae</i> exhibited a protective effect against the development of PsA.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our study establishes a causal link between the GM and Ps and PsA. These findings provide insights into the underlying mechanisms and suggest potential therapeutic targets.</p>","PeriodicalId":33608,"journal":{"name":"Precision Clinical Medicine","volume":"6 3","pages":"pbad023"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10680138/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138463075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of apolipoprotein A1 on tumor immune microenvironment, clinical prognosis and genomic landscape in hepatocellular carcinoma.","authors":"Ying Wang, Shipeng Chen, Xiao Xiao, Fan Yang, Jinhan Wang, Hui Zong, Yuzhen Gao, Chenjun Huang, Xuewen Xu, Meng Fang, Xiaoyan Zhang, Chunfang Gao","doi":"10.1093/pcmedi/pbad021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/pcmedi/pbad021","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Current knowledge on apolipoprotein A1 (APOA1) in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is fragmented and even contradictory. Multi-dimensional analyses are required to comprehensively elucidate its value and underlying mechanism.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We collected 49 RNA-seq datasets, 40 cell line types data and 70 scRNA pan-cancer datasets public available, including 17 HCC datasets (1754 tumor samples), and enrolled 73 pairs of HCC tissue and 516 blood samples independently from our clinics. APOA1 impacting on the HCC tumor microenvironment (TME) was analyzed using intensive data mining. Methylation sequencing, flow cytometry, quantitative PCR, western blot, immunohistochemistry and clinical chemistry assays were conducted for wet experimental investigation.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The APOA1 ontology fingerprint indicated that it played various crucial biological roles in HCC, primarily involved in cholesterol efflux. Consistent findings at histology, serology, and clinical follow-up revealed that high APOA1 was a good prognosis indicator of HCC. Hypermethylation in the APOA1 promoter region was found in clinical samples which is in accordance with the reduction of APOA1 in HCC. The cell cycle, DNA replication, mismatch repair pathways, and tumor cell proliferation were less observed in the HCC APOA1<sup>high</sup> subgroup. The favorable immunoregulatory abilities of APOA1 showed interesting findings: a positive correlation between APOA1 and anti-tumor immune cells (NK, CD8<sup>+</sup> T cells) and a negative association with immune cells exerting immunosuppressive effects, including M2 macrophages.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This is an integrative multidimensional exploration of APOA1 using bioinformatics and experiments. Both the prognostic value and anti-tumor effects based on APOA1 panoramic exploration in the HCC TME demonstrate a new potential clinical target for HCC assessment and intervention in the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":33608,"journal":{"name":"Precision Clinical Medicine","volume":"6 3","pages":"pbad021"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10680024/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138463074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Junhao Mu, Jing Huang, Min Ao, Weiyi Li, Li Jiang, Li Yang
{"title":"Advances in diagnosis and prediction for aggression of pure solid T1 lung cancer.","authors":"Junhao Mu, Jing Huang, Min Ao, Weiyi Li, Li Jiang, Li Yang","doi":"10.1093/pcmedi/pbad020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/pcmedi/pbad020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A growing number of early-stage lung cancers presenting as malignant pulmonary nodules have been diagnosed because of the increased adoption of low-dose spiral computed tomography. But pure solid T1 lung cancer with ≤3 cm in the greatest dimension is not always at an early stage, despite its small size. This type of cancer can be highly aggressive and is associated with pathological involvement, metastasis, postoperative relapse, and even death. However, it is easily misdiagnosed or delay diagnosed in clinics and thus poses a serious threat to human health. The percentage of nodal or extrathoracic metastases has been reported to be >20% in T1 lung cancer. As such, understanding and identifying the aggressive characteristics of pure solid T1 lung cancer is crucial for prevention, diagnosis, and therapeutic strategies, and beneficial to improving the prognosis. With the widespread of lung cancer screening, these highly invasive pure solid T1 lung cancer will become the main advanced lung cancer in future. However, there is limited information regarding precision medicine on how to identify these \"early-stage\" aggressive lung cancers. To provide clinicians with new insights into early recognition and intervention of the highly invasive pure solid T1 lung cancer, this review summarizes its clinical characteristics, imaging, pathology, gene alterations, immune microenvironment, multi-omics, and current techniques for diagnosis and prediction.</p>","PeriodicalId":33608,"journal":{"name":"Precision Clinical Medicine","volume":"6 3","pages":"pbad020"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10680022/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138463073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}