Research Paper Volume 13, Issue 4 pp 5621—5637

Expression and prognostic values of ARID family members in breast cancer

Jinfeng Zhang1, *, , Siyu Hou1, *, , Zilong You1, , Guozheng Li1, , Shouping Xu1, , Xianyong Li3, , Xianyu Zhang1, , Bo Lei1, , Da Pang1,2, ,

  • 1 Department of Breast Surgery, Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Harbin, China
  • 2 Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Harbin, China
  • 3 Department of Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
* Equal contribution

Received: April 20, 2020       Accepted: December 3, 2020       Published: February 11, 2021      

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.202489
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Copyright: © 2021 Zhang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abstract

The ARID family is a superfamily of 15 members containing a domain that interacts with AT-rich DNA elements. However, the expression and prognostic roles of each ARID in breast cancer are still elusive.

We used the TCGA and Kaplan-Meier plotter databases to assess the expression and prognostic values of ARID mRNA levels in breast cancer respectively. In the present study, 6 members were significantly lower in tumor tissues than those in the normal tissues, while 6 members were significantly higher. Further assessment of ARID expression in breast cancer with different molecular subtypes, 3 members were significantly higher in no-luminal molecular subtype than those in the luminal molecular subtype, and 6 members were significantly higher. In regard to prognostic values, high expression of ARID1A, ARID2, ARID3B, ARID4A, ARID5A, ARID5B, JARID1A were associated with favorable outcome, while ARID4B and JARID1B were correlated to a worse outcome. We further analyzed the prognostic value of ARID in different intrinsic subtypes and clinicopathological features of breast cancer. We found many meaningful ARID family biomarkers in breast cancer. The relevant results will expound the role of ARID in breast cancer and may further provide new insight to explore the ARID-targeting reagents for treating breast cancer patients.

Abbreviations

TCGA: The Cancer Genome Atlas; ARID: AT-rich interaction domain; KM plotter: Kaplan-Meier plotter; GEO: Gene Expression Omnibus; HR: hazard ratio; CI: confidence intervals.