Significance of tumor suppressor gene promoter hypermethylation in sera of patients with gastric cancer
Objective To explore the clinical significance of tumor suppressor genes promoter hypermethyla-tion determination in sera of patients with gastric cancer .Methods Thirty two patients suffered from gastric cancer ( gastric cancer group) and 29 patients with atrophic gastritis (atrophic gastritis group)were randomly recruited in this study ,thirty healthy people were recruited as control group .The serum of patients were detected by MSP method for RASSF1A ,RUNX3 ,hmLH1 ,P16 ,E-Cadherin and TFPI-2 gene promoter hypermethylation .Results The positive rates of RASSF1A ,RUNX3 ,hmLH1 ,P16 ,E-Cadherin and TFPI-2 gene promoter hypermethylation in sera were 21 .9% ,40 .6% ,21 .9% ,34 .4% ,28 .1% and 28 .1% respectively in gastric cancer group ,as well as 3 .5% ,13 .8% , 0 .0% ,6 .9% ,3 .5% and 6 .9% in atrophic gastritis group .Only RUNX3 gene promoter hypermethylation in serum were detected in the control group ,the positive rate was 3 .45% .The positive rates of six kinds of gene promoter hy-permethylation in gastric cancer were respectively higher than the control group (P< 0 .05 ) and atrophic gastritis group (P<0 .05 ) .The sensitivity of combined detection of six gene promoter hypermethylation as 76 .7% was supe-rior to a single gene for diagnosis of gastric cancer (P<0 .05 ) .But the specificity of the combined detection was de-creased to 86 .44% compared with five other genes except for RUNX3 respectively (P<0 .05 ) .There was no signifi-cant difference between the combined detection with RUNX3 gene (P>0 .05 ) .Conclusion RASSF1A ,RUNX3 ,hm-LH1 ,P16 ,E-Cadherinand TFPI-2 gene promoter hypermethylation in sera can be detected by MSP .The diagnosis sensitivity for gastric cancer of the six gene promoter hypermethylation combined detection was higher than the single detection of these six gene promoter hypermethylation .The research results provided a novel testing method for clinic diagnosis ,treatment and prognosis judgment for gastric cancer .
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