Mishra Prasun J
US Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Expert Rev Mol Diagn. 2014 Nov;14(8):917-9. doi: 10.1586/14737159.2014.971761.
Developing more precise diagnostics approaches to predict cancer progression and prognosis is the key to precision medicine. Overwhelming evidence now suggests that small non-coding RNAs such as miRNAs can be useful tools as biomarkers for molecular diagnostics. miRNAs can serve as biomarkers in a variety of diseases, such as neurological disorders, cardiovascular disease, Type II diabetes, cancer and so on. miRNAs can not only be utilized for monitoring treatment but also for patient stratification and hence are promising predictive biomarkers in cancer progression and prognosis, as well as in predicting drug response. This article focuses on some of the recent findings in the field of miRNA biomarkers and discusses its implications for cancer diagnostics and precision medicine.
开发更精确的诊断方法以预测癌症进展和预后是精准医学的关键。现在有压倒性的证据表明,诸如miRNA等小非编码RNA可作为分子诊断生物标志物的有用工具。miRNA可作为多种疾病的生物标志物,如神经疾病、心血管疾病、II型糖尿病、癌症等。miRNA不仅可用于监测治疗,还可用于患者分层,因此在癌症进展和预后以及预测药物反应方面是很有前景的预测性生物标志物。本文重点介绍了miRNA生物标志物领域的一些最新发现,并讨论了其对癌症诊断和精准医学的意义。