title: MicroRNA miR-181a correlates with morphological sub-class of acute myeloid leukaemia and the expression of its target genes in global genome-wide analysis.
abstract: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short single-stranded RNAs that have a potentially important role in gene regulation. Using a quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction assay specific to the mature miRNA, the expression level of a selected group of haematopoietic tissue-specific miRNAs was measured across a set of 30 primary adult acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) with a normal karyotype. The expression levels of each miRNA were correlated with the genome-wide mRNA expression profiles in the same leukaemias. This revealed that miR-181a correlated strongly with the AML morphological sub-type and with the expression of genes previously identified through sequence analysis as potential interaction targets. Three other miRNAs, miR-10a, miR-10b and miR-196a-1, showed a clear correlation with HOX gene expression.
authors.affiliation: Medical Oncology Department, Cancer Research UK, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary College, Charterhouse Square, London, UK.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Debernardi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Skoulakis
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Molloy
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Chaplin
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dixon-McIver
authors.forename: B D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Young
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D005801:Genes, Homeobox; D006801:Humans; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D035683:MicroRNAs / Q000032:analysis*; D008875:Middle Aged
chemical_list: D035683:MicroRNAs