mRNA analysis on peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) performed by RNA-seq in patients with Bladder Cancer
Bladder cancer (BC) is the most common malignant tumor of the urinary tract, ranking 4th among men and 18th among women, and it is mainly divided into non-muscle invasive and muscle-invasive. Recent studies showed that changes in the transcriptome activity may contribute to carcinogenesis. Thus, the study of the transcriptome may allow the identification of additional differentially expressed cancer-related candidate genes and, consequently, a better understanding of the molecular basis of gene regulation in BC. This case-control study consists of a mRNA analysis performed by RNA-seq in 11 BC patients (11 males; mean age 63.00±9.88 years) and 19 age- and sex-matched healthy controls (19 males ; mean age 58.81±23.41 years) from publish dataset.