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Incidence of hereditary gastric cancer may be much higher than reported
(MDPI AG, 2022-12) Assumpção, Paula Baraúna de; Assumpção, Paulo Pimentel de; Moreira, Fabiano Cordeiro; Santos, Andrea Kely Campos Ribeiro dos; Vidal, Amanda Ferreira; Magalhães, Leandro; Khayat, André Salim; Santos, André Mauricio Ribeiro dos; Cavalcante, Giovanna Chaves; Pereira, Adenilson Leão; Medeiros, Inácio Gomes; Souza, Sandro José de; Burbano, Rommel Mario Rodríguez; Souza, Jorge Estefano Santana de; Santos, Sidney Emanuel Batista dos
Hereditary gastric cancers (HGCs) are supposed to be rare and difficult to identify. Nonetheless, many cases of young patients with gastric cancer (GC) fulfill the clinical criteria for considering this diagnosis but do not present the defined pathogenic mutations necessary to meet a formal diagnosis of HGC. Moreover, GC in young people is a challenging medical situation due to the usual aggressiveness of such cases and the potential risk for their relatives when related to a germline variant. Aiming to identify additional germline alterations that might contribute to the early onset of GC, a complete exome sequence of blood samples from 95 GC patients under 50 and 94 blood samples from non-cancer patients was performed and compared in this study. The number of identified germline mutations in GC patients was found to be much higher than that from individuals without a cancer diagnosis. Specifically, the number of high functional impact mutations, including those affecting genes involved in medical diseases, cancer hallmark genes, and DNA replication and repair processes, was much higher, strengthening the hypothesis of the potential causal role of such mutations in hereditary cancers. Conversely, classically related HGC mutations were not found and the number of mutations in genes in the CDH1 pathway was not found to be relevant among the young GC patients, reinforcing the hypothesis that existing alternative germline contributions favor the early onset of GC. The LILRB1 gene variants, absent in the world's cancer datasets but present in high frequencies among the studied GC patients, may represent essential cancer variants specific to the Amerindian ancestry's contributions. Identifying non-reported GC variants, potentially originating from under-studied populations, may pave the way for additional discoveries and translations to clinical interventions for GC management. The newly proposed approaches may reduce the discrepancy between clinically suspected and molecularly proven hereditary GC and shed light on similar inconsistencies among other cancer types. Additionally, the results of this study may support the development of new blood tests for evaluating cancer risk that can be used in clinical practice, helping physicians make decisions about strategies for surveillance and risk-reduction interventions
A small interfering RNA (siRNA) database for SARS-CoV-2
(2021-04-23) Medeiros, Inácio Gomes; Khayat, André Salim; Stransky, Beatriz; Santos, Sidney; Assumpção, Paulo; Souza, Jorge Estefano Santana de
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) rapidly transformed into a global pandemic, for which a demand for developing antivirals capable of targeting the SARS-CoV-2 RNA genome and blocking the activity of its genes has emerged. In this work, we presented a database of SARS-CoV-2 targets for small interference RNA (siRNA) based approaches, aiming to speed the design process by providing a broad set of possible targets and siRNA sequences. The siRNAs sequences are characterized and evaluated by more than 170 features, including thermodynamic information, base context, target genes and alignment information of sequences against the human genome, and diverse SARS-CoV-2 strains, to assess possible bindings to off-target sequences. This dataset is available as a set of four tables, available in a spreadsheet and CSV (Comma-Separated Values) formats, each one corresponding to sequences of 18, 19, 20, and 21 nucleotides length, aiming to meet the diversity of technology and expertise among laboratories around the world. A metadata table (Supplementary Table S1), which describes each feature, is also provided in the aforementioned formats. We hope that this database helps to speed up the development of new target antivirals for SARS-CoV-2, contributing to a possible strategy for a faster and effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic

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Navegando por Autor "Khayat, André Salim"