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. 2018 Oct;12(10):1185-1196.
doi: 10.2217/bmm-2017-0440. Epub 2018 Sep 21.

Exosomal miR-1246 in body fluids is a potential biomarker for gastrointestinal cancer

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Exosomal miR-1246 in body fluids is a potential biomarker for gastrointestinal cancer

Chunmeng Wei et al. Biomark Med. 2018 Oct.

Abstract

Aim: The aim was to systematically evaluate whether exosomal miRNAs could be regarded as potential minimally invasive biomarkers of diagnosis for gastrointestinal cancer.

Methods: A systematic review and meta analysis of exosomal miRNA expression in gastrointestinal cancer were performed.

Results: A total of 370 articles were retrieved from PubMed and EMBASE. The summary receiver operating characteristic curves of three miRNAs (miR-21, miR-1246 and miR-4644) were drawn, miR-21, miR-1246 and miR-4644 exhibited sensitivities of 0.66, 0.920 and 0.750, respectively; specificities were 0.87, 0.958 and 0.769, respectively; and areas under the curve for discriminating gastrointestinal cancer patients from control subjects were 0.876, 0.969 and 0.827, respectively.

Conclusion: Exosome miR-1246 had the highest level of diagnostic efficiency, which indicated that miR-1246 could be a biomarker.

Keywords: SROC; biomarkers; exosome; gastrointestinal cancer; miR-1246; microRNA.

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