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Detection of expression levels of microRNA-181a and microRNA-20a in serum of patients with multiple myeloma and its clinical significance

PENG Jing1, YUAN Ruili2, WANG Xiaoqin2, WU Feng3, GUO Xuan2   

  1. 1. School of Medical Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710061, China;
    2. Department of Clinical Laboratory, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medical Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong niversity, Xi'an 710061, China;
    3. Department of Medical Graduate Students Teaching Experiment Center, School of Medical Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710061, China
  • Received:2014-08-31 Published:2015-08-01

Abstract:

Objective To investigate the expression levels of serum microRNA-181a and microRNA-20a in the patients with multiple myeloma (MM), and to explore the clinical significances of microRNA-181a and microRNA-20a in the occurrence and development of MM. Methods 32 patients with M and 12 patients with other blood diseases, from Department of Hematology of First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medical Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong University, during 2013.01-2014.05, were chosen.All the subjects accorded with the diagnostic criteria from Blood Disease Diagnosis and Curative Effect of Standard, excluding anybody who was in a stable condition with other organ failure such as heart, lung, and liver.And at the same time, 20 healthy subjects were selected as control group.The expression levels of microRNA-181a and microRNA-20a in serum of the patients with MM, the patients with other disease and healthy individuals were examined by Real-time polymerase chain reaction (Real-time PCR).The serum β2 microglobulin (β2- MG) levels, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) activities, albumin (ALB) levels, free light chain (FLC) levels and M protein percentages were detected at the same time in three groups, and then the differences were compared. Results The expression levels of serum microRNA-181a and microRNA-20a in three groups were 0.0452 and 5.879, 0.000 and 0.072, 0.004 and 1.159, respectively;the differences showed statistically signiifcance(H=15.218, 9.891;P=0.000, 0.007).The differences between MM group and normal control group were statistically significant (Z=-2.702, -1.979;P=0.005, 0.048) and the differences between MM group and other blood diseases group were also statistically significant (Z=-3.163, -2.722;P=0.001, 0.005).The expression levels of microRNA-181a and microRNA-20a were positively correlated with the M protein percentage(r=0.574, 0.739;P=0.032, 0.003);the expression level of microRNA-181a was positively related with the serum β2-MG and serum free FLC levels(r=0.552, 0.780;P=0.041, 0.001). Conclusion The microRNA-181a and microRNA-20a highly express in the serum of the patients with MM, which suggests that microRNA-181a and microRNA-20a might play a role in the development of MM and they may become the diagnosis markers of MM;microRNA-181a is expected to be an index to predict the poor prognosis of MM.

Key words: microRNA-181a, microRNA-20a, multiple myeloma, Real-time polymerase chain reaction

CLC Number: 

  • R733.3