Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

Tissue-specific microRNA expression alters cancer susceptibility conferred by a TP53 noncoding variant

  • Qipan Deng,
  • Hui Hu,
  • Xinfang Yu,
  • Shuanglin Liu,
  • Lei Wang,
  • Weiqun Chen,
  • Chi Zhang,
  • Zhaoyang Zeng,
  • Ya Cao,
  • Zijun Y. Xu-Monette,
  • Ling Li,
  • Mingzhi Zhang,
  • Steven Rosenfeld,
  • Shideng Bao,
  • Eric Hsi,
  • Ken H. Young,
  • Zhongxin Lu,
  • Yong Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13002-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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TP53 mutations can cause increased risk for cancers. Here, the authors show a noncoding polymorphism in TP53 increases risk of some cancers but delays onset of others, and in a mouse model show this is via alteration of microRNA targeting sites that differ in impact depending on the tissue.