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Gene Expression In Human Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Is Influenced By Risk Factor Exposure, Cheong S. C., Chandramouli G. V. R., Saleh A., Rosnah Binti Zain, Lau S. H., Sivakumaren S., Pathmanathan R., Prime S. S., Teo S. H., Patel V., Gutkind J. S.
Gene Expression In Human Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Is Influenced By Risk Factor Exposure, Cheong S. C., Chandramouli G. V. R., Saleh A., Rosnah Binti Zain, Lau S. H., Sivakumaren S., Pathmanathan R., Prime S. S., Teo S. H., Patel V., Gutkind J. S.
Prof. Dr. Rosnah Binti Zain
Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is a world health problem and is associated with exposure to different risk factors. In the west, smoking and alcohol consumption are considered to be the main risk factors whilst in India and southeast Asia, betel quid (BQ) chewing is predominant. In this study, we compared the gene expression patterns of oral cancers associated with BQ chewing to those caused by smoking using Affymetrix microarrays. We found that 281 genes were differentially expressed between OSCC and normal oral mucosa regardless of aetiological factors including MMP1, PLAU, MAGE-D4, GNA12, IFITM3 and NMU. Further, we identified 168 …