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US20110171657A1 US13/070,153 US201113070153A US2011171657A1 US 20110171657 A1 US20110171657 A1 US 20110171657A1 US 201113070153 A US201113070153 A US 201113070153A US 2011171657 A1 US2011171657 A1 US 2011171657A1
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  • This invention relates, in one embodiment, to a method for providing a prognosis of squamous cell lung cancer by observing regulatory changes in the production of select microRNA (miRNA) sequences. By observing up regulation or down regulation of specified sequences, both the presence of cancer cells as well as the prognosis of cancer may be determined.
  • miRNA microRNA
  • NSCLC non-small-cell lung cancers
  • SSC squamous cell carcinoma
  • the invention comprises, in one form thereof, a method for detecting the presence of squamous cell lung cancer in a cell sample.
  • Applicants have discovered certain miRNAs that are differentially regulated in squamous cell lung cancers relative to wild type cells. By determining the degree of regulatory changes in such miRNAs, one can determine if a tissue sample includes squamous cell lung cancer cells.
  • the invention is a method for predicting the prognosis of squamous cell lung cancer.
  • Applicants have discovered certain other miRNAs that enable the prognosis to be predicted for a patient with squamous cell lung cancer. By monitoring these miRNAs, a more accurate prognosis may be provided.
  • FIG. 1A is a graph that correlates the number of miRNA sequences of interest to predictive prognosis
  • FIG. 1B is graph that correlates survival percentage to time for two differing level of miR-146b expression.
  • regulation change refers to a change in the abundance of a cellular component, such a miRNA, relative to the abundance of the same cellular component in a wild type cell.
  • downstream regulation refers to a decrease in the abundance of the cellular component in question while the phrase “up regulation” refers to an increase in the abundance of the component.
  • Any suitable technique may be used to determine the identity and abundance such as, but not limited to commercially available miRNA kits, such as mirVana Bioarray (Ambion). Fifteen differentially expressed miRNAs were identified in squamous cell lung cancer cells which had significantly altered expression relative to a wild type sample. These sequences are shown in Table 1.
  • a sample is analyzed to determine the abundance of a specified miRNA sequence from Table 1.
  • the sample may be a tissue sample, such as a sample obtained during a surgical procedure.
  • the sample may be obtained non-invasively from, for example, a blood sample or from a similar source.
  • the abundance of a specified miRNA in the sample is determined and a regulation change is observed relative to an average sample. Since miRNAs are known to persist outside of the cell, free miRNAs can provide a screening method for squamous cell lung cancer. Such screening can be performed using non-invasive sampling techniques, such as a simple blood test. In this fashion patients in a high-risk group could be routinely tested to help identify the early development of cancer.
  • miRNA abundances are observed to distinguish squamous cell lung cancer from adenocarcinoma. By observing regulatory changes in miRNA expression, such a distinction can be made even when tissue morphology is unclear.
  • miRNA sequences have been discovered that permit one to predict the prognosis of lung squamous cell carcinoma. Twenty miRNA sequences were so identified as being tightly associated with squamous cell lung carcinoma prognosis. Clinical samples were collected between October 1991 and July 2002. The medical history of each of the patents was also collected and a correlation was made between those miRNAs that expressed altered regulations and the patients prognosis. The details of this correlation process are discussed elsewhere in this specification. In this manner, those miRNA sequences which strongly influence patient prognosis were identified. The identified sequences are listed in Table 2.
  • a predicted prognosis may be provided to a patient. For example, statistical data may be gathered that correlates miRNA abundance of a specific sequence to patent survivability as a function of time. For example, for a patient with a large regulatory change in a certain miRNA sequence, the data may indicate that remission is 78% likely within the next three years. This predicted prognosis may be provided to the patient.
  • FIG. 1B provides sample data for miR-146b, but such data should not be construed as limiting. Additional data, such as the demographic information of the patient, may be taken into consideration such broader statistical information is gathered.
  • the miRNA may be extracted from a tissue sample using conventional techniques. Such a sample may be obtained during a surgical procedure. Alternatively, miRNA may be isolated from a non-tissue sample. For example, miRNA may be isolated from a blood, stool, urine or other biological sample. The abundance of the specific miRNA found in the sample is compared to a normal sample. Up regulated or down regulated miRNA abundances may be indicative of a cancer.
  • the abundance of the specified miRNA sequence(s) may be determined in accordance with any known technique.
  • QPCR may be used.
  • the miRNA sequences in the attached sequence listing represent commonly isolated miRNA sequences. Alterations at the termini of the listed sequences are known in the art and fall within the scope of the invention provided that the residues are at least 95% homologous.
  • the mirVana Bioarray (Ambion, version 2) that contains 328 human miRNA probes was employed to identify lung SCC miRNA signatures.
  • Total RNA was isolated using Trizol.
  • MiRNA was isolated from 4 ug of total RNA using the mirVana isolation kit (Ambion). All samples were then fractionated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (Flash-Page Ambion) and small RNAs ( ⁇ 40 nt) were recovered by ethanol precipitation with linear acrylamide.
  • Quantitative RT-PCR (qPCR) of miR-16 was used to confirm miRNA enrichment prior to miRNA array analysis. If the Ct value of miR-16 was greater than 25 then the miRNA isolation was considered a failure.
  • RNA samples were subject to poly(A) polymerase reaction wherein amine modified uridines were incorporated (Ambion).
  • the tailed samples were then fluorescently labeled using the amine-reactive Cy3 (Invitrogen).
  • the aforementioned labeling technique is only one possible methodology. Other suitable labeling techniques would be apparent to those skilled in the art after benefiting from reading this specification. Such alternative methods are contemplated for use with the instant specification.
  • the fluorescently labeled RNAs were purified using a glass-fiber filter and eluted (Ambion). Each sample was then hybridized to the Bioarray slides for 14 hours at 42° C. (Ambion). The arrays were washed and scanned using an Agilent 2505B confocol laser microarray scanner (Agilent) and data was obtained using the Expression Analysis software (Codelink, version 4.2).
  • Quantitative PCR was performed using the ABI miRNA Taqman reagents to verify miRNA expression profiles. Ten ng of total RNA was converted to cDNA using the High Capacity DNA Archive kit and 3 ul of 5 ⁇ RT primer according to the manufacturer's instructions (Ambion). The 15 ⁇ l reactions were incubated in a thermocycler for 30 min at 16° C., 30 min at 42° C., 5 min at 85° C. and held at 4° C. All reverse transcriptase reactions included no template controls. QPCR was performed using a standard Taqman® PCR kit protocol on an Applied Biosystems 7900HT Sequence Detection System.
  • the 10 ⁇ l PCR reaction included 0.66 ⁇ l RT product, 1 ⁇ l Taqman miRNA assay primer and probe mix, 5 ⁇ l Taqman 2 ⁇ Universal PCR master mix (No Amperase UNG) and 3.34 ⁇ l water. The reactions were incubated in a 384 well plate at 95° C. for 10 min, followed by 40 cycles of 95° C. for 15 sec, and 60° C. for 2 min. All QPCR reactions included a no cDNA control and all reactions were performed in triplicate.
  • Probes flagged by the Expression Analysis software were first removed and background median values were subtracted from the spot mean. Outlier samples were identified and removed if the number of flagged probes was less than the mean minus the standard deviation of flagged probes per chip. Spot intensity values below zero were set to 0.5 and the data was then quantile normalized. A background cutoff of 6 (log2 normalized) was identified by plotting the correlations of replicate probes across all samples versus the median of median intensities. Therefore, miRNAs were removed from further analyses if the normalized signal intensity was less than 6 in either comparison group. This cutoff was chosen since the correlation of replicate probes dropped precipitously below this value.
  • MiRNAs were selected as being significantly associated with overall survival if the paired t-test p-value was less than 0.05 and the area under the curve (AUC) from a receiver operator characteristic analysis was greater than 0.65 using a 3-year cut-off. A maximum 3 years follow-up was employed since the majority of patients who will relapse in this population will do so within 3 years. Also many of these patients were aged and death due to non-cancer related illnesses would likely increase after 3 years.
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Disclosed in this specification is a method for predicting the prognosis of squamous cell lung cancer by observing regulatory changes in select miRNA sequences. These sequences may include hsa-mir-146b, hsa-mir-191, hsa-mir-206, hsa-mir-299-3p, hsa-mir-155, hsa-mir-15a, hsa-mir-122a, hsa-mir-513, hsa-mir-184, hsa-mir-511, hsa-mir-100, hsa-mir-10a, hsa-mir-453, hsa-mir-379, hsa-mir-202, hsa-mir-21, hsa-mir-126, hsa-mir-494, hsa-mir-432, hsa-mir-370, and combinations of these sequences.

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    CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
  • This application is a divisional application of co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/261,825, filed Dec. 15, 2010, which claims priority to and the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/983,756, filed Oct. 30, 2007, both of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties.
  • REFERENCE TO A SEQUENCE LISTING, A TABLE, OR A PROGRAM LISTING
  • This application refers to a “Sequence Listing” listed below, which is provided as an electronic document entitled “Sequence listing.txt” (6 kb, created on Oct. 29, 2008), which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
  • FIELD OF THE INVENTION
  • This invention relates, in one embodiment, to a method for providing a prognosis of squamous cell lung cancer by observing regulatory changes in the production of select microRNA (miRNA) sequences. By observing up regulation or down regulation of specified sequences, both the presence of cancer cells as well as the prognosis of cancer may be determined.
  • BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
  • Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer related deaths worldwide while non-small-cell lung cancers (NSCLC) represent the most frequent type of broncogenic carcinomas. NSCLC is the cause of 80% of all lung cancer deaths in the United States and is composed primarily of, adenocarcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma (SSC), and to a lesser extent large-cell cancer. Despite potentially curative surgery approximately 40% of patients will relapse within 5 years. Genomic profiling of NSCLC has recently provided insight into predicting the prognosis of patients with this disease. These genomic classifiers can contain up to several hundred genes for the identification of patients with early stage NSCLC who might benefit from chemotherapy in addition to surgical resection.
  • SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
  • The invention comprises, in one form thereof, a method for detecting the presence of squamous cell lung cancer in a cell sample. Applicants have discovered certain miRNAs that are differentially regulated in squamous cell lung cancers relative to wild type cells. By determining the degree of regulatory changes in such miRNAs, one can determine if a tissue sample includes squamous cell lung cancer cells.
  • In another form the invention is a method for predicting the prognosis of squamous cell lung cancer. Applicants have discovered certain other miRNAs that enable the prognosis to be predicted for a patient with squamous cell lung cancer. By monitoring these miRNAs, a more accurate prognosis may be provided.
  • BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
  • The present invention is disclosed with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
  • FIG. 1A is a graph that correlates the number of miRNA sequences of interest to predictive prognosis;
  • FIG. 1B is graph that correlates survival percentage to time for two differing level of miR-146b expression.
  • Corresponding reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views. The examples set out herein illustrate several embodiments of the invention but should not be construed as limiting the scope of the invention in any manner.
  • DETAILED DESCRIPTION Definitions
  • The phrase “regulation change” refers to a change in the abundance of a cellular component, such a miRNA, relative to the abundance of the same cellular component in a wild type cell. The phrase “down regulation” refers to a decrease in the abundance of the cellular component in question while the phrase “up regulation” refers to an increase in the abundance of the component.
  • Identification of Squamous Cell Lung Cancer by Differential miRNA Regulation
  • Squamous cell lung cancer tissue was compared to wild type tissue and fifteen differentially expressed miRNAs were identified (Table 1). Tissue samples included both cell lines and clinical samples. Total RNA was extracted from the cell samples in accordance with conventional techniques. For example, mirVana isolation kit (Ambion) for snap-frozen samples and the RecoverAll™ Total Nucleic Acid Isolation Kit for formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) samples (Ambion) may be used. Other conventional RNA extraction methods may also be used. Once the total RNA is extracted, small (less than forty nucleotides) RNA may be isolated by gel electrophoresis. The samples were analyzed to determine the identity and abundance of specific miRNA sequences. Any suitable technique may be used to determine the identity and abundance such as, but not limited to commercially available miRNA kits, such as mirVana Bioarray (Ambion). Fifteen differentially expressed miRNAs were identified in squamous cell lung cancer cells which had significantly altered expression relative to a wild type sample. These sequences are shown in Table 1.
  • TABLE 1
    miRNAs differentially expressed between normal
    lung and lung squamous cell carcinoma.
    Fold mean mean
    SEQ ID Name Change LN LC Dir
    SEQ ID NO. 1 hsa-mir-210 3.25 6.0 7.7 up
    SEQ ID NO. 2 hsa-mir-200c 2.46 9.5 10.8 up
    SEQ ID NO. 3 hsa-mir-17-5p 2.14 6.4 7.5 up
    SEQ ID NO. 4 hsa-mir-20a 1.41 5.6 6.1 up
    SEQ ID NO. 5 hsa-mir-125a 0.41 10.20 8.9 down
    SEQ ID NO. 6 hsa-let-7e 0.76 9.5 9.1 down
    SEQ ID NO. 7 hsa-mir-200a 2.46 5.7 7.0 up
    SEQ ID NO. 8 hsa-mir-106b 2.00 5.9 6.9 up
    SEQ ID NO. 9 hsa-mir-93 2.46 7.5 8.8 up
    SEQ ID NO. 10 hsa-mir-182 2.30 5.6 6.8 up
    SEQ ID NO. 11 hsa-mir-183 1.62 5.6 6.3 up
    SEQ ID NO. 12 hsa-mir-106a 2.30 6.5 7.7 up
    SEQ ID NO. 13 hsa-mir-20b 1.87 5.2 6.1 up
    SEQ ID NO. 14 hsa-mir-224 2.64 5.5 6.9 up
    LN = lung normal signal intensity (log2); LC = lung cancer signal intensity (log2) Fold Change = 2(LC−LN)
  • In one embodiment of the invention, a sample is analyzed to determine the abundance of a specified miRNA sequence from Table 1. The sample may be a tissue sample, such as a sample obtained during a surgical procedure. Alternatively, the sample may be obtained non-invasively from, for example, a blood sample or from a similar source. The abundance of a specified miRNA in the sample is determined and a regulation change is observed relative to an average sample. Since miRNAs are known to persist outside of the cell, free miRNAs can provide a screening method for squamous cell lung cancer. Such screening can be performed using non-invasive sampling techniques, such as a simple blood test. In this fashion patients in a high-risk group could be routinely tested to help identify the early development of cancer.
  • In another embodiment, miRNA abundances are observed to distinguish squamous cell lung cancer from adenocarcinoma. By observing regulatory changes in miRNA expression, such a distinction can be made even when tissue morphology is unclear.
  • Prognosis of Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma
  • Additional miRNA sequences have been discovered that permit one to predict the prognosis of lung squamous cell carcinoma. Twenty miRNA sequences were so identified as being tightly associated with squamous cell lung carcinoma prognosis. Clinical samples were collected between October 1991 and July 2002. The medical history of each of the patents was also collected and a correlation was made between those miRNAs that expressed altered regulations and the patients prognosis. The details of this correlation process are discussed elsewhere in this specification. In this manner, those miRNA sequences which strongly influence patient prognosis were identified. The identified sequences are listed in Table 2.
  • TABLE 2
    miRNAs associated with squamous cell lung carcinoma prognosis.
    Fold
    SEQ ID Name Change mean_0 mean_1 Dir
    SEQ ID NO. 15 hsa-mir-146b 1.51 6.97 7.57 up
    SEQ ID NO. 16 hsa-mir-191 1.23 8.53 8.83 up
    SEQ ID NO. 17 hsa-mir-206 0.82 6.13 5.84 down
    SEQ ID NO. 18 hsa-mir-299- 0.82 6.19 5.90 down
    3p
    SEQ ID NO. 19 hsa-mir-155 1.33 7.17 7.58 up
    SEQ ID NO. 20 hsa-mir-15a 1.21 6.24 6.51 up
    SEQ ID NO. 21 hsa-mir-122a 0.74 6.86 6.42 down
    SEQ ID NO. 22 hsa-mir-513 0.8 6.99 6.67 down
    SEQ ID NO. 23 hsa-mir-184 0.71 6.72 6.24 down
    SEQ ID NO. 24 hsa-mir-511 1.23 6.56 6.85 up
    SEQ ID NO. 25 hsa-mir-100 1.27 7.15 7.50 up
    SEQ ID NO. 26 hsa-mir-10a 1.24 6.45 6.77 up
    SEQ ID NO. 27 hsa-mir-453 0.74 7.18 6.75 down
    SEQ ID NO. 28 hsa-mir-379 0.78 6.68 6.32 down
    SEQ ID NO. 29 hsa-mir-202 0.62 7.89 7.20 down
    SEQ ID NO. 30 hsa-mir-21 1.41 9.32 9.81 up
    SEQ ID NO. 31 hsa-mir-126 1.27 7.60 7.94 up
    SEQ ID NO. 32 hsa-mir-494 0.63 10.53 9.87 down
    SEQ ID NO. 33 hsa-mir-432 0.67 7.97 7.40 down
    SEQ ID NO. 34 hsa-mir-370 0.79 7.25 6.90 down
    Mean_0 and Mean_1 are wild type and cancerous tissues, respectively.
  • Using a five-fold cross validation, it was found that the highest mean value for predicting overall survival within three years was 78% when using miR-146b alone (SEQ ID NO. 15). When three or more additional miRNAs were added to Mir-146b in a linear fashion, the predictive accuracy dropped by approximately 68%, but thereafter stabilized. See FIG. 1A. Patients with high miR-146 up regulation had significantly worse overall survival (26 months) compared to the low miRNA-146b group (95 months). See FIG. 1B. In FIG. 1B, a “high” miRNA-146 group (the lower of the two lines) was defined as those with miRNA-146 levels above the median value. The “low” miRNA-146 group (the higher of the two lines) was defined as those with miRNA-146 below the median value.
  • By measuring the abundance of specified miRNA sequences a predicted prognosis may be provided to a patient. For example, statistical data may be gathered that correlates miRNA abundance of a specific sequence to patent survivability as a function of time. For example, for a patient with a large regulatory change in a certain miRNA sequence, the data may indicate that remission is 78% likely within the next three years. This predicted prognosis may be provided to the patient. FIG. 1B provides sample data for miR-146b, but such data should not be construed as limiting. Additional data, such as the demographic information of the patient, may be taken into consideration such broader statistical information is gathered.
  • The miRNA may be extracted from a tissue sample using conventional techniques. Such a sample may be obtained during a surgical procedure. Alternatively, miRNA may be isolated from a non-tissue sample. For example, miRNA may be isolated from a blood, stool, urine or other biological sample. The abundance of the specific miRNA found in the sample is compared to a normal sample. Up regulated or down regulated miRNA abundances may be indicative of a cancer.
  • The abundance of the specified miRNA sequence(s) may be determined in accordance with any known technique. By way of illustration, but not limitation, QPCR may be used.
  • The miRNA sequences in the attached sequence listing represent commonly isolated miRNA sequences. Alterations at the termini of the listed sequences are known in the art and fall within the scope of the invention provided that the residues are at least 95% homologous.
  • While the invention has been described with reference to specific embodiments, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes may be made and equivalents may be substituted for elements thereof to adapt to particular situations without departing from the scope of the invention. Therefore, it is intended that the invention not be limited to the particular embodiments disclosed or the particular mode contemplated for carrying out this invention, but that the invention will include all embodiments falling within the scope and spirit of the appended claims.
  • Methods Clinical Samples
  • In total, sixty-one snap-frozen lung SCC and 10 matched normal adjacent lung tissue samples were evaluated for miRNA expression. These samples were collected from patients from the University of Michigan Hospital between October 1991 and July 2002 with patient consent and Institutional Review Board approval. Samples chosen for analysis contained greater than 70% tumor cells. Of the sixty-one tumor samples fifty-seven had sufficient follow up clinical information and were used for prognostic analysis. Fifty-four of the fifty-seven were previously profiled using the Affymetrix U133A GeneChip (GSE4573).
  • Ambion miRNA Expression Profiling
  • The mirVana Bioarray (Ambion, version 2) that contains 328 human miRNA probes was employed to identify lung SCC miRNA signatures. Total RNA was isolated using Trizol. MiRNA was isolated from 4 ug of total RNA using the mirVana isolation kit (Ambion). All samples were then fractionated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (Flash-Page Ambion) and small RNAs (<40 nt) were recovered by ethanol precipitation with linear acrylamide. Quantitative RT-PCR (qPCR) of miR-16 was used to confirm miRNA enrichment prior to miRNA array analysis. If the Ct value of miR-16 was greater than 25 then the miRNA isolation was considered a failure.
  • The small RNA samples were subject to poly(A) polymerase reaction wherein amine modified uridines were incorporated (Ambion). The tailed samples were then fluorescently labeled using the amine-reactive Cy3 (Invitrogen). The aforementioned labeling technique is only one possible methodology. Other suitable labeling techniques would be apparent to those skilled in the art after benefiting from reading this specification. Such alternative methods are contemplated for use with the instant specification. The fluorescently labeled RNAs were purified using a glass-fiber filter and eluted (Ambion). Each sample was then hybridized to the Bioarray slides for 14 hours at 42° C. (Ambion). The arrays were washed and scanned using an Agilent 2505B confocol laser microarray scanner (Agilent) and data was obtained using the Expression Analysis software (Codelink, version 4.2).
  • miRNA Quantitative PCR
  • Quantitative PCR (QPCR) was performed using the ABI miRNA Taqman reagents to verify miRNA expression profiles. Ten ng of total RNA was converted to cDNA using the High Capacity DNA Archive kit and 3 ul of 5× RT primer according to the manufacturer's instructions (Ambion). The 15 μl reactions were incubated in a thermocycler for 30 min at 16° C., 30 min at 42° C., 5 min at 85° C. and held at 4° C. All reverse transcriptase reactions included no template controls. QPCR was performed using a standard Taqman® PCR kit protocol on an Applied Biosystems 7900HT Sequence Detection System. The 10 μl PCR reaction included 0.66 μl RT product, 1 μl Taqman miRNA assay primer and probe mix, 5 μl Taqman 2× Universal PCR master mix (No Amperase UNG) and 3.34 μl water. The reactions were incubated in a 384 well plate at 95° C. for 10 min, followed by 40 cycles of 95° C. for 15 sec, and 60° C. for 2 min. All QPCR reactions included a no cDNA control and all reactions were performed in triplicate.
  • MiRNA Statistical Analyses
  • Probes flagged by the Expression Analysis software were first removed and background median values were subtracted from the spot mean. Outlier samples were identified and removed if the number of flagged probes was less than the mean minus the standard deviation of flagged probes per chip. Spot intensity values below zero were set to 0.5 and the data was then quantile normalized. A background cutoff of 6 (log2 normalized) was identified by plotting the correlations of replicate probes across all samples versus the median of median intensities. Therefore, miRNAs were removed from further analyses if the normalized signal intensity was less than 6 in either comparison group. This cutoff was chosen since the correlation of replicate probes dropped precipitously below this value.
  • Survival analysis was performed using the Significance of Microarray Analysis (SAM) algorithm (Tusher VG, Tibshirani R, Chu G. Significance analysis of microarrays applied to the ionizing radiation response. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2001; 98(9):5116-21). MiRNAs were selected as being significantly associated with overall survival if the paired t-test p-value was less than 0.05 and the area under the curve (AUC) from a receiver operator characteristic analysis was greater than 0.65 using a 3-year cut-off. A maximum 3 years follow-up was employed since the majority of patients who will relapse in this population will do so within 3 years. Also many of these patients were aged and death due to non-cancer related illnesses would likely increase after 3 years. To determine the minimum number of miRNAs used to construct a prognostic classifier, combinations of gene expression markers were tested by adding one gene at a time according to the rank order. For each signature with increasing number of genes, Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis using death within 3 years as the defining point was performed, in 100 5-fold cross validations, to calculate the average area under the curve (AUC).

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1. A process for predicting the prognosis of squamous cell lung carcinoma in humans comprising the steps of:
Determining determining the expression of microRNA having SEQ ID NO. 16; and
predicting a prognosis of squamous cell lung carcinoma if the expression exceeds a predetermined cutoff.
2. The process as recited in claim 1, further comprising the step of removing RNA with more than forty nucleotides prior to the step of observing a regulation change.
3. The process as recited in claim 1, wherein an up regulation is observed.
4. A process for predicting the prognosis of squamous cell lung carcinoma in humans comprising the steps of:
observing a regulation change of SEQ ID NO. 16 within extracted RNA relative to the same microRNA in a wild type lung tissue sample;
predicting a prognosis of squamous cell lung carcinoma based on the observation.
5. The process as recited in claim 4, further comprising the step of extracting total RNA from a sample of lung tissue.
6. The process as recited in claim 5, wherein the step of observing includes the step of performing a quantitative polymerase chain reaction.
7. A process for predicting the prognosis of squamous cell lung carcinoma in humans comprising the steps of:
observing the abundance of SEQ ID NO. 16 within a sample;
predicting a prognosis of squamous cell lung carcinoma based on the observation.
8. The process as recited in claim 7, wherein the step of observing the abundance includes the step of comparing the abundance of SEQ ID NO. 16 from the sample to the abundance of SEQ ID NO. 16 in a wild type sample.
9. The process as recited in claim 8 wherein, when the comparison is made, an up regulation in SEQ ID NO. 16 is found.
10. The process as recited in claim 9, wherein, when an up regulation is found, at least a 1.5 fold change is found.
11. The process as recited in claim 10, wherein SEQ ID NO. 16 is the only microRNA observed.
12. The process as recited in claim 8, wherein the step of observing includes the step of performing a quantitative polymerase chain reaction.
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