摘要

The aim of this study was to investigate whether long-term use of Benzodiazepines (BZDs) is associated with breast cancer risk through the combination of population-based observational and gene expression profiling evidence. We conducted a population-based case-control study by using 1998 to 2009 year Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database and investigated the association between BZDs use and breast cancer risk. We selected subjects age of >20 years old and six eligible controls matched for age, sex and the index date (i.e., free of any cancer at the case diagnosis date) by using propensity scores. A bioinformatics analysis approach was also performed for the identification of oncogenesis effects of BZDs on breast cancer. We used breast cancer gene expression data from the Cancer Genome Atlas and perturbagen signatures of BZDs from the Library of Integrated Cellular Signatures database in order to identify the oncogenesis effects of BZDs on breast cancer. We found evidence of increased breast cancer risk for diazepam (OR, 1.16; 95%CI, 0.95–1.42; connectivity score [CS], 0.3016), zolpidem (OR, 1.11; 95%CI, 0.95–1.30; CS, 0.2738), but not for lorazepam (OR, 1.04; 95%CI, 0.89–1.23; CS, -0.2952) consistently in both methods. The finding for alparazolam was contradictory from the two methods. Diazepam and zolpidem trends showed association, although not statistically significant, with breast cancer risk in both epidemiological and bioinformatics analyses outcomes. The methodological value of our study is in introducing the way of combining epidemiological and bioinformatics approaches in order to answer a common scientific question. Combining the two approaches would be a substantial step towards uncovering, validation and further application of previously unknown scientific knowledge to the emerging field of precision medicine informatics.
原文英語
頁(從 - 到)85-91
頁數7
期刊Journal of Biomedical Informatics
74
DOIs
出版狀態已發佈 - 10月 1 2017

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 電腦科學應用
  • 健康資訊學

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