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A quantitative methylation-sensitive PCR (qMS-PCR) assay was developed to measure the methylation status and levels of <jats:italic>Septin 9<\/jats:italic> in nasopharyngeal tissues and paired swabs from patients with NPC, chronic nasopharyngitis, and healthy donors. Methylated <jats:italic>Septin 9<\/jats:italic> was detected in 92% (23\/25) of NPC tissues and 25% (4\/16) of nasopharyngitis controls (<mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" id=\"M1\"><mml:mi>p<\/mml:mi><mml:mo>&lt;<\/mml:mo><mml:mn>0.05<\/mml:mn><\/mml:math>). High-frequency hypermethylation with decreased mRNA expression of <jats:italic>Septin 9<\/jats:italic> in NPC was also identified. Further, <jats:italic>Septin 9<\/jats:italic> methylation was identified in 90.5% (19\/21) of NPC biopsies and 71.4% (15\/21) of paired swabs, indicating a good concordance between the two sample types. In addition, methylated <jats:italic>Septin 9<\/jats:italic> was found in 16 (72.7%) nasal swabs from 22 NPC patients, 2 of 19 (10.5%) nasopharyngitis, but not in any of the healthy controls (<mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" id=\"M2\"><mml:mi>p<\/mml:mi><mml:mo>&lt;<\/mml:mo><mml:mn>0.01<\/mml:mn><\/mml:math>). The methylation score in nasal swabs of the NPC group was also significantly higher than that of non-NPC controls (<mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" id=\"M3\"><mml:mi>p<\/mml:mi><mml:mo>&lt;<\/mml:mo><mml:mn>0.001<\/mml:mn><\/mml:math>). Moreover, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis showed an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.882 of <jats:italic>Septin 9<\/jats:italic> methylation tests to discriminate NPC from non-NPC subjects. Our study demonstrated that frequent methylation of <jats:italic>Septin 9<\/jats:italic> was present in NPC. Its detection in nasopharyngeal swabs may provide a minimally invasive and informative method for identifying early NPC cases.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1155\/2020\/7253531","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,5,5]],"date-time":"2020-05-05T23:55:14Z","timestamp":1588722914000},"page":"1-7","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["<i>Septin 9<\/i> Methylation in Nasopharyngeal Swabs: A Potential Minimally Invasive Biomarker for the Early Detection of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma"],"prefix":"10.1155","volume":"2020","author":[{"given":"Jie-Yu","family":"Lyu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510280, China"},{"name":"Department of Otolaryngology, Jiangmen Central Hospital, Affiliated Jiangmen Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Jiangmen 529030, 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