Chorioretinal atrophy progression was associated with a poor long-term prognosis. Relative thinning of the subfoveal choroid about the inferior choroid and subfoveal CNV location may predispose eyes with myopic CNV to develop CRA progression after anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapy.
Recent experimental studies have demonstrated an essential role for the Hippo-Yes-associated protein (YAp) pathway in GNAQ/GNA11-induced tumorigenesis in uveal melanoma (UM). However, the association between YAp activity and clinical outcomes remains elusive. We investigated possible associations between YAp activity and clinicopathological features including survival outcomes in patients with UM using the cancer Genome Atlas (tcGA) cohort and our local cohort. We estimated YAp activity by mRnA expression levels, Gene Set Variation Analysis (GSVA) for the tcGA cohort, and immunohistochemical YAp staining for the local cohort. in the tcGA cohort, most clinicopathological features including tumor stage, mitotic counts, mutation of genes, and tumor sizes did not significantly differ between low and high YAP activity groups. In the local cohort, YAP nuclear-positive staining was observed in 30 (42%) of 72 patients with primary UM. UM-specific survival was not significantly different between tumors with low and high YAp activities. Unlike mesothelioma cells harboring a mutation of negative regulators of YAP, the survival of multiple UM cell lines was not significantly reduced by YAP/ TAZ depletion. Our results suggest that the effect of YAP on development, growth, and invasion of UM in actual patients is less than previously demonstrated in experimental studies.
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