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Li J, Tian J, Liu Y, Liu Z, Tong M. Personalized analysis of human cancer multi-omics for precision oncology. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2024; 23:2049-2056. [PMID: 38783900 PMCID: PMC11112262 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2024.05.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2024] [Revised: 04/29/2024] [Accepted: 05/07/2024] [Indexed: 05/25/2024] Open
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Multi-omics technologies, encompassing genomics, proteomics, and transcriptomics, provide profound insights into cancer biology. A fundamental computational approach for analyzing multi-omics data is differential analysis, which identifies molecular distinctions between cancerous and normal tissues. Traditional methods, however, often fail to address the distinct heterogeneity of individual tumors, thereby neglecting crucial patient-specific molecular traits. This shortcoming underscores the necessity for tailored differential analysis algorithms, which focus on particular patient variations. Such approaches offer a more nuanced understanding of cancer biology and are instrumental in pinpointing personalized therapeutic strategies. In this review, we summarize the principles of current individualized techniques. We also review their efficacy in analyzing cancer multi-omics data and discuss their potential applications in clinical practice.
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- Jiaao Li
- State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361102, China
- School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 316000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361102, China
- School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 316000, China
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- National Institute for Data Science in Health and Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361102, China
- School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 316000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361102, China
- National Institute for Data Science in Health and Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361102, China
- School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 316000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361102, China
- National Institute for Data Science in Health and Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361102, China
- School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 316000, China
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Fan L, Zeng P, Wang X, Mo X, Ma Q, Zhou X, Yuan N, Liu Y, Xue Z, Huang J, Li X, Ding J, Chen J. Xiaoyao Pills, a Chinese patent medicine, treats mild and moderate depression: A randomized clinical trial combined with DNA methylation analysis. PHYTOMEDICINE : INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYTOTHERAPY AND PHYTOPHARMACOLOGY 2024; 130:155660. [PMID: 38815407 DOI: 10.1016/j.phymed.2024.155660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2023] [Revised: 02/26/2024] [Accepted: 04/19/2024] [Indexed: 06/01/2024]
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BACKGROUND Xiaoyao pills (XYP) is a commercial Chinese patent medicine used in the treatment of depression. However, the mechanisms underlying its therapeutic effects, as well as the patients who can benefit from XYP, have not been evaluated so far. OBJECTIVES To this end, we conducted a double-blinded, random, and placebo-controlled clinical trial of orally administered XYP in patients with depression. METHODS The 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD-17) scores were recorded at baseline, and every 2 weeks after the start of treatment. To further elucidate the epigenetic mechanism of XYP, we performed mRNA sequencing and genome-wide DNA methylation sequencing using peripheral blood leukocytes of patients and healthy. RESULTS XYP effectively alleviated the symptoms in patients with mild or moderate depressive disorders, particularly that of psychomotor retardation. XYP restored aberrant gene expression and DNA methylation patterns associated with depression, and the normalization of DNA methylation correlated with downregulation of several genes. In addition, altered DNA methylation levels in the XYP-treated samples were attributed to increased expression of the DNA methyltransferase DNMT1. CONCLUSIONS Our study provides new insights into the epigenetic mechanism underlying depression and the therapeutic effects of XYP, along with an experimental basis for using XYP in the treatment of depression. TRIAL REGISTRATION INFORMATION The name of the registry and number: U.S. CLINICAL TRIALS REGISTRY The link to the registration: ClinicalTrials.gov ISRCTN12746343 (https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN12746343). The name of the trial register is "Efficacy and safety of the Xiaoyao pill for improving the clinical symptoms of stagnation of liver qi (chi) and spleen deficiency". The clinical trial registration number is ISRCTN12746343.
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- Lili Fan
- Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Formula-Pattern of Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- RNA Biomedical Institute, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China
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- College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China
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- Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Formula-Pattern of Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Formula-Pattern of Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Formula-Pattern of Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Formula-Pattern of Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China
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- College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China
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- Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Formula-Pattern of Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Formula-Pattern of Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
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- RNA Biomedical Institute, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China; Department of Histology and Embryology, Advanced Medical Technology Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 511436, China; West China Biomedical Big Data Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
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- Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Formula-Pattern of Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China; College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China.
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Cai H, Chen L, Yang S, Jiang R, Guo Y, He M, Luo Y, Hong G, Li H, Song K. Personalized differential expression analysis in triple-negative breast cancer. Brief Funct Genomics 2024; 23:495-506. [PMID: 38197537 DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elad057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2023] [Revised: 11/16/2023] [Accepted: 12/04/2023] [Indexed: 01/11/2024] Open
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Identification of individual-level differentially expressed genes (DEGs) is a pre-step for the analysis of disease-specific biological mechanisms and precision medicine. Previous algorithms cannot balance accuracy and sufficient statistical power. Herein, RankCompV2, designed for identifying population-level DEGs based on relative expression orderings, was adjusted to identify individual-level DEGs. Furthermore, an optimized version of individual-level RankCompV2, named as RankCompV2.1, was designed based on the assumption that the rank positions of genes and relative rank differences of gene pairs would influence the identification of individual-level DEGs. In comparison to other individualized analysis algorithms, RankCompV2.1 performed better on statistical power, computational efficiency, and acquired coequal accuracy in both simulation and real paired cancer-normal data from ten cancer types. Besides, single sample GSEA and Gene Set Variation Analysis analysis showed that pathways enriched with up-regulated and down-regulated genes presented higher and lower enrichment scores, respectively. Furthermore, we identified 16 genes that were universally deregulated in 966 triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) samples and interacted with Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drugs or antineoplastic agents, indicating notable therapeutic targets for TNBC. In addition, we also identified genes with highly variable deregulation status and used these genes to cluster TNBC samples into three subgroups with different prognoses. The subgroup with the poorest outcome was characterized by down-regulated immune-regulated pathways, signal transduction pathways, and apoptosis-related pathways. Protein-protein interaction network analysis revealed that OAS family genes may be promising drug targets to activate tumor immunity in this subgroup. In conclusion, RankCompV2.1 is capable of identifying individual-level DEGs with high accuracy and statistical power, analyzing mechanisms of carcinogenesis and exploring therapeutic strategy.
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- Hao Cai
- Medical Big Data and Bioinformatics Research Centre, First Affiliated Hospital of Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou 341000, China
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- School of Information Engineering, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou, China
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- School of Information Engineering, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou, China
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- School of Medical Information Engineering, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, China
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- Medical Big Data and Bioinformatics Research Centre, First Affiliated Hospital of Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou 341000, China
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- Medical Big Data and Bioinformatics Research Centre, First Affiliated Hospital of Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou 341000, China
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- Medical Big Data and Bioinformatics Research Centre, First Affiliated Hospital of Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou 341000, China
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- School of Medical Information Engineering, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, China
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- School of Medical Information Engineering, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, China
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- Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China
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Xie J, Zheng X, Yan J, Li Q, Jin N, Wang S, Zhao P, Li S, Ding W, Cheng L, Geng Q. Deep learning model to discriminate diverse infection types based on pairwise analysis of host gene expression. iScience 2024; 27:109908. [PMID: 38827397 PMCID: PMC11141160 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2023] [Revised: 03/01/2024] [Accepted: 05/03/2024] [Indexed: 06/04/2024] Open
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Accurate detection of pathogens, particularly distinguishing between Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, could improve disease treatment. Host gene expression can capture the immune system's response to infections caused by various pathogens. Here, we present a deep neural network model, bvnGPS2, which incorporates the attention mechanism based on a large-scale integrated host transcriptome dataset to precisely identify Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial infections as well as viral infections. We performed analysis of 4,949 blood samples across 40 cohorts from 10 countries using our previously designed omics data integration method, iPAGE, to select discriminant gene pairs and train the bvnGPS2. The performance of the model was evaluated on six independent cohorts comprising 374 samples. Overall, our deep neural network model shows robust capability to accurately identify specific infections, paving the way for precise medicine strategies in infection treatment and potentially also for identifying subtypes of other diseases.
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- Jize Xie
- Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, Shenzhen People’s Hospital (First Affiliated Hospital of Southern University of Science and Technology, Second Clinical Medicine College of Jinan University), Shenzhen 518020, China
- John Hopcroft Center for Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, Shenzhen People’s Hospital (First Affiliated Hospital of Southern University of Science and Technology, Second Clinical Medicine College of Jinan University), Shenzhen 518020, China
- Great Bay University, Dongguan, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, Shenzhen People’s Hospital (First Affiliated Hospital of Southern University of Science and Technology, Second Clinical Medicine College of Jinan University), Shenzhen 518020, China
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- John Hopcroft Center for Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, Shenzhen People’s Hospital (First Affiliated Hospital of Southern University of Science and Technology, Second Clinical Medicine College of Jinan University), Shenzhen 518020, China
- Health Data Science Center, Shenzhen People’s Hospital, Shenzhen 518020, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, Shenzhen People’s Hospital (First Affiliated Hospital of Southern University of Science and Technology, Second Clinical Medicine College of Jinan University), Shenzhen 518020, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, Shenzhen People’s Hospital (First Affiliated Hospital of Southern University of Science and Technology, Second Clinical Medicine College of Jinan University), Shenzhen 518020, China
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- John Hopcroft Center for Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, Shenzhen People’s Hospital (First Affiliated Hospital of Southern University of Science and Technology, Second Clinical Medicine College of Jinan University), Shenzhen 518020, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, Shenzhen People’s Hospital (First Affiliated Hospital of Southern University of Science and Technology, Second Clinical Medicine College of Jinan University), Shenzhen 518020, China
- Health Data Science Center, Shenzhen People’s Hospital, Shenzhen 518020, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, Shenzhen People’s Hospital (First Affiliated Hospital of Southern University of Science and Technology, Second Clinical Medicine College of Jinan University), Shenzhen 518020, China
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Guan Q, Zhang Z, Zhao P, Huang L, Lu R, Liu C, Zhao Y, Shao X, Tian Y, Li J. Identification of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis hub genes and exploration of the mechanisms of action of Jinshui Huanxian formula. Int Immunopharmacol 2024; 132:112048. [PMID: 38593509 DOI: 10.1016/j.intimp.2024.112048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2024] [Revised: 03/27/2024] [Accepted: 04/06/2024] [Indexed: 04/11/2024]
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Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a common and heterogeneous chronic disease, and the mechanism of Jinshui Huanxian formula (JHF) on IPF remains unclear. For a total of 385 lung normal tissue samples from the Gene Expression Omnibus database, 37,777,639 gene pairs were identified through microarray and RNA-seq platforms. Using the individualized differentially expressed gene (DEG) analysis algorithm RankComp (FDR < 0.01), we identified 344 genes as DEGs in at least 95 % (n = 81) of the IPF samples. Of these genes, IGF1, IFNGR1, GLI2, HMGCR, DNM1, KIF4A, and TNFRSF11A were identified as hub genes. These genes were verified using quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) in mice with pulmonary fibrosis (PF) and MRC-5 cells, and they were highly effective at classifying IPF samples in the independent dataset GSE134692 (AUC = 0.587-0.788) and mice with PF (AUC = 0.806-1.000). Moreover, JHF ameliorated the pathological changes in mice with PF and significantly reversed the changes in hub gene expression (KIF4A, IFNGR1, and HMGCR). In conclusion, a series of IPF hub genes was identified, and validated in an independent dataset, mice with PF, and MRC-5 cells. Moreover, the abnormal gene expression was normalized by JHF. These findings provide guidance for further exploration of the pathogenesis and treatment of IPF.
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- Qingzhou Guan
- Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450046, China; Henan Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine for Respiratory Disease, Collaborative Innovation Center for Chinese Medicine and Respiratory Diseases Co-constructed by Henan Province and Education Ministry of P.R. China, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450046, China
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- Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450046, China; Henan Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine for Respiratory Disease, Collaborative Innovation Center for Chinese Medicine and Respiratory Diseases Co-constructed by Henan Province and Education Ministry of P.R. China, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450046, China
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- Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450046, China; Henan Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine for Respiratory Disease, Collaborative Innovation Center for Chinese Medicine and Respiratory Diseases Co-constructed by Henan Province and Education Ministry of P.R. China, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450046, China
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- Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450046, China; Henan Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine for Respiratory Disease, Collaborative Innovation Center for Chinese Medicine and Respiratory Diseases Co-constructed by Henan Province and Education Ministry of P.R. China, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450046, China
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- Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450046, China; Henan Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine for Respiratory Disease, Collaborative Innovation Center for Chinese Medicine and Respiratory Diseases Co-constructed by Henan Province and Education Ministry of P.R. China, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450046, China
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- Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450046, China; Henan Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine for Respiratory Disease, Collaborative Innovation Center for Chinese Medicine and Respiratory Diseases Co-constructed by Henan Province and Education Ministry of P.R. China, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450046, China
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- Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450046, China; Henan Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine for Respiratory Disease, Collaborative Innovation Center for Chinese Medicine and Respiratory Diseases Co-constructed by Henan Province and Education Ministry of P.R. China, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450046, China
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- Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450046, China; Henan Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine for Respiratory Disease, Collaborative Innovation Center for Chinese Medicine and Respiratory Diseases Co-constructed by Henan Province and Education Ministry of P.R. China, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450046, China
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- Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450046, China; Henan Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine for Respiratory Disease, Collaborative Innovation Center for Chinese Medicine and Respiratory Diseases Co-constructed by Henan Province and Education Ministry of P.R. China, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450046, China.
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- Henan Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine for Respiratory Disease, Collaborative Innovation Center for Chinese Medicine and Respiratory Diseases Co-constructed by Henan Province and Education Ministry of P.R. China, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450046, China; Department of Respiratory Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450000, China.
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Zeng N, Jian Z, Xu J, Peng T, Hong G, Xiao F. Identification of qualitative characteristics of immunosuppression in sepsis based on immune-related genes and immune infiltration features. Heliyon 2024; 10:e29007. [PMID: 38628767 PMCID: PMC11019180 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e29007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2023] [Revised: 03/26/2024] [Accepted: 03/28/2024] [Indexed: 04/19/2024] Open
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Objective Sepsis is linked to high morbidity and mortality rates. Consequently, early diagnosis is crucial for proper treatment, reducing hospitalization, and mortality rates. Additionally, over one-fifth of sepsis patients still face a risk of death. Hence, early diagnosis, and effective treatment play pivotal roles in enhancing the prognosis of patients with sepsis. Method The study analyzed whole blood data obtained from patients with sepsis and control samples sourced from three datasets (GSE57065, GSE69528, and GSE28750). Commonly dysregulated immune-related genes (IRGs) among these three datasets were identified. The differential characteristics of these common IRGs in the sepsis and control samples were assessed using the REO-based algorithm. Based on these differential characteristics, samples from eight Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) databases (GSE57065, GSE69528, GSE28750, GSE65682, GSE69063, GSE95233, GSE131761, and GSE154918), along with three ArrayExpress databases (E-MTAB-4421, E-MTAB-4451, and E-MTAB-7581), were categorized and scored. The effectiveness of these differential characteristics in distinguishing sepsis samples from control samples was evaluated using the AUC value derived from the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) curve. Furthermore, the expression of IRGs was validated in peripheral blood samples obtained from patients with sepsis through qRT-PCR. Results Among the three training datasets, a total of 84 common dysregulated immune-related genes (IRGs) were identified. Utilizing a within-sample relative expression ordering (REOs)-based algorithm to analyze these common IRGs, differential characteristics were observed in three reverse stable pairs (ELANE-RORA, IL18RAP-CD247, and IL1R1-CD28). In the eight GEO datasets, the expression of ELANE, IL18RAP, and IL1R1 demonstrated significant upregulation, while RORA, CD247, and CD28 expression exhibited notable downregulation during sepsis. These three pairs of immune-related marker genes displayed accuracies of 95.89% and 97.99% in distinguishing sepsis samples among the eight GEO datasets and the three independent ArrayExpress datasets, respectively. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve ranged from 0.81 to 1.0. Additionally, among these three immune-related marker gene pairs, mRNA expression levels of ELANE and IL1R1 were upregulated, whereas the levels of CD247 and CD28 mRNA were downregulated in blood samples from patients with sepsis compared to normal controls. Conclusion These three immune-related marker gene pairs exhibit high predictive performance for blood samples from patients with sepsis. They hold potential as valuable auxiliary clinical blood screening tools for sepsis.
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- Ni Zeng
- Department of Anesthesiology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410011, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410011, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410011, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410011, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410011, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410011, China
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Ma L, Gao Y, Huo Y, Tian T, Hong G, Li H. Integrated analysis of diverse cancer types reveals a breast cancer-specific serum miRNA biomarker through relative expression orderings analysis. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2024; 204:475-484. [PMID: 38191685 PMCID: PMC10959809 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-023-07208-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2023] [Accepted: 11/29/2023] [Indexed: 01/10/2024]
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PURPOSE Serum microRNA (miRNA) holds great potential as a non-invasive biomarker for diagnosing breast cancer (BrC). However, most diagnostic models rely on the absolute expression levels of miRNAs, which are susceptible to batch effects and challenging for clinical transformation. Furthermore, current studies on liquid biopsy diagnostic biomarkers for BrC mainly focus on distinguishing BrC patients from healthy controls, needing more specificity assessment. METHODS We collected a large number of miRNA expression data involving 8465 samples from GEO, including 13 different cancer types and non-cancer controls. Based on the relative expression orderings (REOs) of miRNAs within each sample, we applied the greedy, LASSO multiple linear regression, and random forest algorithms to identify a qualitative biomarker specific to BrC by comparing BrC samples to samples of other cancers as controls. RESULTS We developed a BrC-specific biomarker called 7-miRPairs, consisting of seven miRNA pairs. It demonstrated comparable classification performance in our analyzed machine learning algorithms while requiring fewer miRNA pairs, accurately distinguishing BrC from 12 other cancer types. The diagnostic performance of 7-miRPairs was favorable in the training set (accuracy = 98.47%, specificity = 98.14%, sensitivity = 99.25%), and similar results were obtained in the test set (accuracy = 97.22%, specificity = 96.87%, sensitivity = 98.02%). KEGG pathway enrichment analysis of the 11 miRNAs within the 7-miRPairs revealed significant enrichment of target mRNAs in pathways associated with BrC. CONCLUSION Our study provides evidence that utilizing serum miRNA pairs can offer significant advantages for BrC-specific diagnosis in clinical practice by directly comparing serum samples with BrC to other cancer types.
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- Liyuan Ma
- School of Public Health and Health Management, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000, China
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- School of Public Health and Health Management, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000, China
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- School of Public Health and Health Management, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000, China
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- School of Medical Information Engineering, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000, China
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- School of Medical Information Engineering, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000, China.
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- School of Medical Information Engineering, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, 341000, China.
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Fu X, Luo Z, Deng Y, LaFramboise W, Bartlett D, Schwartz R. Marker selection strategies for circulating tumor DNA guided by phylogenetic inference. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.03.21.585352. [PMID: 38586041 PMCID: PMC10996527 DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.21.585352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/09/2024]
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Motivation Blood-based profiling of tumor DNA ("liquid biopsy") has offered great prospects for non-invasive early cancer diagnosis, treatment monitoring, and clinical guidance, but require further advances in computational methods to become a robust quantitative assay of tumor clonal evolution. We propose new methods to better characterize tumor clonal dynamics from circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), through application to two specific questions: 1) How to apply longitudinal ctDNA data to refine phylogeny models of clonal evolution, and 2) how to quantify changes in clonal frequencies that may be indicative of treatment response or tumor progression. We pose these questions through a probabilistic framework for optimally identifying maximum likelihood markers and applying them to characterizing clonal evolution. Results We first estimate a distribution over plausible clonal lineage models, using bootstrap samples over pre-treatment tissue-based sequence data. We then refine these lineage models and the clonal frequencies they imply over successive longitudinal samples. We use the resulting framework for modeling and refining tree distributions to pose a set of optimization problems to select ctDNA markers to maximize measures of utility capturing ability to solve the two questions of reducing uncertain in phylogeny models or quantifying clonal frequencies given the models. We tested our methods on synthetic data and showed them to be effective at refining distributions of tree models and clonal frequencies so as to minimize measures of tree distance relative to the ground truth. Application of the tree refinement methods to real tumor data further demonstrated their effectiveness in refining a clonal lineage model and assessing its clonal frequencies. The work shows the power of computational methods to improve marker selection, clonal lineage reconstruction, and clonal dynamics profiling for more precise and quantitative assays of tumor progression. Availability https://github.com/CMUSchwartzLab/Mase-phi.git. Contact russells@andrew.cmu.edu.
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- Xuecong Fu
- Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, 15217, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, 15217, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, 15217, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Allegheny Health Network Cancer Institute, Allegheny Health Network, 320 East North Avenue, 15212, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Allegheny Health Network Cancer Institute, Allegheny Health Network, 320 East North Avenue, 15212, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, 15217, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, 15217, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Xu H, Cui H, Weng S, Zhang Y, Wang L, Xing Z, Han X, Liu Z. Crosstalk of cell death pathways unveils an autophagy-related gene AOC3 as a critical prognostic marker in colorectal cancer. Commun Biol 2024; 7:296. [PMID: 38461356 PMCID: PMC10924944 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-05980-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2023] [Accepted: 02/27/2024] [Indexed: 03/11/2024] Open
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The intricate crosstalk of various cell death forms was recently implicated in cancers, laying a foundation for exploring the association between cell death and cancers. Recent evidence has demonstrated that biological networks outperform snapshot gene expression profiles at discovering promising biomarkers or heterogenous molecular subtypes across different cancer types. In order to investigate the behavioral patterns of cell death-related interaction perturbation in colorectal cancer (CRC), this study constructed the interaction-perturbation network with 11 cell death pathways and delineated four cell death network (CDN) derived heterogeneous subtypes (CDN1-4) with distinct molecular characteristics and clinical outcomes. Specifically, we identified a subtype (CDN4) endowed with high autophagy activity and the worst prognosis. Furthermore, AOC3 was identified as a potential autophagy-related biomarker, which demonstrated exceptional predictive performance for CDN4 and significant prognostic value. Overall, this study sheds light on the complex interplay of various cell death forms and reveals an autophagy-related gene AOC3 as a critical prognostic marker in CRC.
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- Hui Xu
- Department of Interventional Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450052, China
- Interventional Institute of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450052, China
- Interventional Treatment and Clinical Research Center of Henan Province, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450052, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450052, China
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- Department of Interventional Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450052, China
- Interventional Institute of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450052, China
- Interventional Treatment and Clinical Research Center of Henan Province, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450052, China
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- Department of Interventional Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450052, China
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- Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Interventional Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450052, China.
- Interventional Institute of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450052, China.
- Interventional Treatment and Clinical Research Center of Henan Province, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450052, China.
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- Department of Interventional Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450052, China.
- Interventional Institute of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450052, China.
- Interventional Treatment and Clinical Research Center of Henan Province, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450052, China.
- Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100730, China.
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Deschildre J, Vandemoortele B, Loers JU, De Preter K, Vermeirssen V. Evaluation of single-sample network inference methods for precision oncology. NPJ Syst Biol Appl 2024; 10:18. [PMID: 38360881 PMCID: PMC10869342 DOI: 10.1038/s41540-024-00340-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2023] [Accepted: 01/17/2024] [Indexed: 02/17/2024] Open
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A major challenge in precision oncology is to detect targetable cancer vulnerabilities in individual patients. Modeling high-throughput omics data in biological networks allows identifying key molecules and processes of tumorigenesis. Traditionally, network inference methods rely on many samples to contain sufficient information for learning, resulting in aggregate networks. However, to implement patient-tailored approaches in precision oncology, we need to interpret omics data at the level of individual patients. Several single-sample network inference methods have been developed that infer biological networks for an individual sample from bulk RNA-seq data. However, only a limited comparison of these methods has been made and many methods rely on 'normal tissue' samples as reference, which are not always available. Here, we conducted an evaluation of the single-sample network inference methods SSN, LIONESS, SWEET, iENA, CSN and SSPGI using transcriptomic profiles of lung and brain cancer cell lines from the CCLE database. The methods constructed functional gene networks with distinct network characteristics. Hub gene analyses revealed different degrees of subtype-specificity across methods. Single-sample networks were able to distinguish between tumor subtypes, as exemplified by node strength clustering, enrichment of known subtype-specific driver genes among hubs and differential node strength. We also showed that single-sample networks correlated better to other omics data from the same cell line as compared to aggregate networks. We conclude that single-sample network inference methods can reflect sample-specific biology when 'normal tissue' samples are absent and we point out peculiarities of each method.
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- Joke Deschildre
- Lab for Computational Biology, Integromics and Gene Regulation (CBIGR), Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG), Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Lab for Computational Biology, Integromics and Gene Regulation (CBIGR), Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG), Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Lab for Computational Biology, Integromics and Gene Regulation (CBIGR), Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG), Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Lab of Translational Onco-genomics and Bio-informatics, Center for Medical Biotechnology (VIB-UGent), Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG), Ghent, Belgium
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- Lab for Computational Biology, Integromics and Gene Regulation (CBIGR), Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG), Ghent, Belgium.
- Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
- Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
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Li Y, Su H, Liu K, Zhao Z, Wang Y, Chen B, Xia J, Yuan H, Huang DS, Gu Y. Individualized detection of TMPRSS2-ERG fusion status in prostate cancer: a rank-based qualitative transcriptome signature. World J Surg Oncol 2024; 22:49. [PMID: 38331878 PMCID: PMC10854045 DOI: 10.1186/s12957-024-03314-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2023] [Accepted: 01/13/2024] [Indexed: 02/10/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND TMPRSS2-ERG (T2E) fusion is highly related to aggressive clinical features in prostate cancer (PC), which guides individual therapy. However, current fusion prediction tools lacked enough accuracy and biomarkers were unable to be applied to individuals across different platforms due to their quantitative nature. This study aims to identify a transcriptome signature to detect the T2E fusion status of PC at the individual level. METHODS Based on 272 high-throughput mRNA expression profiles from the Sboner dataset, we developed a rank-based algorithm to identify a qualitative signature to detect T2E fusion in PC. The signature was validated in 1223 samples from three external datasets (Setlur, Clarissa, and TCGA). RESULTS A signature, composed of five mRNAs coupled to ERG (five ERG-mRNA pairs, 5-ERG-mRPs), was developed to distinguish T2E fusion status in PC. 5-ERG-mRPs reached 84.56% accuracy in Sboner dataset, which was verified in Setlur dataset (n = 455, accuracy = 82.20%) and Clarissa dataset (n = 118, accuracy = 81.36%). Besides, for 495 samples from TCGA, two subtypes classified by 5-ERG-mRPs showed a higher level of significance in various T2E fusion features than subtypes obtained through current fusion prediction tools, such as STAR-Fusion. CONCLUSIONS Overall, 5-ERG-mRPs can robustly detect T2E fusion in PC at the individual level, which can be used on any gene measurement platform without specific normalization procedures. Hence, 5-ERG-mRPs may serve as an auxiliary tool for PC patient management.
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- Yawei Li
- School of Biology and Engineering, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China
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- School of Clinical Medicine, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- The Sino-Russian Medical Research Center of Jinan University, The Institute of Chronic Disease of Jinan University, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- School of Biology and Engineering, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China
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- School of Biology and Engineering, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China
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- Bioinformatics and BioMedical Bigdata Mining Laboratory, School of Big Health, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China.
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.
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Hao S, Chen L, Du W, Sun H. A Comprehensive Comparison between Primary Liver Cancer and Liver Metastases through scRNA-Seq Data Analysis. Metabolites 2024; 14:90. [PMID: 38392982 PMCID: PMC10890202 DOI: 10.3390/metabo14020090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2023] [Revised: 01/17/2024] [Accepted: 01/19/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024] Open
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Metastasis is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths. A comprehensive comparison of the differences between primary and metastatic cancers within the same organ can aid in understanding the growth mechanisms of cancer cells at metastatic sites, thereby helping to develop more effective targeted treatment strategies. Primary liver cancer is one of the most common types of cancer, and the liver is also one of the main metastatic sites. In this paper, we utilize single-cell RNA-Seq data to compare primary liver cancer and colorectal liver metastases from multiple perspectives, including cell types and proportions, activity of various cell types, cell-cell communication, mRNA expression differences within the same types of cells, key factors associated with cell proliferation, etc. Our analysis results show the following: (i) Compared to primary tissue, metastatic tissue contains more cytotoxic T cells and exhausted T cells, and it retains some specific characteristics of the primary site. (ii) Cells of the same type exhibit functional differences between primary and metastatic cancers, with metastatic cancer cells showing lower metabolism levels and immune cells exhibiting stronger immune activity. (iii) Interactions between monocytes and hepato-associated cells are strong in primary cancer, while depleted T cells frequently communicate with hepatocytes in metastatic cancer. (iv) Proliferation-related genes in primary and metastatic cancers are mainly involved in cell energy supply and basic metabolism activity, respectively.
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- Shuang Hao
- School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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- School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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- School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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- School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
- International Center of Future Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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Zheng L, Chen J, Ye W, Fan Q, Chen H, Yan H. An individualized stemness-related signature to predict prognosis and immunotherapy responses for gastric cancer using single-cell and bulk tissue transcriptomes. Cancer Med 2024; 13:e6908. [PMID: 38168907 PMCID: PMC10807574 DOI: 10.1002/cam4.6908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2023] [Revised: 12/01/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/05/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Currently, many stemness-related signatures have been developed for gastric cancer (GC) to predict prognosis and immunotherapy outcomes. However, due to batch effects, these signatures cannot accurately analyze patients one by one, rendering them impractical in real clinical scenarios. Therefore, we aimed to develop an individualized and clinically applicable signature based on GC stemness. METHODS Malignant epithelial cells from single-cell RNA-Seq data of GC were used to identify stemness-related signature genes based on the CytoTRACE score. Using two bulk tissue datasets as training data, the enrichment scores of the signature genes were applied to classify samples into two subtypes. Then, using the identified subtypes as criteria, we developed an individualized stemness-related signature based on the within-sample relative expression orderings of genes. RESULTS We identified 175 stemness-related signature genes, which exhibited significantly higher AUCell scores in poorly differentiated GCs compared to differentiated GCs. In training datasets, GC samples were classified into two subtypes with significantly different survival times and genomic characteristics. Utilizing the two subtypes, an individualized signature was constructed containing 47 gene pairs. In four independent testing datasets, GC samples classified as high risk exhibited significantly shorter survival times, higher infiltration of M2 macrophages, and lower immune responses compared to low-risk samples. Moreover, the potential therapeutic targets and corresponding drugs were identified for the high-risk group, such as CD248 targeted by ontuxizumab. CONCLUSIONS We developed an individualized stemness-related signature, which can accurately predict the prognosis and efficacy of immunotherapy for each GC sample.
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- Linyong Zheng
- Fujian Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, Department of Bioinformatics, School of Medical Technology and EngineeringFujian Medical UniversityFuzhouChina
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- Fujian Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, Department of Bioinformatics, School of Medical Technology and EngineeringFujian Medical UniversityFuzhouChina
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- Fujian Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, Department of Bioinformatics, School of Medical Technology and EngineeringFujian Medical UniversityFuzhouChina
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- Fujian Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, Department of Bioinformatics, School of Medical Technology and EngineeringFujian Medical UniversityFuzhouChina
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- Department of Gastrointestinal SurgeryFuzhou Second HospitalFuzhouChina
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- Fujian Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, Department of Bioinformatics, School of Medical Technology and EngineeringFujian Medical UniversityFuzhouChina
- Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, The School of Basic Medical SciencesFujian Medical UniversityFuzhouChina
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Gillman R, Field MA, Schmitz U, Karamatic R, Hebbard L. Identifying cancer driver genes in individual tumours. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2023; 21:5028-5038. [PMID: 37867967 PMCID: PMC10589724 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2023.10.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2023] [Revised: 10/10/2023] [Accepted: 10/11/2023] [Indexed: 10/24/2023] Open
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Cancer is a heterogeneous disease with a strong genetic component making it suitable for precision medicine approaches aimed at identifying the underlying molecular drivers within a tumour. Large scale population-level cancer sequencing consortia have identified many actionable mutations common across both cancer types and sub-types, resulting in an increasing number of successful precision medicine programs. Nonetheless, such approaches fail to consider the effects of mutations unique to an individual patient and may miss rare driver mutations, necessitating personalised approaches to driver-gene prioritisation. One approach is to quantify the functional importance of individual mutations in a single tumour based on how they affect the expression of genes in a gene interaction network (GIN). These GIN-based approaches can be broadly divided into those that utilise an existing reference GIN and those that construct de novo patient-specific GINs. These single-tumour approaches have several limitations that likely influence their results, such as use of reference cohort data, network choice, and approaches to mathematical approximation, and more research is required to evaluate the in vitro and in vivo applicability of their predictions. This review examines the current state of the art methods that identify driver genes in single tumours with a focus on GIN-based driver prioritisation.
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- Rhys Gillman
- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Molecular and Cell Biology, College of Public Health, Medical, and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
- Centre for Tropical Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Molecular and Cell Biology, College of Public Health, Medical, and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
- Centre for Tropical Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
- Immunogenomics Lab, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia
- Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Molecular and Cell Biology, College of Public Health, Medical, and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
- Centre for Tropical Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
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- Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Townsville University Hospital, PO Box 670, Townsville, Queensland 4810, Australia
- College of Medicine and Dentistry, Division of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Molecular and Cell Biology, College of Public Health, Medical, and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
- Centre for Tropical Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
- Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Australian Institute for Tropical Health and Medicine, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
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Shen H, Liu J, Hu J, Shen X, Zhang C, Wu D, Feng M, Yang M, Li Y, Yang Y, Wang W, Zhang Q, Yang J, Chen K, Li X. Generative pretraining from large-scale transcriptomes for single-cell deciphering. iScience 2023; 26:106536. [PMID: 37187700 PMCID: PMC10176267 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2022] [Revised: 02/04/2023] [Accepted: 03/24/2023] [Indexed: 05/17/2023] Open
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Exponential accumulation of single-cell transcriptomes poses great challenge for efficient assimilation. Here, we present an approach entitled generative pretraining from transcriptomes (tGPT) for learning feature representation of transcriptomes. tGPT is conceptually simple in that it autoregressive models the ranking of a gene in the context of its preceding neighbors. We developed tGPT with 22.3 million single-cell transcriptomes and used four single-cell datasets to evalutate its performance on single-cell analysis tasks. In addition, we examine its applications on bulk tissues. The single-cell clusters and cell lineage trajectories derived from tGPT are highly aligned with known cell labels and states. The feature patterns of tumor bulk tissues learned by tGPT are associated with a wide range of genomic alteration events, prognosis, and treatment outcome of immunotherapy. tGPT represents a new analytical paradigm for integrating and deciphering massive amounts of transcriptome data and it will facilitate the interpretation and clinical translation of single-cell transcriptomes.
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- Hongru Shen
- Tianjin Cancer Institute, Tianjin’s Clinical Research Center for Cancer, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Tianjin Cancer Institute, Tianjin’s Clinical Research Center for Cancer, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Tianjin Cancer Institute, Tianjin’s Clinical Research Center for Cancer, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Tianjin Cancer Institute, Tianjin’s Clinical Research Center for Cancer, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Bone and Soft Tissue Tumor, Tianjin’s Clinical Research Center for Cancer, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Tianjin Cancer Institute, Tianjin’s Clinical Research Center for Cancer, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Tianjin Cancer Institute, Tianjin’s Clinical Research Center for Cancer, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Tianjin Cancer Institute, Tianjin’s Clinical Research Center for Cancer, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Tianjin Cancer Institute, Tianjin’s Clinical Research Center for Cancer, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Tianjin Cancer Institute, Tianjin’s Clinical Research Center for Cancer, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tianjin’s Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Molecular Cancer Epidemiology of Tianjin, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Maxillofacial and Otorhinolaryngology Oncology, Tianjin’s Clinical Research Center for Cancer, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Bone and Soft Tissue Tumor, Tianjin’s Clinical Research Center for Cancer, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tianjin’s Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Molecular Cancer Epidemiology of Tianjin, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
- Corresponding author
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- Tianjin Cancer Institute, Tianjin’s Clinical Research Center for Cancer, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
- Corresponding author
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Sokouti B. A systems biology approach for investigating significantly expressed genes among COVID-19, hepatocellular carcinoma, and chronic hepatitis B. EGYPTIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL HUMAN GENETICS 2022; 23:146. [PMID: 37521843 PMCID: PMC9584277 DOI: 10.1186/s43042-022-00360-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2022] [Accepted: 10/12/2022] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
Abstract
Background Worldwide, COVID-19's death rate is about 2%, considering the incidence and mortality. However, the information on its complications in other organs, specifically the liver and its disorders, is limited in mild or severe cases. In this study, we aimed to computationally investigate the typical relationships between liver-related diseases [i.e., hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and chronic hepatitis B (CHB)] and COVID-19, considering the involved significant genes and their molecular mechanisms. Methods We investigated two GEO microarray datasets (GSE164805 and GSE58208) to identify differentially expressed genes (DEGs) among the generated four datasets for mild/severe COVID-19, HCC, and CHB. Then, the overlapping genes among them were identified for GO and KEGG enrichment analyses, protein-protein interaction network construction, hub genes determination, and their associations with immune cell infiltration. Results A total of 22 significant genes (i.e., ACTB, ATM, CDC42, DHX15, EPRS, GAPDH, HIF1A, HNRNPA1, HRAS, HSP90AB1, HSPA8, IL1B, JUN, POLR2B, PTPRC, RPS27A, SFRS1, SMARCA4, SRC, TNF, UBE2I, and VEGFA) were found to play essential roles among mild/severe COVID-19 associated with HCC and CHB. Moreover, the analysis of immune cell infiltration revealed that these genes are mostly positively correlated with tumor immune and inflammatory responses. Conclusions In summary, the current study demonstrated that 22 identified DEGs might play an essential role in understanding the associations between the mild/severe COVID-19 patients with HCC and CHB. So, the HCC and CHB patients involved in different types of COVID-19 can benefit from immune-based targets for therapeutic interventions. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s43042-022-00360-3.
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- Babak Sokouti
- Biotechnology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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Hong G, Luo F, Chen Z, Ma L, Lin G, Wu T, Li N, Cai H, Hu T, Zhong H, Guo Y, Li H. Predict ovarian cancer by pairing serum miRNAs: Construct of single sample classifiers. Front Med (Lausanne) 2022; 9:923275. [PMID: 35983098 PMCID: PMC9378834 DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2022.923275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2022] [Accepted: 07/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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ObjectiveThe accuracy of CA125 or clinical examination in ovarian cancer (OVC) screening is still facing challenges. Serum miRNAs have been considered as promising biomarkers for clinical applications. Here, we propose a single sample classifier (SSC) method based on within-sample relative expression orderings (REOs) of serum miRNAs for OVC diagnosis.MethodsBased on the stable REOs within 4,965 non-cancer serum samples, we developed the SSC for OVC in the training cohort (GSE106817: OVC = 200, non-cancer = 2,000) by focusing on highly reversed REOs within OVC. The best diagnosis is achieved using a combination of reversed miRNA pairs, considering the largest evaluation index and the lowest number of miRNA pairs possessed according to the voting rule. The SSC was then validated in internal data (GSE106817: OVC = 120, non-cancer = 759) and external data (GSE113486: OVC = 40, non-cancer = 100).ResultsThe obtained 13-miRPairs classifier showed high diagnostic accuracy on distinguishing OVC from non-cancer controls in the training set (sensitivity = 98.00%, specificity = 99.60%), which was reproducible in internal data (sensitivity = 98.33%, specificity = 99.21%) and external data (sensitivity = 97.50%, specificity = 100%). Compared with the published models, it stood out in terms of correct positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) (PPV = 96.08% and NPV=95.16% in training set, and both above 99% in validation set). In addition, 13-miRPairs demonstrated a classification accuracy of over 97.5% for stage I OVC samples. By integrating other non-OVC serum samples as a control, the obtained 17-miRPairs classifier could distinguish OVC from other cancers (AUC>92% in training and validation set).ConclusionThe REO-based SSCs performed well in predicting OVC (including early samples) and distinguishing OVC from other cancer types, proving that REOs of serum miRNAs represent a robust and non-invasive biomarker.
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- Guini Hong
- School of Medical Information Engineering, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, China
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- School of Medical Information Engineering, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, China
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- School of Medical Information Engineering, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, China
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- School of Medical Information Engineering, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, China
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- School of Medical Information Engineering, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, China
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- School of Medical Information Engineering, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, China
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- School of Medical Information Engineering, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, China
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- Medical Big Data and Bioinformatics Research Centre, First Affiliated Hospital of Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, China
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- School of Medical Information Engineering, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, China
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- School of Medical Information Engineering, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, China
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- Medical Big Data and Bioinformatics Research Centre, First Affiliated Hospital of Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, China
- You Guo
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- School of Medical Information Engineering, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, China
- *Correspondence: Hongdong Li
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Wu Q, Zheng X, Leung KS, Wong MH, Tsui SKW, Cheng L. meGPS: a multi-omics signature for hepatocellular carcinoma detection integrating methylome and transcriptome data. Bioinformatics 2022; 38:3513-3522. [PMID: 35674358 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2021] [Revised: 05/08/2022] [Accepted: 06/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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MOTIVATION Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a primary malignancy with poor prognosis. Recently, multi-omics molecular-level measurement enables HCC diagnosis and prognosis prediction, which is crucial for early intervention of personalized therapy to diminish mortality. Here, we introduce a novel strategy utilizing DNA methylation and RNA expression data to achieve a multi-omics gene pair signature (GPS) for HCC discrimination. RESULTS The immune genes with negative correlations between expression and promoter methylation are enriched in the highly connected cancer-related pathway network, which are considered as the candidates for HCC detection. After that, we separately construct a methylation GPS (mGPS) and an expression GPS (eGPS), and then assemble them as a meGPS with five gene pairs, in which the significant methylation and expression changes occur between HCC tumor and non-tumor groups. Reliable performance has been validated by independent tissue (age, gender, and etiology) and blood datasets. This study proposes a procedure for multi-omics GPS identification and develops a novel HCC signature using both methylome and transcriptome data, suggesting potential molecular targets for the detection and therapy of HCC. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION Models are available at https://github.com/bioinformaticStudy/meGPS.git. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Qiong Wu
- Shenzhen People's Hospital, First Affiliated Hospital of Southern University of Science and Technology, Second Clinical Medicine College of Jinan University, Shenzhen, 518020, China.,School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China.,Department of Paediatrics, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Shenzhen People's Hospital, First Affiliated Hospital of Southern University of Science and Technology, Second Clinical Medicine College of Jinan University, Shenzhen, 518020, China.,Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Shenzhen People's Hospital, First Affiliated Hospital of Southern University of Science and Technology, Second Clinical Medicine College of Jinan University, Shenzhen, 518020, China
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Identification of Common Oncogenic Genes and Pathways Both in Osteosarcoma and Ewing’s Sarcoma Using Bioinformatics Analysis. J Immunol Res 2022; 2022:3655908. [PMID: 35578666 PMCID: PMC9107040 DOI: 10.1155/2022/3655908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2022] [Revised: 04/01/2022] [Accepted: 04/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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This study was aimed at exploring common oncogenic genes and pathways both in osteosarcoma and Ewing's sarcoma. Microarray data were obtained from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified using the limma package. Then, protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks were constructed and hub genes were identified. Furthermore, functional enrichment analysis was analyzed. The expression of common oncogenic genes was validated in 38 osteosarcoma and 17 Ewing's sarcoma tissues by RT-qPCR and western blot compared to normal tissues. 201 genes were differentially expressed. There were 121 nodes and 232 edges of the PPI network. Among 12 hub genes, hub genes FN1, COL1A1, and COL1A2 may involve in the development of osteosarcoma and Ewing's sarcoma. And they were reduced to expression both in osteosarcoma and Ewing's sarcoma tissues at mRNA and protein levels compared to normal tissues. Knockdown of FN1, COL1A1, and COL1A2 enhanced the cell proliferation and migration of U2OS under the restriction of cisplatin. Our findings revealed the common oncogenic genes such as FN1, COL1A1, and COL1A2, which may act as antioncogene by enhancing cisplatin sensitivity in osteosarcoma cells, and pathways were both in osteosarcoma and Ewing's sarcoma.
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Wei R, Zhang H, Cao J, Qin D, Li S, Deng W. Sample-Specific Perturbation of Gene Interactions Identifies Pancreatic Cancer Subtypes. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:4792. [PMID: 35563183 PMCID: PMC9099782 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23094792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2022] [Revised: 04/21/2022] [Accepted: 04/24/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Pancreatic cancer is a highly fatal disease and an increasing common cause of cancer mortality. Mounting evidence now indicates that molecular heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer significantly impacts its clinical features. However, the dynamic nature of gene expression pattern makes it difficult to rely solely on gene expression alterations to estimate disease status. By contrast, biological networks tend to be more stable over time under different situations. In this study, we used a gene interaction network from a new point of view to explore the subtypes of pancreatic cancer based on individual-specific edge perturbations calculated by relative gene expression value. Our study shows that pancreatic cancer patients from the TCGA database could be separated into four subtypes based on gene interaction perturbations at the individual level. The new network-based subtypes of pancreatic cancer exhibited substantial heterogeneity in many aspects, including prognosis, phenotypic traits, genetic mutations, the abundance of infiltrating immune cell, and predictive therapeutic efficacy (chemosensitivity and immunotherapy efficacy). The new network-based subtypes were closely related to previous reported molecular subtypes of pancreatic cancer. This work helps us to better understand the heterogeneity and mechanisms of pancreatic cancer from a network perspective.
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- Ran Wei
- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Dongfengdong Road 651, Guangzhou 510060, China; (R.W.); (J.C.); (D.Q.)
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- Pharm-X Center, Engineering Research Center of Cell & Therapeutic Antibody, Ministry of Education, School of Pharmacy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Dongchuan Road 800, Shanghai 200240, China;
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Dongfengdong Road 651, Guangzhou 510060, China; (R.W.); (J.C.); (D.Q.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Dongfengdong Road 651, Guangzhou 510060, China; (R.W.); (J.C.); (D.Q.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Dongfengdong Road 651, Guangzhou 510060, China; (R.W.); (J.C.); (D.Q.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Dongfengdong Road 651, Guangzhou 510060, China; (R.W.); (J.C.); (D.Q.)
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Liu Y, Lin Y, Yang W, Lin Y, Wu Y, Zhang Z, Lin N, Wang X, Tong M, Yu R. Application of individualized differential expression analysis in human cancer proteome. Brief Bioinform 2022; 23:6562685. [DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbac096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2021] [Revised: 02/06/2022] [Accepted: 02/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry-based quantitative proteomics can measure the expression of thousands of proteins from biological samples and has been increasingly applied in cancer research. Identifying differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) between tumors and normal controls is commonly used to investigate carcinogenesis mechanisms. While differential expression analysis (DEA) at an individual level is desired to identify patient-specific molecular defects for better patient stratification, most statistical DEP analysis methods only identify deregulated proteins at the population level. To date, robust individualized DEA algorithms have been proposed for ribonucleic acid data, but their performance on proteomics data is underexplored. Herein, we performed a systematic evaluation on five individualized DEA algorithms for proteins on cancer proteomic datasets from seven cancer types. Results show that the within-sample relative expression orderings (REOs) of protein pairs in normal tissues were highly stable, providing the basis for individualized DEA for proteins using REOs. Moreover, individualized DEA algorithms achieve higher precision in detecting sample-specific deregulated proteins than population-level methods. To facilitate the utilization of individualized DEA algorithms in proteomics for prognostic biomarker discovery and personalized medicine, we provide Individualized DEP Analysis IDEPAXMBD (XMBD: Xiamen Big Data, a biomedical open software initiative in the National Institute for Data Science in Health and Medicine, Xiamen University, China.) (https://github.com/xmuyulab/IDEPA-XMBD), which is a user-friendly and open-source Python toolkit that integrates individualized DEA algorithms for DEP-associated deregulation pattern recognition.
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- Yachen Liu
- School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 316000, China
- National Institute for Data Science in Health and Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 316005, China
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- School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 316000, China
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- Aginome Scientific, Xiamen, Fujian 316005, China
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- National Institute for Data Science in Health and Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 316005, China
- State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, Innovation Center for Cell Signaling Network, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361102, China
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- School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 316000, China
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- National Institute for Data Science in Health and Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 316005, China
- State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, Innovation Center for Cell Signaling Network, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361102, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, Innovation Center for Cell Signaling Network, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361102, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, School of Medical Technology and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350122, China
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- National Institute for Data Science in Health and Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 316005, China
- State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, Innovation Center for Cell Signaling Network, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361102, China
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- School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 316000, China
- National Institute for Data Science in Health and Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 316005, China
- Aginome Scientific, Xiamen, Fujian 316005, China
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Song K, Liu C, Zhang J, Yao Y, Xiao H, Yuan R, Li K, Yang J, Zhao W, Zhang Y. Integrated multi-omics analysis reveals miR-20a as a regulator for metabolic colorectal cancer. Heliyon 2022; 8:e09068. [PMID: 35284668 PMCID: PMC8914124 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2021] [Revised: 12/21/2021] [Accepted: 03/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Single-driver molecular events specific to the metabolic colorectal cancer (CRC) have not been clearly elucidated. Herein, we identified 12 functional miRNAs linked to activated metabolism by integrating multi-omics features in metabolic CRC. These miRNAs exhibited significantly enriched CRC driver miRNAs, significant impacts on CRC cell growth and significantly correlated metabolites. Importantly, miR-20a is minimally expressed in normal colorectal tissues but highly expressed in metabolic CRC, suggesting the potential therapeutic target. Bioinformatics analyses further revealed miR-20a as the most powerful determinant that regulates a cascade of dysregulated events, including Wnt signaling pathway, core enzymes involved in FA metabolism program and triacylglycerol abundances. In vitro assays demonstrated that elevated miR-20a up-regulated FA synthesis enzymes via Wnt/β-catenin signaling, and finally promoted proliferative and migration of metabolic CRC cells. Overall, our study revealed that miR-20a promoted progression of metabolic CRC by regulating FA metabolism and served as a potential target for preventing tumor metastasis.
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- Kai Song
- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150086, China
- Zhuhai Interventional Medical Center, Zhuhai Precision Medical Center, Zhuhai People's Hospital, Zhuhai Hospital Affiliated with Jinan University, Jinan University, Zhuhai, Guangdong, 519000, China
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Harbin, 150086, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150086, China
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Harbin, 150086, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150086, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150086, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150086, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150086, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150086, China
- Corresponding author.
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Harbin, 150086, China
- Corresponding author.
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IndGOterm: a qualitative method for the identification of individually dysregulated GO terms in cancer. Brief Bioinform 2022; 23:6526723. [DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbac012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2021] [Revised: 12/24/2021] [Accepted: 01/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Individual pathway analysis can dissect heterogeneities among different cancer patients and provide efficient guidelines for individualized therapy. However, the existence of the batch effect brings extensive limitations for the application of many individual methods for pathway analysis. Previously, researchers proposed that methods based on within-sample relative expression ordering (REO) of the genes are notably insensitive to ‘batch effects’. In this article, we focus on the Gene Ontology (GO) database and propose an individual qualitative GO term analysis method (IndGOterm) based on the REO of genes. Compared with some current widely used single-sample enrichment analysis methods, such as ssGSEA and GSVA, IndGOterm has a predominance of ignoring the batch effects caused by diverse technologies. Through the survival and drug responses analysis, we found IndGOterm could capture more terms connected to cancer than other single-sample enrichment analysis methods. Furthermore, through the application of IndGOterm, we found some terms that present different dysregulation models that manifest heterogenetic in homologous patients. Collectively, these results attested that IndGOterm could capture useful information from patients and be a useful tool to reveal the intrinsic characteristic of cancer. An open-source R statistical analysis package ‘IndGOterm’ is available at https://github.com/robert19960424/IndGOterm.
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Ou D, Wu Y. The prognostic and clinical significance of IFI44L aberrant downregulation in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma. BMC Cancer 2021; 21:1327. [PMID: 34903206 PMCID: PMC8667451 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-021-09058-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2021] [Accepted: 11/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Background It is a basic task in high-throughput gene expression profiling studies to identify differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between two phenotypes. RankComp, an algorithm, could analyze the highly stable within-sample relative expression orderings (REOs) of gene pairs in a particular type of human normal tissue that are widely reversed in the cancer condition, thereby detecting DEGs for individual disease samples measured by a particular platform. Methods In the present study, Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) Series (GSE) GSE75540, GSE138206 were downloaded from GEO, by analyzing DEGs in oral squamous cell carcinoma based on online datasets using the RankComp algorithm, using the Kaplan-Meier survival analysis and Cox regression analysis to survival analysis, Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) to explore the potential molecular mechanisms underlying. Results We identified 6 reverse gene pairs with stable REOs. All the 12 genes in these 6 reverse gene pairs have been reported to be associated with cancers. Notably, lower Interferon Induced Protein 44 Like (IFI44L) expression was associated with poorer overall survival (OS) and Disease-free survival (DFS) in oral squamous cell carcinoma patients, and IFI44L expression showed satisfactory predictive efficiency by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Moreover, low IFI44L expression was identified as risk factors for oral squamous cell carcinoma patients’ OS. IFI44L downregulation would lead to the activation of the FRS-mediated FGFR1, FGFR3, and downstream signaling pathways, and might play a role in the PI3K-FGFR cascades. Conclusions Collectively, we identified 6 reverse gene pairs with stable REOs in oral squamous cell carcinoma, which might serve as gene signatures playing a role in the diagnosis in oral squamous cell carcinoma. Moreover, high expression of IFI44L, one of the DEGs in the 6 reverse gene pairs, might be associated with favorable prognosis in oral squamous cell carcinoma patients and serve as a tumor suppressor by acting on the FRS-mediated FGFR signaling. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12885-021-09058-y.
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- Deming Ou
- Department of Stomatology, Panyu Central Hospital, Guangzhou, 511400, China.
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- Department of Stomatology, Foshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Foshan, 528000, China
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Zhuang S, Chen T, Li Y, Wang Y, Ai L, Geng Y, Zou M, Liu K, Xu H, Wang L, Zhao Z, Chang Z, Gu Y. A transcriptional signature detects homologous recombination deficiency in pancreatic cancer at the individual level. MOLECULAR THERAPY-NUCLEIC ACIDS 2021; 26:1014-1026. [PMID: 34786207 PMCID: PMC8571416 DOI: 10.1016/j.omtn.2021.10.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2021] [Revised: 08/23/2021] [Accepted: 10/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Pancreatic cancer (PC) with homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) has been reported to benefit from poly ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitors. However, accurate identification of HRD status for PC patients from the transcriptional level is still a great challenge. Here, based on a relative expression ordering (REO)-based algorithm, we developed an HRD signature including 24 gene pairs (24-GPS) using PC transcriptional profiles from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). HRD samples classified by 24-GPS showed worse overall survival (p = 4.4E-3 for TCGA; p = 1.2E-3 for International Cancer Genome Consortium-Australia cohort; p = 6.4E-2 for GSE17891; p = 7.5E-2 for GSE57495) and higher HRD scores than non-HRD samples (p = 1.4E-4). HRD samples showed highly unstable genomic characteristics and also displayed HRD-related alterations at the epigenomic and proteomic levels. Moreover, HRD cell lines identified by 24-GPS tended to be sensitive to PARP inhibitors (p = 6.6E-2 for olaparib; p = 2.6E-3 for niraparib). Compared with the non-HRD group, the HRD group presented lower immune scores and CD4/CD8 T cell infiltration proportion. Interestingly, PC tumor cells with co-inhibition of PARP-related genes and ATR showed reduced survival ability. In conclusion, 24-GPS can robustly identify PC patients with HRD status at the individualized level.
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- Shuping Zhuang
- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150086, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150086, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150086, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150086, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150086, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150086, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150086, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150086, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150086, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150086, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150086, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150086, China
- Correspondence: Zhiqiang Chang, PhD, College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, 157 Baojian Road, Nangang District, Harbin, China.
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150086, China
- Correspondence: Yunyan Gu, PhD, College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, 157 Baojian Road, Nangang District, Harbin, China.
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Nguyen T, Lee SC, Quinn TP, Truong B, Li X, Tran T, Venkatesh S, Le TD. PAN: Personalized Annotation-Based Networks for the Prediction of Breast Cancer Relapse. IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS 2021; 18:2841-2847. [PMID: 33909569 DOI: 10.1109/tcbb.2021.3076422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The classification of clinical samples based on gene expression data is an important part of precision medicine. In this manuscript, we show how transforming gene expression data into a set of personalized (sample-specific) networks can allow us to harness existing graph-based methods to improve classifier performance. Existing approaches to personalized gene networks have the limitation that they depend on other samples in the data and must get re-computed whenever a new sample is introduced. Here, we propose a novel method, called Personalized Annotation-based Networks (PAN), that avoids this limitation by using curated annotation databases to transform gene expression data into a graph. Unlike competing methods, PANs are calculated for each sample independent of the population, making it a more efficient way to obtain single-sample networks. Using three breast cancer datasets as a case study, we show that PAN classifiers not only predict cancer relapse better than gene features alone, but also outperform PPI (protein-protein interactions) and population-level graph-based classifiers. This work demonstrates the practical advantages of graph-based classification for high-dimensional genomic data, while offering a new approach to making sample-specific networks. Supplementary information: PAN and the baselines are implemented in Python. Source code and data are available at https://github.com/thinng/PAN.
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Yang Y, Zhang T, Xiao R, Hao X, Zhang H, Qu H, Xie B, Wang T, Fang X. Platform-independent approach for cancer detection from gene expression profiles of peripheral blood cells. Brief Bioinform 2021; 21:1006-1015. [PMID: 30895303 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbz027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2018] [Revised: 02/04/2019] [Accepted: 02/18/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Peripheral blood gene expression intensity-based methods for distinguishing healthy individuals from cancer patients are limited by sensitivity to batch effects and data normalization and variability between expression profiling assays. To improve the robustness and precision of blood gene expression-based tumour detection, it is necessary to perform molecular diagnostic tests using a more stable approach. Taking breast cancer as an example, we propose a machine learning-based framework that distinguishes breast cancer patients from healthy subjects by pairwise rank transformation of gene expression intensity in each sample. We showed the diagnostic potential of the method by performing RNA-seq for 37 peripheral blood samples from breast cancer patients and by collecting RNA-seq data from healthy donors in Genotype-Tissue Expression project and microarray mRNA expression datasets in Gene Expression Omnibus. The framework was insensitive to experimental batch effects and data normalization, and it can be simultaneously applied to new sample prediction.
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- Yadong Yang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- BIG Data Center, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Breast Oncology Department, Affiliated Hospital, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Breast Oncology Department, Affiliated Hospital, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Breast Oncology Department, Affiliated Hospital, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Liu L, Zhu J, Jin T, Huang M, Chen Y, Xu L, Chen W, Jiang B, Yan F. Identification of Immune Function-Related Subtypes in Cutaneous Melanoma. Life (Basel) 2021; 11:life11090925. [PMID: 34575074 PMCID: PMC8467264 DOI: 10.3390/life11090925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2021] [Revised: 08/24/2021] [Accepted: 08/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Tumour immunotherapy combined with molecular typing is a new therapy to help select patients. However, molecular typing algorithms related to tumour immune function have not been thoroughly explored. We herein proposed a single sample immune signature network (SING) method to identify new immune function-related subtypes of cutaneous melanoma of the skin. A sample-specific network and tumour microenvironment were constructed based on the immune annotation of cutaneous melanoma samples. Then, the differences and heterogeneity of immune function among different subtypes were analysed and verified. A total of 327 cases of cutaneous melanoma were divided into normal and immune classes; the immune class had more immune enrichment characteristics. After further subdividing the 327 cases into three immune-related subtypes, the degree of immune enrichment in the "high immune subtype" was greater than that in other subtypes. Similar results were validated in both tumour samples and cell lines. Sample-specific networks and the tumour microenvironment based on immune annotation contribute to the mining of cutaneous melanoma immune function-related subtypes. Mutations in B2M and PTEN are considered potential therapeutic targets that can improve the immune response. Patients with a high immune subtype can generally obtain a better immune prognosis effect, and the prognosis may be improved when combined with TGF-β inhibitors.
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Chen Y, Gu Y, Hu Z, Sun X. Sample-specific perturbation of gene interactions identifies breast cancer subtypes. Brief Bioinform 2021; 22:bbaa268. [PMID: 33126248 PMCID: PMC8293822 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbaa268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2020] [Revised: 09/09/2020] [Accepted: 09/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Breast cancer is a highly heterogeneous disease, and there are many forms of categorization for breast cancer based on gene expression profiles. Gene expression profiles are variables and may show differences if measured at different time points or under different conditions. In contrast, biological networks are relatively stable over time and under different conditions. In this study, we used a gene interaction network from a new point of view to explore the subtypes of breast cancer based on individual-specific edge perturbations measured by relative gene expression value. Our study reveals that there are four breast cancer subtypes based on gene interaction perturbations at the individual level. The new network-based subtypes of breast cancer show strong heterogeneity in prognosis, somatic mutations, phenotypic changes and enriched pathways. The network-based subtypes are closely related to the PAM50 subtypes and immunohistochemistry index. This work helps us to better understand the heterogeneity and mechanisms of breast cancer from a network perspective.
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- Yuanyuan Chen
- College of Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu, Nanjing, China, and a postdoc at State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
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Zhao Z, Guo Y, Liu Y, Sun L, Chen B, Wang C, Chen T, Wang Y, Li Y, Dong Q, Ai L, Wang R, Gu Y, Li X. Individualized lncRNA differential expression profile reveals heterogeneity of breast cancer. Oncogene 2021; 40:4604-4614. [PMID: 34131286 PMCID: PMC8266678 DOI: 10.1038/s41388-021-01883-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2020] [Revised: 05/18/2021] [Accepted: 06/01/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play key regulatory roles in breast cancer. However, population-level differential expression analysis methods disregard the heterogeneous expression of lncRNAs in individual patients. Therefore, we individualized lncRNA expression profiles for breast invasive carcinoma (BRCA) using the method of LncRNA Individualization (LncRIndiv). After evaluating the robustness of LncRIndiv, we constructed an individualized differentially expressed lncRNA (IDElncRNA) profile for BRCA and investigated the subtype-specific IDElncRNAs. The breast cancer subtype-specific IDElncRNA showed frequent co-occurrence with alterations of protein-coding genes, including mutations, copy number variation and differential methylation. We performed hierarchical clustering to subdivide TNBC and revealed mesenchymal subtype and immune subtype for TNBC. The TNBC immune subtype showed a better prognosis than the TNBC mesenchymal subtype. LncRNA PTOV1-AS1 was the top differentially expressed lncRNA in the mesenchymal subtype. And biological experiments validated that the upregulation of PTOV1-AS1 could downregulate TJP1 (ZO-1) and E-Cadherin, and upregulate Vimentin, which suggests PTOV1-AS1 may promote epithelial-mesenchymal transition and lead to migration and invasion of TNBC cells. The mesenchymal subtype showed a higher fraction of M2 macrophages, whereas the immune subtype was more associated with CD4 + T cells. The immune subtype is characterized by genomic instability and upregulation of immune checkpoint genes, thereby suggesting a potential response to immunosuppressive drugs. Last, drug response analysis revealed lncRNA ENSG00000230082 (PRRT3-AS1) is a potential resistance biomarker for paclitaxel in BRCA treatment. Our analysis highlights that IDElncRNAs can characterize inter-tumor heterogeneity in BRCA and the new TNBC subtypes indicate novel insights into TNBC immunotherapy.
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- Zhangxiang Zhao
- Department of Systems Biology, College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Pharmacology (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Research, Ministry of Education), College of Pharmacy, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
- Northern Translational Medicine Research and Cooperation, Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Systems Biology, College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Breast Medical Oncology, Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Harbin, China
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- Department of Systems Biology, College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Systems Biology, College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Systems Biology, College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Systems Biology, College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Systems Biology, College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Systems Biology, College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Systems Biology, College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Physiology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Systems Biology, College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
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- Department of Bioinformatics, College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
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Lai X, Lin P, Ye J, Liu W, Lin S, Lin Z. Reference Module-Based Analysis of Ovarian Cancer Transcriptome Identifies Important Modules and Potential Drugs. Biochem Genet 2021; 60:433-451. [PMID: 34173117 DOI: 10.1007/s10528-021-10101-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2021] [Accepted: 06/16/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Ovarian cancer (OVC) is often diagnosed at the advanced stage resulting in a poor overall outcome for the patient. The disease mechanisms, prognosis, and treatment require imperative elucidation. A rank-based module-centric framework was proposed to analyze the key modules related to the development, prognosis, and treatment of OVC. The ovarian cancer cell line microarray dataset GSE43765 from the Gene Expression Omnibus database was used to construct the reference modules by weighted gene correlation network analysis. Twenty-three reference modules were tested for stability and functionally annotated. Furthermore, to demonstrate the utility of reference modules, two more OVC datasets were collected, and their gene expression profiles were projected to the reference modules to generate a module-level expression. An epithelial-mesenchymal transition module was activated in OVC compared to the normal epithelium, and a pluripotency module was activated in ovarian cancer stroma compared to ovarian cancer epithelium. Seven differentially expressed modules were identified in OVC compared to the normal ovarian epithelium, with five up-regulated, and two down-regulated. One module was identified to be predictive of patient overall survival. Four modules were enriched with SNP signals. Based on differentially expressed modules and hub genes, five candidate drugs were screened. The hub genes of those modules merit further investigation. We firstly propose the reference module-based analysis of OVC. The utility of the analysis framework can be extended to transcriptome data of other kinds of diseases.
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- Xuedan Lai
- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Fuzhou First Hospital Affiliated to Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, 350009, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Fuzhou First Hospital Affiliated to Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, 350009, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Fuzhou First Hospital Affiliated to Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, 350009, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Fuzhou First Hospital Affiliated to Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, 350009, People's Republic of China.
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Zhang C, Wei Y, Mardinoglu A, Zhang P. Editorial: Application of Systems Biology in Molecular Characterization and Diagnosis of Cancer. Front Mol Biosci 2021; 8:668146. [PMID: 34124153 PMCID: PMC8193925 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.668146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2021] [Accepted: 04/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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- Cheng Zhang
- Science for Life Laboratory, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Key Laboratory of Advanced Drug Preparation Technologies, Ministry of Education, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Key Laboratory of Advanced Drug Preparation Technologies, Ministry of Education, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Key Laboratory of Advanced Drug Preparation Technologies, Ministry of Education, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
- Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, Centre for Host-Microbiome Interactions, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
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Xiao H, Zhang J, Wang K, Song K, Zheng H, Yang J, Li K, Yuan R, Zhao W, Hui Y. A Cancer-Specific Qualitative Method for Estimating the Proportion of Tumor-Infiltrating Immune Cells. Front Immunol 2021; 12:672031. [PMID: 34054849 PMCID: PMC8160514 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.672031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2021] [Accepted: 04/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Tumor-infiltrating immune cells are important components in the tumor microenvironment (TME) and different types of these cells exert different effects on tumor development and progression; these effects depend upon the type of cancer involved. Several methods have been developed for estimating the proportion of immune cells using bulk transcriptome data. However, there is a distinct lack of methods that are capable of predicting the immune contexture in specific types of cancer. Furthermore, the existing methods are based on absolute gene expression and are susceptible to experimental batch effects, thus resulting in incomparability across different datasets. In this study, we considered two common neoplasms as examples (colorectal cancer [CRC] and melanoma) and introduced the Tumor-infiltrating Immune Cell Proportion Estimator (TICPE), a cancer-specific qualitative method for estimating the proportion of tumor-infiltrating immune cells. The TICPE was based on the relative expression orderings (REOs) of gene pairs within a sample and is notably insensitive to batch effects. Performance evaluation using public expression data with mRNA mixtures, single-cell RNA-Seq (scRNA-Seq) data, immunohistochemistry data, and simulated bulk RNA-seq samples, indicated that the TICPE can estimate the proportion of immune cells with levels of accuracy that are clearly superior to other methods. Furthermore, we showed that the TICPE could effectively detect prognostic signals in patients with tumors and changes in the fractions of immune cells during immunotherapy in melanoma. In conclusion, our work presented a unique novel method, TICPE, to estimate the proportion of immune cells in specific cancer types and explore the effect of the infiltration of immune cells on the efficacy of immunotherapy and the prognosis of cancer. The source code for TICPE is available at https://github.com/huitingxiao/TICPE.
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- Huiting Xiao
- Department of Systems Biology, College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Systems Biology, College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Systems Biology, College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.,Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Systems Biology, College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Systems Biology, College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Systems Biology, College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Systems Biology, College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Systems Biology, College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Systems Biology, College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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Zheng X, Leung KS, Wong MH, Cheng L. Long non-coding RNA pairs to assist in diagnosing sepsis. BMC Genomics 2021; 22:275. [PMID: 33863291 PMCID: PMC8050902 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-021-07576-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2020] [Accepted: 03/25/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Background Sepsis is the major cause of death in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) globally. Molecular detection enables rapid diagnosis that allows early intervention to minimize the death rate. Recent studies showed that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) regulate proinflammatory genes and are related to the dysfunction of organs in sepsis. Identifying lncRNA signature with absolute abundance is challenging because of the technical variation and the systematic experimental bias. Results Cohorts (n = 768) containing whole blood lncRNA profiling of sepsis patients in the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database were included. We proposed a novel diagnostic strategy that made use of the relative expressions of lncRNA pairs, which are reversed between sepsis patients and normal controls (eg. lncRNAi > lncRNAj in sepsis patients and lncRNAi < lncRNAj in normal controls), to identify 14 lncRNA pairs as a sepsis diagnostic signature. The signature was then applied to independent cohorts (n = 644) to evaluate its predictive performance across different ages and normalization methods. Comparing to common machine learning models and existing signatures, SepSigLnc consistently attains better performance on the validation cohorts from the same age group (AUC = 0.990 & 0.995 in two cohorts) and across different groups (AUC = 0.878 on average), as well as cohorts processed by an alternative normalization method (AUC = 0.953 on average). Functional analysis demonstrates that the lncRNA pairs in SepsigLnc are functionally similar and tend to implicate in the same biological processes including cell fate commitment and cellular response to steroid hormone stimulus. Conclusion Our study identified 14 lncRNA pairs as signature that can facilitate the diagnosis of septic patients at an intervenable point when clinical manifestations are not dramatic. Also, the computational procedure can be generalized to a standard procedure for discovering diagnostic molecule signatures. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12864-021-07576-4.
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- Xubin Zheng
- Shenzhen People's Hospital, First Affiliated Hospital of Southern University of Science and Technology, Second Clinical Medicine College of Jinan University, Shenzhen, 518020, China.,Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong
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- Shenzhen People's Hospital, First Affiliated Hospital of Southern University of Science and Technology, Second Clinical Medicine College of Jinan University, Shenzhen, 518020, China.
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Song K, Cai H, Zheng H, Yang J, Jin L, Xiao H, Zhang J, Zhao Z, Li X, Zhao W, Li X. Multilevel prioritization of gene regulators associated with consensus molecular subtypes of colorectal cancer. Brief Bioinform 2021; 22:6225088. [PMID: 33855351 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbab077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2020] [Revised: 02/16/2021] [Accepted: 02/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Consensus molecular subtypes (CMSs) are emerging as critical factor for prognosis and treatment of colorectal cancer. Gene regulators, including chromatin regulator, RNA-binding protein and transcriptional factor, are critical modulators of cancer hallmark, yet little is known regarding the underlying functional mechanism in CMSs. Herein, we identified a core set of 235 functional gene regulators (FGRs) by integrating genome, epigenome, transcriptome and interactome of CMSs. FGRs exhibited significant multi-omics alterations and impacts on cell lines growth, as well as significantly enriched cancer driver genes and pathways. Moreover, common FGRs played different roles in the context of CMSs. In accordance with the immune characteristics of CMSs, we found that the anti-tumor immune pathways were mainly activated by FGRs (e.g. STAT1 and CREBBP) in CMS1, while inhibited by FGRs in CMS2-4. FGRs mediated aberrant expression of ligands, which bind to receptor on immune cells, and modulated tumor immune microenvironment of subtypes. Intriguingly, systematic exploration of datasets using genomic and transcriptome co-similarity reveals the coordinated manner in FGRs act in CMSs to orchestrate their pathways and patients' prognosis. Expression signatures of the FGRs revealed an optimized CMS classifier, which demonstrated 88% concordance with the gold-standard classifier, but avoiding the influence of sample composition. Overall, our integrative analysis identified FGRs to regulate core tumorigenic processes/pathways across CMSs.
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- Kai Song
- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150086, China
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- Medical Big Data and Bioinformatics Research Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150086, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150086, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150086, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150086, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150086, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150086, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150086, China
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Cheng J, Guo Y, Guan G, Huang H, Jiang F, He J, Wu J, Guo Z, Liu X, Ao L. Two novel qualitative transcriptional signatures robustly applicable to non-research-oriented colorectal cancer samples with low-quality RNA. J Cell Mol Med 2021; 25:3622-3633. [PMID: 33719152 PMCID: PMC8034468 DOI: 10.1111/jcmm.16467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2020] [Revised: 02/19/2021] [Accepted: 03/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Currently, due to the low quality of RNA caused by degradation or low abundance, the accuracy of gene expression measurements by transcriptome sequencing (RNA‐seq) is very challenging for non‐research‐oriented clinical samples, majority of which are preserved in hospitals or tissue banks worldwide with complete pathological information and follow‐up data. Molecular signatures consisting of several genes are rarely applied to such samples. To utilize these resources effectively, 45 stage II non‐research‐oriented samples which were formalin‐fixed paraffin‐embedded (FFPE) colorectal carcinoma samples (CRC) using RNA‐seq have been analysed. Our results showed that although gene expression measurements were significantly affected, most cancer features, based on the relative expression orderings (REOs) of gene pairs, were well preserved. We then developed two REO‐based signatures, which consisted of 136 gene pairs for early diagnosis of CRC, and 4500 gene pairs for predicting post‐surgery relapse risk of stage II and III CRC. The performance of our signatures, which included hundreds or thousands of gene pairs, was more robust for non‐research‐oriented clinical samples, compared to that of two published concise REO‐based signatures. In conclusion, REO‐based signatures with relatively more gene pairs could be robustly applied to non‐research‐oriented CRC samples.
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- Jun Cheng
- Affiliated Foshan Maternity and Child Healthcare Hospital, Southern Medical University (Foshan Maternity & Child Healthcare Hospital), Foshan, China.,Department of Bioinformatics, Fujian Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.,Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Fujian Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.,Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, The Affiliated Union Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Fujian Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.,Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Fujian Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.,Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Fujian Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.,Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Fujian Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.,Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Fujian Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.,Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, The Affiliated Union Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Fujian Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.,Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
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Mohamed RI, Bargal SA, Mekawy AS, El-Shiekh I, Tuncbag N, Ahmed AS, Badr E, Elserafy M. The overexpression of DNA repair genes in invasive ductal and lobular breast carcinomas: Insights on individual variations and precision medicine. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0247837. [PMID: 33662042 PMCID: PMC7932549 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0247837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2020] [Accepted: 02/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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In the era of precision medicine, analyzing the transcriptomic profile of patients is essential to tailor the appropriate therapy. In this study, we explored transcriptional differences between two invasive breast cancer subtypes; infiltrating ductal carcinoma (IDC) and lobular carcinoma (LC) using RNA-Seq data deposited in the TCGA-BRCA project. We revealed 3854 differentially expressed genes between normal ductal tissues and IDC. In addition, IDC to LC comparison resulted in 663 differentially expressed genes. We then focused on DNA repair genes because of their known effects on patients' response to therapy and resistance. We here report that 36 DNA repair genes are overexpressed in a significant number of both IDC and LC patients' samples. Despite the upregulation in a significant number of samples, we observed a noticeable variation in the expression levels of the repair genes across patients of the same cancer subtype. The same trend is valid for the expression of miRNAs, where remarkable variations between patients' samples of the same cancer subtype are also observed. These individual variations could lie behind the differential response of patients to treatment. The future of cancer diagnostics and therapy will inevitably depend on high-throughput genomic and transcriptomic data analysis. However, we propose that performing analysis on individual patients rather than a big set of patients' samples will be necessary to ensure that the best treatment is determined, and therapy resistance is reduced.
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- Ruwaa I. Mohamed
- Center for Informatics Sciences (CIS), Nile University, Giza, Egypt
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- Center for Genomics, Helmy Institute for Medical Sciences, Zewail City of Science and Technology, Giza, Egypt
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- Center for Genomics, Helmy Institute for Medical Sciences, Zewail City of Science and Technology, Giza, Egypt
- University of Science and Technology, Zewail City of Science and Technology, Giza, Egypt
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- Center for Genomics, Helmy Institute for Medical Sciences, Zewail City of Science and Technology, Giza, Egypt
- University of Science and Technology, Zewail City of Science and Technology, Giza, Egypt
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- Graduate School of Informatics, Department of Health Informatics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Center for Genomics, Helmy Institute for Medical Sciences, Zewail City of Science and Technology, Giza, Egypt
- University of Science and Technology, Zewail City of Science and Technology, Giza, Egypt
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- University of Science and Technology, Zewail City of Science and Technology, Giza, Egypt
- Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
- * E-mail: (EB); (ME)
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- Center for Genomics, Helmy Institute for Medical Sciences, Zewail City of Science and Technology, Giza, Egypt
- University of Science and Technology, Zewail City of Science and Technology, Giza, Egypt
- * E-mail: (EB); (ME)
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Identification of Genes Universally Differentially Expressed in Gastric Cancer. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2021; 2021:7326853. [PMID: 33542925 PMCID: PMC7843176 DOI: 10.1155/2021/7326853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2020] [Revised: 12/09/2020] [Accepted: 12/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
Abstract
Owing to the remarkable heterogeneity of gastric cancer (GC), population-level differentially expressed genes (DEGs) identified using case-control comparison cannot indicate the dysregulated frequency of each DEG in GC. In this work, first, the individual-level DEGs were identified for 1,090 GC tissues without paired normal tissues using the RankComp method. Second, we directly compared the gene expression in a cancer tissue to that in paired normal tissue to identify individual-level DEGs among 448 paired cancer-normal gastric tissues. We found 25 DEGs to be dysregulated in more than 90% of 1,090 GC tissues and also in more than 90% of 448 GC tissues with paired normal tissues. The 25 genes were defined as universal DEGs for GC. Then, we measured 24 paired cancer-normal gastric tissues by RNA-seq to validate them further. Among the universal DEGs, 4 upregulated genes (BGN, E2F3, PLAU, and SPP1) and 1 downregulated gene (UBL3) were found to be cancer genes already documented in the COSMIC or F-Census databases. By analyzing protein-protein interaction networks, we found 12 universally upregulated genes, and we found that their 284 direct neighbor genes were significantly enriched with cancer genes and key biological pathways related to cancer, such as the MAPK signaling pathway, cell cycle, and focal adhesion. The 13 universally downregulated genes and 16 direct neighbor genes were also significantly enriched with cancer genes and pathways related to gastric acid secretion. These universal DEGs may be of special importance to GC diagnosis and treatment targets, and they may make it easier to study the molecular mechanisms underlying GC.
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Zhang L, Fan M, Napolitano F, Gao X, Xu Y, Li L. Transcriptomic analysis identifies organ-specific metastasis genes and pathways across different primary sites. J Transl Med 2021; 19:31. [PMID: 33413400 PMCID: PMC7791985 DOI: 10.1186/s12967-020-02696-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2020] [Accepted: 12/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Background Metastasis is the most devastating stage of cancer progression and often shows a preference for specific organs. Methods To reveal the mechanisms underlying organ-specific metastasis, we systematically analyzed gene expression profiles for three common metastasis sites across all available primary origins. A rank-based method was used to detect differentially expressed genes between metastatic tumor tissues and corresponding control tissues. For each metastasis site, the common differentially expressed genes across all primary origins were identified as organ-specific metastasis genes. Results Pathways enriched by these genes reveal an interplay between the molecular characteristics of the cancer cells and those of the target organ. Specifically, the neuroactive ligand-receptor interaction pathway and HIF-1 signaling pathway were found to have prominent roles in adapting to the target organ environment in brain and liver metastases, respectively. Finally, the identified organ-specific metastasis genes and pathways were validated using a primary breast tumor dataset. Survival and cluster analysis showed that organ-specific metastasis genes and pathways tended to be expressed uniquely by a subgroup of patients having metastasis to the target organ, and were associated with the clinical outcome. Conclusions Elucidating the genes and pathways underlying organ-specific metastasis may help to identify drug targets and develop treatment strategies to benefit patients.
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- Lin Zhang
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, 310000, China
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- Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, 310000, China
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- Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division (CEMSE), Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division (CEMSE), Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Cancer Systems Biology Center, The China-Japan Union Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, 130033, China.,MOE Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering, College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China.,Computational Systems Biology Lab, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, 310000, China.
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Zhou YJ, Lu XF, Meng JL, Wang XY, Ruan XJ, Yang CJ, Wang QW, Chen HM, Gao YJ, Yan FR, Li XB. Qualitative Transcriptional Signature for the Pathological Diagnosis of Pancreatic Cancer. Front Mol Biosci 2020; 7:569842. [PMID: 33173782 PMCID: PMC7538791 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2020.569842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2020] [Accepted: 08/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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It is currently difficult for pathologists to diagnose pancreatic cancer (PC) using biopsy specimens because samples may have been from an incorrect site or contain an insufficient amount of tissue. Thus, there is a need to develop a platform-independent molecular classifier that accurately distinguishes benign pancreatic lesions from PC. Here, we developed a robust qualitative messenger RNA signature based on within-sample relative expression orderings (REOs) of genes to discriminate both PC tissues and cancer-adjacent normal tissues from non-PC pancreatitis and healthy pancreatic tissues. A signature comprising 12 gene pairs and 17 genes was built in the training datasets and validated in microarray and RNA-sequencing datasets from biopsy samples and surgically resected samples. Analysis of 1,007 PC tissues and 257 non-tumor samples from nine databases indicated that the geometric mean of sensitivity and specificity was 96.7%, and the area under receiver operating characteristic curve was 0.978 (95% confidence interval, 0.947–0.994). For 20 specimens obtained from endoscopic biopsy, the signature had a diagnostic accuracy of 100%. The REO-based signature described here can aid in the molecular diagnosis of PC and may facilitate objective differentiation between benign and malignant pancreatic lesions.
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- Yu-Jie Zhou
- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Key Laboratory of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Ministry of Health, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, Research Center of Biostatistics and Computational Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Key Laboratory of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Ministry of Health, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, Research Center of Biostatistics and Computational Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Liver Surgery, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Key Laboratory of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Ministry of Health, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Key Laboratory of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Ministry of Health, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Key Laboratory of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Ministry of Health, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, Research Center of Biostatistics and Computational Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Key Laboratory of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Ministry of Health, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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Li M, Chen H, He J, Xie J, Xia J, Liu H, Shi Y, Guo Z, Yan H. A qualitative classification signature for post-surgery 5-fluorouracil-based adjuvant chemoradiotherapy in gastric cancer. Radiother Oncol 2020; 155:65-72. [PMID: 33065189 DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2020.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2020] [Revised: 09/23/2020] [Accepted: 10/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Currently, 5-fluorouracil (5-FU)-based adjuvant chemoradiotherapy (ACRT) is a preferred regimen for post-surgery gastric cancer (GC). However, the survival outcome of 5-FU-based ACRT varies greatly among different GC patients. Thus, it is necessary to classify which patients may benefit from 5-FU-based ACRT. MATERIALS AND METHODS We collected 577 GC and 84 adjacent normal samples for training and 675 GC samples for validation. Based on the within-sample relative expression orderings (REOs) of gene expression levels, reversal gene pairs were selected, and the pairs correlating with overall survival (OS) of GC patients receiving 5-FU-based ACRT were identified as candidates. Finally, an optimized set of candidate gene pairs was selected as a classification signature in training data and validated in validation data. RESULTS A signature consisting of 34 gene pairs was identified in training data and validated in three independent datasets. The classified low-risk group had better OS than the classified high-risk group. We also analyzed the recurrent free survival or disease free survival (RFS/DFS) of the validation datasets, and the similar results were shown. Furthermore, although the signature was identified based on the OS of GC patients receiving ACRT, it was not a prognostic signature for patients treated with surgery alone, but may be a potential signature for 5-FU-based chemotherapy alone. CONCLUSIONS The signature can accurately classify GC patients who may benefit from 5-FU-based ACRT, which could aid clinicians in tailoring more effective GC treatments.
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- Meifeng Li
- Department of Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.
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- Department of General Surgery, Fuzhou Second Hospital Affiliated to Xiamen University, China.
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.
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Hu S, Chen X, Xu X, Zheng C, Huang W, Zhou Y, Akuetteh PDP, Yang H, Shi K, Chen B, Zhang Q. STRAP as a New Therapeutic Target for Poor Prognosis of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Patients Mainly Caused by TP53 Mutation. Front Oncol 2020; 10:594224. [PMID: 33134183 PMCID: PMC7550692 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2020.594224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2020] [Accepted: 09/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has a high mortality rate and poor prognosis. KRAS, TP53, CDKN2A, and SMAD4 are driver genes of PDAC and 30-75% patients have mutations in at least two of these four genes. Herein, we analyzed the relationship between these genes and prognosis of 762 patients in the absence of coexisting mutations, using data from three independent public datasets. Interestingly, we found that compared with mutations in other driver genes, TP53 mutation plays a significant role in leading to poor prognosis of PDAC. Additionally, we found that snoRNA-mediated rRNA maturation was responsible for the progression of cancer in PDAC patients with TP53 mutations. Inhibition of STRAP, which regulates the localization of SMN complexes and further affects the assembly of snoRNP, can effectively reduce maturation of rRNA and significantly suppress progression of TP53-mutant or low p53 expression pancreatic cancer cells in vitro and in vivo. Our study highlighted the actual contribution rate of driver genes to patient prognosis, enriching traditional understanding of the relationship between these genes and PDAC. We also provided a possible mechanism and a new target to combat progression of TP53-mutant PDAC patients.
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- Shanshan Hu
- Key Laboratory of Diagnosis and Treatment of Severe Hepato-Pancreatic Diseases of Zhejiang Province, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Diagnosis and Treatment of Severe Hepato-Pancreatic Diseases of Zhejiang Province, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Diagnosis and Treatment of Severe Hepato-Pancreatic Diseases of Zhejiang Province, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Diagnosis and Treatment of Severe Hepato-Pancreatic Diseases of Zhejiang Province, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Diagnosis and Treatment of Severe Hepato-Pancreatic Diseases of Zhejiang Province, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Diagnosis and Treatment of Severe Hepato-Pancreatic Diseases of Zhejiang Province, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Diagnosis and Treatment of Severe Hepato-Pancreatic Diseases of Zhejiang Province, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Diagnosis and Treatment of Severe Hepato-Pancreatic Diseases of Zhejiang Province, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Diagnosis and Treatment of Severe Hepato-Pancreatic Diseases of Zhejiang Province, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Diagnosis and Treatment of Severe Hepato-Pancreatic Diseases of Zhejiang Province, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Diagnosis and Treatment of Severe Hepato-Pancreatic Diseases of Zhejiang Province, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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Kang C, Jia X, Liu H. Development and validation of a RNA binding protein gene pair-associated prognostic signature for prediction of overall survival in hepatocellular carcinoma. Biomed Eng Online 2020; 19:68. [PMID: 32873282 PMCID: PMC7461748 DOI: 10.1186/s12938-020-00812-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2020] [Accepted: 08/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Increasing evidence has demonstrated the correlation between hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) prognosis and RNA binding proteins (RBPs) dysregulation. Thus, we aimed to develop and validate a reliable prognostic signature that can estimate the prognosis for HCC. METHODS Gene expression profiling and clinical information of 374 HCC patients were derived from the TCGA data portal. The survival-related RBP pairs were determined using univariate cox-regression analysis and the signature was built based on LASSO analysis. All patients were divided patients into high-and low-risk groups according to the optimal cut off of the signature score determined by time-dependent receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis. The predictive value of the signature was further validated in an independent cohort. RESULTS A 37-RBP pairs signature consisting of 61 unique genes was constructed which was significantly associated with the survival. The RBP-related signature accurately predicted the prognosis of HCC patients, and patients in high-risk groups showed poor survival in two cohorts. The novel signature was an independent prognostic factor of HCC in two cohorts (all P < 0.001). Furthermore, the C-index of the prognostic model was 0.799, which was higher than that of many established risk models. Pathway and process enrichment analysis showed that the 61 unique genes were mainly enriched in translation, ncRNA metabolic process, RNA splicing, RNA modification, and translational termination. CONCLUSION The novel proposed RBP-related signature based on relative expression orderings could serve as a promising independent prognostic biomarker for patients with HCC, and could improve the individualized survival prediction in HCC.
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- Chunmiao Kang
- Department of Ultrasound, Shaanxi Provincial People's Hospital, Xi'an, 710068, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, Shaanxi Provincial People's Hospital, Xi'an, 710068, China
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- Department of Radiology, Xi'an Central Hospital Affiliated to Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 161, Xiwu Road, Xincheng District, Xi'an, 710003, Shaanxi, PR China.
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The Effects of Age, Cigarette Smoking, Sex, and Race on the Qualitative Characteristics of Lung Transcriptome. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2020; 2020:6418460. [PMID: 32802863 PMCID: PMC7424369 DOI: 10.1155/2020/6418460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2020] [Accepted: 06/29/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The within-sample relative expression orderings (REOs) of genes, which are stable qualitative transcriptional characteristics, can provide abundant information for a disease. Methods based on REO comparisons have been proposed for identifying differentially expressed genes (DEGs) at the individual level and for detecting disease-associated genes based on one-phenotype disease data by reusing data of normal samples from other sources. Here, we evaluated the effects of common potential confounding factors, including age, cigarette smoking, sex, and race, on the REOs of gene pairs within normal lung tissues transcriptome. Our results showed that age has little effect on REOs within lung tissues. We found that about 0.23% of the significantly stable REOs of gene pairs in nonsmokers' lung tissues are reversed in smokers' lung tissues, introduced by 344 DEGs between the two groups of samples (RankCompV2, FDR <0.05), which are enriched in metabolism of xenobiotics by cytochrome P450, glutathione metabolism, and other pathways (hypergeometric test, FDR <0.05). Comparison between the normal lung tissue samples of males and females revealed fewer reversal REOs introduced by 24 DEGs between the sex groups, among which 19 DEGs are located on sex chromosomes and 5 DEGs involving in spermatogenesis and regulation of oocyte are located on autosomes. Between the normal lung tissue samples of white and black people, we identified 22 DEGs (RankCompV2, FDR <0.05) which introduced a few reversal REOs between the two races. In summary, the REO-based study should take into account the confounding factors of cigarette smoking, sex, and race.
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Xie J, Xu Y, Chen H, Chi M, He J, Li M, Liu H, Xia J, Guan Q, Guo Z, Yan H. Identification of population-level differentially expressed genes in one-phenotype data. Bioinformatics 2020; 36:4283-4290. [PMID: 32428201 PMCID: PMC7520039 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2020] [Revised: 04/15/2020] [Accepted: 05/14/2020] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Motivation For some specific tissues, such as the heart and brain, normal controls are difficult to obtain. Thus, studies with only a particular type of disease samples (one phenotype) cannot be analyzed using common methods, such as significance analysis of microarrays, edgeR and limma. The RankComp algorithm, which was mainly developed to identify individual-level differentially expressed genes (DEGs), can be applied to identify population-level DEGs for the one-phenotype data but cannot identify the dysregulation directions of DEGs. Results Here, we optimized the RankComp algorithm, termed PhenoComp. Compared with RankComp, PhenoComp provided the dysregulation directions of DEGs and had more robust detection power in both simulated and real one-phenotype data. Moreover, using the DEGs detected by common methods as the ‘gold standard’, the results showed that the DEGs detected by PhenoComp using only one-phenotype data were comparable to those identified by common methods using case-control samples, independent of the measurement platform. PhenoComp also exhibited good performance for weakly differential expression signal data. Availability and implementation The PhenoComp algorithm is available on the web at https://github.com/XJJ-student/PhenoComp. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Jiajing Xie
- Department of Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, The School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350122, China.,Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, Fujian Province, Fuzhou 350122, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, The School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350122, China.,Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, Fujian Province, Fuzhou 350122, China
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- Department of General Surgery, Fuzhou Second Hospital Affiliated to Xiamen University, Fuzhou 350007, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, The School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350122, China.,Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, Fujian Province, Fuzhou 350122, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, The School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350122, China.,Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, Fujian Province, Fuzhou 350122, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, The School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350122, China.,Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, Fujian Province, Fuzhou 350122, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, The School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350122, China.,Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, Fujian Province, Fuzhou 350122, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, The School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350122, China.,Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, Fujian Province, Fuzhou 350122, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, The School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350122, China.,Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, Fujian Province, Fuzhou 350122, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, The School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350122, China.,Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, Fujian Province, Fuzhou 350122, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, The School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350122, China.,Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, Fujian Province, Fuzhou 350122, China
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Beretta L, Barturen G, Vigone B, Bellocchi C, Hunzelmann N, De Langhe E, Cervera R, Gerosa M, Kovács L, Ortega Castro R, Almeida I, Cornec D, Chizzolini C, Pers JO, Makowska Z, Lesche R, Kerick M, Alarcón-Riquelme ME, Martin J. Genome-wide whole blood transcriptome profiling in a large European cohort of systemic sclerosis patients. Ann Rheum Dis 2020; 79:1218-1226. [PMID: 32561607 PMCID: PMC7456554 DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-217116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2020] [Revised: 04/30/2020] [Accepted: 05/14/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Objectives The analysis of annotated transcripts from genome-wide expression studies may help to understand the pathogenesis of complex diseases, such as systemic sclerosis (SSc). We performed a whole blood (WB) transcriptome analysis on RNA collected in the context of the European PRECISESADS project, aiming at characterising the pathways that differentiate SSc from controls and that are reproducible in geographically diverse populations. Methods Samples from 162 patients and 252 controls were collected in RNA stabilisers. Cases and controls were divided into a discovery (n=79+163; Southern Europe) and validation cohort (n=83+89; Central-Western Europe). RNA sequencing was performed by an Illumina assay. Functional annotations of Reactome pathways were performed with the Functional Analysis of Individual Microarray Expression (FAIME) algorithm. In parallel, immunophenotyping of 28 circulating cell populations was performed. We tested the presence of differentially expressed genes/pathways and the correlation between absolute cell counts and RNA transcripts/FAIME scores in regression models. Results significant in both populations were considered as replicated. Results Overall, 15 224 genes and 1277 functional pathways were available; of these, 99 and 225 were significant in both sets. Among replicated pathways, we found a deregulation in type-I interferon, Toll-like receptor cascade, tumour suppressor p53 protein function, platelet degranulation and activation. RNA transcripts or FAIME scores were jointly correlated with cell subtypes with strong geographical differences; neutrophils were the major determinant of gene expression in SSc-WB samples. Conclusions We discovered a set of differentially expressed genes/pathways validated in two independent sets of patients with SSc, highlighting a number of deregulated processes that have relevance for the pathogenesis of autoimmunity and SSc.
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- Lorenzo Beretta
- Scleroderma Unit, Referral Center for Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- GENYO, Centre for Genomics and Oncological Research Pfizer, University of Granada, Andalusian Regional Government, PTS GRANADA, Granada, Spain
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- Scleroderma Unit, Referral Center for Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Scleroderma Unit, Referral Center for Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano, Milan, Italy
- Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Klinik und Poliklinik für Dermatologie und Venerologie, Uniklinik Köln, Köln, Germany
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- Division of Rheumatology, University Hospitals Leuven and Skeletal Biology and Engineering Research Center, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Autoimmune Diseases, Hospital Clínic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, University of Szeged, Faculty of Medicine, Szeged, Hungary
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- Servicio de Reumatologia, Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica IMIBIC, Córdoba, Spain
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- Serviço de Imunologia EX-CICAP, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- UMR1227, Lymphocytes B et Autoimmunité, Université de Brest, Inserm, Labex IGO, Brest, France
- Rheumatology Department, Cavale Blanche Hospital, Brest, France
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- Immunology & Allergy, University Hospital and School of Medicine (HCUGE), Geneva, Switzerland
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- UMR1227, Lymphocytes B et Autoimmunité, Université de Brest, Inserm, Labex IGO, Brest, France
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- Instituto de Parasitologia y Biomedicina Lopez-Neyra, Granada, Spain
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- GENYO, Centre for Genomics and Oncological Research Pfizer, University of Granada, Andalusian Regional Government, PTS GRANADA, Granada, Spain
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- Instituto de Parasitologia y Biomedicina Lopez-Neyra, Granada, Spain
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Richard M, Decamps C, Chuffart F, Brambilla E, Rousseaux S, Khochbin S, Jost D. PenDA, a rank-based method for personalized differential analysis: Application to lung cancer. PLoS Comput Biol 2020; 16:e1007869. [PMID: 32392248 PMCID: PMC7274464 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2020] [Revised: 06/05/2020] [Accepted: 04/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The hopes of precision medicine rely on our capacity to measure various high-throughput genomic information of a patient and to integrate them for personalized diagnosis and adapted treatment. Reaching these ambitious objectives will require the development of efficient tools for the detection of molecular defects at the individual level. Here, we propose a novel method, PenDA, to perform Personalized Differential Analysis at the scale of a single sample. PenDA is based on the local ordering of gene expressions within individual cases and infers the deregulation status of genes in a sample of interest compared to a reference dataset. Based on realistic simulations of RNA-seq data of tumors, we showed that PenDA outcompetes existing approaches with very high specificity and sensitivity and is robust to normalization effects. Applying the method to lung cancer cohorts, we observed that deregulated genes in tumors exhibit a cancer-type-specific commitment towards up- or down-regulation. Based on the individual information of deregulation given by PenDA, we were able to define two new molecular histologies for lung adenocarcinoma cancers strongly correlated to survival. In particular, we identified 37 biomarkers whose up-regulation lead to bad prognosis and that we validated on two independent cohorts. PenDA provides a robust, generic tool to extract personalized deregulation patterns that can then be used for the discovery of therapeutic targets and for personalized diagnosis. An open-access, user-friendly R package is available at https://github.com/bcm-uga/penda. The hopes of precision medicine rely on our capacity to measure individual molecular information for personalized diagnosis and treatment. These challenging perspectives will be only possible with the development of efficient methodological tools to identify patient-specific molecular defects from the many precise molecular information that one can access at the single-individual, single tissue or even single-cell levels. Such methods will provide a better understanding of disease-specific biological mechanisms and will promote the development of personalized therapeutic strategies. Here we describe a novel method, named PenDA, to perform differential analysis of gene expression at the individual level. Based on a realistic benchmark of simulated tumors, we demonstrated that PenDA reaches very high efficiency in detecting sample-specific deregulated genes. We then applied the method to two large cohorts associated with lung cancer. A detailed statistical analysis of the results allowed to isolate genes with specific deregulation patterns, like genes that are up-regulated in all tumors or genes that are expressed but never deregulated in any tumors. Given their specificities, these genes are likely to be of interest in therapeutic research. In particular, we were able to identified 37 new biomarkers associated to bad prognosis that we validated on two independent cohorts.
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- Magali Richard
- Univ Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, TIMC-IMAG, Grenoble, France
- * E-mail: (MR); (DJ)
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- CNRS UMR 5309, Inserm U1209, Univ Grenoble Alpes, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Grenoble, France
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- CHUGA, Inserm U1209, Univ Grenoble Alpes, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Grenoble, France
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- CNRS UMR 5309, Inserm U1209, Univ Grenoble Alpes, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Grenoble, France
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- CNRS UMR 5309, Inserm U1209, Univ Grenoble Alpes, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Grenoble, France
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- Univ Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, TIMC-IMAG, Grenoble, France
- University of Lyon, ENS de Lyon, Univ Claude Bernard, CNRS, Laboratory of Biology and Modelling of the Cell, Lyon, France
- * E-mail: (MR); (DJ)
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Huang H, Zou Y, Zhang H, Li X, Li Y, Deng X, Sun H, Guo Z, Ao L. A qualitative transcriptional prognostic signature for patients with stage I-II pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Transl Res 2020; 219:30-44. [PMID: 32119844 DOI: 10.1016/j.trsl.2020.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2019] [Revised: 01/14/2020] [Accepted: 02/10/2020] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
Abstract
Accurately prognostic evaluation of patients with stage I-II pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is of importance to treatment decision and patient management. Most previously reported prognostic signatures were based on risk scores summarized from quantitative expression measurements of signature genes, which are susceptible to experimental batch effects and impractical for clinical applications. Based on the within-sample relative expression orderings of genes, we developed a robust qualitative transcriptional prognostic signature, consisting of 64 gene pairs (64-GPS), to predict the overall survival (OS) of 161 stage I-II PDAC patients in the training dataset who were treated with surgery only. Samples were classified into the high-risk group when at least 25 of 64 gene pairs suggested it was at high risk. The signature was successfully validated in 324 samples from 6 independent datasets produced by different laboratories. All samples in the low-risk group had significantly better OS than samples in the high-risk group. Multivariate Cox regression analyses showed that the 64-GPS remained significantly associated with the OS of patients after adjusting available clinical factors. Transcriptomic analysis of the 2 prognostic subgroups showed that the differential expression signals were highly reproducible in all datasets, whereas the differences between samples grouped by the TNM staging system were weak and irreproducible. The epigenomic analysis showed that the epigenetic alternations may cause consistently transcriptional changes between the 2 different prognostic groups. The genomic analysis revealed that mutation‑induced disturbances in several key genes, such as LRMDA, MAPK10, and CREBBP, might lead to poor prognosis for PDAC patients. Conclusively, the 64-GPS can robustly predict the prognosis of patients with stage I-II PDAC, which provides theoretical basis for clinical individualized treatment.
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- Haiyan Huang
- Department of Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
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- Department of Automation and Key Laboratory of China MOE for System Control and Information Processing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China; Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, Fujian Province, Fuzhou, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China; Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, Fujian Province, Fuzhou, China.
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Zhang ZM, Tan JX, Wang F, Dao FY, Zhang ZY, Lin H. Early Diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Using Machine Learning Method. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2020; 8:254. [PMID: 32292778 PMCID: PMC7122481 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2020.00254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2020] [Accepted: 03/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a serious cancer which ranked the fourth in cancer-related death worldwide. Hence, more accurate diagnostic models are urgently needed to aid the early HCC diagnosis under clinical scenarios and thus improve HCC treatment and survival. Several conventional methods have been used for discriminating HCC from cirrhosis tissues in patients without HCC (CwoHCC). However, the recognition successful rates are still far from satisfactory. In this study, we applied a computational approach that based on machine learning method to a set of microarray data generated from 1091 HCC samples and 242 CwoHCC samples. The within-sample relative expression orderings (REOs) method was used to extract numerical descriptors from gene expression profiles datasets. After removing the unrelated features by using maximum redundancy minimum relevance (mRMR) with incremental feature selection, we achieved “11-gene-pair” which could produce outstanding results. We further investigated the discriminate capability of the “11-gene-pair” for HCC recognition on several independent datasets. The wonderful results were obtained, demonstrating that the selected gene pairs can be signature for HCC. The proposed computational model can discriminate HCC and adjacent non-cancerous tissues from CwoHCC even for minimum biopsy specimens and inaccurately sampled specimens, which can be practical and effective for aiding the early HCC diagnosis at individual level.
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- Zi-Mei Zhang
- Key Laboratory for Neuro-Information of Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- Key Laboratory for Neuro-Information of Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- Key Laboratory for Neuro-Information of Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- Key Laboratory for Neuro-Information of Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- Key Laboratory for Neuro-Information of Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- Key Laboratory for Neuro-Information of Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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He J, Cheng J, Guan Q, Yan H, Li Y, Zhao W, Guo Z, Wang X. Qualitative transcriptional signature for predicting pathological response of colorectal cancer to FOLFOX therapy. Cancer Sci 2019; 111:253-265. [PMID: 31785020 PMCID: PMC6942442 DOI: 10.1111/cas.14263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2019] [Revised: 11/20/2019] [Accepted: 11/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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FOLFOX (5‐fluorouracil, leucovorin and oxaliplatin) is one of the main chemotherapy regimens for colorectal cancer (CRC), but only half of CRC patients respond to this regimen. Using gene expression profiles of 96 metastatic CRC patients treated with FOLFOX, we first selected gene pairs whose within‐sample relative expression orderings (REO) were significantly associated with the response to FOLFOX using the exact binomial test. Then, from these gene pairs, we applied an optimization procedure to obtain a subset that achieved the largest F‐score in predicting pathological response of CRC to FOLFOX. The REO‐based qualitative transcriptional signature, consisting of five gene pairs, was developed in the training dataset consisting of 96 samples with an F‐score of 0.90. In an independent test dataset consisting of 25 samples with the response information, an F‐score of 0.82 was obtained. In three other independent survival datasets, the predicted responders showed significantly better progression‐free survival than the predicted non‐responders. In addition, the signature showed a better predictive performance than two published FOLFOX signatures across different datasets and is more suitable for CRC patients treated with FOLFOX than 5‐fluorouracil‐based signatures. In conclusion, the REO‐based qualitative transcriptional signature can accurately identify metastatic CRC patients who may benefit from the FOLFOX regimen.
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- Jun He
- Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, The School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, The School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, The School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.,Henan Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine for Respiratory Disease, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, China.,Co-construction Collaborative Innovation Center for Chinese Medicine and Respiratory Diseases by Henan & Education Ministry of P.R. China, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, China.,Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, The School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, The School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
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- Department of Systems Biology, College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, The School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Medical Bioinformatics, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, The School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
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