Identification of breast cancer recurrence risk factors based on functional pathways in tumor and normal tissues

The recurrence of breast cancer (BC) is a serious therapeutic problem, and the risk factors for recurrence urgently need to be identified. In this study, we examined the functional pathways in tumor and normal tissues to more comprehensively identify biomarkers for the risk of BC recurrence. We collected tumor and normal tissue gene expression profiles of recurrent BC patients and non-recurrent BC patients from the TCGA database.We derived an expression interval (mean ± 1.96SD) based on non-recurrent patients rather than a single value, such as a mean or median. If the expression of a gene was significantly different from its normal expression interval, it was considered a differentially expressed gene. Eight pathways that significantly distinguished recurrent and non-recurrent BC patients were obtained based on 65% accuracy, and these pathways were all associated with the immune response and sensitivity to drugs. The genes in these eight pathways were also used to analyze survival, and the significance level reached 0.003 in an independent dataset (p = 0.02 in tumor and p = 0.03 in normal tissue). Our results reveal that the integration of tumor and normal tissue functional analyses can comprehensively enhance the understanding of BC prognosis.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

Enthalten in:

Oncotarget - 8(2017), 13 vom: 28. März, Seite 20679-20694

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chen, Xiujie [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Lei [VerfasserIn]
Wang, YunFeng [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Bo [VerfasserIn]
Zeng, Diheng [VerfasserIn]
Jin, Qing [VerfasserIn]
Li, MengJian [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, DeNan [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Qiuqi [VerfasserIn]
Xie, Hongbo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Biomarkers, Tumor
Breast cancer
Journal Article
Normal tissue
Recurrence
Risk factors
Tumor tissue

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Date Completed 26.09.2017

Date Revised 15.03.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.18632/oncotarget.11557

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM263783669