Investigating the clinical role and prognostic value of genes related to insulin-like growth factor signaling pathway in thyroid cancer

BACKGROUND: Thyroid cancer (THCA) is the most common endocrine malignancy having a female predominance. The insulin-like growth factor (IGF) pathway contributed to the unregulated cell proliferation in multiple malignancies. We aimed to explore the IGF-related signature for THCA prognosis.

METHOD: The TCGA-THCA dataset was collected from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) for screening of key prognostic genes. The limma R package was applied for differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and the clusterProfiler R package was used for the Gene Ontology (GO) and KEGG analysis of DEGs. Then, the un/multivariate and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (Lasso) Cox regression analysis was used for the establishment of RiskScore model. Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis was used to verify the model's predictive performance. CIBERSORT and MCP-counter algorithms were applied for immune infiltration analysis. Finally, we analyzed the mutation features and the correlation between the RiskScore and cancer hallmark pathway by using the GSEA.

RESULT: We obtained 5 key RiskScore model genes for patient's risk stratification from the 721 DEGs. ROC analysis indicated that our model is an ideal classifier, the high-risk patients are associated with the poor prognosis, immune infiltration, high tumor mutation burden (TMB), stronger cancer stemness and stronger correlation with the typical cancer-activation pathways. A nomogram combined with multiple clinical features was developed and exhibited excellent performance upon long-term survival quantitative prediction.

CONCLUSIONS: We constructed an excellent prognostic model RiskScore based on IGF-related signature and concluded that the IGF signal pathway may become a reliable prognostic phenotype in THCA intervention.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:16

Enthalten in:

Aging - 16(2024), 3 vom: 07. Feb., Seite 2934-2952

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Liu, Junyan [VerfasserIn]
Miao, Xin [VerfasserIn]
Yao, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Wan, Zheng [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Xiaodong [VerfasserIn]
Tian, Wen [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Insulin-Like Peptides
Insulin-like growth factor
Journal Article
Prognosis
RiskScore
Survival
Thyroid cancer

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Date Completed 22.02.2024

Date Revised 06.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.18632/aging.205524

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM368186660