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ArticlePloS one2010

A comparative analysis of gene-expression data of multiple cancer types.

Kun Xu, Juan Cui, Victor Olman, Qing Yang, David Puett, Ying Xu

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Article in PloS one, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. FUT11 as a potential biomarker of clear cell renal cell carcinoma progression based on meta-analysis of gene expression data.Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine · 2014
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  2. Open Data for Differential Network Analysis in Glioma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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6 authors.

Kun XuDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America.
Juan Cui
Victor Olman
Qing Yang
David Puett
Ying Xu

Funding

Structure Prediction of Helical Transmembrane ProteinsR01GM075331 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI XU, YING · 2007 to 2010
$1.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS 1R01GM075331NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM075331
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A comparative study of public gene-expression data of seven types of cancers (breast, colon, kidney, lung, pancreatic, prostate and stomach cancers) was conducted with the aim of deriving marker genes, along with associated pathways, that are either common to multiple types of cancers or specific to individual cancers. The analysis results indicate that (a) each of the seven cancer types can be distinguished from its corresponding control tissue based on the expression patterns of a small number of genes, e.g., 2, 3 or 4; (b) the expression patterns of some genes can distinguish multiple cancer types from their corresponding control tissues, potentially serving as general markers for all or some groups of cancers; (c) the proteins encoded by some of these genes are predicted to be blood secretory, thus providing potential cancer markers in blood; (d) the numbers of differentially expressed genes across different cancer types in comparison with their control tissues correlate well with the five-year survival rates associated with the individual cancers; and (e) some metabolic and signaling pathways are abnormally activated or deactivated across all cancer types, while other pathways are more specific to certain cancers or groups of cancers. The novel findings of this study offer considerable insight into these seven cancer types and have the potential to provide exciting new directions for diagnostic and therapeutic development.

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Gene Expression ProfilingHumansNeoplasmsOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisSurvival Rate

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PMID21060876
PMCPMC2965162

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