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ArticlePloS one2011

A signature inferred from Drosophila mitotic genes predicts survival of breast cancer patients.

Christian Damasco, Antonio Lembo, Maria Patrizia Somma, Maurizio Gatti, Ferdinando Di Cunto, Paolo Provero

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Article in PloS one, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Christian DamascoMolecular Biotechnology Center and Department of Genetics, Biology and Biochemistry, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
Antonio Lembo
Maria Patrizia Somma
Maurizio Gatti
Ferdinando Di Cunto
Paolo Provero
Biotechnology Research Center · IRUniversity of Turin · ITInstitute of Molecular Biology and Pathology · ITIstituto di Biologia e Biotecnologia Agraria · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionThe classification of breast cancer patients into risk groups provides a powerful tool for the identification of patients who will benefit from aggressive systemic therapy. The analysis of microarray data has generated several gene expression signatures that improve diagnosis and allow risk assessment. There is also evidence that cell proliferation-related genes have a high predictive power within these signatures.

methodsWe thus constructed a gene expression signature (the DM signature) using the human orthologues of 108 Drosophila melanogaster genes required for either the maintenance of chromosome integrity (36 genes) or mitotic division (72 genes).

resultsThe DM signature has minimal overlap with the extant signatures and is highly predictive of survival in 5 large breast cancer datasets. In addition, we show that the DM signature outperforms many widely used breast cancer signatures in predictive power, and performs comparably to other proliferation-based signatures. For most genes of the DM signature, an increased expression is negatively correlated with patient survival. The genes that provide the highest contribution to the predictive power of the DM signature are those involved in cytokinesis.

conclusionThis finding highlights cytokinesis as an important marker in breast cancer prognosis and as a possible target for antimitotic therapies.

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Gene Expression ProfilingAdultAnimalsBiomarkers, TumorBreast NeoplasmsCarcinomaComputational BiologyDrosophila melanogasterFemaleGenes, InsectHumansMiddle AgedMitosisPredictive Value of TestsPrognosisReproducibility of ResultsBiomarkers, Tumor

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PMCPMC3046113
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