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ArticleBMC systems biology2011

In Silico discovery of transcription factors as potential diagnostic biomarkers of ovarian cancer.

Mandeep Kaur, Cameron R MacPherson, Sebastian Schmeier, Kothandaraman Narasimhan, Mahesh Choolani, Vladimir B Bajic

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Article in BMC systems biology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Mandeep KaurComputational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Cameron R MacPherson
Sebastian Schmeier
Kothandaraman Narasimhan
Mahesh Choolani
Vladimir B Bajic
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology · SAKing Abdulaziz University · SA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundOur study focuses on identifying potential biomarkers for diagnosis and early detection of ovarian cancer (OC) through the study of transcription regulation of genes affected by estrogen hormone.

resultsThe results are based on a set of 323 experimentally validated OC-associated genes compiled from several databases, and their subset controlled by estrogen. For these two gene sets we computationally determined transcription factors (TFs) that putatively regulate transcription initiation. We ranked these TFs based on the number of genes they are likely to control. In this way, we selected 17 top-ranked TFs as potential key regulators and thus possible biomarkers for a set of 323 OC-associated genes. For 77 estrogen controlled genes from this set we identified three unique TFs as potential biomarkers.

conclusionsWe introduced a new methodology to identify potential diagnostic biomarkers for OC. This report is the first bioinformatics study that explores multiple transcriptional regulators of OC-associated genes as potential diagnostic biomarkers in connection with estrogen responsiveness. We show that 64% of TF biomarkers identified in our study are validated based on real-time data from microarray expression studies. As an illustration, our method could identify CP2 that in combination with CA125 has been reported to be sensitive in diagnosing ovarian tumors.

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Transcription FactorsBinding SitesBiomarkers, TumorComputational BiologyEstrogensFemaleGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGenes, NeoplasmHumansOvarian NeoplasmsPromoter Regions, GeneticBiomarkers, TumorEstrogensTranscription Factors

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PMID21923952
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