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ArticleNucleic acids research2014

Isoform-level gene signature improves prognostic stratification and accurately classifies glioblastoma subtypes.

Sharmistha Pal, Yingtao Bi, Luke Macyszyn, Louise C Showe, Donald M O'Rourke, Ramana V Davuluri

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

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6 authors.

Sharmistha PalMolecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program, Wistar Cancer Center, Center for Systems and Computational Biology, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, USA and Department of Neurosurgery and Abramson Cancer Center, Penn Brain Tumor Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Yingtao Bi
Luke Macyszyn
Louise C Showe
Donald M O'Rourke
Ramana V Davuluri

Funding

Tumor Microenvironment and MetastasisP30CA010815 · NCI · WISTAR INSTITUTE · PI Maureen E. Murphy · 1985 to 2026
$75.9M
Informatics Platform for Mammalian Gene Regulation at Isoform-levelR01LM011297 · NLM · WISTAR INSTITUTE · PI DAVULURI, RAMANA V · 2013 to 2020
$2.4M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA010815NLM NIH HHS R01 LM011297NLM NIH HHS R01LM011297
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Molecular stratification of tumors is essential for developing personalized therapies. Although patient stratification strategies have been successful; computational methods to accurately translate the gene-signature from high-throughput platform to a clinically adaptable low-dimensional platform are currently lacking. Here, we describe PIGExClass (platform-independent isoform-level gene-expression based classification-system), a novel computational approach to derive and then transfer gene-signatures from one analytical platform to another. We applied PIGExClass to design a reverse transcriptase-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) based molecular-subtyping assay for glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most aggressive primary brain tumors. Unsupervised clustering of TCGA (the Cancer Genome Altas Consortium) GBM samples, based on isoform-level gene-expression profiles, recaptured the four known molecular subgroups but switched the subtype for 19% of the samples, resulting in significant (P = 0.0103) survival differences among the refined subgroups. PIGExClass derived four-class classifier, which requires only 121 transcript-variants, assigns GBM patients' molecular subtype with 92% accuracy. This classifier was translated to an RT-qPCR assay and validated in an independent cohort of 206 GBM samples. Our results demonstrate the efficacy of PIGExClass in the design of clinically adaptable molecular subtyping assay and have implications for developing robust diagnostic assays for cancer patient stratification.

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AdultAgedAlgorithmsBrain NeoplasmsFemaleGene Expression ProfilingGlioblastomaHumansMaleMiddle AgedPrognosisProtein IsoformsReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionProtein Isoforms

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PMID24503249
PMCPMC4005667

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