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ArticleScientific reports2015

Systems biology approach to studying proliferation-dependent prognostic subnetworks in breast cancer.

Qianqian Song, Hongyan Wang, Jiguang Bao, Ashok K Pullikuth, King C Li, Lance D Miller, Xiaobo Zhou

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Qianqian Song1] Division of Radiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA. [2] School of Mathematical Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, P R China.
Hongyan WangDivision of Radiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.
Jiguang BaoSchool of Mathematical Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, P R China.
Ashok K PullikuthDepartment of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, 27157, USA.
King C LiDivision of Radiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.
Lance D MillerDepartment of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, 27157, USA.
Xiaobo Zhou1] Division of Radiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA. [2] Department of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, 27157, USA.

Funding

Modelling the Growth of the MIC Niche at the System LevelU01CA166886 · NCI · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI ZHOU, XIAOBO · 2012 to 2016
$2.2M
System Biology Approach for Signaling Transduction Study of Complex PhenotypesR01LM010185 · NLM · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI ZHOU, XIAOBO, ZU, YOULI · 2009 to 2012
$1.3M
NCI NIH HHS U01 CA166886NCI NIH HHS U01CA166886NLM NIH HHS R01 LM010185NLM NIH HHS R01LM010185
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tumor proliferative capacity is a major biological correlate of breast tumor metastatic potential. In this paper, we developed a systems approach to investigate associations among gene expression patterns, representative protein-protein interactions, and the potential for clinical metastases, to uncover novel survival-related subnetwork signatures as a function of tumor proliferative potential. Based on the statistical associations between gene expression patterns and patient outcomes, we identified three groups of survival prognostic subnetwork signatures (SPNs) corresponding to three proliferation levels. We discovered 8 SPNs in the high proliferation group, 8 SPNs in the intermediate proliferation group, and 6 SPNs in the low proliferation group. We observed little overlap of SPNs between the three proliferation groups. The enrichment analysis revealed that most SPNs were enriched in distinct signaling pathways and biological processes. The SPNs were validated on other cohorts of patients, and delivered high accuracy in the classification of metastatic vs non-metastatic breast tumors. Our findings indicate that certain biological networks underlying breast cancer metastasis differ in a proliferation-dependent manner. These networks, in combination, may form the basis of highly accurate prognostic classification models and may have clinical utility in guiding therapeutic options for patients.

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AlgorithmsBreast NeoplasmsDatabases, FactualFemaleHumansKaplan-Meier EstimateOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisPrognosisProtein Interaction MapsTranscriptome

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PMCPMC4530341

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