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ArticleScientific reports2016

Integrative Genomics and Transcriptomics Analysis Reveals Potential Mechanisms for Favorable Prognosis of Patients with HPV-Positive Head and Neck Carcinomas.

Wensheng Zhang, Andrea Edwards, Zhide Fang, Erik K Flemington, Kun Zhang

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Wensheng ZhangDepartment of Computer Science, Xavier University of Louisiana, 1 Drexel Drive, New Orleans LA 70125, USA.
Andrea EdwardsDepartment of Computer Science, Xavier University of Louisiana, 1 Drexel Drive, New Orleans LA 70125, USA.
Zhide FangBiostatistics Program, School of Public Health, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA.
Erik K FlemingtonTulane Health Sciences Center, Tulane Cancer Center, Tulane University, 1700 Tulane Ave, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA.
Kun ZhangDepartment of Computer Science, Xavier University of Louisiana, 1 Drexel Drive, New Orleans LA 70125, USA.
Xavier University of Louisiana · USLouisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans · USTulane University · US

Funding

Tracking & Evaluation CoreU54GM104940 · NIGMS · LSU PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CTR · PI AUGUSTO C. OCHOA · 2012 to 2026
$69.1M
Xavier's RCMI Cancer Research ProgramG12MD007595 · NIMHD · XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI D'AMOUR, GENE, WANG, GUANGDI · 2012 to 2018
$15.7M
Epstein Barr virus antisense transcriptionR01AI106676 · NIAID · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI FLEMINGTON, ERIK K · 2014 to 2018
$1.9M
Intercellular communication in Epstein Barr virus reactivationR01AI101046 · NIAID · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI FLEMINGTON, ERIK K · 2012 to 2016
$1.9M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI101046NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI106676NIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM104940NIMHD NIH HHS G12 MD007595
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patients with HPV-positive head neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC) usually have a better prognosis than the HPV-negative cases while the underlying mechanism remains far from being well understood. We investigated this issue by an integrative analysis of clinically-annotated multi-omics HNSCC data released by the Cancer Genome Atlas. As confirmatory results, we found: (1) Co-occurrence of mutant TP53 and HPV infection was rare; (2) Regardless of HPV status, HNSCCs of wild-type TP53 implied a good survival chance for patients and had fewer genome-wide somatic mutations than those with a mutation burden on the gene. Our analysis further led to some novel observations. They included: (1) The genes involved in "DNA mismatch repair" pathway were up-regulated in HPV-positive tumors compared to normal tissue samples and HPV-negative cases, and thus constituted a strong predictive signature for the identification of HPV infection; (2) HPV infection could disrupt some regulatory miRNA-mRNA correlations operational in the HPV-negative tumors. In light of these results, we proposed a hypothesis for the favorable clinical outcomes of HPV-positive HNSCC patients. That is, the replication of HPV genome and/or its invasion into the genomes of cancer cells may enhance DNA repair mechanisms, which in turn limit the accumulation of lethal somatic mutations.

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Gene Expression ProfilingGenomicsCarcinoma, Squamous CellHead and Neck NeoplasmsHumansPapillomavirus InfectionsPrognosis

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PMID27108969
PMCPMC4842993
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