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ArticlePloS one2016

Identification of Cancer Related Genes Using a Comprehensive Map of Human Gene Expression.

Aurora Torrente, Margus Lukk, Vincent Xue, Helen Parkinson, Johan Rung, Alvis Brazma

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Article in PloS one, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Aurora TorrenteInstituto Gregorio Millán, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Madrid, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9183-8367
Margus LukkCancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Vincent XueMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Helen ParkinsonEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, United Kingdom.
Johan RungDepartment of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Clinical Sequencing Facility, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala, Sweden.
Alvis BrazmaEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, United Kingdom.
European Bioinformatics Institute · GBMassachusetts Institute of Technology · USScience for Life Laboratory · SEUniversity of Cambridge · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rapid accumulation and availability of gene expression datasets in public repositories have enabled large-scale meta-analyses of combined data. The richness of cross-experiment data has provided new biological insights, including identification of new cancer genes. In this study, we compiled a human gene expression dataset from ∼40,000 publicly available Affymetrix HG-U133Plus2 arrays. After strict quality control and data normalisation the data was quantified in an expression matrix of ∼20,000 genes and ∼28,000 samples. To enable different ways of sample grouping, existing annotations where subjected to systematic ontology assisted categorisation and manual curation. Groups like normal tissues, neoplasmic tissues, cell lines, homoeotic cells and incompletely differentiated cells were created. Unsupervised analysis of the data confirmed global structure of expression consistent with earlier analysis but with more details revealed due to increased resolution. A suitable mixed-effects linear model was used to further investigate gene expression in solid tissue tumours, and to compare these with the respective healthy solid tissues. The analysis identified 1,285 genes with systematic expression change in cancer. The list is significantly enriched with known cancer genes from large, public, peer-reviewed databases, whereas the remaining ones are proposed as new cancer gene candidates. The compiled dataset is publicly available in the ArrayExpress Archive. It contains the most diverse collection of biological samples, making it the largest systematically annotated gene expression dataset of its kind in the public domain.

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Gene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticBiomarkers, TumorCell CycleCell DifferentiationCell DivisionComputational BiologyDatabases, GeneticDNA ReplicationHumansNeoplasm ProteinsNeoplasmsOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisPrincipal Component AnalysisProtein Array AnalysisBiomarkers, TumorNeoplasm Proteins

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PMID27322383
PMCPMC4913919
OpenAlexW2471304467

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