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ArticleNucleic acids research2016

Prior knowledge transfer across transcriptional data sets and technologies using compositional statistics yields new mislabelled ovarian cell line.

Jaine K Blayney, Timothy Davison, Nuala McCabe, Steven Walker, Karen Keating, Thomas Delaney, Caroline Greenan, Alistair R Williams, W Glenn McCluggage, Amanda Capes-Davis and 3 more

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Jaine K BlayneyCentre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen's University, Belfast, BT9 7BL, UK j.blayney@qub.ac.uk.
Timothy DavisonCentre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen's University, Belfast, BT9 7BL, UK Almac Diagnostics, Craigavon, BT63 5QD, UK.
Nuala McCabeCentre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen's University, Belfast, BT9 7BL, UK Almac Diagnostics, Craigavon, BT63 5QD, UK.
Steven WalkerCentre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen's University, Belfast, BT9 7BL, UK Almac Diagnostics, Craigavon, BT63 5QD, UK.
Karen KeatingAlmac Diagnostics, Craigavon, BT63 5QD, UK.
Thomas DelaneyAlmac Diagnostics, Craigavon, BT63 5QD, UK.
Caroline GreenanCentre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen's University, Belfast, BT9 7BL, UK Almac Diagnostics, Craigavon, BT63 5QD, UK.
Alistair R WilliamsDepartment of Pathology, The University of Edinburgh, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, EH16 4SA, UK.
W Glenn McCluggageCentre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen's University, Belfast, BT9 7BL, UK Department of Pathology, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Belfast, BT12 6BA, UK.
Amanda Capes-DavisCellBank Australia, Children's Medical Research Institute, University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW, Australia.
D Paul HarkinCentre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen's University, Belfast, BT9 7BL, UK Almac Diagnostics, Craigavon, BT63 5QD, UK.
Charlie GourleyEdinburgh Cancer Research Centre, The University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, EH4 2XR, UK.
Richard D KennedyCentre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen's University, Belfast, BT9 7BL, UK Almac Diagnostics, Craigavon, BT63 5QD, UK.
Almac (United Kingdom) · GBQueen's University Belfast · GBBelfast Health and Social Care Trust · GBChildren's Medical Research Institute · AUEdinburgh Cancer Research · GBUniversity of Edinburgh · GB

Funding

Chief Scientist Office ETM/92
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Here, we describe gene expression compositional assignment (GECA), a powerful, yet simple method based on compositional statistics that can validate the transfer of prior knowledge, such as gene lists, into independent data sets, platforms and technologies. Transcriptional profiling has been used to derive gene lists that stratify patients into prognostic molecular subgroups and assess biomarker performance in the pre-clinical setting. Archived public data sets are an invaluable resource for subsequent in silico validation, though their use can lead to data integration issues. We show that GECA can be used without the need for normalising expression levels between data sets and can outperform rank-based correlation methods. To validate GECA, we demonstrate its success in the cross-platform transfer of gene lists in different domains including: bladder cancer staging, tumour site of origin and mislabelled cell lines. We also show its effectiveness in transferring an epithelial ovarian cancer prognostic gene signature across technologies, from a microarray to a next-generation sequencing setting. In a final case study, we predict the tumour site of origin and histopathology of epithelial ovarian cancer cell lines. In particular, we identify and validate the commonly-used cell line OVCAR-5 as non-ovarian, being gastrointestinal in origin. GECA is available as an open-source R package.

Indexed as

Databases, GeneticStaining and LabelingTranscription, GeneticCarcinoma, Ovarian EpithelialCell Line, TumorFemaleGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansNeoplasms, Glandular and EpithelialNeoplasm StagingOvarian NeoplasmsPrognosisStatistics as Topic

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PMID27353327
PMCPMC5041471
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