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ArticleNucleic acids research2017

De novo pathway-based biomarker identification.

Nicolas Alcaraz, Markus List, Richa Batra, Fabio Vandin, Henrik J Ditzel, Jan Baumbach

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2017. 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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Nicolas AlcarazDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, 5230 Odense, Denmark.
Markus ListComputational Biology and Applied Algorithms, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarland Informatics Campus, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany.
Richa BatraInstitute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, 85764 Munich, Germany.
Fabio VandinDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, 5230 Odense, Denmark.
Henrik J DitzelDepartment of Cancer and Inflammation Research, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, 5000 Odense, Denmark.
Jan BaumbachDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, 5230 Odense, Denmark.

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Abstract

Gene expression profiles have been extensively discussed as an aid to guide the therapy by predicting disease outcome for the patients suffering from complex diseases, such as cancer. However, prediction models built upon single-gene (SG) features show poor stability and performance on independent datasets. Attempts to mitigate these drawbacks have led to the development of network-based approaches that integrate pathway information to produce meta-gene (MG) features. Also, MG approaches have only dealt with the two-class problem of good versus poor outcome prediction. Stratifying patients based on their molecular subtypes can provide a detailed view of the disease and lead to more personalized therapies. We propose and discuss a novel MG approach based on de novo pathways, which for the first time have been used as features in a multi-class setting to predict cancer subtypes. Comprehensive evaluation in a large cohort of breast cancer samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) revealed that MGs are considerably more stable than SG models, while also providing valuable insight into the cancer hallmarks that drive them. In addition, when tested on an independent benchmark non-TCGA dataset, MG features consistently outperformed SG models. We provide an easy-to-use web service at http://pathclass.compbio.sdu.dk where users can upload their own gene expression datasets from breast cancer studies and obtain the subtype predictions from all the classifiers.

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Biomarkers, TumorBreast NeoplasmsDNA MethylationFemaleGene Expression ProfilingGenes, NeoplasmHumansBiomarkers, Tumor

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PMID28934488
PMCPMC5766193

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