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ArticleOncology letters2018

Analysis of expression profile data identifies key genes and pathways in hepatocellular carcinoma.

Xuwei Jiang, Yuqing Hao

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Article in Oncology letters, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Xuwei JiangDepartment of General Surgery, Shanghai, Baoshan District Hospital of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine, Shanghai 201900, P.R. China.
Yuqing HaoDepartment of General Surgery, Shanghai, Baoshan District Hospital of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine, Shanghai 201900, P.R. China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aims of the present study were to identify key genes and pathways associated with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) progression and predict compounds potentially associated with this type of carcinogenesis. The gene expression profile data of the GSE49515 dataset was obtained from the Gene Expression Omnibus database. The limma software package was used to identify the differentially expressed genes (DEGs). Gene Ontology and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes pathway enrichment analyses were performed using the Biological Networks Gene Ontology tool and the Database for Annotation, Visualization and Integrated Discovery, respectively. The Michigan Molecular Interactions database plugin within the Cytoscape software platform was used to perform protein-protein interaction (PPI) network analysis. Chemical-gene interaction data for HCC were obtained from the Comparative Toxicogenomics Database to evaluate the associations between drugs and specific genes. A total of 302 DEGs, including 231 downregulated and 71 upregulated, were identified. Cytokine-cytokine receptor interaction and chemokine signaling were the significantly enriched pathways. Additionally, PPI network analysis indicated a total of 13 highest degree hub nodes, including FBJ murine osteosarcoma viral oncogene homolog (FOS) and DNA damage-inducible transcript 3 protein (DDIT3). Chemical-gene interaction analysis revealed that

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differentially expressed genesgene-drug interactionhepatocellular carcinomakyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes pathway analysisprotein-protein interaction network

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PMID29434983
PMCPMC5777365
OpenAlexW2771993991

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