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ArticleOncology letters2018

Two protein-coding genes act as a novel clinical signature to predict prognosis in patients with ovarian serous cystadenocarcinoma.

Jue Zhang, Meng Xu, Han Gao, Jin-Chen Guo, Yu-Lin Guo, Miao Zou, Xu-Feng Wu

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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 10 papers.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jue ZhangDepartment of Gynecology, Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Hubei Province, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, P.R. China.
Meng XuDepartment of Gynecology, Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Hubei Province, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, P.R. China.
Han GaoDepartment of Gynecology, Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Hubei Province, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, P.R. China.
Jin-Chen GuoShantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong 515041, P.R. China.
Yu-Lin GuoDepartment of Gynecology, Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Hubei Province, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, P.R. China.
Miao ZouDepartment of Gynecology, Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Hubei Province, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, P.R. China.
Xu-Feng WuDepartment of Gynecology, Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Hubei Province, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, P.R. China.
Hubei Provincial Women and Children's Hospital · CNShantou University Medical College · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ovarian cancer is the seventh most common type of cancer and the eighth most common cause of cancer-associated mortality among women. A number of studies have hypothesized that the expression status of certain genes may be used to predict prognosis in ovarian cancer. In the present study, the RNA expression data from next-generation sequencing and the clinical information of 413 patients from The Cancer Genome Atlas dataset was downloaded to identify the association between gene-expression level and the survival time of the patients with ovarian serous cystadenocarcinoma. A five-gene model was predicted to be significantly associated with patient survival in ovarian serous cystadenocarcinoma by using random survival forests variable hunting algorithm and Cox analysis. A total of two genes, mesencephalic astrocyte-derived neurotrophic factor and dedicator of cytokinesis 11, of the predicted five genes demonstrated positive expression in the ovarian serous cystadenocarcinoma cancer tissues by polymerase chain reaction analysis. Kaplan-Meier and Receiver Operating Characteristic analysis confirmed that the model of the two genes exhibited high sensitivity and specificity to predict the prognostic survival of patients. In conclusion, the expression of the two genes in the two-gene model was associated with the prognostic outcomes of patients with ovarian serous cystadenocarcinoma; the model demonstrated potential as a novel prognostic indicator, which may have important clinical significance.

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biomarkergene expressionovarian serous cystadenocarcinomarandom survival forests variable hunting algorithmsurvival

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