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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2018

Pathway Instability Is an Effective New Mutation-Based Type of Cancer Biomarkers.

Marianna A Zolotovskaia, Maxim I Sorokin, Sergey A Roumiantsev, Nikolay M Borisov, Anton A Buzdin

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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Marianna A ZolotovskaiaDepartment of Oncology, Hematology and Radiotherapy of Pediatric Faculty, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia.
Maxim I SorokinThe Laboratory of Clinical Bioinformatics, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia.
Sergey A RoumiantsevDepartment of Oncology, Hematology and Radiotherapy of Pediatric Faculty, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia.
Nikolay M BorisovOncobox Ltd., Moscow, Russia.
Anton A BuzdinThe Laboratory of Clinical Bioinformatics, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia.

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Abstract

DNA mutations play a crucial role in cancer development and progression. Mutation profiles vary dramatically in different cancer types and between individual tumors. Mutations of several individual genes are known as reliable cancer biomarkers, although the number of such genes is tiny and does not enable differential diagnostics for most of the cancers. We report here a technique enabling dramatically increased efficiency of cancer biomarkers development using DNA mutations data. It includes a quantitative metric termed Pathway instability (PI) based on mutations enrichment of intracellular molecular pathways. This method was tested on 5,956 tumor mutation profiles of 15 cancer types from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project. Totally, we screened 2,316,670 mutations in 19,872 genes and 1,748 molecular pathways. Our results demonstrated considerable advantage of pathway-based mutation biomarkers over individual gene mutation profiles, as reflected by more than two orders of magnitude greater numbers by high-quality [ROC area-under-curve (AUC)>0.75] biomarkers. For example, the number of such high-quality mutational biomarkers distinguishing between different cancer types was only six for the individual gene mutations, and already 660 for the pathway-based biomarkers. These results evidence that PI value can be used as a new generation of complex cancer biomarkers significantly outperforming the existing gene mutation biomarkers.

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biomarkercancerDNA mutationmolecular pathwayspathway instability

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PMCPMC6328788

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