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ArticleCancer medicine2020

Genome-wide screening of abberant methylated drivers combined with relative risk loci in bladder cancer.

Chuanjie Zhang, Kangjie Shen, Yuxiao Zheng, Feng Qi, Jun Luo

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Chuanjie ZhangDepartment of Urology, Ruijin Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China.
Kangjie ShenFirst Clinical Medical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
Yuxiao ZhengDepartment of Urology, Jiangsu Cancer Hospital, Jiangsu Institute of Cancer Research, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
Feng QiDepartment of Urology, Jiangsu Cancer Hospital, Jiangsu Institute of Cancer Research, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1061-7058
Jun LuoDepartment of Urology, Shanghai Fourth People's Hospital affiliated to Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.ORCID 0000-0003-3090-9306
Jiangsu Cancer Hospital · CNNanjing Medical University · CNRuijin Hospital · CNTongji University · CN

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Abstract

backgroundTo explore important methylation-driven genes (MDGs) and risk loci to construct risk model for prognosis of bladder cancer (BCa).

methodsWe utilized TCGA-Assembler package to download 450K methylation data and corresponding transcriptome profiles. MethylMix package was used for identifying methylation-driven genes and functional analysis was mainly performed based on ConsensusPathDB database. Then, Cox regression method was utilized to find prognostic MDGs, and we selected 17 hub genes via stepwise regression and multivariate Cox models. Kruskal-Wallis test was implemented for comparisons between risk with other clinical variables. Moreover, we constructed the risk model and validated it in GSE13507. Gene set enrichment analysis was performed using the levels of risk score as the phenotype. Additionally, we further screened out the relative methylation sites associated with the 17 hub genes. Cox regression and Survival analysis were conducted to find the specifically prognostic sites.

resultsTwo hundred and twenty-eight MDGs were chosen by ConsensusPathDB database. Results revealed that most conspicuous pathways were transcriptional mis-regulation pathways in cancer and EMT. After Cox regression analysis, 17 hub epigenetic MDGs were identified. We calculated the risk score and found satisfactory predictive efficiency by ROC curve (AUC = 0.762). In the validation group from GSE13507, 17 hub genes remained higher predictive value with AUC = 0.723 and patients in high-risk group. Meanwhile, Kruskal-Wallis test revealed that higher risk score correlated with a higher level of TNM stage, tumor grade, and advanced pathological stages. Then, identified 38 risk methylated loci that highly associated with prognosis. Last, gene set enrichment analysis revealed that high-risk level of MDGs may correlate with several important pathways, including MAPK signaling pathway and so on.

conclusionOur study indicated several hub-MDGs, calculated novel risk score and explored the prognostic value in BCa, which provided a promising approach to BCA prognosis assessment.

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DNA MethylationEpigenomicsGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGenome, HumanAgedBiomarkers, TumorComputational BiologyEarly Detection of CancerFemaleFollow-Up StudiesGene Expression ProfilingGene Regulatory NetworksHumansMalePrognosisROC CurveBiomarkers, Tumorbladder cancer (BCa)genome-widemethylation-driven genes (MDGs)prognosis

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