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ArticleCancers2020

Computational Identification of Gene Networks as a Biomarker of Neuroblastoma Risk.

Lidan Sun, Libo Jiang, Christa N Grant, Hong-Gang Wang, Claudia Gragnoli, Zhenqiu Liu, Rongling Wu

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Article in Cancers, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Lidan SunBeijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China.
Libo JiangBeijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China.
Christa N GrantDivision of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4940-4765
Hong-Gang WangDivision of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17022, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0551-0571
Claudia GragnoliDepartment of Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.
Zhenqiu LiuDepartment of Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.
Rongling WuDepartment of Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2334-6421
Pennsylvania State University · USPenn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center · USBeijing Forestry University · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neuroblastoma is a common cancer in children, affected by a number of genes that interact with each other through intricate but coordinated networks. Traditional approaches can only reconstruct a single regulatory network that is topologically not informative enough to explain the complexity of neuroblastoma risk. We implemented and modified an advanced model for recovering informative, omnidirectional, dynamic, and personalized networks (idopNetworks) from static gene expression data for neuroblastoma risk. We analyzed 3439 immune genes of neuroblastoma for 217 high-risk patients and 30 low-risk patients by which to reconstruct large patient-specific idopNetworks. By converting these networks into risk-specific representations, we found that the shift in patients from a low to high risk or from a high to low risk might be due to the reciprocal change of hub regulators. By altering the directions of regulation exerted by these hubs, it may be possible to reduce a high risk to a low risk. Results from a holistic, systems-oriented paradigm through idopNetworks can potentially enable oncologists to experimentally identify the biomarkers of neuroblastoma and other cancers.

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gene co-regulationgene regulatory networkhubidopNetworkneuroblastoma

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PMID32731407
PMCPMC7465094
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