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ArticleAging2020

TCGA and ESTIMATE data mining to identify potential prognostic biomarkers in HCC patients.

Guolin He, Shunjun Fu, Yang Li, Ting Li, Purong Mei, Lei Feng, Lei Cai, Yuan Cheng, Chenjie Zhou, Yujun Tang and 5 more

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Article in Aging, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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15 authors.

Guolin HeDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, China.
Shunjun FuDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, China.
Yang LiDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, China.
Ting LiDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, China.
Purong MeiDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, China.
Lei FengDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, China.
Lei CaiDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, China.
Yuan ChengDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, China.
Chenjie ZhouDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, China.
Yujun TangDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, China.
Wenbin HuangDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, China.
Haiyan LiuDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, China.
Bohong CenDepartment of Pharmacy, Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, Guangdong, China.
Mingxin PanDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, China.
Yi GaoDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is an aggressive form of cancer characterized by a high recurrence rate following resection. Studies have implicated stromal and immune cells, which form part of the tumor microenvironment, as significant contributors to the poor prognoses of HCC patients. In the present study, we first downloaded gene expression datasets for HCC patients from The Cancer Genome Atlas database and categorized the patients into low and high stromal or immune score groups. By comparing those groups, we identified differentially expressed genes significantly associated with HCC prognosis. The Gene Ontology database was then used to perform functional enrichment analysis, and the STRING network database was used to construct protein-protein interaction networks. Our results show that most of the differentially expressed genes were involved in immune processes and responses and the plasma membrane. Those results were then validated using another a dataset from a HCC cohort in the Gene Expression Omnibus database and in 10 pairs of HCC tumor tissue and adjacent nontumor tissue. These findings enabled us to identify several tumor microenvironment-related genes that associate with HCC prognosis, and some those appear to have the potential to serve as HCC biomarkers.

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AlgorithmsGene Expression ProfilingTranscriptomeBiomarkers, TumorCarcinoma, HepatocellularDatabases, GeneticData MiningDisease-Free SurvivalGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGene Regulatory NetworksHumansLiver NeoplasmsPredictive Value of TestsProtein Interaction MapsSignal TransductionStromal CellsBiomarkers, Tumordisease-free survivalGEOimmune scoresTCGAtumor microenvironment

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PMID33177245
PMCPMC7695391

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