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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2020

Computational identification of biomarker genes for lung cancer considering treatment and non-treatment studies.

Mona Maharjan, Raihanul Bari Tanvir, Kamal Chowdhury, Wenrui Duan, Ananda Mohan Mondal

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mona MaharjanSchool of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
Raihanul Bari TanvirSchool of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
Kamal ChowdhurySchool of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Claflin University, Orangeburg, SC, USA.
Wenrui DuanDepartment of Human & Molecular Genetics, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
Ananda Mohan MondalSchool of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA. amondal@fiu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4005-9942
Florida International University · USClaflin University · US

Funding

National Science Foundation 1901628
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundLung cancer is the number one cancer killer in the world with more than 142,670 deaths estimated in the United States alone in the year 2019. Consequently, there is an overreaching need to identify the key biomarkers for lung cancer. The aim of this study is to computationally identify biomarker genes for lung cancer that can aid in its diagnosis and treatment. The gene expression profiles of two different types of studies, namely non-treatment and treatment, are considered for discovering biomarker genes. In non-treatment studies healthy samples are control and cancer samples are cases. Whereas, in treatment studies, controls are cancer cell lines without treatment and cases are cancer cell lines with treatment.

resultsThe Differentially Expressed Genes (DEGs) for lung cancer were isolated from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database using R software tool GEO2R. A total of 407 DEGs (254 upregulated and 153 downregulated) from non-treatment studies and 547 DEGs (133 upregulated and 414 downregulated) from treatment studies were isolated. Two Cytoscape apps, namely, CytoHubba and MCODE, were used for identifying biomarker genes from functional networks developed using DEG genes. This study discovered two distinct sets of biomarker genes - one from non-treatment studies and the other from treatment studies, each set containing 16 genes. Survival analysis results show that most non-treatment biomarker genes have prognostic capability by indicating low-expression groups have higher chance of survival compare to high-expression groups. Whereas, most treatment biomarkers have prognostic capability by indicating high-expression groups have higher chance of survival compare to low-expression groups.

conclusionA computational framework is developed to identify biomarker genes for lung cancer using gene expression profiles. Two different types of studies - non-treatment and treatment - are considered for experiment. Most of the biomarker genes from non-treatment studies are part of mitosis and play vital role in DNA repair and cell-cycle regulation. Whereas, most of the biomarker genes from treatment studies are associated to ubiquitination and cellular response to stress. This study discovered a list of biomarkers, which would help experimental scientists to design a lab experiment for further exploration of detail dynamics of lung cancer development.

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Biomarkers, TumorComputational BiologyGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGene OntologyGene Regulatory NetworksHumansLung NeoplasmsPrognosisProtein Interaction MapsSignal TransductionSurvival AnalysisBiomarkers, TumorBioinformaticsComputational identification of biomarkerLung cancer biomarkersNon-treatment studiesTreatment studies

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