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ArticleAging2021

Tumor microenvironment characterization in triple-negative breast cancer identifies prognostic gene signature.

Yan Qin, Jiehua Deng, Lihua Zhang, Jiaxing Yuan, Huawei Yang, Qiuyun Li

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Article in Aging, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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Yan QinDepartment of Breast Surgery, Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning 530021, Guangxi, People's Republic of China.
Jiehua DengDepartment of Breast Surgery, Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning 530021, Guangxi, People's Republic of China.
Lihua ZhangDepartment of Breast Surgery, Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning 530021, Guangxi, People's Republic of China.
Jiaxing YuanDepartment of Breast Surgery, Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning 530021, Guangxi, People's Republic of China.
Huawei YangDepartment of Breast Surgery, Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning 530021, Guangxi, People's Republic of China.
Qiuyun LiDepartment of Breast Surgery, Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning 530021, Guangxi, People's Republic of China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We aimed to elucidate the landscape of tumor microenvironment (TME) in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Cohorts from Gene Expression Omnibus database (N = 107) and METABRIC (N = 299) were used as the training set and validation set, respectively. TME was evaluated via single-sample gene set enrichment analysis, and unsupervised clustering was used for cluster identification. Consequently, TNBC was classified into two distinct TME clusters (Cluster 1 and Cluster 2) according to predefined immune-related terms. Cluster 1 was characterized by low immune infiltration with poor prognosis; whereas, Cluster 2 was characterized by high immune infiltration with better survival probability. Further, Cluster 1 had larger tumor volumes, while Cluster 2 had smaller tumor volumes. Finally, a TME signature for prognosis stratification in TNBC was developed and validated. In summary, we comprehensively evaluated the TME of TNBC and constructed a TME signature that correlated with prognosis. Our results provide new insights for the immunotherapy of TNBC.

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TranscriptomeAdultAgedCluster AnalysisFemaleGene Expression ProfilingHumansLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingMiddle AgedNeoplasm StagingPrognosisReproducibility of ResultsTriple Negative Breast NeoplasmsTumor BurdenTumor MicroenvironmentUnsupervised Machine Learningimmune checkpointtriple-negative breast cancertumor microenvironment

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