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ArticleNPJ systems biology and applications2021

Inference of phenotype-relevant transcriptional regulatory networks elucidates cancer type-specific regulatory mechanisms in a pan-cancer study.

Amin Emad, Saurabh Sinha

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Article in NPJ systems biology and applications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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Amin EmadDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. amin.emad@mcgill.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5108-4887
Saurabh SinhaCarl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. sinhas@illinois.edu.

Funding

TRAININGU54GM114838 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI SINHA, SAURABH, SONG, JUN S · 2014 to 2017
$10.8M
Quantitative Regulatory Genomics: Networks, CIS-Regulatorycodes, and Phenotypic VariationR35GM131819 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI SINHA, SAURABH · 2019 to 2023
$1.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM131819NIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM114838
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reconstruction of transcriptional regulatory networks (TRNs) is a powerful approach to unravel the gene expression programs involved in healthy and disease states of a cell. However, these networks are usually reconstructed independent of the phenotypic (or clinical) properties of the samples. Therefore, they may confound regulatory mechanisms that are specifically related to a phenotypic property with more general mechanisms underlying the full complement of the analyzed samples. In this study, we develop a method called InPheRNo to identify "phenotype-relevant" TRNs. This method is based on a probabilistic graphical model that models the simultaneous effects of multiple transcription factors (TFs) on their target genes and the statistical relationship between the target genes' expression and the phenotype. Extensive comparison of InPheRNo with related approaches using primary tumor samples of 18 cancer types from The Cancer Genome Atlas reveals that InPheRNo can accurately reconstruct cancer type-relevant TRNs and identify cancer driver TFs. In addition, survival analysis reveals that the activity level of TFs with many target genes could distinguish patients with poor prognosis from those with better prognosis.

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AlgorithmsComputational BiologyGene ExpressionGene Expression RegulationGene Regulatory NetworksHumansModels, StatisticalNeoplasmsPhenotypeRegulatory Elements, TranscriptionalSoftwareSystems BiologyTranscription FactorsTranscription Factors

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PMID33558504
PMCPMC7870953

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