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ArticleFrontiers in molecular biosciences2021

Development and Validation of a Prognostic Gene Signature in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma.

Chuanchuan Zhan, Zichu Wang, Chao Xu, Xiao Huang, Junzhou Su, Bisheng Chen, Mingshan Wang, Zhihong Qi, Peiming Bai

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Article in Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 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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Chuanchuan ZhanShaoxing people's Hospital, Shaoxing, China.
Zichu WangZhongshan Hospital, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.
Chao XuShaoxing people's Hospital, Shaoxing, China.
Xiao HuangNanchang Five Elements Bio-Technology Co., Ltd, Nanchang, China.
Junzhou SuZhongshan Hospital, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.
Bisheng ChenZhongshan Hospital, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.
Mingshan WangZhongshan Hospital, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.
Zhihong QiZhongshan Hospital, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.
Peiming BaiZhongshan Hospital, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.

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Abstract

Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), one of the most common urologic cancer types, has a relatively good prognosis. However, clinical diagnoses are mostly done during the medium or late stages, when mortality and recurrence rates are quite high. Therefore, it is important to perform real-time information tracking and dynamic prognosis analysis for these patients. We downloaded the RNA-seq data and corresponding clinical information of ccRCC from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) databases. A total of 3,238 differentially expressed genes were identified between normal and ccRCC tissues. Through a series of Weighted Gene Co-expression Network, overall survival, immunohistochemical and the least absolute shrinkage selection operator (LASSO) analyses, seven prognosis-associated genes (AURKB, FOXM1, PTTG1, TOP2A, TACC3, CCNA2, and MELK) were screened. Their risk score signature was then constructed. Survival analysis showed that high-risk scores exhibited significantly worse overall survival outcomes than low-risk patients. Accuracy of this prognostic signature was confirmed by the receiver operating characteristic curve and was further validated using another cohort. Gene set enrichment analysis showed that some cancer-associated phenotypes were significantly prevalent in the high-risk group. Overall, these findings prove that this risk model can potentially improve individualized diagnostic and therapeutic strategies.

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