ArticleFrontiers in genetics2021
Identification of Hub Genes and Their Correlation With Immune Infiltration Cells in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Based on GEO and TCGA Databases.
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Abstract
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a primary liver cancer with extremely high mortality in worldwide. HCC is hard to diagnose and has a poor prognosis due to the less understanding of the molecular pathological mechanisms and the regulation mechanism on immune cell infiltration during hepatocarcinogenesis. Herein, by performing multiple bioinformatics analysis methods, including the RobustRankAggreg (RRA) rank analysis, weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA), and a devolution algorithm (CIBERSORT), we first identified 14 hub genes (NDC80, DLGAP5, BUB1B, KIF20A, KIF2C, KIF11, NCAPG, NUSAP1, PBK, ASPM, FOXM1, TPX2, UBE2C, and PRC1) in HCC, whose expression levels were significantly up-regulated and negatively correlated with overall survival time. Moreover, we found that the expression of these hub genes was significantly positively correlated with immune infiltration cells, including regulatory T cells (Treg), T follicular helper (TFH) cells, macrophages M0, but negatively correlated with immune infiltration cells including monocytes. Among these hub genes, KIF2C and UBE2C showed the most significant correlation and were associated with immune cell infiltration in HCC, which was speculated as the potential prognostic biomarker for guiding immunotherapy.
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