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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2021

Pyroptosis-Related Gene Signatures Can Robustly Diagnose Skin Cutaneous Melanoma and Predict the Prognosis.

Anji Ju, Jiaze Tang, Shuohua Chen, Yan Fu, Yongzhang Luo

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers.

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58 citing papers in PubMed, 88 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Role of pyroptosis in melanoma: Molecular mechanisms and therapeutic potentials.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2026
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  19. The Therapeutic Potential of Pyroptosis in Melanoma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Anji JuThe National Engineering Laboratory for Anti-Tumor Protein Therapeutics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Jiaze TangThe National Engineering Laboratory for Anti-Tumor Protein Therapeutics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Shuohua ChenThe National Engineering Laboratory for Anti-Tumor Protein Therapeutics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Yan FuThe National Engineering Laboratory for Anti-Tumor Protein Therapeutics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Yongzhang LuoThe National Engineering Laboratory for Anti-Tumor Protein Therapeutics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Tsinghua University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Skin cutaneous melanoma (SKCM) is a chronically malignant tumor with a high mortality rate. Pyroptosis, a kind of pro-inflammatory programmed cell death, has been linked to cancer in recent studies. However, the value of pyroptosis in the diagnosis and prognosis of SKCM is not clear. In this study, it was discovered that 20 pyroptosis-related genes (PRGs) differed in expression between SKCM and normal tissues, which were related to diagnosis and prognosis. Firstly, based on these genes, nine machine-learning algorithms were shown to perform well in constructing diagnostic classifiers, including K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), logistic regression, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Artificial Neural Network (ANN), decision tree, random forest, XGBoost, LightGBM, and CatBoost. Secondly, the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) Cox regression analysis was applied and the prognostic model was constructed based on 9 PRGs. Subgroups in low and high risks determined by the prognostic model were shown to have different survival. Thirdly, functional enrichment analyses were performed by applying the gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA), and results suggested that the risk was related to immune response. In conclusion, the expression signatures of pyroptosis-related genes are effective and robust in the diagnosis and prognosis of SKCM, which is related to immunity.

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classifierdiagnosisimmunityprognosisprognostic modelpyroptosis-related genesskin cutaneous melanoma

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