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ArticleScience advances2022

Machine learning on syngeneic mouse tumor profiles to model clinical immunotherapy response.

Zexian Zeng, Shengqing Stan Gu, Cheryl J Wong, Lin Yang, Nofal Ouardaoui, Dian Li, Wubing Zhang, Myles Brown, X Shirley Liu

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Article in Science advances, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Engineering Heterogeneous Tumor Models for Biomedical Applications.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Zexian ZengDepartment of Data Science, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Shengqing Stan GuDepartment of Data Science, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4200-0864
Cheryl J WongDepartment of Data Science, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2070-7495
Lin YangDepartment of Data Science, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2372-7547
Nofal OuardaouiDepartment of Data Science, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4517-2493
Dian LiDepartment of Data Science, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5374-7314
Wubing ZhangDepartment of Data Science, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2233-299X
Myles BrownDepartment of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8213-1658
X Shirley LiuDepartment of Data Science, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · USHarvard University · USTongji University · CN

Funding

RESEARCH TRAINING-MEDICAL INFORMATICS 90T15LM007092 · NLM · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) · PI Nils Gehlenborg · 1992 to 2026
$32.8M
Cancer Immunologic Data Commons (CIDC) Supplement RequestU24CA224316 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI CERAMI, ETHAN, MICHOR, FRANZISKA · 2017 to 2022
$6.8M
Regulators of Cancer Immunotherapy ResponseR01CA234018 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI BROWN, MYLES A · 2019 to 2022
$2.3M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA234018NCI NIH HHS U24 CA224316NLM NIH HHS T15 LM007092
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most patients with cancer are refractory to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy, and proper patient stratification remains an open question. Primary patient data suffer from high heterogeneity, low accessibility, and lack of proper controls. In contrast, syngeneic mouse tumor models enable controlled experiments with ICB treatments. Using transcriptomic and experimental variables from >700 ICB-treated/control syngeneic mouse tumors, we developed a machine learning framework to model tumor immunity and identify factors influencing ICB response. Projected on human immunotherapy trial data, we found that the model can predict clinical ICB response. We further applied the model to predicting ICB-responsive/resistant cancer types in The Cancer Genome Atlas, which agreed well with existing clinical reports. Last, feature analysis implicated factors associated with ICB response. In summary, our computational framework based on mouse tumor data reliably stratified patients regarding ICB response, informed resistance mechanisms, and has the potential for wide applications in disease treatment studies.

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