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ArticleFrontiers in endocrinology2022

Construction of a ferroptosis-related eight gene signature for predicting the prognosis and immune infiltration of thyroid cancer.

Xiaoying Ren, Huijun Du, Weilun Cheng, Yujing Wang, Yuanxin Xu, Shuang Yan, Yunan Gao

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Article in Frontiers in endocrinology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Xiaoying RenDepartment of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
Huijun DuDepartment of Cardiology, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
Weilun ChengDepartment of General Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
Yujing WangDepartment of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
Yuanxin XuDepartment of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
Shuang YanDepartment of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
Yunan GaoDepartment of Cardiology, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
Harbin Medical University · CNFourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Thyroid cancer is the most common malignant tumor of the endocrine system. Most patients with thyroid cancer have a good prognosis, although a small proportion experience recurrence and metastasis and have a poor prognosis. Ferroptosis is a novel form of regulated cell death (RCD); previous studies have confirmed that ferroptosis was associated with thyroid cancer. The purpose of this study was to investigate the key ferroptosis-related genes in thyroid cancer and their relationship with prognosis and immune cell infiltration. Methods: In this study, 497 thyroid cancer RNA expression datasets were downloaded from the cancer genome atlas (TCGA) cohort and a prognostic risk model for eight ferroptosis-related genes (FRGs) was constructed by Lasso-Cox regression. The prognostic value of the risk model and the correlation of prognostic features with immune scores and tumor immune cell infiltration were systematically analyzed. Results: The prognostic risk model for eight FRGs ( Conclusion: We identified eight key genes related to ferroptosis in THCA patients. Further studies are now needed to investigate the mechanisms involved; these genes may represent clinical diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers.

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FerroptosisThyroid NeoplasmsBiomarkers, TumorGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansKaplan-Meier EstimatePrognosisBiomarkers, Tumorferroptosis-related genesimmune infiltrationprognosisthyroid cancertumor microenvironment

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PMID36407322
PMCPMC9672669
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