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ArticleiScience2023

A subnetwork-based framework for prioritizing and evaluating prognostic gene modules from cancer transcriptome data.

Biwei Cao, Krupal B Patel, Tingyi Li, Sijie Yao, Christine H Chung, Xuefeng Wang

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Article in iScience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Biwei CaoDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Moffitt Cancer Center, 12902 Magnolia Drive, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
Krupal B PatelDepartment of Head and Neck-Endocrine Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
Tingyi LiDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Moffitt Cancer Center, 12902 Magnolia Drive, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
Sijie YaoDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Moffitt Cancer Center, 12902 Magnolia Drive, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
Christine H ChungDepartment of Head and Neck-Endocrine Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
Xuefeng WangDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Moffitt Cancer Center, 12902 Magnolia Drive, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.

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Investigating the prognostic role of intrinsic immune evasion mechanisms in HNSCCR01DE030493 · NIDCR · H. LEE MOFFITT CANCER CTR & RES INST · PI WANG, XUEFENG · 2021 to 2023
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer prognosis prediction is critical to the clinical decision-making process. Currently, the high availability of transcriptome datasets allows us to extract the gene modules with promising prognostic values. However, the biomarker identification is greatly challenged by tumor and patient heterogeneity. In this study, a framework of three subnetwork-based strategies is presented, incorporating hypothesis-driven, data-driven, and literature-based methods with informative visualization to prioritize candidate genes. By applying the proposed approaches to a head and neck squamous cell cancer (HNSCC) transcriptome dataset, we successfully identified multiple HNSCC-specific gene modules with improved prognostic values and mechanism information compared with the standard gene panel selection methods. The proposed framework is general and can be applied to any type of omics data. Overall, the study demonstrates and supports the use of the subnetwork-based approach for distilling reliable and biologically meaningful prognostic factors.

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