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ArticleBMC genomics2023

A robust immune-related gene pairs signature for predicting the overall survival of esophageal cancer.

Wei Zheng, Gaofeng Fang, Qiao Huang, Dan Shi, Biao Xie

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Article in BMC genomics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Wei ZhengDepartment of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.
Gaofeng FangDepartment of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.
Qiao HuangAnatomy Teaching and Research Section, Basic department, Chongqing Medical and Pharmaceutical College, Chongqing, China.
Dan ShiDepartment of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China. danshi@cqmu.edu.cn.
Biao XieDepartment of Biostatistics, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China. kybiao@cqmu.edu.cn.
Chongqing Medical University · CNChongqing Medical and Pharmaceutical College · CN

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Chongqing Postdoctoral Science Foundation cstc2021jcyj-bshX0220National Natural Science Foundation of China 8210120502National Natural Science Foundation of China 82204159
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundIdentifying reliable biomarkers could effectively predict esophagus carcinoma (EC) patients with poor prognosis. In this work, we constructed an immune-related gene pairs (IRGP) signature to evaluate the prognosis of EC.

resultsThe IRGP signature was trained by the TCGA cohort and validated by three GEO datasets, respectively. Cox regression model together with LASSO was applied to construct the overall survival (OS) associated IRGP. 21 IRGPs consisting of 38 immune-related genes were included in our signature, according to which patients were stratified into high- and low-risk groups. The results of Kaplan-Meier survival analyses indicated that high-risk EC patients had worse OS than low-risk group in the training set, meta-validation set and all independent validation datasets. After adjustment in multivariate Cox analyses, our signature continued to be an independent prognostic factor of EC and the signature-based nomogram could effectively predict the prognosis of EC sufferers. Besides, Gene Ontology analysis revealed this signature is related to immunity. 'CIBERSORT' analysis revealed the infiltration levels of plasma cells and activated CD4 memory T cells in two risk groups were significantly different. Ultimately, we validated the expression levels of six selected genes from IRGP index in KYSE-150 and KYSE-450.

conclusionsThis IRGP signature could be applied to select EC patients with high mortality risk, thereby improving prospects for the treatment of EC.

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Esophageal NeoplasmsCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesGene OntologyHumansKaplan-Meier EstimateMultivariate AnalysisBioinformatic analysisCells linesEsophageal cancerImmune-related gene pairsPrognosis

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