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ArticleHeliyon2024

Two-step consensus clustering approach to immune cell infiltration: An integrated exploration and validation of prognostic and immune implications in sarcomas.

Ao-Yu Li, Jie Bu, Hui-Ni Xiao, Zi-Yue Zhao, Jia-Lin Zhang, Bin Yu, Hui Li, Jin-Ping Li, Tao Xiao

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Article in Heliyon, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Ao-Yu LiDepartment of Orthopedics, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Jie BuDepartment of Orthopedics, Hunan Cancer Hospital, The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Hui-Ni XiaoDepartment of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, University of South China, Hengyang, China.
Zi-Yue ZhaoDepartment of Orthopedics, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Jia-Lin ZhangDepartment of Orthopedics, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Bin YuDepartment of Orthopedics, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Hui LiDepartment of Orthopedics, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Jin-Ping LiDepartment of Orthopedics, Changsha Central Hospital, The Affiliated Changsha Central Hospital, Hengyang Medical School, University of South China, Changsha, China.
Tao XiaoDepartment of Orthopedics, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.

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Abstract

To conduct a comprehensive investigation of the sarcoma immune cell infiltration (ImmCI) patterns and tumoral microenvironment (TME). We utilized transcriptomic, clinical, and mutation data of sarcoma patients (training cohort) obtained from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) server. Cell-type Identification by Estimating Relative Subsets of RNA Transcripts (CIBERSORT) and Estimation of STromal and Immune cells in MAlignant Tumor tissues using Expression data (ESTIMATE) algorithms were applied to decipher the immune cell infiltration landscape and TME profiles of sarcomas. An unsupervised clustering method was utilized for classifying ImmCI clusters (initial clustering) and ImmCI-based differentially expressed gene-driven clusters (secondary clustering). Mortality rates and immune checkpoint gene levels was analyzed among the identified clusters. We calculated the ImmCI score through principal component analysis. The tumor immune dysfunction evaluation (TIDE) score was also employed to quantify immunotherapy efficacy between two ImmCI score groups. We further validated the biomarkers for ImmCI and gene-driven clusters via experimental verification and the accuracy of the ImmCI score in predicting survival outcomes and immunotherapy efficacy by external validation cohorts (testing cohort). We demonstrated that ImmCI cluster A and gene-driven cluster A, were beneficial prognostic biomarkers and indicators of immune checkpoint blockade response in sarcomas via

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Immune cell infiltrationImmune checkpoint bladePrognosisSarcomasTumor microenvironment

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