OncoTargets and Therapy (Oct 2020)

Gene Expression Along with Genomic Copy Number Variation and Mutational Analysis Were Used to Develop a 9-Gene Signature for Estimating Prognosis of COAD

  • Lu Y,
  • Wu S,
  • Cui C,
  • Yu M,
  • Wang S,
  • Yue Y,
  • Liu M,
  • Sun Z

Journal volume & issue
Vol. Volume 13
pp. 10393 – 10408

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Yiping Lu, Si Wu, Changwan Cui, Miao Yu, Shuang Wang, Yuanyi Yue, Miao Liu, Zhengrong Sun BioBank, The Affiliated Shengjing Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110004, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Zhengrong SunBioBank, The Affiliated Shengjing Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110004, People’s Republic of ChinaTel/ Fax +86-24-83283768Email [email protected]: This study aims to systematically analyze multi-omics data to explore new prognosis biomarkers in colon adenocarcinoma (COAD).Materials and Methods: Multi-omics data of COAD and clinical information were obtained from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). Univariate Cox analysis was used to select genes which significantly related to the overall survival. GISTIC 2.0 software was used to identify significant amplification or deletion. Mutsig 2.0 software was used to identify significant mutation genes. The 9-gene signature was screened by random forest algorithm and Cox regression analysis. GSE17538 dataset was used as an external dataset to verify the predictive ability of 9-gene signature. qPCR was used to detect the expression of 9 genes in clinical specimens.Results: A total of 71 candidate genes are obtained by integrating genomic variation, mutation and prognostic data. Then, 9-gene signature was established, which includes HOXD12, RNF25, CBLN3, DOCK3, DNAJB13, PYGO2, CTNNA1, PTPRK, and NAT1. The 9-gene signature is an independent prognostic risk factor for COAD patients. In addition, the signature shows good predicting performance and clinical practicality in training set, testing set and external verification set. The results of qPCR based on clinical samples showed that the expression of HOXD12, RNF25, CBLN3, DOCK3, DNAJB13, and PYGO2 was increased in colon cancer tissues and the expression of CTNNA1, PTPRK, NAT1 was decreased in colon cancer tissues.Conclusion: In this study, 9-gene signature is constructed as a new prognostic marker to predict the survival of COAD patients.Keywords: COAD, multi-omics, 9-gene signature, prognosis biomarkers

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