Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Gene isoforms as expression-based biomarkers predictive of drug response in vitro

  • Zhaleh Safikhani,
  • Petr Smirnov,
  • Kelsie L. Thu,
  • Jennifer Silvester,
  • Nehme El-Hachem,
  • Rene Quevedo,
  • Mathieu Lupien,
  • Tak W. Mak,
  • David Cescon,
  • Benjamin Haibe-Kains

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01153-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Altered mRNA splicing features in many cancers, but it has not been linked to drug response. Here, with their meta-analytic framework, the authors analyse pharmacogenomic data to identify isoform-based biomarkers predictive of in vitro drug response, and show them to frequently be strong predictors.