Prognosis-Related Autophagy Genes in Female Lung Adenocarcinoma

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongxiang Liu ◽  
Haicheng Tang ◽  
Yongqian Jiang ◽  
Xiaopeng Zhan ◽  
Sheng Kang ◽  
...  

Abstract Background: To screen the prognosis-related autophagy genes of female lung adenocarcinoma by the transcriptome data and clinical data from TCGA database.Methods: In this study, Screen meaningful female lung adenocarcinoma differential genes in TCGA, use univariate COX proportional regression model to select genes related to prognosis, and establish the best risk model. Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) were applied for carrying out bioinformatics analysis of gene function.Results: The gene expression and clinical data of 260 female lung adenocarcinoma patient samples were downloaded from TCGA. 12 down-regulated genes: NRG3, DLC1, NLRC4, DAPK2, HSPB8, PPP1R15A, FOS, NRG1, PRKCQ, GRID1, MAP1LC3C, GABARAPL1. Up-regulated 15 genes: PARP1, BNIP3, P4HB, ATIC, IKBKE, ITGB4, VMP1, PTK6, EIF4EBP1, GAPDH, ATG9B, ERO1A, TMEM74, CDKN2A, BIRC5. GO and KEGG analysis showed that these genes were significantly associated with autophagy and mitochondria (animals). Multi-factor COX analysis of autophagy-related genes showed that ITGA6, ERO1A, FKBP1A, BAK1, CCR2, FADD, EDEM1, ATG10, ATG4A, DLC1, VAMP7, ST13 were identified as independent prognostic indicators. According to the multivariate COX proportional hazard regression model, there was a significant difference in the survival rate observed between the high-risk group (n=124) and the low-risk group (n=126) during the 10-year follow-up (p<0.05). Univariate COX analysis showed that tumor stage, T, M and N stages, and risk score were all related to the survival rate of female lung adenocarcinoma patients. Multivariate COX analysis found that autophagy-related risk scores were independent predictors, with an AUC value of 0.842. At last, there are autophagy genes differentially expressed among various clinicopathological parameters: ATG4A, BAK1, CCR2, DLC1, ERO1A, FKBP1A, ITGA6.Conclusion: The risk score can be used as an independent prognostic indicator for female patients with lung adenocarcinoma. The autophagy genes ITGA6, ERO1A, FKBP1A, BAK1, CCR2, FADD, EDEM1, ATG10, ATG4A, DLC1, VAMP7, ST13 were identified as prognostic genes in female lung adenocarcinoma, which may be the targets of treatment in the future.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sijia Li ◽  
Hongyang Zhang ◽  
Wei Li

Abstract Background: The purpose of our study is establishing a model based on ferroptosis-related genes predicting the prognosis of patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC).Methods: In our study, transcriptome and clinical data of HNSCC patients were from The Cancer Genome Atlas, ferroptosis-related genes and pathways were from Ferroptosis Signatures Database. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were screened by comparing tumor and adjacent normal tissues. Functional enrichment analysis of DEGs, protein-protein interaction network and gene mutation examination were applied. Univariate Cox regression analysis and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression were used to identified DEGs. The model was constructed by multivariate Cox regression analysis and verified by Kaplan-Meier analysis. The relationship between risk scores and other clinical features was also analyzed. Univariate and multivariate Cox analysis was used to verified the independence of our model. The model was evaluated by receiver operating characteristic analysis and calculation of the area under the curve (AUC). A nomogram model based on risk score, age, gender and TNM stages was constructed.Results: We analyzed data including 500 tumor tissues and 44 adjacent normal tissues and 259 ferroptosis-related genes, then obtained 73 DEGs. Univariate Cox regression analysis screened out 16 genes related to overall survival, and LASSO analysis fingered out 12 of them with prognostic value. A risk score model based on these 12 genes was constructed by multivariate Cox regression analysis. According to the median risk score, patients were divided into high-risk group and low-risk group. The survival rate of high-risk group was significantly lower than that of low-risk group in Kaplan-Meier curve. Risk scores were related to T and grade. Univariate and multivariate Cox analysis showed our model was an independent prognostic factor. The AUC was 0.669. The nomogram showed high accuracy predicting the prognosis of HNSCC patients.Conclusion: Our model based on 12 ferroptosis-related genes performed excellently in predicting the prognosis of HNSCC patients. Ferroptosis-related genes may be promising biomarkers for HNSCC treatment and prognosis.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sijia Li ◽  
Hongyang Zhang ◽  
Wei Li

Abstract Background: The purpose of our study is establishing a model based on ferroptosis-related genes predicting the prognosis of patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC).Methods: In our study, transcriptome and clinical data of HNSCC patients were from The Cancer Genome Atlas, ferroptosis-related genes and pathways were from Ferroptosis Signatures Database. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were screened by comparing tumor and adjacent normal tissues. Functional enrichment analysis of DEGs, protein-protein interaction network and gene mutation examination were applied. Univariate Cox regression analysis and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression were used to identified DEGs. The model was constructed by multivariate Cox regression analysis and verified by Kaplan-Meier analysis. The relationship between risk scores and other clinical features was also analyzed. Univariate and multivariate Cox analysis was used to verified the independence of our model. The model was evaluated by receiver operating characteristic analysis and calculation of the area under the curve (AUC). A nomogram model based on risk score, age, gender and TNM stages was constructed. Our model was also validated in the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) verification set. Results: We analyzed data including 500 tumor tissues and 44 adjacent normal tissues and 259 ferroptosis-related genes, then obtained 73 DEGs. Univariate Cox regression analysis screened out 16 genes related to overall survival, and LASSO analysis fingered out 12 of them with prognostic value. A risk score model based on these 12 genes was constructed by multivariate Cox regression analysis. According to the median risk score, patients were divided into high-risk group and low-risk group. The survival rate of high-risk group was significantly lower than that of low-risk group in Kaplan-Meier curve. Risk scores were related to T and grade. Univariate and multivariate Cox analysis showed our model was an independent prognostic factor. The AUC was 0.669. Those all could prove our model had great predictive ability of HNSCC prognosis and it could be validated in GEO dataset. The nomogram showed high accuracy predicting the prognosis of HNSCC patients.Conclusion: Our model based on 12 ferroptosis-related genes performed excellently in predicting the prognosis of HNSCC patients. Ferroptosis-related genes may be promising biomarkers for HNSCC treatment and prognosis.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rongchang Zhao ◽  
Dan Ding ◽  
Yan Ding ◽  
Rongbo Han ◽  
Xiujuan Wang ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Multiple factors affect the survival time of patients with lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD). Specifically, the therapeutic effect of medicines and the disease recurrence probability differs among patients with the same stage of LUAD. Thus, effective prognostic predictors need to be identified. Methods Based on the tumor mutation burden (TMB) data obtained by TCGA, LUAD was divided into high and low groups, and the differentially expressed glycolysis-related genes between the two groups were screened out. Cox regression was used to obtain a prognostic model. A receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve and calibration curve were generated to evaluate the nomogram that was constructed based on clinicopathological characteristics and the risk score. Two datasets (GSE68465 and GSE11969) from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) were used to verify the prognostic performance of the gene. Furthermore, differences in immune cell distribution, immune-related molecules and drug susceptibility were assessed for their relationship with the risk score. Results We confirmed a 5-gene signature (FKBP4, HMMR, B4GALT1, ERO1L, ENO1) capable of dividing patients into two risk groups. There was a significant difference in overall survival (OS) times between the high-risk group and the low-risk group (P = 1.085e-4), with the low-risk group having a better survival outcome. Through multivariate Cox analysis, the risk score was confirmed to be an independent prognostic factor (HR = 1.289, 95% CI = 1.202-1.383, P < 0.001), and the ROC curve and nomogram exhibited accurate prediction performance. Validation of the data obtained in the GEO database yielded similar results. Additionally, there were significant differences in cisplatin, paclitaxel, gemcitabine, docetaxel, gefitiniband erlotinib sensitivity between the low-risk and high-risk groups. Conclusions Our results reveal that glycolysis-related gene are feasible predictors of LUAD patient survival and response to therapeutics.


Author(s):  
Yongmei Wang ◽  
Guimin Zhang ◽  
Ruixian Wang

Background: This study aims to explore the prognostic values of CT83 and CT83-related genes in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD). Methods: We downloaded the mRNA profiles of 513 LUAD patients (RNA sequencing data) and 246 NSCLC patients (Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array) from TCGA and GEO databases. According to the median expression of CT83, the TCGA samples were divided into high and low expression groups, and differential expression analysis between them was performed. Functional enrichment analysis of differential expression genes (DEGs) was conducted. Univariate Cox regression analysis and LASSO Cox regression analysis were performed to screen the optimal prognostic DEGs. Then we established the prognostic model. A Nomogram model was constructed to predict the overall survival (OS) probability of LUAD patients. Results: CT83 expression was significantly correlated to the prognosis of LUAD patients. A total of 59 DEGs were identified, and a predictive model was constructed based on six optimal CT83-related DEGs, including CPS1, RHOV, TNNT1, FAM83A, IGF2BP1, and GRIN2A, could effectively predict the prognosis of LUAD patients. The nomogram could reliably predict the OS of LUAD patients. Moreover, the six important immune checkpoints (CTLA4, PD1, IDO1, TDO2, LAG3, and TIGIT) were closely correlated with the Risk Score, which was also differentially expressed between the LUAD samples with high and low-Risk Scores, suggesting that the poor prognosis of LUAD patients with high-Risk Score might be due to the immunosuppressive microenvironments. Conclusion: A prognostic model based on six optimal CT83 related genes could effectively predict the prognosis of LUAD patients.


2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. 8572-8572
Author(s):  
Cristian Barrera ◽  
Mohammadhadi Khorrami ◽  
Prantesh Jain ◽  
Pingfu Fu ◽  
Kate Butler ◽  
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8572 Background: Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) is an aggressive malignancy with a rapid growth, and Chemotherapy remains mainstay of treatment. Identifying therapeutic targets in SCLC presents a challenge, partially due to a lack of accurate and consistently predictive biomarkers. In this study we sought to evaluate the utility of a combination of computer-extracted radiographic and pathology features from pretreatment baseline CT and H&E biopsy images to predict sensitivity to platinum-based chemotherapy and overall survival (OS) in SCLC. Methods: Seventy-eight patients with extensive and limited-stage SCLC who received platinum-doublet chemotherapy were selected. Objective response to chemotherapy (RECIST criteria) and overall survival (OS) as clinical endpoints were available for 51 and 78 patients respectively. The patients were divided randomly into two sets (Training (Sd), Validation (Sv)) with a constraint (equal number of responders and nonresponders in Sd)—Sd comprised twenty-one patients with SCLC. Sv included thirty patients. CT scans and digitized Hematoxylin Eosin-stained (H&E) biopsy images were acquired for each patient. A set of CT derived (46%) and tissue derived (53%) image features were captured. These included shape and textural patterns of the tumoral and peritumoral regions from CT scans and of tumor regions on H&E images. A random forest feature selection and linear regression model were used to identify the most predictive CT and H&E derived image features associated with chemotherapy response from Sd. A Cox proportional hazard regression model was used with these features to compute a risk score for each patients in Sd. Patients in Sv were stratified into high and low-risk groups based on the median risk score. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis was used to assess the prognostic ability of the risk score on Sv. Results: The risk score comprised nine CT (intra and peri-tumoral texture) and six H&E derived (cancer cell texture and shape) features. A linear regression model in conjunction with these 15 features was significantly associated with chemo-sensitivity in Sv (AUC = 0.76, PRC = 0.81). A multivariable model with these 15 features was significantly associated with OS in Sv (HR = 2.5, 95% CI: 1.3-4.9, P = 0.0043). Kaplan-Meier survival analysis revealed a significantly reduced OS in the high-risk group compared to the low-risk group. Conclusions: A combined CT and H&E tissue derived image signature model predicted response to chemotherapy and improved OS in SCLC patients. Image features from baseline CT scans and H&E tissue slide images may help in better risk stratification of SCLC patients. Additional independent validation of these quantitative image-based biomarkers is warranted.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Rongjie Zhang ◽  
Yan Chen ◽  
Ge Zhou ◽  
Baoguo Sun ◽  
Yue Li ◽  
...  

Objectives. The purpose of this study was to identify the molecular mechanism and prognosis-related genes of Jianpi Jiedu decoction in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma. Methods. The gene expression data of hepatocellular carcinoma samples and normal tissue samples were downloaded from TCGA database, and the potential targets of drug composition of Jianpi Jiedu decoction were obtained from TCMSP database. The genes were screened out in order to obtain the expression of these target genes in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. The differential expression of target genes was analyzed by R software, and the genes related to prognosis were screened by univariate Cox regression analysis. Then, the LASSO model was constructed for risk assessment and survival analysis between different risk groups. At the same time, independent prognostic analysis, GSEA analysis, and prognostic analysis of single gene in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma were performed. Results. 174 compounds of traditional Chinese medicine were screened by TCMSP database, corresponding to 122 potential targets. 39 upregulated genes and 9 downregulated genes were screened out. A total of 20 candidate prognostic related genes were screened out by univariate Cox analysis, of which 12 prognostic genes were involved in the construction of the LASSO regression model. There was a significant difference in survival time between the high-risk group and low-risk group ( p < 0.05 ). Among the genes related to prognosis, the expression levels of CCNB1, NQO1, NUF2, and CHEK1 were high in tumor tissues ( p < 0.05 ). Survival analysis showed that the high expression levels of these four genes were significantly correlated with poor prognosis of HCC ( p < 0.05 ). GSEA analysis showed that the main KEGG enrichment pathways were lysine degradation, folate carbon pool, citrate cycle, and transcription factors. Conclusions. In the study, we found that therapy target genes of Jianpi Jiedu decoction were mainly involved in metabolism and apoptosis in hepatocellular carcinoma, and there was a close relationship between the prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma and the genes of CCNB1, NQO1, NUF2, and CHEK1.


2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
S Tamaki ◽  
T Yamada ◽  
T Morita ◽  
Y Furukawa ◽  
Y Iwasaki ◽  
...  

Abstract Background A four-parameter risk model including cardiac iodine-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) imaging and readily available clinical parameters has been recently developed for the prediction of 2-year cardiac mortality risk in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) using a Japanese CHF database consisting of 1322 patients. On the other hand, the Acute Decompensated Heart Failure National Registry (ADHERE) and Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure (GWTG-HF) risk scores, simple tools to predict risk of in-hospital mortality, have been reported to be predictive of post-discharge outcome in patients with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF). However, there is no information available on the usefulness of 2-year MIBG-based cardiac mortality risk score for the prediction of post-discharge prognosis in ADHF patients and its comparison with the ADHERE and GWTG-HF risk scores. Purpose We sought to validate the predictability of the 2-year MIBG-based cardiac mortality risk score for post-discharge clinical outcome in ADHF patients, and to compare its prognostic value with those of ADHERE and GWTG-HF risk scores. Methods We studied 297 consecutive patients who were admitted for ADHF, survived to discharge, and had definitive 2-year outcomes. Venous blood sampling was performed on admission, and echocardiography and cardiac MIBG imaging were performed just before discharge. In cardiac MIBG imaging, the cardiac MIBG heart-to-mediastinum ratio (HMR) was measured from the chest anterior view images obtained at 20 and 200 min after isotope injection. The 2-year cardiac mortality risk score was calculated using four parameters, including age, left ventricular ejection fraction, NYHA functional class, and HMR on delayed image. The patients were stratified into three groups based on the 2-year cardiac mortality risk score: low- (<4%), intermediate- (4–12%), and high-risk (>12%) groups. The ADHERE and GWTG-HF risk scores were also calculated from admission data as previously reported. The predictive ability of the scores was compared using receiver operating characteristic curve analysis. The endpoint was a composite of all-cause mortality and unplanned hospitalization for worsening heart failure. Results During a follow-up period, 110 patients reached the primary endpoint. There was significant difference in the rate of primary endpoint among the three groups stratified by 2-year cardiac mortality risk score (low-risk group: 18%, intermediate-risk group: 36%, high-risk group: 64%, Figure 1A). The 2-year cardiac mortality risk score demonstrated a greater area under the curve for the primary endpoint compared to the ADHERE and the GWTG-HF risk scores (Figure 1B). Figure 1 Conclusions The 2-year MIBG-based cardiac mortality risk score is also useful for the prediction of post-discharge clinical outcome in ADHF patients, and its prognostic value is superior to those of the ADHERE and the GWTG-HF risk scores.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susu Zheng ◽  
Xiaoying Xie ◽  
Xinkun Guo ◽  
Yanfang Wu ◽  
Guobin Chen ◽  
...  

Pyroptosis is a novel kind of cellular necrosis and shown to be involved in cancer progression. However, the diverse expression, prognosis and associations with immune status of pyroptosis-related genes in Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have yet to be analyzed. Herein, the expression profiles and corresponding clinical characteristics of HCC samples were collected from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) databases. Then a pyroptosis-related gene signature was built by applying the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) Cox regression model from the TCGA cohort, while the GEO datasets were applied for verification. Twenty-four pyroptosis-related genes were found to be differentially expressed between HCC and normal samples. A five pyroptosis-related gene signature (GSDME, CASP8, SCAF11, NOD2, CASP6) was constructed according to LASSO Cox regression model. Patients in the low-risk group had better survival rates than those in the high-risk group. The risk score was proved to be an independent prognostic factor for overall survival (OS). The risk score correlated with immune infiltrations and immunotherapy responses. GSEA indicated that endocytosis, ubiquitin mediated proteolysis and regulation of autophagy were enriched in the high-risk group, while drug metabolism cytochrome P450 and tryptophan metabolism were enriched in the low-risk group. In conclusion, our pyroptosis-related gene signature can be used for survival prediction and may also predict the response of immunotherapy.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianyu Zhao ◽  
Bo Liu ◽  
Xiaoping Li

Abstract Background: Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare endocrine cancer that manifests as abdominal masses and excessive steroid hormone levels. Transcription factors (TFs) deregulation is found to be involved in adrenocortical tumorigenesis and cancer progression. This study aimed to construct a TF-based prognostic signature for prediction of survival of ACC patients.Methods: The gene expression profile for ACC patients were downloaded from TCGA and GEO datasets. The univariate Cox analysis was applied to identify survival-related TFs and the LASSO Cox regression was conducted to construct the TF signature. The multivariate analysis was used to reveal the independent prognostic factors.Results: We identified a 13-TF prognostic signature comprised of CREB3L3, NR0B1, CENPA, FOXM1, E2F2, MYBL2, HOXC11, ZIC2, ZNF282, DNMT1, TCF3, ELK4, and KLF6 using the univariate Cox analysis and LASSO Cox regression. The risk score based on the TF-signature could classify patients into low- and high-risk group. Kaplan-Meier analyses showed that patients in the high-risk group had significantly shorter overall survival compared to the low-risk patients. ROC curves showed that the prognostic signature predicted the overall survival of ACC patients with good sensitivity and specificity. Furthermore, the TF-risk score was an independent prognostic factor.Conclusion: Taken together, we identified a 13-TF prognostic marker to predict overall survival in ACC patients.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Hu ◽  
Mingyue Li ◽  
Qi Zhang ◽  
Chuan Liu ◽  
Xinmei Wang ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Copy number variation (CNVs) is a key factor in breast cancer development. This study determined prognostic molecular characteristics to predict breast cancer through performing a comprehensive analysis of copy number and gene expression data. Methods Breast cancer expression profiles, CNV and complete information from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) dataset were collected. Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) chip data sets (GSE20685 and GSE31448) containing breast cancer samples were used as external validation sets. Univariate survival COX analysis, multivariate survival COX analysis, least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO), Chi square, Kaplan-Meier (KM) survival curve and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis were applied to build a gene signature model and assess its performance. Results A total of 649 CNV related-differentially expressed gene obtained from TCGA-breast cancer dataset were related to several cancer pathways and functions. A prognostic gene sets with 9 genes were developed to stratify patients into high-risk and low-risk groups, and its prognostic performance was verified in two independent patient cohorts (n = 327, 246). The result uncovered that 9-gene signature could independently predict breast cancer prognosis. Lower mutation of PIK3CA and higher mutation of TP53 and CDH1 were found in samples with high-risk score compared with samples with low-risk score. Patients in the high-risk group showed higher immune score, malignant clinical features than those in the low-risk group. The 9-gene signature developed in this study achieved a higher AUC. Conclusion The current research established a 5-CNV gene signature to evaluate prognosis of breast cancer patients, which may innovate clinical application of prognostic assessment.


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