School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
School of Statistics and Management, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai 200433, China.
Genes (Basel). 2019 Aug 9;10(8):604. doi: 10.3390/genes10080604.
Prognosis modeling plays an important role in cancer studies. With the development of omics profiling, extensive research has been conducted to search for prognostic markers for various cancer types. However, many of the existing studies share a common limitation by only focusing on a single cancer type and suffering from a lack of sufficient information. With potential molecular similarity across cancer types, one cancer type may contain information useful for the analysis of other types. The integration of multiple cancer types may facilitate information borrowing so as to more comprehensively and more accurately describe prognosis. In this study, we conduct marginal and joint integrative analysis of multiple cancer types, effectively introducing integration in the discovery process. For accommodating high dimensionality and identifying relevant markers, we adopt the advanced penalization technique which has a solid statistical ground. Gene expression data on nine cancer types from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) are analyzed, leading to biologically sensible findings that are different from the alternatives. Overall, this study provides a novel venue for cancer prognosis modeling by integrating multiple cancer types.
预后建模在癌症研究中起着重要作用。随着组学分析的发展,已经进行了广泛的研究,以寻找各种癌症类型的预后标志物。然而,许多现有研究存在一个共同的局限性,即仅关注单一癌症类型,并且缺乏足够的信息。由于癌症类型之间存在潜在的分子相似性,一种癌症类型可能包含对其他类型分析有用的信息。整合多个癌症类型可以促进信息借用,从而更全面、更准确地描述预后。在这项研究中,我们对多个癌症类型进行边缘和联合综合分析,在发现过程中有效地引入了整合。为了适应高维性并识别相关标记物,我们采用了先进的惩罚技术,该技术具有坚实的统计基础。对来自癌症基因组图谱(TCGA)的 9 种癌症类型的基因表达数据进行了分析,得出了与其他方法不同的具有生物学意义的发现。总的来说,本研究通过整合多个癌症类型,为癌症预后建模提供了一个新的途径。