Guo Yong, Hu Jiejun, Zhao Zhibo, Zhong Guochao, Gong Jianping, Cai Dong
Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, People's Hospital of Changshou, Chongqing, China.
Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.
Front Oncol. 2021 Sep 27;11:719355. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2021.719355. eCollection 2021.
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most prevalent malignant tumors with the poor prognosis. Nowadays, alcohol is becoming a leading risk factor of HCC in many countries. In our study, we obtained the DEGs in alcohol-related HCC through two databases (TCGA and GEO). Subsequently, we performed enrichment analyses (GO and KEGG), constructed the PPI network and screened the 53 hub genes by Cytoscape. Two genes (BUB1B and CENPF) from hub genes was screened by LASSO and Cox regression analyses to construct the prognostic model. Then, we found that the high risk group had the worse prognosis and verified the clinical value of the risk score in alcohol-related HCC. Finally, we analyzed the tumor microenvironment between high and low risk groups through CIBERSORT and ESTIMATE. In summary, we constructed the two-gene prognostic model that could predict the poor prognosis in patients with alcohol-related HCC.
肝细胞癌(HCC)是最常见的恶性肿瘤之一,预后较差。如今,在许多国家,酒精正成为HCC的主要危险因素。在我们的研究中,我们通过两个数据库(TCGA和GEO)获得了酒精相关HCC中的差异表达基因(DEG)。随后,我们进行了富集分析(GO和KEGG),构建了蛋白质-蛋白质相互作用(PPI)网络,并通过Cytoscape筛选出53个核心基因。通过LASSO和Cox回归分析从核心基因中筛选出两个基因(BUB1B和CENPF)以构建预后模型。然后,我们发现高风险组的预后更差,并验证了风险评分在酒精相关HCC中的临床价值。最后,我们通过CIBERSORT和ESTIMATE分析了高风险组和低风险组之间的肿瘤微环境。总之,我们构建了可以预测酒精相关HCC患者预后不良的双基因预后模型。