Journal article
Concordance between somatic copy number loss and downregulated expression: A pan-cancer study of cancer predisposition genes
Scientific Reports, Vol.6(37358)
2016
Abstract
Cancer predisposition genes (CPGs) are a class of cancer genes in which germline variants lead to increased risk of cancer. Research has revealed that copy number variation (CNV) may be linked to cancer susceptibility in CPGs. In this pan-cancer analysis, we explored the relationship between somatic CNV and gene expression changes in CPGs. Based on curated 827 human CPGs from literature, we firstly identified 729 CPGs with precise CNV information from 5067 tumor samples using TCGA CNV data. Among them, 128 CPGs tended to have more frequent copy number losses (CNLs) compared with copy number gains (CNGs). Then by correlating these CNV data with TCGA gene expression data, we obtained 49 CPGs with concordant CNLs and gene down-regulation. Intriguingly, five CPGs showed concordance between CNL and down-regulation in 50 or more tumor samples: MTAP (216 samples), PTEN (143), MCPH1 (86), SMAD4 (63), and MINPP1 (51), which may represent the recurrent driving force for gene expression change during oncogenesis. Moreover, network analysis revealed that these 49 CPGs were tightly connected. In summary, this study provides the first observation of concordance etween CNLs and down-regulation of CPGs in pan-cancer, which may help better understand the CPG biology in tumorigenesis and cancer progression.
Details
- Title
- Concordance between somatic copy number loss and downregulated expression: A pan-cancer study of cancer predisposition genes
- Authors
- Ran Wei (Author) - Anhui University, ChinaMing Zhao (Author) - Anhui University, ChinaChun-Hou Zheng (Author) - Anhui University, ChinaMin Zhao (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and EngineeringJunfeng Xia (Author) - Anhui University, China
- Publication details
- Scientific Reports, Vol.6(37358); 9
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Date published
- 2016
- DOI
- 10.1038/srep37358
- ISSN
- 2045-2322; 2045-2322
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2016 The Author. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Organisation Unit
- School of Science and Engineering - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Science, Technology and Engineering; Centre for Bioinnovation
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451303502621
- Output Type
- Journal article
- Research Statement
- false
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