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- Title
A Novel Bayesian Framework Infers Driver Activation States and Reveals Pathway-Oriented Molecular Subtypes in Head and Neck Cancer.
- Authors
Liu, Zhengping; Cai, Chunhui; Ma, Xiaojun; Liu, Jinling; Chen, Lujia; Lui, Vivian Wai Yan; Cooper, Gregory F.; Lu, Xinghua
- Abstract
Simple Summary: Numerous factors, such as genomic mutations, chromosomal changes, transcriptional controls, phosphorylation, and protein–protein interactions, among others, can affect the activation status of proteins. Although each data type only partially reveals the status of a particular gene's disruption, downstream expression changes ultimately indicate the functional effects of cancer driver protein alterations. By combining data on transcriptome and genomic alterations, we have developed a Bayesian framework to infer driver activation state, and further tested our method to highlight both statistical and biological significance by applying our model to TCGA HNSCC patient data. Head and neck squamous cell cancer (HNSCC) is an aggressive cancer resulting from heterogeneous causes. To reveal the underlying drivers and signaling mechanisms of different HNSCC tumors, we developed a novel Bayesian framework to identify drivers of individual tumors and infer the states of driver proteins in cellular signaling system in HNSCC tumors. First, we systematically identify causal relationships between somatic genome alterations (SGAs) and differentially expressed genes (DEGs) for each TCGA HNSCC tumor using the tumor-specific causal inference (TCI) model. Then, we generalize the most statistically significant driver SGAs and their regulated DEGs in TCGA HNSCC cohort. Finally, we develop machine learning models that combine genomic and transcriptomic data to infer the protein functional activation states of driver SGAs in tumors, which enable us to represent a tumor in the space of cellular signaling systems. We discovered four mechanism-oriented subtypes of HNSCC, which show distinguished patterns of activation state of HNSCC driver proteins, and importantly, this subtyping is orthogonal to previously reported transcriptomic-based molecular subtyping of HNSCC. Further, our analysis revealed driver proteins that are likely involved in oncogenic processes induced by HPV infection, even though they are not perturbed by genomic alterations in HPV+ tumors.
- Subjects
EPITHELIAL cell tumors; MOLECULAR diagnosis; HEAD &; neck cancer; MACHINE learning; CELLULAR signal transduction; ATTRIBUTION (Social psychology); GENOMICS; PAPILLOMAVIRUS diseases; GENE expression profiling; STATISTICAL models; CARRIER proteins; DISEASE complications
- Publication
Cancers, 2022, Vol 14, Issue 19, p4825
- ISSN
2072-6694
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/cancers14194825