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- Title
Mining for regulatory programs in the cancer transcriptome.
- Authors
Rhodes, Daniel R; Kalyana-Sundaram, Shanker; Mahavisno, Vasudeva; Barrette, Terrence R; Ghosh, Debashis; Chinnaiyan, Arul M
- Abstract
DNA microarrays have been widely applied to cancer transcriptome analysis. The Oncomine database contains a large collection of such data, as well as hundreds of derived gene-expression signatures. We studied the regulatory mechanisms responsible for gene deregulation in these cancer signatures by searching for the coordinate regulation of genes with common transcription factor binding sites. We found that genes with binding sites for the archetypal cancer transcription factor, E2F, were disproportionately overexpressed in a wide variety of cancers, whereas genes with binding sites for other transcription factors, such as Myc-Max, c-Rel and ATF, were disproportionately overexpressed in specific cancer types. These results suggest that alterations in pathways activating these transcription factors may be responsible for the observed gene deregulation and cancer pathogenesis.
- Publication
Nature genetics, 2005, Vol 37, Issue 6, p579
- ISSN
1061-4036
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/ng1578