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FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY
Volume 11, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2021.685065
Keywords
ovarian cancer; multi-omics; immune microenvironment; immune classification; immunotherapy
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81772762, 81502227]
- Clinical science and technology innovation project of Shanghai Shenkang Hospital Development Center [SHDC12019X34]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai [21ZR1450900]
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Epithelial ovarian cancer has a low response rate to immunotherapy, with a complex immune microenvironment influencing treatment outcomes. By stratifying patients into three immune subtypes, differences in immune characteristics and prognosis were identified. Epigenetic therapy may be effective in reversing the efficacy of immunotherapy based on methylation and copy number variant analysis of immune checkpoint genes.
Epithelial ovarian cancer has a low response rate to immunotherapy and a complex immune microenvironment that regulates its treatment outcomes. Understanding the immune microenvironment and its molecular basis is of great clinical significance in the effort to improve immunotherapy response and outcomes. To determine the characteristics of the immune microenvironment in ovarian cancer, we stratified ovarian cancer patients into three immune subtypes (C1, C2, and C3) using immune-related genes based on gene expression data from The Cancer Genome Atlas and found that these three subtypes had significant differences in immune characteristics and prognosis. Methylation and copy number variant analysis showed that the immune checkpoint genes that influenced immune response were significantly hypermethylated and highly deleted in the immunosuppressive C3 subtype, suggesting that epigenetic therapy may be able to reverse the efficacy of immunotherapy. In addition, the mutation frequencies of BRCA2 and CDK12 were significantly higher in the C2 subtype than in the other two subtypes, suggesting that mutation of DNA repair-related genes significantly affects the prognosis of ovarian cancer patients. Our study further elucidated the molecular characteristics of the immune microenvironment of ovarian cancer, which providing an effective hierarchical method for the immunotherapy of ovarian cancer patients, and has clinical relevance to the design of new immunotherapies and a reasonable combination strategies.
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