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MYC Activity Inference Captures Diverse Mechanisms of Aberrant MYC Pathway Activation in Human Cancers

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MOLECULAR CANCER RESEARCH
卷 19, 期 3, 页码 414-428

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AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-20-0526

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  1. Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) [RR180061]
  2. NCI of the NIH [1R21CA227996]
  3. T32 training grant of the NIH [T32 AI007363]

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The study found that MYC activity score accurately reflects MYC pathway activity including various MYC regulatory mechanisms, providing better prognostic predictions in multiple cancer types compared to MYC amplification status, MYC promoter methylation, and MYC mRNA expression. Additionally, tumor proliferation and immune evasion are likely contributors to decreased survival.
c-MYC (MYC) is deregulated in more than 50% of all cancers. While MYC amplification is the most common MYC-deregulating event, many other alterations can increase MYC activity. We thus systematically investigated MYC pathway activity across different tumor types. Using a logistic regression framework, we established tumor type-specific, transcriptomic-based MYC activity scores that can accurately capture MYC activity. We show that MYC activity scores reflect a variety of MYC-regulating mechanisms, including MYCL and/or MYCN amplification, MYC promoter methylation, MYC mRNA expression, lncRNA PVT1 expression, MYC mutations, and viral integrations near the MYC locus. Our MYC activity score incorporates all of these mechanisms, resulting in better prognostic predictions compared with MYC amplification status, MYC promoter methylation, and MYC mRNA expression in several cancer types. In addition, we show that tumor proliferation and immune evasion are likely contributors to this reduction in survival. Finally, we developed a MYC activity signature for liquid tumors in which MYC translocation is commonly observed, suggesting that our approach can be applied to different types of genomic alterations. In conclusion, we developed a MYC activity score that captures MYC pathway activity and is clinically relevant.

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