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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
卷 11, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-95313-y
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- CONACYT [285544/2016, 2115/2018]
- National Institute of Genomic Medicine (Mexico)
- National Laboratory of Complexity Sciences [232647/2014 CONACYT]
- 2018 Miguel Aleman Fellowship in Health Sciences
- 2016 Marcos Moshinsky Fellowship in the Physical Sciences
Gene co-expression networks (GCNs) are important analytical tools for studying the gene expression patterns associated with complex phenotypes. The association between structure and function in GCNs is a current challenge in biomedical research. Studies have shown that the majority of interactions in breast cancer networks are intra-chromosome, while inter-chromosome interactions serve as connecting bridges between clusters. Core genes in healthy networks are related to processes such as metabolism and cell cycle.
Gene co-expression networks (GCNs) have been developed as relevant analytical tools for the study of the gene expression patterns behind complex phenotypes. Determining the association between structure and function in GCNs is a current challenge in biomedical research. Several structural differences between GCNs of breast cancer and healthy phenotypes have been reported. In a previous study, using co-expression multilayer networks, we have shown that there are abrupt differences in the connectivity patterns of the GCN of basal-like breast cancer between top co-expressed gene-pairs and the remaining gene-pairs. Here, we compared the top-100,000-interactions networks for the four breast cancer phenotypes (Luminal-A, Luminal-B, Her2+ and Basal), in terms of structural properties. For this purpose, we used the graph-theoretical k-core of a network (maximal sub-network with nodes of degree at least k). We developed a comprehensive analysis of the network k-core (k = 30) structures in cancer, and its relationship with biological functions. We found that in the Top-100,000edges networks, the majority of interactions in breast cancer networks are intra-chromosome, meanwhile inter-chromosome interactions serve as connecting bridges between clusters. Moreover, core genes in the healthy network are strongly associated with processes such as metabolism and cell cycle. In breast cancer, only the core of Luminal A is related to those processes, and genes in its core are over-expressed. The intersection of the core nodes in all subtypes of cancer is composed only by genes in the chr8q24.3 region. This region has been observed to be highly amplified in several cancers before, and its appearance in the intersection of the four breast cancer k-cores, may suggest that local co-expression is a conserved phenomenon in cancer. Considering the many intricacies associated with these phenomena and the vast amount of research in epigenomic regulation which is currently undergoing, there is a need for further research on the epigenomic effects on the structure and function of gene co-expression networks in cancer.
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