期刊
CANCERS
卷 14, 期 18, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/cancers14184433
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human endogenous retroviruses; HERVs; lung cancer; lung adenocarcinoma; lung squamous cell carcinoma; biomarkers; RNA-seq; transcriptome analysis
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资金
- National Cancer Institute [P30 CA016672]
Lung cancer is the second most common cancer worldwide, and lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) are the most common subtypes. This study characterized the expression of human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) at genomic locus-specific resolution in lung cancer and found dysregulated HERVs. The findings may contribute to the identification of novel biomarkers for lung cancer.
Lung cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Among its subtypes, lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) are the most common, accounting for more than 85% of lung cancer diagnoses. Despite the incredible efforts and recent advances in lung cancer treatments, patients affected by this condition still have a poor prognosis. Therefore, novel diagnostic biomarkers are needed. Recently, a class of transposable elements called human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) has been found to be implicated in cancer development and later employed as novel biomarkers for several tumor types. In this study, we first ever characterized the expression of HERVs at genomic locus-specific resolution in both LUAD and LUSC cohorts available in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). Precisely, (i) we profiled the expression of HERVs in TCGA-LUAD and TCGA-LUSC cohorts; (ii) we identified the dysregulated HERVs in both lung cancer subtypes; (iii) we evaluated the impact of the dysregulated HERVs on signaling pathways using neural network-based predictions; and (iv) we assessed their association with overall survival (OS) and relapse-free survival (RFS). In conclusion, we believe this study may help elucidate another layer of dysregulation that occurs in lung cancer involving HERVs, paving the way for identifying novel lung cancer biomarkers.
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