
pmid: 35617355
pmc: PMC9135200
Integrated bioinformatics and statistical approaches are now playing the vital role in identifying potential molecular biomarkers more accurately in presence of huge number of alternatives for disease diagnosis, prognosis and therapies by reducing time and cost compared to the wet-lab based experimental procedures. Breast cancer (BC) is one of the leading causes of cancer related deaths for women worldwide. Several dry-lab and wet-lab based studies have identified different sets of molecular biomarkers for BC. But they did not compare their results to each other so much either computationally or experimentally. In this study, an attempt was made to propose a set of molecular biomarkers that might be more effective for BC diagnosis, prognosis and therapies, by using the integrated bioinformatics and statistical approaches. At first, we identified 190 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between BC and control samples by using the statistical LIMMA approach. Then we identified 13 DEGs (AKR1C1,IRF9,OAS1,OAS3,SLCO2A1,NT5E,NQO1,ANGPT1,FN1,ATF6B,HPGD,BCL11A, andTP53INP1) as the key genes (KGs) by protein-protein interaction (PPI) network analysis. Then we investigated the pathogenetic processes of DEGs highlighting KGs by GO terms and KEGG pathway enrichment analysis. Moreover, we disclosed the transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulatory factors of KGs by their interaction network analysis with the transcription factors (TFs) and micro-RNAs. Both supervised and unsupervised learning’s including multivariate survival analysis results confirmed the strong prognostic power of the proposed KGs. Finally, we suggested KGs-guided computationally more effective seven candidate drugs (NVP-BHG712, Nilotinib, GSK2126458, YM201636, TG-02, CX-5461, AP-24534) compared to other published drugs by cross-validation with the state-of-the-art alternatives top-ranked independent receptor proteins. Thus, our findings might be played a vital role in breast cancer diagnosis, prognosis and therapies.
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Drug Target Identification, Bioinformatics, Science, Organic Anion Transporters, Breast Neoplasms, Gene Set Enrichment Analysis, Gene, Genomic Data Integration, Computational biology, Breast cancer, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Microarray Data Analysis and Gene Expression Profiling, Biomarkers, Tumor, Genetics, Humans, Gene Regulatory Networks, Protein Interaction Maps, Molecular Biology, Biology, Heat-Shock Proteins, Cancer, Gene Expression Profiling, Q, R, Computational Biology, Life Sciences, Prognosis, Analysis of Gene Interaction Networks, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Biological Network Integration, Computational Theory and Mathematics, FOS: Biological sciences, Computer Science, Physical Sciences, KEGG, Medicine, Female, Gene expression, Carrier Proteins, Transcriptome, Research Article, Computational Methods in Drug Discovery
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Drug Target Identification, Bioinformatics, Science, Organic Anion Transporters, Breast Neoplasms, Gene Set Enrichment Analysis, Gene, Genomic Data Integration, Computational biology, Breast cancer, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Microarray Data Analysis and Gene Expression Profiling, Biomarkers, Tumor, Genetics, Humans, Gene Regulatory Networks, Protein Interaction Maps, Molecular Biology, Biology, Heat-Shock Proteins, Cancer, Gene Expression Profiling, Q, R, Computational Biology, Life Sciences, Prognosis, Analysis of Gene Interaction Networks, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Biological Network Integration, Computational Theory and Mathematics, FOS: Biological sciences, Computer Science, Physical Sciences, KEGG, Medicine, Female, Gene expression, Carrier Proteins, Transcriptome, Research Article, Computational Methods in Drug Discovery
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