title: Network-based survival analysis reveals subnetwork signatures for predicting outcomes of ovarian cancer treatment.
abstract: Cox regression is commonly used to predict the outcome by the time to an event of interest and in addition, identify relevant features for survival analysis in cancer genomics. Due to the high-dimensionality of high-throughput genomic data, existing Cox models trained on any particular dataset usually generalize poorly to other independent datasets. In this paper, we propose a network-based Cox regression model called Net-Cox and applied Net-Cox for a large-scale survival analysis across multiple ovarian cancer datasets. Net-Cox integrates gene network information into the Cox's proportional hazard model to explore the co-expression or functional relation among high-dimensional gene expression features in the gene network. Net-Cox was applied to analyze three independent gene expression datasets including the TCGA ovarian cancer dataset and two other public ovarian cancer datasets. Net-Cox with the network information from gene co-expression or functional relations identified highly consistent signature genes across the three datasets, and because of the better generalization across the datasets, Net-Cox also consistently improved the accuracy of survival prediction over the Cox models regularized by L(2) or L(1). This study focused on analyzing the death and recurrence outcomes in the treatment of ovarian carcinoma to identify signature genes that can more reliably predict the events. The signature genes comprise dense protein-protein interaction subnetworks, enriched by extracellular matrix receptors and modulators or by nuclear signaling components downstream of extracellular signal-regulated kinases. In the laboratory validation of the signature genes, a tumor array experiment by protein staining on an independent patient cohort from Mayo Clinic showed that the protein expression of the signature gene FBN1 is a biomarker significantly associated with the early recurrence after 12 months of the treatment in the ovarian cancer patients who are initially sensitive to chemotherapy. Net-Cox toolbox is available at http://compbio.cs.umn.edu/Net-Cox/.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Takayo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ota
authors.forename: Viji
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Shridhar
authors.forename: Jeremy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chien
authors.forename: Baolin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kuang
mesh_terms: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics; D019295:Computational Biology; D005260:Female; D000071838:Fibrillin-1; D000071837:Fibrillins; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008840:Microfilament Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D060066:Protein Interaction Maps; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D016019:Survival Analysis; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D054392:Adipokines
chemical_list: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor; D000071838:Fibrillin-1; D000071837:Fibrillins; D008840:Microfilament Proteins; C000605722:FBN1 protein, human; D054392:Adipokines
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