title: Identification of logic relationships between genes and subtypes of non-small cell lung cancer.
abstract: Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has two major subtypes: adenocarcinoma (AC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). The diagnosis and treatment of NSCLC are hindered by the limited knowledge about the pathogenesis mechanisms of subtypes of NSCLC. It is necessary to research the molecular mechanisms related with AC and SCC. In this work, we improved the logic analysis algorithm to mine the sufficient and necessary conditions for the presence states (presence or absence) of phenotypes. We applied our method to AC and SCC specimens, and identified [Formula: see text] lower and [Formula: see text] higher logic relationships between genes and two subtypes of NSCLC. The discovered relationships were independent of specimens selected, and their significance was validated by statistic test. Compared with the two earlier methods (the non-negative matrix factorization method and the relevance analysis method), the current method outperformed these methods in the recall rate and classification accuracy on NSCLC and normal specimens. We obtained [Formula: see text] biomarkers. Among [Formula: see text] biomarkers, [Formula: see text] genes have been used to distinguish AC from SCC in practice, and other six genes were newly discovered biomarkers for distinguishing subtypes. Furthermore, NKX2-1 has been considered as a molecular target for the targeted therapy of AC, and [Formula: see text] other genes may be novel molecular targets. By gene ontology analysis, we found that two biological processes ('epidermis development' and 'cell adhesion') were closely related with the tumorigenesis of subtypes of NSCLC. More generally, the current method could be extended to other complex diseases for distinguishing subtypes and detecting the molecular targets for targeted therapy.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Image Information Processing and Intelligent Control, School of Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
authors.forename: Yansen
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Su
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Image Information Processing and Intelligent Control, School of Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
authors.forename: Linqiang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pan
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000235:genetics*; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000235:genetics; D002289:Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / Q000235:genetics*; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000235:genetics*; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D057225:Data Mining; D063990:Gene Ontology; D052138:Genes, Neoplasm; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics*; D010641:Phenotype; D059467:Transcriptome
chemical_list: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor
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