A Multi-Gene Model Effectively Predicts the Overall Prognosis of Stomach Adenocarcinomas With Large Genetic Heterogeneity Using Somatic Mutation Features

Frontiers in Genetics

Xianming Liu¹  Xianxiong Chen²  Qiongfang Fang²  Yejun Wang²  Xinjie Hui²  Aiyue Chen²  Desheng Lu²  Yueming Hu²  Huayu Kang² 

[1] Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Shenzhen People’s Hospital, The Second Clinical Medical College of Jinan University, Shenzhen, China;School of Basic Medicine, Shenzhen University Health Science Center, Shenzhen, China;

关键词: stomach adenocarcinoma;    prognosis;    prediction;    multi-gene model;    heterogeneity;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fgene.2020.00940

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundStomach adenocarcinoma (STAD) is one of the most common malignancies worldwide with poor prognosis. It remains unclear whether the prognosis is associated with somatic gene mutations.MethodsIn this research, we collected two independent STAD cohorts with both genetic profiling and clinical follow-up data, systematically investigated the association between the prognosis and somatic mutations, and analyzed the influence of heterogeneity on the prognosis-genetics association.ResultsTypical association was identified between somatic mutations and overall prognosis for individual cohorts. In The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) cohort, a list of 24 genes was also identified that tended to mutate within cases of the poorest prognosis. The association showed apparent heterogeneity between different cohorts, although common signatures could be identified. A machine-learning model was trained with 20 common genes that showed a similar mutation rate difference between prognostic groups in the two cohorts, and it classified the cases in each cohort into two groups with significantly different prognosis. The model outperformed both single-gene models and TNM-based staging system significantly.ConclusionThe study made a systematic analysis on the association between STAD prognosis and somatic mutations, identified signature genes that showed mutation preference in different prognostic groups, and developed an effective multi-gene model that can effectively predict the overall prognosis of STAD in different cohorts.

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