Integrated analysis of single-cell RNA-seq and bulk RNA-seq unveils heterogeneity and establishes a novel signature for prognosis and tumor immune microenvironment in ovarian cancer

Journal of Ovarian Research

Research

Fangfang Dai¹  Jie Zhang¹  Yanxiang Cheng¹  Zitao Wang¹  Bingshu Li¹ 

[1] Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China;

关键词: Ovarian cancer;    Single cell RNA-seq;    Differentiation trajectory;    Signature;    Tumor immune microenvironment;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s13048-022-01074-1

 received in 2022-07-26, accepted in 2022-12-09,  发布年份 2022

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

Ovarian cancer is a highly heterogeneous gynecological malignancy that seriously affects the survival and prognosis of female patients. Single-cell sequencing and transcriptome analysis can effectively characterize tumor heterogeneity to better study the mechanism of occurrence and development. In this study, we identified differentially expressed genes with different differentiation outcomes of tumor cells by analyzing a single-cell dataset. Based on the differentially expressed genes, we explored the differences in function and tumor microenvironment among clusters via consensus clustering. Meanwhile, WGCNA was employed to obtain key genes related to ovarian cancer. On the basis of the TCGA and GEO datasets, we constructed a risk model consisting of 7 genes using the LASSO regression model, and successfully verified that the model was characterized as an independent prognostic factor, efficiently predicting the survival prognosis of patients. In addition, immune signature analysis showed that patients in the high-risk group exhibited lower anti-tumor immune cell infiltration and immunosuppressive status, and had poorer responsiveness to chemotherapeutic drugs and immunotherapy. In conclusion, our study provided a 7-gene prognostic model based on the heterogeneity of OC cells for ovarian cancer patients, which could effectively predict the prognosis of patients and identify the immune microenvironment status of patients.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© The Author(s) 2023

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