1. meGPS: a multi-omics signature for hepatocellular carcinoma detection integrating methylome and transcriptome data.
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Wu Q, Zheng X, Leung KS, Wong MH, Tsui SK, and Cheng L
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- Humans, Transcriptome, Epigenome, DNA Methylation, Biomarkers, Tumor genetics, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Carcinoma, Hepatocellular diagnosis, Carcinoma, Hepatocellular genetics, Carcinoma, Hepatocellular metabolism, Liver Neoplasms diagnosis, Liver Neoplasms genetics, Liver Neoplasms metabolism
- Abstract
Motivation: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a primary malignancy with a poor prognosis. Recently, multi-omics molecular-level measurement enables HCC diagnosis and prognosis prediction, which is crucial for early intervention of personalized therapy to diminish mortality. Here, we introduce a novel strategy utilizing DNA methylation and RNA expression data to achieve a multi-omics gene pair signature (GPS) for HCC discrimination., Results: The immune genes with negative correlations between expression and promoter methylation are enriched in the highly connected cancer-related pathway network, which are considered as the candidates for HCC detection. After that, we separately construct a methylation GPS (mGPS) and an expression GPS (eGPS), and then assemble them as a meGPS with five gene pairs, in which the significant methylation and expression changes occur between HCC tumor and non-tumor groups. Reliable performance has been validated by independent tissue (age, gender and etiology) and blood datasets. This study proposes a procedure for multi-omics GPS identification and develops a novel HCC signature using both methylome and transcriptome data, suggesting potential molecular targets for the detection and therapy of HCC., Availability and Implementation: Models are available at https://github.com/bioinformaticStudy/meGPS.git., Supplementary Information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online., (© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.)
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- 2022
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