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A 13-gene signature to predict the prognosis and immunotherapy responses of lung squamous cell carcinoma.
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Scientific reports [Sci Rep] 2022 Aug 11; Vol. 12 (1), pp. 13646. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Aug 11. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) comprises 20-30% of all lung cancers. Immunotherapy has significantly improved the prognosis of LUSC patients; however, only a small subset of patients responds to the treatment. Therefore, we aimed to develop a novel multi-gene signature associated with the immune phenotype of the tumor microenvironment for LUSC prognosis prediction. We stratified the LUSC patients from The Cancer Genome Atlas dataset into hot and cold tumor according to a combination of infiltration status of immune cells and PD-L1 expression level. Kaplan-Meier analysis showed that hot tumors were associated with shorter overall survival (OS). Enrichment analyses of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between the hot and cold tumors suggested that hot tumors potentially have a higher immune response ratio to immunotherapy than cold tumors. Subsequently, hub genes based on the DEGs were identified and protein-protein interactions were constructed. Finally, we established an immune-related 13-gene signature based on the hub genes using the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator feature selection and multivariate cox regression analysis. This gene signature divided LUSC patients into high-risk and low-risk groups and the former inclined worse OS than the latter. Multivariate cox proportional hazard regression analysis showed that the risk model constructed by the 13 prognostic genes was an independent risk factor for prognosis. Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis showed a moderate predictive accuracy for 1-, 3- and 5-year OS. The 13-gene signature also performed well in four external cohorts (three LUSC and one melanoma cohorts) from Gene Expression Omnibus. Overall, in this study, we established a reliable immune-related 13-gene signature that can stratify and predict the prognosis of LUSC patients, which might serve clinical use of immunotherapy.<br /> (© 2022. The Author(s).)
- Subjects :
- Biomarkers, Tumor genetics
Biomarkers, Tumor metabolism
Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
Humans
Immunotherapy
Lung pathology
Prognosis
Tumor Microenvironment genetics
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung genetics
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell genetics
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell metabolism
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell therapy
Lung Neoplasms genetics
Lung Neoplasms metabolism
Lung Neoplasms therapy
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2045-2322
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Scientific reports
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 35953696
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-17735-6