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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2021

Identification of driver genes based on gene mutational effects and network centrality.

Yun-Yun Tang, Pi-Jing Wei, Jian-Ping Zhao, Junfeng Xia, Rui-Fen Cao, Chun-Hou Zheng

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yun-Yun TangKey Lab of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing of Ministry of Education, College of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, China.
Pi-Jing WeiKey Lab of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing of Ministry of Education, College of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, China.
Jian-Ping ZhaoCollege of Mathematics and System Sciences, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China.
Junfeng XiaInstitute of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, China.
Rui-Fen CaoKey Lab of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing of Ministry of Education, College of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, China.
Chun-Hou ZhengKey Lab of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing of Ministry of Education, College of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, China. zhengch99@126.com.
Anhui University · CNXinjiang University · CN

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 61861146002National Natural Science Foundation of China 61872220National Natural Science Foundation of China 61873001National Natural Science Foundation of China U19A2064Open Foundation of Engineering Research Center of Big Data Application in Private Health Medicine KF2020006Xinjiang Autonomous Region University Research Program XJEDU2019Y002
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAs one of the deadliest diseases in the world, cancer is driven by a few somatic mutations that disrupt the normal growth of cells, and leads to abnormal proliferation and tumor development. The vast majority of somatic mutations did not affect the occurrence and development of cancer; thus, identifying the mutations responsible for tumor occurrence and development is one of the main targets of current cancer treatments.

resultsTo effectively identify driver genes, we adopted a semi-local centrality measure and gene mutation effect function to assess the effect of gene mutations on changes in gene expression patterns. Firstly, we calculated the mutation score for each gene. Secondly, we identified differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in the cohort by comparing the expression profiles of tumor samples and normal samples, and then constructed a local network for each mutation gene using DEGs and mutant genes according to the protein-protein interaction network. Finally, we calculated the score of each mutant gene according to the objective function. The top-ranking mutant genes were selected as driver genes. We name the proposed method as mutations effect and network centrality.

conclusionsFour types of cancer data in The Cancer Genome Atlas were tested. The experimental data proved that our method was superior to the existing network-centric method, as it was able to quickly and easily identify driver genes and rare driver factors.

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NeoplasmsGene Regulatory NetworksHumansMutationCancerDriver genesLocal centralityMutation dataTranscriptional network

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PMID34560840
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