| Autor: |
Ha T.N. Nguyen, Haoliang Xue, Virginie Firlej, Yann Ponty, Melina Gallopin, Daniel Gautheret |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
BMC Cancer, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2021) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1471-2407 |
| DOI: |
10.1186/s12885-021-08021-1 |
| Popis: |
Abstract Background RNA-seq data are increasingly used to derive prognostic signatures for cancer outcome prediction. A limitation of current predictors is their reliance on reference gene annotations, which amounts to ignoring large numbers of non-canonical RNAs produced in disease tissues. A recently introduced kind of transcriptome classifier operates entirely in a reference-free manner, relying on k-mers extracted from patient RNA-seq data. Methods In this paper, we set out to compare conventional and reference-free signatures in risk and relapse prediction of prostate cancer. To compare the two approaches as fairly as possible, we set up a common procedure that takes as input either a k-mer count matrix or a gene expression matrix, extracts a signature and evaluates this signature in an independent dataset. Results We find that both gene-based and k-mer based classifiers had similarly high performances for risk prediction and a markedly lower performance for relapse prediction. Interestingly, the reference-free signatures included a set of sequences mapping to novel lncRNAs or variable regions of cancer driver genes that were not part of gene-based signatures. Conclusions Reference-free classifiers are thus a promising strategy for the identification of novel prognostic RNA biomarkers. |
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