Identification of Prognostic Stromal-Immune Score-Based Genes in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Microenvironment

A growing amount of evidence has suggested the clinical importance of stromal and immune cells in the liver cancer microenvironment. However, reliable prognostic signatures based on assessments of stromal and immune components have not been well-established. This study aimed to identify stromal-immu...

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Published in:Frontiers in genetics 2021-02, Vol.12, p.625236-625236
Main Authors: Liu, Shanshan, Yu, Guangchuang, Liu, Li, Zou, Xuejing, Zhou, Lang, Hu, Erqiang, Song, Yang
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Language:English
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bioinformatics analysis
biomarker
ESTIMATE
Genetics
liver cancer
tumor-microenvironment
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Summary:A growing amount of evidence has suggested the clinical importance of stromal and immune cells in the liver cancer microenvironment. However, reliable prognostic signatures based on assessments of stromal and immune components have not been well-established. This study aimed to identify stromal-immune score-based potential prognostic biomarkers for hepatocellular carcinoma. Stromal and immune scores were estimated from transcriptomic profiles of a liver cancer cohort from The Cancer Genome Atlas using the ESTIMATE (Estimation of STromal and Immune cells in MAlignant Tumors using Expression data) algorithm. Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) algorithm was applied to select prognostic genes. Favorable overall survivals and progression-free interval were found in patients with high stromal score and immune score, and 828 differentially expressed genes were identified. Functional enrichment analysis and protein-protein interaction networks further showed that these genes mainly participated in immune response, extracellular matrix, and cell adhesion. (matrix metallopeptidase 9) was identified as a prognostic tumor microenvironment-associated gene by using LASSO and TIMER (Tumor IMmune Estimation Resource) algorithms and was found to be positively correlated with immunosuppressive molecules and drug response.
ISSN:1664-8021
1664-8021
DOI:10.3389/fgene.2021.625236