Zhang, C., Li, H. R., Fan, J. B., Wang-Rodriguez, J., Downs, T., Fu, X. D., Zhang, M. Q. (2006) Profiling alternatively spliced mRNA isoforms for prostate cancer classification. BMC Bioinformatics, 7. p. 202. ISSN 1471-2105 (Electronic)
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer illness and death among men in the United States and world wide. There is an urgent need to discover good biomarkers for early clinical diagnosis and treatment. Previously, we developed an exon-junction microarray-based assay and profiled 1532 mRNA splice isoforms from 364 potential prostate cancer related genes in 38 prostate tissues. Here, we investigate the advantage of using splice isoforms, which couple transcriptional and splicing regulation, for cancer classification. RESULTS: As many as 464 splice isoforms from more than 200 genes are differentially regulated in tumors at a false discovery rate (FDR) of 0.05. Remarkably, about 30% of genes have isoforms that are called significant but do not exhibit differential expression at the overall mRNA level. A support vector machine (SVM) classifier trained on 128 signature isoforms can correctly predict 92% of the cases, which outperforms the classifier using overall mRNA abundance by about 5%. It is also observed that the classification performance can be improved using multivariate variable selection methods, which take correlation among variables into account. CONCLUSION: These results demonstrate that profiling of splice isoforms is able to provide unique and important information which cannot be detected by conventional microarrays.
| Item Type: | Paper |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Algorithms Alternative Splicing genetics Diagnosis, Computer Assisted methods Gene Expression Profiling methods Humans Male Neoplasm Proteins genetics metabolism Prostatic Neoplasms classification diagnosis genetics/metabolism Protein Isoforms genetics/metabolism RNA, Messenger genetics Reproducibility of Results Sensitivity and Specificity Sequence Analysis, RNA methods Tumor Markers Biological genetics metabolism |
| Subjects: | bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > Mapping and Rendering > Micro Array Data Rendering Investigative techniques and equipment > biomarker bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > exons > exon junction bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > mRNA dynamics diseases & disorders > cancer > cancer types > prostate cancer |
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| Communities: | CSHL labs > Zhang lab |
| Depositing User: | CSHL Librarian |
| Date: | 2006 |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Dec 2011 15:23 |
| Last Modified: | 01 May 2018 15:52 |
| PMCID: | PMC1458362 |
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| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/22947 |
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