Abstract

Breast cancer (BC) is currently one of the deadliest tumors worldwide. Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are a small group of tumor cells with self-renewal and differentiation abilities and high treatment resistance. One of the reasons for treatment failures is the inability to completely eliminate tumor stem cells. By using the edgeR package, we identified stemness-related differentially expressed genes in GSE69280. Via Lasso-penalized Cox regression analysis and univariate Cox regression analysis, survival genes were screened out to construct a prognostic model. Via nomograms and ROC curves, we verified the accuracy of the prognostic model. We selected 4 genes (PSMB9, CXCL13, NPR3, and CDKN2C) to establish a prognostic model from TCGA data and a validation model from GSE24450 data. We found that the low-risk score group had better OS than the high-risk score group, whether using TCGA or GSE24450 data. A prognostic model including four stemness-related genes was constructed in our study to determine targets of breast cancer stem cells (BCSCs) and improve the treatment effect.

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Title
Assessing the prognostic value of stemness-related genes in breast cancer patients
Author
Wen-Jie, Wang 1 ; Wang, Han 2 ; Meng-sen, Wang 3 ; Yue-Qing, Huang 4 ; Yu-Yuan, Ma 5 ; Qi Jie 5 ; Shi, Jian-Ping 1 ; Li, Wei 6 

 The Affiliated Suzhou Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Department of Radio-Oncology, Suzhou, People’s Republic of China (GRID:grid.89957.3a) (ISNI:0000 0000 9255 8984) 
 Jining Tumor Hospital, Department of Oncology, Jining, People’s Republic of China (GRID:grid.89957.3a) 
 Jining No. 1 People’s Hospital, Department of Oncology, Jining, People’s Republic of China (GRID:grid.89957.3a) 
 The Affiliated Suzhou Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Department of General Practice, Suzhou, People’s Republic of China (GRID:grid.89957.3a) (ISNI:0000 0000 9255 8984) 
 The Affiliated Suzhou Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Department of Thyroid and Breast Surgery, Suzhou, People’s Republic of China (GRID:grid.89957.3a) (ISNI:0000 0000 9255 8984) 
 The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Department of Oncology, Suzhou, People’s Republic of China (GRID:grid.429222.d) (ISNI:0000 0004 1798 0228) 
Publication year
2020
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2471524124
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2020. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.