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Identification of Tumor Tissue of Origin with RNA-Seq Data and Using Gradient Boosting Strategy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cancer of unknown primary (CUP) is a type of malignant tumor, which is histologically diagnosed as a metastatic carcinoma while the tissue-of-origin cannot be identified. CUP accounts for roughly 5% of all cancers. Traditional treatment for CUP is primarily broad-spectrum chemotherapy; however, the prognosis is relatively poor. Thus, it is of clinical importance to accurately infer the tissue-of-origin of CUP.

Methods

We developed a gradient boosting framework to trace tissue-of-origin of 20 types of solid tumors. Specifically, we downloaded the expression profiles of 20,501 genes for 7713 samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), which were used as the training data set. The RNA-seq data of 79 tumor samples from 6 cancer types with known origins were also downloaded from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) for an independent data set.

Results

400 genes were selected to train a gradient boosting model for identification of the primary site of the tumor. The overall 10-fold cross-validation accuracy of our method was 96.1% across 20 types of cancer, while the accuracy for the independent data set reached 83.5%.

Conclusion

Our gradient boosting framework was proven to be accurate in identifying tumor tissue-of-origin on both training data and independent testing data, which might be of practical usage.

SUBMITTER: Li R

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7904362 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Identification of Tumor Tissue of Origin with RNA-Seq Data and Using Gradient Boosting Strategy.

Li Ruixi R Liao Bo B Wang Bo B Dai Chan C Liang Xin X Tian Geng G Wu Fangxiang F

BioMed research international 20210217

<h4>Background</h4>Cancer of unknown primary (CUP) is a type of malignant tumor, which is histologically diagnosed as a metastatic carcinoma while the tissue-of-origin cannot be identified. CUP accounts for roughly 5% of all cancers. Traditional treatment for CUP is primarily broad-spectrum chemotherapy; however, the prognosis is relatively poor. Thus, it is of clinical importance to accurately infer the tissue-of-origin of CUP.<h4>Methods</h4>We developed a gradient boosting framework to trace ...[more]

PMID: 33681364

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Identification of Tumor Tissue of Origin with RNA-Seq Data and Using Gradient Boosting Strategy.

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Identification of Tumor Tissue of Origin with RNA-Seq Data and Using Gradient Boosting Strategy.

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