posted on 2023-03-31, 01:46authored byYulia Newton, Adam M. Novak, Teresa Swatloski, Duncan C. McColl, Sahil Chopra, Kiley Graim, Alana S. Weinstein, Robert Baertsch, Sofie R. Salama, Kyle Ellrott, Manu Chopra, Theodore C. Goldstein, David Haussler, Olena Morozova, Joshua M. Stuart
<p>Enrichment of Immune signaling in the integrated pan-cancer cluster. Different level of evidence support the association of the integrated pan-cancer cluster with an immune phenotype. (A) Enrichment of T- and B-cell signaling shown on the integrated map, yellow gradient (see Supplemental Methods). (B) Enrichment of high ESTIMATE scores in the pan-cancer samples, waterfall plot with pan-cancer cluster samples in red. (C) Enrichment of the immune-related pathways identified by differential expression analysis. (D) Unsupervised analysis of master regulator activities inferred by the MARINa method. Gene clusters enriched for T- and B-cell signaling, interferon signaling, and TNFA via NFKB signaling, red font. (E) The top enriched pathways based on the output of master regulator scores derived with MARINa are immune-related. (F) Copy number events in the integrated pan-cancer cluster compared to other samples in the full cohort. The pan-cancer cluster shows a lower number of copy number events in both arm-level events and focal events. Arm-level events (pan-cancer group on the right, background cohort on the left). (G) Same as F but focal events (pan-cancer group on the right, background cohort on the left). (H) Purity estimates in the integrated pan-cancer cluster compared to all other samples in the cohort. The pan-cancer cluster (green box) shows lower purity when compared to the whole cohort as a background (yellow box). This finding is consistent with other analyses indicating high immune signaling in the pan-cancer cluster.</p>
Funding
National Cancer Institute
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institute for General Medical Sciences
National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure CAREER
Cancer – Prostate Cancer Foundation Prostate Dream Team
St. Baldricks Foundation Treehouse Childhood Cancer