Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2018
College/Unit
School of Medicine
Department/Program/Center
Medicine
Abstract
This study aims to develop a multi-gene assay predictive of the clinical benefits of chemotherapy in non- small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients, and substantiate their protein expression as potential therapeutic tar- gets. Patients and methods: The mRNA expression of 160 genes identified from microarray was analyzed in qRT-PCR assays of independent 337 snap-frozen NSCLC tumors to develop a predictive signature. A clinical trial JBR.10 was included in the validation. Hazard ratio was used to select genes, and decision-trees were used to construct the predictive model. Protein expression was quantified with AQUA in 500 FFPE NSCLC samples.
Results: A 7-gene signature was identified from training cohort (n = 83) with accurate patient stratification (P = 0.0043) and was validated in independent patient cohorts (n = 248, P b 0.0001) in Kaplan-Meier analyses. In the predicted benefit group, there was a significantly better disease-specific survival in patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy in both training (P = 0.035) and validation (P = 0.0049) sets. In the predicted non-benefit group, there was no survival benefit in patients receiving chemotherapy in either set. The protein expression of ZNF71 quantified with AQUA scores produced robust patient stratification in separate training (P = 0.021) and validation (P = 0.047) NSCLC cohorts. The protein expression of CD27 quantified with ELISA had a strong correlation with its mRNA expression in NSCLC tumors (Spearman coefficient = 0.494, P b 0.0088). Multiple sig- nature genes had concordant DNA copy number variation, mRNA and protein expression in NSCLC progression. Conclusions: This study presents a predictive multi-gene assay and prognostic protein biomarkers clinically appli- cable for improving NSCLC treatment, with important implications in lung cancer chemotherapy and immunotherapy.
Digital Commons Citation
Guo, Nancy Lan; Dowlati, Afshin; Raese, Rebecca A.; Dong, Chunlin; Chen, Guoan; Beer, David G.; Shaffer, Justine; Singh, Salvi; Bokhary, Ujala; Liu, Lin; Howingtown, John; Hensing, Thomas; and Qian, Yong, "A Predictive 7-Gene Assay and Prognostic Protein Biomarkers for Non-small Cell Lung Cancer" (2018). Faculty & Staff Scholarship. 1673.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/faculty_publications/1673
Source Citation
Guo, N. L., Dowlati, A., Raese, R. A., Dong, C., Chen, G., Beer, D. G., … Qian, Y. (2018). A Predictive 7-Gene Assay and Prognostic Protein Biomarkers for Non-small Cell Lung Cancer. EBioMedicine, 32, 102–110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2018.05.025
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© 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).