Abstract
In this study, we investigated the consensus gene modules in head and neck cancer (HNC) and cervical cancer (CC). We used a publicly available gene expression dataset, GSE6791, which included 42 HNC, 14 normal head and neck, 20 CC and 8 normal cervical tissue samples. To exclude bias because of different human papilloma virus (HPV) types, we analyzed HPV16-positive samples only. We identified 3824 genes common to HNC and CC samples. Among these, 977 genes showed high connectivity and were used to construct consensus modules. We demonstrated eight consensus gene modules for HNC and CC using the dissimilarity measure and average linkage hierarchical clustering methods. These consensus modules included genes with significant biological functions, including ATP binding and extracellular exosome. Eigengen network analysis revealed the consensus modules were highly preserved with high connectivity. These findings demonstrate that HPV16-positive head and neck and cervical cancers share highly preserved consensus gene modules with common potentially therapeutic targets.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 114031-114040 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Oncotarget |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue number | 69 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (NRF-2016R1D1A1B03934112, NRF-2017R1D1A1B03034921 and NRF-2016R1D1A1B03934296), and by a grant from National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, No. 81460408).
Publisher Copyright:
© Zhang et al.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Oncology
