Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Source Publication
Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics
Source ISSN
978-1-4503-6666-3
Abstract
Copy number aberration events such as amplifications and deletions in chromosomal regions are prevalent in cancer patients. Frequently aberrated copy number regions include regulators such as microRNAs (miRNAs), which regulate downstream target genes that involve in the important biological processes in tumorigenesis and proliferation. Many previous studies explored the miRNA-gene interaction networks but copy number-derived miRNA regulations are limited. Identifying copy number-derived miRNA-target gene regulatory interactions in cancer could shed some light on biological mechanisms in tumor initiation and progression. In the present study, we developed a computational pipeline, called miRDriver which is based on the hypothesis that copy number data from cancer patients can be utilized to discover driver miRNAs of cancer. miRDriver integrates copy number aberration, DNA methylation, gene and miRNA expression datasets to compute copy number-derived miRNA-gene interactions in cancer. We tested miRDriver on breast cancer and ovarian cancer data from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database. miRDriver discovered some of the known miRNAs, such as miR-125b, mir-320d, let-7g, and miR-21, which are known to be in copy number aberrated regions in breast cancer. We also discovered some potentially novel miRNA-gene interactions. Also, several miRNAs such as miR-127, miR-139 and let-7b were found to be associated with tumor survival and progression based on Cox proportional hazard model. We compared the enrichment of known miRNA-gene interactions computed by miRDriver with the enrichment of interactions computed by the state-of-the-art methods and miRDriver outperformed all the other methods.
Creative Commons License
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Recommended Citation
Bose, Banabithi and Bozdag, Serdar, "miRDriver: A Tool to Infer Copy Number Derived miRNA-Gene Networks in Cancer" (2019). Computer Science Faculty Research and Publications. 21.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/comp_fac/21
Comments
Accepted version. Published in Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics, 2019: 366-375. DOI. The copyright holder for this preprint is the author/funder. It is made available under a CC-BY 4.0 International license. Used with permission.