Modeling Gene Regulation in Liver Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Random Forests.

ABSTRACT: Liver hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains a leading cause of cancer-related death. Poor understanding of the mechanisms underlying HCC prevents early detection and leads to high mortality. We developed a random forest model that incorporates copy-number variation, DNA methylation, transcription factor, and microRNA binding information as features to predict gene expression in HCC. Our model achieved a highly significant correlation between predicted and measured expression of held-out genes. Furthermore, we identified potential regulators of gene expression in HCC. Many of these regulators have been previously found to be associated with cancer and are differentially expressed in HCC. We also evaluated our predicted target sets for these regulators by making comparison with experimental

SUBMITTER: Kazan H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5080476 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature