Common profiles of Notch signaling differentiate disease-free survival in luminal type A and triple negative breast cancer.

ABSTRACT: Breast cancer (BC) is characterized by high heterogeneity regarding its biology and clinical characteristics. The Notch pathway regulates such processes as organ modeling and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT).The aim of the study was to determine the effect of differential expression of Notch members on disease-free survival (DFS) in luminal type A (lumA) and triple negative (TN) BC.The differential expression of 19 Notch members was examined in a TCGA BC cohort. DFS analysis was performed using the log-rank test (p<0.05). Biological differences between DFS groups were determined with Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) (tTest, FDR<0.25). Common expression profiles according to Notch signaling were examined using ExpressCluster (K-means, mean centered, Euclidean distance metric).T

SUBMITTER: Orzechowska M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5351609 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature