Identification of Novel Lung Cancer Driver Genes Connecting Different Omics Levels With a Heat Diffusion Algorithm.

ABSTRACT: Cancer driver gene is a type of gene with abnormal alterations that initiate or promote tumorigenesis. Driver genes can be used to reveal the fundamental pathological mechanisms of tumorigenesis. These genes may have pathological changes at different omics levels. Thus, identifying cancer driver genes involving two or more omics levels is essential. In this study, a computational investigation was conducted on lung cancer driver genes. Four omics levels, namely, epigenomics, genomics, transcriptomics, and post-transcriptomics, were involved. From the driver genes at each level, the Laplacian heat diffusion algorithm was executed on a protein-protein interaction network for discovering latent driver genes at this level. A following screen procedure was performed to extract essential driver

SUBMITTER: Yuan F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8826452 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature