Aberrations in the iron regulatory gene signature are associated with decreased survival in diffuse infiltrating gliomas

Cody Weston, Joe Klobusicky, Jennifer Weston, James Connor, Steven A. Toms, Nicholas F. Marko

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Abstract

Iron is a tightly regulated micronutrient with no physiologic means of elimination and is necessary for cell division in normal tissue. Recent evidence suggests that dysregulation of iron regulatory proteins may play a role in cancer pathophysiology. We use public data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) to study the association between survival and expression levels of 61 genes coding for iron regulatory proteins in patients with World Health Organization Grade II-III gliomas. Using a feature selection algorithm we identified a novel, optimized subset of eight iron regulatory genes (STEAP3, HFE, TMPRSS6, SFXN1, TFRC, UROS, SLC11A2, and STEAP4) whose differential expression defines two phenotypic groups with median survival differences of 52.3 months for patients with grade II gliomas (25.9 vs. 78.2 months, p< 10-3), 43.5 months for patients with grade III gliomas (43.9 vs. 87.4 months, p = 0.025), and 54.0 months when considering both grade II and III gliomas (79.9 vs. 25.9 months, p < 10-5).

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article numbere0166593
JournalPloS one
Volume11
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2016

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General

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