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Published on: August 4, 2021
Tumor mutation burden in connection with immune-related survival in uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma
Ling Zhao1, Xueshu Fu2, Xiling Han3
1Department of Gynecology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University, Qiandongnan Second People's Hospital, Kaili, 556000, Guizhou, China.
Background:
UCEC is the most common gynecological malignancy in many countries, and its mechanism of occurrence and development is related to tumor mutation burden (TMB) and immune cell infiltration. Therefore, it is necessary to systematically explore the TMB-related gene profile in immune cells to improve the prognosis of UCEC.
Methods:
We integrated TMB-related genes with basic clinical information of UCEC patients based on TCGA dataset. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were selected through differential expression screening, PPI, and enrichment analysis. Additionally, we analyzed the components of immune cell infiltration of the DEGs to obtain the differential immunity-related genes. A single factor and multifactor Cox regression analyses were conducted to establish new prognostic indicators of OS and DFS based on TMB-related immune genes. To further study the correlation between survival and immune cell infiltration, a Cox model based on these immune infiltration compositions was built. Using the clinical variables, we established nomograms for OS and DFS.
Results:
393 DEGs were significantly associated with clinical outcomes and the immune component in patients with UCEC. Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes, Genomes (KEGG) pathway and protein-protein interaction network (PPI) analyses revealed the role of these genes and information on related pathways. Then, two prognostic models were established based on the differential immune genes for OS (GFAP and MX2) and DFS (MX2, GFAP, IGHM, FGF20, and TRAV21). In DFS, the differential immune genes were related to CD4+ T cell, CD8+ T cell, macrophage, and neutrophil (all P < 0.05). B cell and CD8+ T cell were independent prognostic factors from among the immune cell elements in UCEC. Finally, the risk scores of these models were combined with the clinical elements-based nomogram models, and the AUC values were all over 0.7.
Conclusions:
Our results identified several clinically significant differential immune genes and established relevant prognostic models, providing a basis for the molecular analysis of TMB and immune cells in UCEC, and identified potential prognostic and immune-related genes for UCEC. We added clinical related conditions for further analysis to confirm the identity of the genes and clinical elements-based models.
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