Gene Pair Correlation Coefficients in Sphingolipid Metabolic Pathway as a Potential Prognostic Biomarker for Breast Cancer
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Abstract
Complex diseases such as cancer are usually governed by dynamic and simultaneous modifications of multiple genes. Since sphingolipids are potent bioactive molecules and regulate many important pathophysiological processes such as carcinogenesis, we studied the gene pair correlations of 36 genes (31 genes in the sphingolipid metabolic pathway and 5 genes encoding the sphingosine-1-phosphate receptors) between breast cancer patients and healthy controls. It is remarkable to observe that the gene expressions were widely and strongly correlated in healthy controls but in general lost in breast cancer patients. This study suggests that gene pair correlation coefficients could be applied as a systematic and novel method for the diagnosis and prognosis of breast cancer. © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Keywords
Biomarker, Breast cancer, Gene expression, Gene pair correlation, Sphingolipid
Divisions
InstituteofBiologicalSciences
Publication Title
Cancers
Volume
12
Issue
7