The shaping and functional consequences of the dosage effect landscape in multiple myeloma. - Centre de recherche en cancérologie Nantes-Angers Unité Mixte de Recherche 892 Inserm - 6299 CNRS Accéder directement au contenu
Article Dans Une Revue BMC Genomics Année : 2013

The shaping and functional consequences of the dosage effect landscape in multiple myeloma.

Résumé

BACKGROUND: Multiple myeloma (MM) is a malignant proliferation of plasma B cells. Based on recurrent aneuploidy such as copy number alterations (CNAs), myeloma is divided into two subtypes with different CNA patterns and patient survival outcomes. How aneuploidy events arise, and whether they contribute to cancer cell evolution are actively studied. The large amount of transcriptomic changes resultant of CNAs (dosage effect) pose big challenges for identifying functional consequences of CNAs in myeloma in terms of specific driver genes and pathways. In this study, we hypothesize that gene-wise dosage effect varies as a result from complex regulatory networks that translate the impact of CNAs to gene expression, and studying this variation can provide insights into functional effects of CNAs. RESULTS: We propose gene-wise dosage effect score and genome-wide karyotype plot as tools to measure and visualize concordant copy number and expression changes across cancer samples. We find that dosage effect in myeloma is widespread yet variable, and it is correlated with gene expression level and CNA frequencies in different chromosomes. Our analysis suggests that despite the enrichment of differentially expressed genes between hyperdiploid MM and non-hyperdiploid MM in the trisomy chromosomes, the chromosomal proportion of dosage sensitive genes is higher in the non-trisomy chromosomes. Dosage-sensitive genes are enriched by genes with protein translation and localization functions, and dosage resistant genes are enriched by apoptosis genes. These results point to future studies on differential dosage sensitivity and resistance of pro- and anti-proliferation pathways and their variation across patients as therapeutic targets and prognosis markers. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings support the hypothesis that recurrent CNAs in myeloma are selected by their functional consequences. The novel dosage effect score defined in this work will facilitate integration of copy number and expression data for identifying driver genes in cancer genomics studies. The accompanying R code is available at http://www.canevolve.org/dosageEffect/.
Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
1471-2164-14-672.pdf (498.31 Ko) Télécharger le fichier
1471-2164-14-672.xml (76.54 Ko) Télécharger le fichier
Origine : Fichiers éditeurs autorisés sur une archive ouverte
Format : Autre

Dates et versions

inserm-00903866 , version 1 (13-11-2013)

Identifiants

Citer

Mehmet Samur, Parantu Shah, Xujun Wang, Stéphane Minvielle, Florence Magrangeas, et al.. The shaping and functional consequences of the dosage effect landscape in multiple myeloma.. BMC Genomics, 2013, 14 (1), pp.672. ⟨10.1186/1471-2164-14-672⟩. ⟨inserm-00903866⟩
205 Consultations
244 Téléchargements

Altmetric

Partager

Gmail Facebook X LinkedIn More