Journal
ONCOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 17, Issue 2, Pages 2377-2387Publisher
SPANDIDOS PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.3892/ol.2018.9866
Keywords
oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma; microarray; protein-protein network; integrative bioinformatics; differentially expressed gene
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81703005, 81201730]
- Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province [2017JJ3195, 2018JJ3311, 12JJ5073]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2012M521565]
- Research Project of Health and Family Planning Commission of Hunan Province [B2017098]
- Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Program [2010FJ3078]
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Oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma (OTSCC) is the most common type of oral cancer. Despite advances in knowledge regarding the genome-scale gene expression pattern of oral cancer, the molecular portrait of OTSCC biology has remained unclear over the last few decades. Furthermore, studies concerning OTSCC gene-expression profiles are limited or inconsistent owing to tissue heterogeneity in single-cohort studies. Consequently, the present study integrated the profile datasets of three cohorts in order to screen for differentially expressed genes (DEGs), and subsequently identified the potential candidate genes and pathways in OTSCC through gene enrichment analysis and protein-protein interaction (PPI) network construction. Using the selected Gene Expression Omnibus datasets GSE13601, GSE31056 and GSE78060, 206 DEGs (125 upregulated and 81 downregulated) were identified in OTSCC, principally associated with extracellular matrix (ECM) organization and the phosphoinositide 3-kinase/protein kinase B signaling pathway. Furthermore, 146/206 DEGs were filtered into the PPI network and 20 hub genes were sorted. Further results indicated that the two most significant modules filtered from the PPI network were associated with ECM organization and human papillomavirus infection, which are important factors affecting OTSCC pathology. Overall, a set of OTSCC-associated DEGs has been identified, including certain key candidate genes that may be of vital importance for diagnosis, therapy and prevention of this disease.
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