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Inference of transcriptional regulation in cancers
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Jiang P
; Freedman ML
; Liu JS
; Liu XS
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
2015[Jun]; 112
(25
): 7731-6
PMID26056275
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Despite the rapid accumulation of tumor-profiling data and transcription factor
(TF) ChIP-seq profiles, efforts integrating TF binding with the tumor-profiling
data to understand how TFs regulate tumor gene expression are still limited. To
systematically search for cancer-associated TFs, we comprehensively integrated
686 ENCODE ChIP-seq profiles representing 150 TFs with 7484 TCGA tumor data in 18
cancer types. For efficient and accurate inference on gene regulatory rules
across a large number and variety of datasets, we developed an algorithm, RABIT
(regression analysis with background integration). In each tumor sample, RABIT
tests whether the TF target genes from ChIP-seq show strong differential
regulation after controlling for background effect from copy number alteration
and DNA methylation. When multiple ChIP-seq profiles are available for a TF,
RABIT prioritizes the most relevant ChIP-seq profile in each tumor. In each
cancer type, RABIT further tests whether the TF expression and somatic mutation
variations are correlated with differential expression patterns of its target
genes across tumors. Our predicted TF impact on tumor gene expression is highly
consistent with the knowledge from cancer-related gene databases and reveals many
previously unidentified aspects of transcriptional regulation in tumor
progression. We also applied RABIT on RNA-binding protein motifs and found that
some alternative splicing factors could affect tumor-specific gene expression by
binding to target gene 3'UTR regions. Thus, RABIT (rabit.dfci.harvard.edu) is a
general platform for predicting the oncogenic role of gene expression regulators.