Background: An important challenge in cancer biology is to understand the complex aspects of the disease. It is increasingly evident that genes are not isolated from each other and the comprehension of how different genes are related to each other could explain biological mechanisms causing diseases. Biological pathways are important tools to reveal gene interaction and reduce the large number of genes to be studied by partitioning it into smaller paths. Furthermore, recent scientific evidence has proven that a combination of pathways, instead than a single element of the pathway or a single pathway, could be responsible for pathological changes in a cell. Results: In this paper we develop a new method that can reveal miRNAs able to regulate, in a coordinated way, networks of gene pathways. We applied the method to subtypes of breast cancer. The basic idea is the identification of pathways significantly enriched with differentially expressed genes among the different breast cancer subtypes and normal tissue. Looking at the pairs of pathways that were found to be functionally related, we created a network of dependent pathways and we focused on identifying miRNAs that could act as miRNA drivers in a coordinated regulation process. Conclusions: Our approach enables miRNAs identification that could have an important role in the development of breast cancer.

Cava, C., Colaprico, A., Bertoli, G., Bontempi, G., Mauri, G., Castiglioni, I. (2016). How interacting pathways are regulated by miRNAs in breast cancer subtypes. BMC BIOINFORMATICS, 17(S12) [10.1186/s12859-016-1196-1].

How interacting pathways are regulated by miRNAs in breast cancer subtypes

CAVA, CLAUDIA
Primo
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MAURI, GIANCARLO
Penultimo
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CASTIGLIONI, ISABELLA
2016

Abstract

Background: An important challenge in cancer biology is to understand the complex aspects of the disease. It is increasingly evident that genes are not isolated from each other and the comprehension of how different genes are related to each other could explain biological mechanisms causing diseases. Biological pathways are important tools to reveal gene interaction and reduce the large number of genes to be studied by partitioning it into smaller paths. Furthermore, recent scientific evidence has proven that a combination of pathways, instead than a single element of the pathway or a single pathway, could be responsible for pathological changes in a cell. Results: In this paper we develop a new method that can reveal miRNAs able to regulate, in a coordinated way, networks of gene pathways. We applied the method to subtypes of breast cancer. The basic idea is the identification of pathways significantly enriched with differentially expressed genes among the different breast cancer subtypes and normal tissue. Looking at the pairs of pathways that were found to be functionally related, we created a network of dependent pathways and we focused on identifying miRNAs that could act as miRNA drivers in a coordinated regulation process. Conclusions: Our approach enables miRNAs identification that could have an important role in the development of breast cancer.
Articolo in rivista - Articolo scientifico
Breast cancer; MiRNAs; Network of pathways; Pathway cross-talk;
Breast cancer; MiRNAs; Network of pathways; Pathway cross-talk; Structural Biology; Biochemistry; Molecular Biology; Computer Science Applications1707 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition; Applied Mathematics
English
8-nov-2016
2016
17
S12
348
open
Cava, C., Colaprico, A., Bertoli, G., Bontempi, G., Mauri, G., Castiglioni, I. (2016). How interacting pathways are regulated by miRNAs in breast cancer subtypes. BMC BIOINFORMATICS, 17(S12) [10.1186/s12859-016-1196-1].
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