Extracting multi-function features for cancer genes

The causation of cancer often involves the joint deregulation of multiple biological processes. Thus, it is interesting to extract multi-function features of cancer genes and study their functional coordination involved in tumorigenesis. Here, based on Gene Ontology, we proposed a heuristics strateg...

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Published in2010 Seventh International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery Vol. 5; pp. 2195 - 2198
Main Authors Wencai Ma, Xinwu Guo, Chenguang Wang, Yunyan Gu, Yuannv Zhang, Jiguang Xia, Zheng Guo
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.08.2010
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Bioinformatics
Cancer
Diseases
feature combination
Feature extraction
functional coordination
gene function
Gene Ontology
Humans
Proteins
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Summary:The causation of cancer often involves the joint deregulation of multiple biological processes. Thus, it is interesting to extract multi-function features of cancer genes and study their functional coordination involved in tumorigenesis. Here, based on Gene Ontology, we proposed a heuristics strategy to extract multi-function features which are significantly overrepresented with cancer genes. We showed that the extracted feature combinations can provide hints for studying the functional interplay roles of multi-function genes involved in tumorigenesis. Using protein-protein interaction data, we found that the pivot genes of the obtained functional feature combinations are likely to be cancer genes, and that their alternations may play important roles in simultaneously deregulating multiple functions and thus inducing cancer.
ISBN:1424459311
9781424459315
DOI:10.1109/FSKD.2010.5569547