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포항공과대학교 생명과학과

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리서치 하이라이트

Network-based machine learning approach to predict immunotherapy response in cancer patients

2022-06-30 2366
Author
Sanguk Kim
Journal
Nat Commun. 2022 Jun 28;13(1):3703. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-31535-6.
Date of Publication
2022-06
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Abstract

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have substantially improved the survival of cancer patients over the past several years. However, only a minority of patients respond to ICI treatment (~30% in solid tumors), and current ICI-response-associated biomarkers often fail to predict the ICI treatment response. Here, we present a machine learning (ML) framework that leverages network-based analyses to identify ICI treatment biomarkers (NetBio) that can make robust predictions. We curate more than 700 ICI-treated patient samples with clinical outcomes and transcriptomic data, and observe that NetBio-based predictions accurately predict ICI treatment responses in three different cancer types-melanoma, gastric cancer, and bladder cancer. Moreover, the NetBio-based prediction is superior to predictions based on other conventional ICI treatment biomarkers, such as ICI targets or tumor microenvironment-associated markers. This work presents a network-based method to effectively select immunotherapy-response-associated biomarkers that can make robust ML-based predictions for precision oncology.

 


 

 

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