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Profiling of prognostic alternative splicing in melanoma

  • Authors:
    • Fu‑Chao Ma
    • Rong‑Quan He
    • Peng Lin
    • Jin‑Cai Zhong
    • Jie Ma
    • Hong Yang
    • Xiao‑Hua Hu
    • Gang Chen
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  • Published online on: June 7, 2019     https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2019.10453
  • Pages: 1081-1088
  • Copyright: © Ma et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Abstract

Alternative splicing can lead to the coding of proteins that act as promoters of cancer, which is associated with the progression of cancer. However, to the best of our knowledge, no systematic survival analysis of alternative splicing in melanoma has previously been reported. The present study conducted an in‑depth analysis of integrated alternative splicing events detected in 96 patients with melanoma using data obtained from The Cancer Genome Atlas. Prognostic models and an alternative splicing correlation network were built for patients with melanoma. A total of 41,446 mRNA splicing events were detected in 9,780 genes and 2,348 alternative splicing events were identified to be significantly associated with overall survival of patients with melanoma. Of all the events used in the prognostic model, the model with alternate terminator alternative splicing events exhibited the highest efficiency for evaluating the outcome of patients with melanoma, with an area under the curve of 0.902. The present study identified prognostic predictors for melanoma and revealed alternative splicing networks in melanoma that could indicate underlying mechanisms.
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Ma FC, He RQ, Lin P, Zhong JC, Ma J, Yang H, Hu XH and Chen G: Profiling of prognostic alternative splicing in melanoma. Oncol Lett 18: 1081-1088, 2019.
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Ma, F., He, R., Lin, P., Zhong, J., Ma, J., Yang, H. ... Chen, G. (2019). Profiling of prognostic alternative splicing in melanoma. Oncology Letters, 18, 1081-1088. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2019.10453
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Ma, F., He, R., Lin, P., Zhong, J., Ma, J., Yang, H., Hu, X., Chen, G."Profiling of prognostic alternative splicing in melanoma". Oncology Letters 18.2 (2019): 1081-1088.
Chicago
Ma, F., He, R., Lin, P., Zhong, J., Ma, J., Yang, H., Hu, X., Chen, G."Profiling of prognostic alternative splicing in melanoma". Oncology Letters 18, no. 2 (2019): 1081-1088. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2019.10453