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Using Transcriptional Signatures to Find Cancer Drivers with LURE

D. Haan,Ruikang Tao,Verena Friedl,Ioannis Anastopoulos,Christopher K. Wong,A. Weinstein,Joshua M. Stuart

Published 2019 in bioRxiv

ABSTRACT

Cancer genome projects have produced multidimensional datasets on thousands of samples. Yet, depending on the tumor type, 5-50% of samples have no known driving event. We introduce a semi-supervised method called Learning UnRealized Events (LURE) that uses a progressive label learning framework and minimum spanning analysis to predict cancer drivers based on their altered samples sharing a gene expression signature with the samples of a known event. We demonstrate the utility of the method on the TCGA dataset for which it produced a high-confidence result relating 53 new to 18 known mutation events including alterations in the same gene, family, and pathway. We give examples of predicted drivers involved in TP53, telomere maintenance, and MAPK/RTK signaling pathways. LURE identifies connections between genes with no known prior relationship, some of which may offer clues for targeting specific forms of cancer. Code and Supplemental Material are available on the LURE website https://sysbiowiki.soe.ucsc.edu/lure.

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