Master regulators, regulatory networks, and pathways of glioblastoma subtypes. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common malignant brain tumor. GBM samples are classified into subtypes based on their transcriptomic and epigenetic profiles. Despite numerous studies to better characterize GBM biology, a comprehensive study to identify GBM subtype- specific master regulators, gene regulatory networks, and pathways is missing. Here, we used FastMEDUSA to compute master regulators and gene regulatory networks for each GBM subtype. We also ran Gene Set Enrichment Analysis and Ingenuity Pathway Analysis on GBM expression dataset from The Cancer Genome Atlas Project to compute GBM- and GBM subtype-specific pathways. Our analysis was able to recover some of the known master regulators and pathways in GBM as well as some putative novel regulators and pathways, which will aide in our understanding of the unique biology of GBM subtypes.

publication date

  • October 15, 2014

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC4214595

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84907877985

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.4137/CIN.S14027

PubMed ID

  • 25368508

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 13

issue

  • Suppl 3