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  • High-Throughput Omics and S...
    Long, Nguyen Phuoc; Park, Seongoh; Anh, Nguyen Hoang; Nghi, Tran Diem; Yoon, Sang Jun; Park, Jeong Hill; Lim, Johan; Kwon, Sung Won

    International journal of molecular sciences, 01/2019, Letnik: 20, Številka: 2
    Journal Article

    The advancement of bioinformatics and machine learning has facilitated the discovery and validation of omics-based biomarkers. This study employed a novel approach combining multi-platform transcriptomics and cutting-edge algorithms to introduce novel signatures for accurate diagnosis of colorectal cancer (CRC). Different random forests (RF)-based feature selection methods including the area under the curve (AUC)-RF, Boruta, and Vita were used and the diagnostic performance of the proposed biosignatures was benchmarked using RF, logistic regression, naïve Bayes, and k-nearest neighbors models. All models showed satisfactory performance in which RF appeared to be the best. For instance, regarding the RF model, the following were observed: mean accuracy 0.998 (standard deviation (SD) < 0.003), mean specificity 0.999 (SD < 0.003), and mean sensitivity 0.998 (SD < 0.004). Moreover, proposed biomarker signatures were highly associated with multifaceted hallmarks in cancer. Some biomarkers were found to be enriched in epithelial cell signaling in infection and inflammatory processes. The overexpression of and was associated with poor disease-free survival while the down-regulation of , , and was linked to worse overall survival of the patients. In conclusion, novel transcriptome signatures to improve the diagnostic accuracy in CRC are introduced for further validations in various clinical settings.