A 14 immune-related gene signature predicts clinical outcomes of kidney renal clear cell carcinoma

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Yong Zou, Chuan Hu

Abstract

Kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC) is the leading cause of kidney cancer-related deaths. Currently, there are no studies in tumor immunology investigating the use of signatures as a predictor of overall survival in KIRC patients. Our study attempts to establish an immune-related gene risk signature to predict clinical outcomes in KIRC. A total of 528 patients from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database were included in our analysis and randomly divided into training (n = 315) and testing sets (n = 213). We collected 1,534 immune-related genes from the Immunology Database and Analysis Portal as candidates to construct our signature. LASSO-COX was used to find gene models with the highest predictive ability. We used survival and Cox analysis to test the model's independent prognostic ability. Univariate analysis identified 650 immune-related genes with prognostic abilities. After 1,000 iterations, we choose 14 of the most frequent and stable immune-related genes as our signature. We found that the signature was associated with M stage, T stage, and pathological staging. More importantly, the signature can independently predict clinical prognosis in KIRC patients. Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) showed an association be...Continue Reading

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