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Series GSE22154 Query DataSets for GSE22154
Status Public on Jun 08, 2010
Title Gene Experssion Profiling-Based Identification of Molecular Subtypes in Stage IV Melanoma with Different Clinical Outcome (validation set)
Organism Homo sapiens
Experiment type Expression profiling by array
Summary Purpose: The incidence of malignant melanoma is increasing worldwide in fair-skinned populations. Melanomas respond poorly to systemic therapy, and metastatic melanomas inevitably become fatal. Although spontaneous regression, likely due to immune defense activation, rarely occurs, we lack a biological rationale and predictive markers in selecting patients for immune therapy. Experimental Design: We performed unsupervised hierarchical clustering of global gene expression data from stage IV melanomas in 57 patients. For further characterization, we used immunohistochemistry of selected markers, genome-wide DNA copy number analysis, genetic and epigenetic analysis of the Q3 CDKN2A locus, and NRAS/BRAF mutation screening. Results: The analysis revealed four distinct subtypes with gene signatures characterized by expression of immune response, pigmentation differentiation, proliferation, or stromal composition genes. Although all subtypes harbored NRAS and BRAF mutations, there was a significant difference between subtypes (P < 0.01), with no BRAF/NRAS wild-type samples in the proliferative subtype. Additionally, the proliferative subtype was characterized by a high frequency of CDKN2A homozygous deletions (P < 0.01). We observed a different prognosis between the subtypes (P = 0.01), with a particularly poor survival for patients harboring tumors of the proliferative subtype compared with the others (P = 0.003). Importantly, the clinical relevance of the subtypes was validated in an independent cohort of 44 stage III and IV melanomas. Moreover, low expression of an a priori defined gene set associated with immune response signaling was significantly associated with poor outcome (P = 0.001). Conclusions: Our data reveal a biologically based taxonomy of malignant melanomas with prognostic effect and support an influence of the antitumoral immune response on outcome.
 
Overall design Expression profiles of 20 liver and lymphnode metastases. MM76 and MM23 were made in duplicate. Used as validationset in Jönsson et al. Clin Can Res 2010.
 
Contributor(s) Jönsson G, Busch C, Knappskog S, Geisler J, Miletic H, Ringnér M, Lillehaug J, Borg A, Lønning PE
Citation(s) 20460471
Submission date Jun 04, 2010
Last update date Aug 16, 2018
Contact name Johan Staaf
Organization name SCIBLU - Swegene Centre for Integrative Biology at Lund University
Street address Medicon Village
City Lund
ZIP/Postal code SE-223 81
Country Sweden
 
Platforms (1)
GPL6947 Illumina HumanHT-12 V3.0 expression beadchip
Samples (22)
GSM551023 MM15
GSM551024 MM59
GSM551025 MM76_1
This SubSeries is part of SuperSeries:
GSE22155 Gene Expression Profiling-Based Identification of Molecular Subtypes in Stage IV Melanoma with Different Clinical Outcome
Relations
BioProject PRJNA129219

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SOFT formatted family file(s) SOFTHelp
MINiML formatted family file(s) MINiMLHelp
Series Matrix File(s) TXTHelp

Supplementary file Size Download File type/resource
GSE22154_RAW.tar 6.2 Mb (http)(custom) TAR
GSE22154_validation_non-normalized.txt.gz 6.9 Mb (ftp)(http) TXT
Processed data included within Sample table

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