Breast cancer is the leading cause for mortality among women worldwide.Dysregulation of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes is the major reason for the cause of cancer.Understanding these genes will provide clues and...Breast cancer is the leading cause for mortality among women worldwide.Dysregulation of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes is the major reason for the cause of cancer.Understanding these genes will provide clues and insights about their regulatory mechanism and their interplay in cancer.In the present study,an attempt is made to compare the functional characteristics and interactions of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes to understand their biological role.431 breast cancer samples from seven publicly available microarray datasets were collected and analysed using GEO2R tool.The identified 416 differentially expressed genes were classified into five gene sets as oncogenes(OG),tumor suppressor genes(TSG),druggable genes,essential genes and other genes.The gene sets were subjected to various analysis such as enrichment analysis(viz.,GO,Pathways,Diseases and Drugs),network analysis,calculation of mutation frequencies and Guanine-Cytosine(GC)content.From the results,it was observed that the OG were having high GC content as well as high interactions than TSG.Moreover,the OG are found to have frequent mutations than TSG.The enrichment analysis results suggest that the oncogenes are involved in positive regulation of cellular protein metabolic process,macromolecule biosynthetic process and majorly in cell cycle and focal adhesion pathway in cancer.It was also found that these oncogenes are involved in other diseases such as skin diseases and viral infections.Collagenase,paclitaxel and docetaxel are some of the drugs found to be enriched for oncogenes.展开更多
文摘Breast cancer is the leading cause for mortality among women worldwide.Dysregulation of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes is the major reason for the cause of cancer.Understanding these genes will provide clues and insights about their regulatory mechanism and their interplay in cancer.In the present study,an attempt is made to compare the functional characteristics and interactions of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes to understand their biological role.431 breast cancer samples from seven publicly available microarray datasets were collected and analysed using GEO2R tool.The identified 416 differentially expressed genes were classified into five gene sets as oncogenes(OG),tumor suppressor genes(TSG),druggable genes,essential genes and other genes.The gene sets were subjected to various analysis such as enrichment analysis(viz.,GO,Pathways,Diseases and Drugs),network analysis,calculation of mutation frequencies and Guanine-Cytosine(GC)content.From the results,it was observed that the OG were having high GC content as well as high interactions than TSG.Moreover,the OG are found to have frequent mutations than TSG.The enrichment analysis results suggest that the oncogenes are involved in positive regulation of cellular protein metabolic process,macromolecule biosynthetic process and majorly in cell cycle and focal adhesion pathway in cancer.It was also found that these oncogenes are involved in other diseases such as skin diseases and viral infections.Collagenase,paclitaxel and docetaxel are some of the drugs found to be enriched for oncogenes.
