Computational identifying and characterizing circular RNAs and their associated genes in hepatocellular carcinoma

Yan Li, Yongcheng Dong, Ziyan Huang, Qifan Kuang, Yiming Wu, Yizhou Li and Menglong Li

PLOS ONE, 2017, vol. 12, issue 3, 1-13

Abstract: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is currently still a major factor leading to death, lacking of reliable biomarkers. Therefore, deep understanding the pathogenesis for HCC is of great importance. The emergence of circular RNA (circRNA) provides a new way to study the pathogenesis of human disease. Here, we employed the prediction tool to identify circRNAs based on RNA-seq data. Then, to investigate the biological function of the circRNA, the candidate circRNAs were associated with the protein-coding genes (PCGs) by GREAT. We found significant candidate circRNAs expression alterations between normal and tumor samples. Additionally, the PCGs associated with these candidate circRNAs were also found have discriminative expression patterns between normal and tumor samples. The enrichment analysis illustrated that these PCGs were predominantly enriched for liver/cardiovascular-related diseases such as atherosclerosis, myocardial ischemia and coronary heart disease, and participated in various metabolic processes. Together, a further network analysis indicated that these PCGs play important roles in the regulatory and the PPI network. Finally, we built a classification model to distinguish normal and tumor samples by using candidate circRNAs and their associated genes, respectively. Both of them obtained satisfactory results (~ 0.99 of AUC for circRNA and PCG). Our findings suggested that the circRNA could be a critical factor in HCC, providing a useful resource to explore the pathogenesis of HCC.

Date: 2017
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