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Series GSE86563 Query DataSets for GSE86563
Status Public on Sep 20, 2016
Title Adaptation of a RAS pathway activation signature from FF to FFPE tissues in colorectal cancer (FFPE RNA-Seq II)
Organism Homo sapiens
Experiment type Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing
Summary Background: The KRAS gene is mutated in about 40% of colorectal cancer (CRC) cases, which has been clinically validated as a predictive mutational marker of intrinsic resistatnce to anti-EGFR inhibitor (EGFRi) therapy. Since nearly 60% of patients with a wild type KRAS fail to respond to EGFRi treatment, there is a need to develop more reliable molecular signatures to better predict response. Here we address the challenge of adapting a gene expression signature predictive of RAS pathway activation, created using fresh frozen (FF) tissues, for use with more widely available formalin fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues.
Methods: In this study, we evaluated the translation of an 18-gene RAS pathway signature score from FF to FFPE in 54 CRC cases, using a head-to-head comparison of five technology platforms. FFPE-based technologies included the Affymetrix GeneChip (Affy), NanoString nCounter(NanoS), Illumina whole genome RNASeq (RNA-Acc), Illumina targeted RNASeq(t-RNA), and Illumina stranded Total RNA-rRNA-depletion (rRNA).
Results: Using Affy_FF as the "gold" standard, initial analysis of the 18-gene RAS scores on all 54 samples shows varying pairwise Spearman correlations, with (1) Affy_FFPE(r=0.233, p=0.090); (2) NanoS_FFPE(r=0.608, p<0.0001); (3) RNA-Acc_FFPE(r=0.175, p=0.21); (4) t-RNA_FFPE (r=-0.237, p=0.085); and (5) t-RNA (r=-0.012, p=0.93). These results suggest that only NanoString has successful FF to FFPE translation. The subsequent removal of identified "problematic" samples (n=15) and gene (n=2) further improves the correlations of Affy_FF with three of the five technologies: Affy_FFPE (r=0.672, p<0.0001); NanoS_FFPE (r=0.738, p<0.0001); and RNA-Acc_FFPE (r=0.483, p=0.002).
Conclusions: Of the five technology platforms tested, NanoString technology provides a more faithful translation of the RAS pathway gene expression signature from FF to FFPE than the Affymetrix GeneChip and multiple RNASeq technologies. Moreover, NanoString was the most forgiving technology in the analysis of samples with presumably poor RNA quality. Using this approach, the RAS signature score may now be reasonably applied to FFPE clinical samples.
 
Overall design Fifty-four (54) FFPE evaluable tumor specimens were selected from a larger multi-center cohort of 468 well-characterized colorectal adenocarcinoma patients whose tissues were obtained between October 2006 and September 2010 at the University of South Florida. The sample cohort was composed of tumor samples that were available as matched fresh-frozen (FF) and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) pairs.
 
Contributor(s) Omolo B, Yang M, Lo FY, Schell MJ, Austin S, Howard K, Madan A, Yeatman TJ
Citation(s) 27756306
NIH grant(s)
Grant ID Grant title Affiliation Name
U01 CA157960 INDIVIDUALIZING COLON CANCER THERAPY USING HYBRID RNA AND DNA MOLECULAR SIGNATURE SPARTANBURG REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER TIMOTHY J YEATMAN
Submission date Sep 07, 2016
Last update date May 15, 2019
Contact name Bernard Omolo
E-mail(s) bomolo@uscupstate.edu
Phone 864-503-5362
Organization name University of South Carolina - Upstate
Department Mathematics and Computer Science
Street address 800 University Way
City Spartanburg
State/province SC
ZIP/Postal code 29303
Country USA
 
Platforms (1)
GPL11154 Illumina HiSeq 2000 (Homo sapiens)
Samples (56)
GSM2305824 Targeted US-1491986
GSM2305825 Targeted US-1491993
GSM2305826 Targeted US-1491995
This SubSeries is part of SuperSeries:
GSE86566 Adaptation of a RAS pathway activation signature from FF to FFPE tissues in colorectal cancer
Relations
BioProject PRJNA342184
SRA SRP087577

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