TY - JOUR
T1 - Integrative clustering reveals a novel split in the luminal A subtype of breast cancer with impact on outcome
AU - Aure, Miriam Ragle
AU - Vitelli, Valeria
AU - Jernström, Sandra
AU - Kumar, Surendra
AU - Krohn, Marit
AU - Due, Eldri U.
AU - Haukaas, Tonje Husby
AU - Leivonen, Suvi Katri
AU - Vollan, Hans Kristian Moen
AU - Lüders, Torben
AU - Rødland, Einar
AU - Vaske, Charles J.
AU - Zhao, Wei
AU - Møller, Elen K.
AU - Nord, Silje
AU - Giskeødegård, Guro F.
AU - Bathen, Tone Frost
AU - Caldas, Carlos
AU - Tramm, Trine
AU - Alsner, Jan
AU - Overgaard, Jens
AU - Geisler, Jürgen
AU - Bukholm, Ida R.K.
AU - Naume, Bjørn
AU - Schlichting, Ellen
AU - Sauer, Torill
AU - Mills, Gordon B.
AU - Kåresen, Rolf
AU - Mælandsmo, Gunhild M.
AU - Lingjærde, Ole Christian
AU - Frigessi, Arnoldo
AU - Kristensen, Vessela N.
AU - Børresen-Dale, Anne Lise
AU - Sahlberg, Kristine K.
AU - Borgen, Elin
AU - Engebråten, Olav
AU - Fodstad, Øystein
AU - Fritzman, Britt
AU - Garred, Øystein
AU - Geitvik, Gry A.
AU - Langerød, Anita
AU - Hofvind, Solveig
AU - Russnes, Hege G.
AU - Skjerven, Helle Kristine
AU - Sørlie, Therese
AU - OSBREAC,
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 The Author(s).
PY - 2017/3/29
Y1 - 2017/3/29
N2 - Background: Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease at the clinical and molecular level. In this study we integrate classifications extracted from five different molecular levels in order to identify integrated subtypes. Methods: Tumor tissue from 425 patients with primary breast cancer from the Oslo2 study was cut and blended, and divided into fractions for DNA, RNA and protein isolation and metabolomics, allowing the acquisition of representative and comparable molecular data. Patients were stratified into groups based on their tumor characteristics from five different molecular levels, using various clustering methods. Finally, all previously identified and newly determined subgroups were combined in a multilevel classification using a "cluster-of-clusters" approach with consensus clustering. Results: Based on DNA copy number data, tumors were categorized into three groups according to the complex arm aberration index. mRNA expression profiles divided tumors into five molecular subgroups according to PAM50 subtyping, and clustering based on microRNA expression revealed four subgroups. Reverse-phase protein array data divided tumors into five subgroups. Hierarchical clustering of tumor metabolic profiles revealed three clusters. Combining DNA copy number and mRNA expression classified tumors into seven clusters based on pathway activity levels, and tumors were classified into ten subtypes using integrative clustering. The final consensus clustering that incorporated all aforementioned subtypes revealed six major groups. Five corresponded well with the mRNA subtypes, while a sixth group resulted from a split of the luminal A subtype; these tumors belonged to distinct microRNA clusters. Gain-of-function studies using MCF-7 cells showed that microRNAs differentially expressed between the luminal A clusters were important for cancer cell survival. These microRNAs were used to validate the split in luminal A tumors in four independent breast cancer cohorts. In two cohorts the microRNAs divided tumors into subgroups with significantly different outcomes, and in another a trend was observed. Conclusions: The six integrated subtypes identified confirm the heterogeneity of breast cancer and show that finer subdivisions of subtypes are evident. Increasing knowledge of the heterogeneity of the luminal A subtype may add pivotal information to guide therapeutic choices, evidently bringing us closer to improved treatment for this largest subgroup of breast cancer.
AB - Background: Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease at the clinical and molecular level. In this study we integrate classifications extracted from five different molecular levels in order to identify integrated subtypes. Methods: Tumor tissue from 425 patients with primary breast cancer from the Oslo2 study was cut and blended, and divided into fractions for DNA, RNA and protein isolation and metabolomics, allowing the acquisition of representative and comparable molecular data. Patients were stratified into groups based on their tumor characteristics from five different molecular levels, using various clustering methods. Finally, all previously identified and newly determined subgroups were combined in a multilevel classification using a "cluster-of-clusters" approach with consensus clustering. Results: Based on DNA copy number data, tumors were categorized into three groups according to the complex arm aberration index. mRNA expression profiles divided tumors into five molecular subgroups according to PAM50 subtyping, and clustering based on microRNA expression revealed four subgroups. Reverse-phase protein array data divided tumors into five subgroups. Hierarchical clustering of tumor metabolic profiles revealed three clusters. Combining DNA copy number and mRNA expression classified tumors into seven clusters based on pathway activity levels, and tumors were classified into ten subtypes using integrative clustering. The final consensus clustering that incorporated all aforementioned subtypes revealed six major groups. Five corresponded well with the mRNA subtypes, while a sixth group resulted from a split of the luminal A subtype; these tumors belonged to distinct microRNA clusters. Gain-of-function studies using MCF-7 cells showed that microRNAs differentially expressed between the luminal A clusters were important for cancer cell survival. These microRNAs were used to validate the split in luminal A tumors in four independent breast cancer cohorts. In two cohorts the microRNAs divided tumors into subgroups with significantly different outcomes, and in another a trend was observed. Conclusions: The six integrated subtypes identified confirm the heterogeneity of breast cancer and show that finer subdivisions of subtypes are evident. Increasing knowledge of the heterogeneity of the luminal A subtype may add pivotal information to guide therapeutic choices, evidently bringing us closer to improved treatment for this largest subgroup of breast cancer.
KW - Breast cancer
KW - Consensus clustering
KW - Integration
KW - Luminal A
KW - MicroRNA
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U2 - 10.1186/s13058-017-0812-y
DO - 10.1186/s13058-017-0812-y
M3 - Article
C2 - 28356166
AN - SCOPUS:85016509668
SN - 1465-5411
VL - 19
JO - Breast Cancer Research
JF - Breast Cancer Research
IS - 1
M1 - 44
ER -