OncoSign

Overview

OncoSign is a molecular classification tool that assigns tumor samples to predefined oncogenic subtypes using gene expression or multi-omic signatures. In the TCGA breast cancer ILC/IDC analysis, an OncoSign-adapted classifier was used as one of three orthogonal approaches to resolve the molecular identity of histologically mixed IDC/ILC tumors, determining whether they more closely resemble pure ILC or pure IDC at the genomic/transcriptomic level.

Used by

  • Applied (as OncoSign-adapted classifier) alongside ISOpure and ElasticNet to assign 88 mixed IDC/ILC breast tumors to ILC-like or IDC-like molecular classes in the TCGA breast cancer multi-platform study (n=817); concordant with the other two classifiers in placing 24/88 cases as ILC-like and 64/88 as IDC-like; CDH1 mutation was the dominant discriminating feature. PMID:26451490

Notes

  • Described in Ciriello et al. (2015) as an adaptation of the OncoSign framework for ILC/IDC distinction.
  • Three-classifier concordance (OncoSign/ISOpure/ElasticNet) used to increase confidence in mixed-tumor classification calls.

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