High expression of lymphocyte-associated genes in node-negative HER2+ breast cancers correlates with lower recurrence rates |
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Authors: | Alexe Gabriela Dalgin Gul S Scanfeld Daniel Tamayo Pablo Mesirov Jill P DeLisi Charles Harris Lyndsay Barnard Nicola Martel Maritza Levine Arnold J Ganesan Shridar Bhanot Gyan |
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Institution: | The Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. |
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Abstract: | Gene expression analysis has identified biologically relevant subclasses of breast cancer. However, most classification schemes do not robustly cluster all HER2+ breast cancers, in part due to limitations and bias of clustering techniques used. In this article, we propose an alternative approach that first separates the HER2+ tumors using a gene amplification signal for Her2/neu amplicon genes and then applies consensus ensemble clustering separately to the HER2+ and HER2- clusters to look for further substructure. We applied this procedure to a microarray data set of 286 early-stage breast cancers treated only with surgery and radiation and identified two basal and four luminal subtypes in the HER2- tumors, as well as two novel and robust HER2+ subtypes. HER2+ subtypes had median distant metastasis-free survival of 99 months 95% confidence interval (95% CI), 83-118 months] and 33 months (95% CI, 11-54 months), respectively, and recurrence rates of 11% and 58%, respectively. The low recurrence subtype had a strong relative overexpression of lymphocyte-associated genes and was also associated with a prominent lymphocytic infiltration on histologic analysis. These data suggest that early-stage HER2+ cancers associated with lymphocytic infiltration are a biologically distinct subtype with an improved natural history. |
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