Dynamic Network Curvature Analysis of RNA-Seq Data in Sarcoma

Author:

Elkin Rena,Oh Jung Hun,Cruz Filemon Dela,Deasy Joseph O.,Kung Andrew L.,Tannenbaum Allen R.

Abstract

AbstractIn this work, we utilized network features of cancer gene interactomes to cluster pediatric sarcoma tumors and identify candidate therapeutic targets in an unsupervised manner. RNA-Seq data were mapped to protein-level interactomes to construct weighted networks for mathematical analysis. We employed a geometric approach centered on a discrete notion of curvature, which provides a measure of the functional association between genes in the context of their connectivity. Specifically, we adopted a recently proposed dynamic extension of graph curvature to extract features of the non-Euclidean, multiscale structure of genomic networks. We propose a hierarchical clustering approach to reveal preferential gene clustering according to their geometric cooperation which captured the characteristic EWSR1-FLI1 fusion in Ewing sarcoma. We also performed in silico edge perturbations to assess systemic response to simulated interventions quantified by changes in curvature. These results demonstrate that geometric network-based features can be useful for identifying non-trivial gene associations in an agnostic manner.

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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