Dong-Jin Han, Sunmin Kim, Seo-Young Lee, Youngbeen Moon, Su Jung Kang, Jinseon Yoo, Hye Young Jeong, Hae Jin Cho, Jeong Yang Jeon, Byeong Chang Sim, Jaehoon Kim, Seungho Lee, Ruibin Xi, Tae-Min Kim
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Abstract
Background: Determining the impact of somatic mutations requires understanding the functional relationship of genes acquiring mutations; however, it is largely unknown how mutations in functionally related genes influence each other.
Methods: We employed non-synonymous-to-synonymous or dNdS ratios to evaluate the evolutionary dependency (ED) of gene pairs, assuming a mutation in one gene of a gene pair can affect the evolutionary fitness of mutations in its partner genes as mutation context. We employed PanCancer- and tumor type-specific mutational profiles to infer the ED of gene pairs and evaluated their biological relevance with respect to gene dependency and drug sensitivity.
Results: We propose that dNdS ratios of gene pairs and their derived cdNS (context-dependent dNdS) scores as measure of ED distinguishing gene pairs either as synergistic (SYN) or antagonistic (ANT). Mutation contexts can induce substantial changes in the evolutionary fitness of mutations in the paired genes, e.g., IDH1 and IDH2 mutation contexts lead to substantial increase and decrease of dNdS ratios of ATRX indels and IDH1 missense mutations corresponding to SYN and ANT relationship with positive and negative cdNS scores, respectively. The impact of gene silencing or knock-outs on cell viability (genetic dependencies) often depends on ED, suggesting that ED can guide the selection of candidates for synthetic lethality such as TCF7L2-KRAS mutations. Using cell line-based drug sensitivity data, the effects of targeted agents on cell lines are often associated with mutations of genes exhibiting ED with the target genes, informing drug sensitizing or resistant mutations for targeted inhibitors, e.g., PRSS1 and CTCF mutations as resistant mutations to EGFR and BRAF inhibitors for lung adenocarcinomas and melanomas, respectively.
Conclusions: We propose that the ED of gene pairs evaluated by dNdS ratios can advance our understanding of the functional relationship of genes with potential biological and clinical implications.
期刊介绍:
Genome Medicine is an open access journal that publishes outstanding research applying genetics, genomics, and multi-omics to understand, diagnose, and treat disease. Bridging basic science and clinical research, it covers areas such as cancer genomics, immuno-oncology, immunogenomics, infectious disease, microbiome, neurogenomics, systems medicine, clinical genomics, gene therapies, precision medicine, and clinical trials. The journal publishes original research, methods, software, and reviews to serve authors and promote broad interest and importance in the field.