Exploration of immunogene in colon cancer recurrence

Abstract

Colon adenocarcinoma is the third most common cancer with high risk of recurrence and deteriorative consequences. Given the importance of immune genes in tumor regulation and cancer immunotherapy, there is a need to comprehensively profile the immunoregulatory genes from multiple types of colon cancer patient genomic data for discovering important associations and potential therapeutic targets of colon cancer recurrence. We used publicly available colon tumor tissue genomic data from The Cancer Genome Atlas database and immune genes data from innateDB database in this study. We derived the immune genes profiles by exploring multiple genomic profiles (gene expression, clinical and somatic mutation) in colon cancer. Some of the synthetic lethal genes we identified, such as CASP14, MS4A6E, KIR2DL1, KIR3DL1, KIR2DL3, CCL1, IL36B, FOXO3, POU2F1, SMAD3, HOXA9, PACS1, PROM1, DIDO1, SRC, CBFA2T2, NCOA6, PGAM1 and PROC, have been suggested to be potential targets correlated with immune genes for colon cancer recurrence treatment. Moreover, TLR2 could be promisingly new early stage indicator for colon adenocarcinoma recurrence. This is a systematic study that combines three different types of genomic data to molecularly characterize colon cancer and aims to identify potential targets for colon adenocarcinoma therapy. Meanwhile, the integrative analysis of immune genes for colon cancer could assist in identifying potential new symbols for colon adenocarcinoma recurrence.