Quantifying tumor-infiltrating immune cells from transcriptomics data

F Finotello, Z Trajanoski - Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy, 2018 - Springer
By exerting pro-and anti-tumorigenic actions, tumor-infiltrating immune cells can profoundly
influence tumor progression, as well as the success of anti-cancer therapies. Therefore, the …

Computational deconvolution of transcriptomics data from mixed cell populations

F Avila Cobos, J Vandesompele, P Mestdagh… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Gene expression analyses of bulk tissues often ignore cell type composition as an important
confounding factor, resulting in a loss of signal from lowly abundant cell types. In this review …

Benchmarking of cell type deconvolution pipelines for transcriptomics data

F Avila Cobos, J Alquicira-Hernandez… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Many computational methods have been developed to infer cell type proportions from bulk
transcriptomics data. However, an evaluation of the impact of data transformation, pre …

Molecular and pharmacological modulators of the tumor immune contexture revealed by deconvolution of RNA-seq data

F Finotello, C Mayer, C Plattner, G Laschober… - Genome medicine, 2019 - Springer
We introduce quanTIseq, a method to quantify the fractions of ten immune cell types from
bulk RNA-sequencing data. quanTIseq was extensively validated in blood and tumor …

Unraveling tumor–immune heterogeneity in advanced ovarian cancer uncovers immunogenic effect of chemotherapy

A Jiménez-Sánchez, P Cybulska, KLV Mager… - Nature Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
In metastatic cancer, the degree of heterogeneity of the tumor microenvironment (TME) and
its molecular underpinnings remain largely unstudied. To characterize the tumor–immune …

Comprehensive benchmarking and integration of tumor microenvironment cell estimation methods

A Jiménez-Sánchez, O Cast, ML Miller - Cancer Research, 2019 - aacrjournals.org
Various computational approaches have been developed for estimating the relative
abundance of different cell types in the tumor microenvironment (TME) using bulk tumor …

MethylResolver—a method for deconvoluting bulk DNA methylation profiles into known and unknown cell contents

D Arneson, X Yang, K Wang - Communications biology, 2020 - nature.com
Bulk tissue DNA methylation profiling has been used to examine epigenetic mechanisms
and biomarkers of complex diseases such as cancer. However, heterogeneity of cellular …

CD4 T cells and toxicity from immune checkpoint blockade

N Earland, W Zhang, A Usmani, A Nene… - Immunological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Immune‐related toxicities, otherwise known as immune‐related adverse events (irAEs),
occur in a substantial fraction of cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors …

Immune overdrive signature in colorectal tumor subset predicts poor clinical outcome

M Fakih, C Ouyang, C Wang, TY Tu, MC Gozo… - The Journal of clinical …, 2019 - jci.org
The prognostic value of immune cell infiltration within the tumor microenvironment (TME)
has been extensively investigated via histological and genomic approaches. Based on the …

Gene expression profiling-based risk prediction and profiles of immune infiltration in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

S Merdan, K Subramanian, T Ayer… - Blood cancer …, 2021 - nature.com
The clinical risk stratification of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) relies on the
International Prognostic Index (IPI) for the identification of high-risk disease. Recent studies …