Grant Number:	5R01CA138256-02 Interpret this number
Primary Investigator:	Sweet-Cordero, Eric
Organization:	Stanford University
Project Title:	Comparative Functional Genomics for Lung Cancer Gene Discovery
Fiscal Year:	2009

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Abstract Since the mid-1990s, approximately 150,000 Americans have died of lung cancer every year, and the upward trend in total cancer deaths is largely due to the increasing rate of lung cancer mortality. Even if we could prevent cigarette smoking and exposure to other carcinogens today, hundreds of thousands of lung cancer cases would still need to be treated in the next decades. A major current effort in the lung cancer field is to detect and treat lung cancer at earlier stages to improve the survival of patients. In addition, identifying novel drug targets would allow for the development of more efficacious therapeutic strategies against lung tumors. Finally, lung cancer patients are treated following well-established protocols that most often do not take into account the genetic diversity of their tumors, and very little is known about prognostic factors for individual lung cancer patients. A better knowledge of the molecular events in lung cancer development would help to identify diagnostic and prognostic markers in lung cancer patients. Rb, p53 and Kras are among the most frequently mutated genes in human cancer. In particular, combinations of mutations in these three genes are often found in human lung cancer and define important clinical subtypes. Using advanced gene-targeting approaches, we and others have generated genetically engineered mice with mutations in these genes. These mutant mice develop tumors that closely resemble human lung tumors and provide a genetically tractable system to study lung tumorigenesis in vivo. Here, we propose to use comparative gene expression analysis to define genotype-specific oncogenic signatures using these mouse models of lung cancer. Our specific goals are: - To develop gene expression signatures from mouse tumors and compare them to human data to identify new human lung cancer subtypes. The validation of subtype-specific genes from these signatures will be performed using human tissue arrays. - To identify key regulators and "drivers" of these gene expression signatures using conventional bioinformatics approaches as well as a novel "event" centered gene network that we will develop. In particular, we will introduce the notion of ordered, causal events in lung cancer gene networks to identify key nodes in these gene networks. - To functionally analyze potential key regulators of these lung cancer gene expression signatures. To this end, we will first use gene expression-based high throughput screening to identify such regulators and we will then test their functional role in lung cancer development in vivo. The overall goal of our work is to begin to define critical pathways that are required for genotype-specific oncogenesis. Characterization of these pathways may provide a useful approach for identification of new approaches for diagnosis, prognosis, and targeted therapy in lung cancer patients. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: We propose to use a novel gene network to identify molecular events downstream of key oncogenic "driver" mutations for lung cancer by comparing gene expression profiles in lung tumors from genetically defined mouse models to gene expression profiles from human lung tumors. We will test the functional role of candidate regulators of lung cancer in mouse models and human tumor cell lines and tissues. Our experiments will lay the foundation needed for the development of novel strategies to detect and treat lung cancer, the number one cancer killer in both men and women in the United States.




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