Instruct: Identify the main category of Biorxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Patient-specific cell communication networks associate with disease progression in cancer The maintenance and function of tissues in health and disease depends on cell-cell communication. This work shows how high-level features, representing cell-cell communication, can be defined and used to associate certain signaling  axes with clinical outcomes. Using cell-sorted gene expression data, we generated a scaffold of cell-cell interactions and define a probabilistic method for creating per-patient weighted graphs based on gene expression and cell deconvolution results. With this method, we generated over 9,000 graphs for TCGA patient samples, each representing likely channels of intercellular communication in the tumor microenvironment. It was shown that particular edges were strongly associated with disease severity and progression, in terms of survival time and tumor stage. Within individual tumor types, there are predominant cell types and the collection of associated edges were found to be predictive of clinical phenotypes. Additionally, genes associated with differentially weighted edges were enriched in Gene Ontology terms associated with tissue structure and immune response. Code, data, and notebooks are provided to enable the application of this method to any expression dataset (https://github.com/IlyaLab/Pan-Cancer-Cell-Cell-Comm-Net).
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The categories of this paper are: ecology
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The categories of this paper are: physiology
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The categories of this paper are: cancer
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The categories of this paper are: animal
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The categories of this paper are: plant
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The categories of this paper are: zoology
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The categories of this paper are: biophysics
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The categories of this paper are: biology
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The categories of this paper are: immunology
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The categories of this paper are: microbiology
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The categories of this paper are: genetics
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The categories of this paper are: pharmacology
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The categories of this paper are: neuroscience
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The categories of this paper are: synthetic
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The categories of this paper are: pathology
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The categories of this paper are: communication