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Record W4412019459 · doi:10.1038/s41598-025-09075-y

Pan-cancer immune and stromal deconvolution predicts clinical outcomes and mutation profiles

2025· article· en· W4412019459 on OpenAlexaff
Bhavneet Bhinder, Verena Friedl, Sunantha Sethuraman, Davide Risso, Kami Chiotti, R. Jay Mashl, Kyle Ellrott, Jordan Lee, Christopher K. Wong, Kofi K. Gyan, Aditya Deshpande, Marcin Imieliński, Rohan Bareja, Joshua M. Stuart, Myron Peto, Katherine A. Hoadley, Alexander J. Lazar, Andrew D. Cherniack, Jingchun Zhu, Shaolong Cao, Mark Rubin, Wenyi Wang, Oliver F. Bathe, Nicolas Robine, Li Ding, Peter W. Laird, Wanding Zhou, Hui Shen, Vésteinn Thórsson, Jen Jen Yeh, Matthew H. Bailey, Daniel Cui Zhou, Xianlu L. Peng, Mary J. Goldman, Yongsheng Li, Anil Korkut, Nidhi Sahni, D. Neil Hayes, Michael K. A. Mensah, Ina Felau, Anab Kemal, Rory Johnson, John A. Demchok, Liming Yang, Martin L. Ferguson, Roy Tarnuzzer, Zhining Wang, Jean C. Zenklusen

Bibliographic record

VenueScientific Reports · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicSingle-cell and spatial transcriptomics
Canadian institutionsOccupational Cancer Research CentreUniversity of Calgary
FundersNational Cancer InstituteWeill Cornell Medical College
KeywordsTumor microenvironmentStromal cellBiologyImmune systemDeconvolutionComputational biologyStromaCancer researchImmunologyImmunohistochemistryComputer science

Abstract

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Traditional gene expression deconvolution methods assess a limited number of cell types, therefore do not capture the full complexity of the tumor microenvironment (TME). Here, we integrate nine deconvolution tools to assess 79 TME cell types in 10,592 tumors across 33 different cancer types, creating the most comprehensive analysis of the TME. In total, we found 41 patterns of immune infiltration and stroma profiles, identifying heterogeneous yet unique TME portraits for each cancer and several new findings. Our findings indicate that leukocytes play a major role in distinguishing various tumor types, and that a shared immune-rich TME cluster predicts better survival in bladder cancer for luminal and basal squamous subtypes, as well as in melanoma for RAS-hotspot subtypes. Our detailed deconvolution and mutational correlation analyses uncover 35 therapeutic target and candidate response biomarkers hypotheses (including CASP8 and RAS pathway genes).

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.005

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.301
Teacher spread0.285 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations4
Published2025
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