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Springer Science and Business Media LLC Scientific Reports 14(1)
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    The transcription factors TTF1/NKX2-1 and ΔNp63/p40 are the counterposed molecular markers associated with the main Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer subtypes: TTF1 for adenocarcinoma, p40 for squamous cell carcinoma. Although they generally display a mutually exclusive expression, some exceptions exist simultaneously lacking or (very rarely) expressing both markers, either pattern being associated to poor prognosis. Hence, we quantitatively analyzed the relationship between their coordinated activity and prognosis. By analyzing the respective downstream transcriptional programs of the two genes, we defined a simple quantitative index summarizing the amount of mutual exclusivity between their activities, called Mean Absolute Activity (MAA). Systematic analysis of the MAA index in a dataset of 1018 NSCLC samples replicated on a validation dataset of 275 showed that the loss of imbalance between TTF-1 and p40 corresponds to a steady, progressive reduction in both overall and recurrence-free survival. Coherently, samples correspondent to more balanced activities were enriched for pathways related to increased malignancy and invasiveness. Importantly, multivariate analysis showed that the prognostic significance of the proposed index MAA is independent of other clinical variables including stage, sex, age and smoke exposure. These results hold irrespectively of tumor morphology across NSCLC subtypes, providing a unifying description of different expression patterns.

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