[VIRTUAL] CD161 identifies head and neck cancer patients with remarkable outcomes (AACR 2021)
This is strongly supported by transcriptome findings on CD161’s distinct T cell-B cell activation signatures with elevated VCAM1, GPR18 and PTPRC.Furthermore, we determined in HPV(-)HNSCC, 12 gene mutations (CYLD, CCDC172, SAMD7, CDKL1, WDR47, MFSD9, PWWP2B, UXT, GP6, FAM9A, ARSE, UGCG) are associated with elevated CD161, while in HPV(+)HNSCC, 9 gene mutations (COL6A2, ZHX, SCN3A, GNA15, CDH3, SAMD7, MTUS1, FANCI, ARSE) are linked to elevated CD161. Our data first identified CD161 as a single prognostic biomarker gene with potential clinical utility, discovering its strong ties to high CD8+T cell, B cell and activated NK cell in HNSCC.