Background: Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) remains the most incurable subtype of breast cancer owing to high heterogeneity, aggressive nature, and lack of treatment options. It is generally acknowledged that epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is the key step in tumor metastasis.
Methods: With the application of TCGA and GEO database, we identified EMT-related lncRNAs by Cox univariate regression analysis. Optimum risk scores were calculated and used to divide TNBC patients into high/low-risk subgroups by the median value using lasso regression analysis. Kaplan-Meier and ROC curve analyses were applied for model validation. Then we assessed the risk model from multi-omic aspects including immune infiltration, drug sensitivity, mutability spectrum, signaling pathways, and clinical indicators.
Results: The risk model was composed of 22 EMT-related long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs), which seemed to be valuable in prognostic prediction of TNBC patients. The model could act as an independent prognostic factor of TNBC, and showed a robust prognostic ability in the stratification analysis.
Conclusions: Together, our study successfully established a risk model with great accuracy and efficacy in prognosis prediction of TNBC patients.

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Table S1. A total of 1033 LncRNAs highly associated with EMT.
Table S2. A total of 285 prognostic lncRNAs screened by Cox regression analysis.
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Posted 31 Mar, 2021
Posted 31 Mar, 2021
Background: Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) remains the most incurable subtype of breast cancer owing to high heterogeneity, aggressive nature, and lack of treatment options. It is generally acknowledged that epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is the key step in tumor metastasis.
Methods: With the application of TCGA and GEO database, we identified EMT-related lncRNAs by Cox univariate regression analysis. Optimum risk scores were calculated and used to divide TNBC patients into high/low-risk subgroups by the median value using lasso regression analysis. Kaplan-Meier and ROC curve analyses were applied for model validation. Then we assessed the risk model from multi-omic aspects including immune infiltration, drug sensitivity, mutability spectrum, signaling pathways, and clinical indicators.
Results: The risk model was composed of 22 EMT-related long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs), which seemed to be valuable in prognostic prediction of TNBC patients. The model could act as an independent prognostic factor of TNBC, and showed a robust prognostic ability in the stratification analysis.
Conclusions: Together, our study successfully established a risk model with great accuracy and efficacy in prognosis prediction of TNBC patients.

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This is a list of supplementary files associated with this preprint. Click to download.
Table S1. A total of 1033 LncRNAs highly associated with EMT.
Table S2. A total of 285 prognostic lncRNAs screened by Cox regression analysis.
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