稀有黑色素瘤的潜在治疗靶点的数学发现
摘要
携带稀有黑色素瘤类型(如 acral、mucosal 或 uveal 黑色素瘤)的患者与 cutaneous 黑色素瘤患者的生存率较低;这种较低的生存率反映了这些患者对 immunotherapy 的 objective response rates 较低。理解 tumor-immune dynamics 在稀有黑色素瘤中的作用对于 developing new therapies 以及 improving response rates to current cancer therapies 至关重要。进展受限于缺乏临床数据以及对稀有黑色素瘤需要更好的 preclinical models。Canine melanoma 提供了稀有人类黑色素瘤的 comparative oncology model。我们分析了来自 canine melanoma 患者的 RNA sequencing data 并将其与 literature information 结合,以创建稀有黑色素瘤-免疫 dynamics 的 novel mechanistic mathematical model。对数学模型的 sensitivity analysis 指明了 dynamics 中的 influential pathways,为 support potential new therapeutic targets 以及 future therapy combinations 提供了依据。我们分享了这项 work 的 learning,以帮助 enable 将 this proof-of-concept workflow 应用于 other rare disease settings with sparse available data。
引用
@article{arxiv.2509.08013,
title = {Mathematical Discovery of Potential Therapeutic Targets: Application to Rare Melanomas},
author = {Mahya Aghaee and Victoria Cicchirillo and Rowan Milner and Kyle Adams and Julia Bruner and William Hager and Ashley N. Brown and Elias Sayour and Domenico Santoro and Bently Doonan and Helen Moore},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.08013},
year = {2026}
}