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Background  The etiology of cancer involves a complex series of genetic and environmental conditions. To better represent and study the intricate genetics of cancer onset and progression, we construct a network of biological interactions to search for groups of genes that compose cancer-related modules. Three cancer expression datasets are investigated to prioritize genes and interactions associated with cancer outcomes. Using a graph-based approach to search for communities of phenotype-related genes in microarray data, we find modules of genes associated with cancer phenotypes in a weighted interaction network.    Results  We implement  Walktrap , a random-walk-based community detection algorithm, to identify biological modules predisposing to tumor growth in 22 hepatocellular carcinoma samples (GSE14520), adenoma development in 32 colorectal cancer samples (GSE8671), and prognosis in 198 breast cancer patients (GSE7390). For each study, we find the best scoring partitions under a maximum cluster size of 200 nodes. Significant modules highlight groups of genes that are functionally related to cancer and show promise as therapeutic targets; these include interactions among transcription factors ( SPIB ,  RPS6KA2  and  RPS6KA6 ), cell-cycle regulatory genes ( BRSK1 ,  WEE1  and  CDC25C ), modulators of the cell-cycle and proliferation ( CBLC  and  IRS2 ) and genes that regulate and participate in the map-kinase pathway ( MAPK9, DUSP1, DUSP9, RIPK2 ). To assess the performance of  Walktrap  to find genomic modules ( Walktrap-GM ), we evaluate our results against other tools recently developed to discover disease modules in biological networks. Compared with other highly cited module-finding tools,  jActiveModules  and  Matisse, Walktrap-GM  shows strong performance in the discovery of modules enriched with known cancer genes.    Conclusions  These results demonstrate that the  Walktrap-GM  algorithm identifies modules significantly enriched with cancer genes, their joint effects and promising candidate genes. The approach performs well when evaluated against similar tools and smaller overall module size allows for more specific functional annotation and facilitates the interpretation of these modules.

Using random walks to identify cancer-associated modules in expression data