MEDICAL PROGNOSIS AND PREDICTION OF TREATMENT RESPONSE USING MULTIPLE CELLULAR SIGNALLING PATHWAY ACTIVITIES.

摘要

The present application relates to a method for determining a risk score that indicates a risk that a clinical event will occur within a certain period of time. The risk score is based at least in part on a combination of inferred activities of two or more cellular signaling pathways in a tissue and/or cells and/or a body fluid of a subject. The cellular signaling pathways comprise a Wnt pathway, an ER pathway, an HH pathway, and/or an AR pathway. The risk score is defined such that the indicated risk that the clinical event will occur within the certain period of time decreases with an increasing P ER and increases with an increasing max(P Wnt, P HH ), wherein P ER , P wnt , and P HH i/denote the inferred activity of the ER pathway, the Wnt pathway, and the HH pathway, respectively.