Table 1 Anticancer drug target genes are identified by total support ranking. In the table, C1, C2, and C3 denote NCBI gene symbols of the top three genes with the highest total support. The underlined and bold genes (42 out of 51) were previously reported as anticancer drug target genes (see Table S2), in which genes in bold are approved for drug manufacture whereas the remaining ones are clinical trial/potential. The remaining neither underlined nor bold genes in the top three highest-ranking genes that have not yet been fully investigated may be promising anticancer drug target genes.

From: Identification of anticancer drug target genes using an outside competitive dynamics model on cancer signaling networks

Cancer site

Network properties

Candidate anticancer drug target genes by Totalsupport

The number of nodes

The number of links

Cl

C2

C3

Acute myeloid leukemia

66

183

GRB2

FLT3

PML

Basal cell carcinoma

59

550

SUFU

SMO

GLI3

Bladder cancer

29

58

RASSF1

FGFR3

HRAS

Breast cancer

144

773

LRP6

LRP5

WNT1

Chronic myeloid leukemia

76

182

CRK

CRKL

GAB2

Colorectal cancer

74

195

EGFR

GRB2

KRAS

Endometrial cancer

51

117

EGF

EGFR

AXIN1

Gastric cancer

148

682

LRP6

LRP5

WNT7A

Glioma

74

310

CALM1

CALML5

CALM2

Hepatocellular carcinoma

167

769

LRP6

WNT3A

WNT7A

Melanoma

69

580

FGF2

FGF1

HGF

Non-small-cell lung cancer

65

157

ALK

EML4

KRAS

Pancreatic cancer

75

163

KRAS

AKT2

AKT1

Prostate cancer

84

375

IGF-1

INS

PDGFB

Renal cell carcinoma

56

154

HGF

MET

EGLN2

Small cell lung cancer

91

356

ITGB1

COL4A1

LAMB3

Thyroid cancer

37

84

NTRK1

TPR

TPM3