A sparse regulatory network of copy-number driven expression reveals putative breast cancer oncogenes

Details A sparse regulatory network of copy-number driven expression reveals putative breast cancer oncogenes A sparse regulatory network of copy-number driven expression reveals putative breast cancer oncogenes

2010-10-07

arxiv.org/abs/1010.1409v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Molecular Networks

Accepted at IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine (BIBM 2010)

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The influence of DNA cis-regulatory elements on a gene's expression has been intensively studied. However, little is known about expressions driven by trans-acting DNA hotspots. DNA hotspots harboring copy number aberrations are recognized to be important in cancer as they influence multiple genes on a global scale. The challenge in detecting trans-effects is mainly due to the computational difficulty in detecting weak and sparse trans-acting signals amidst co-occuring passenger events. We propose an integrative approach to learn a sparse interaction network of DNA copy-number regions with their downstream targets in a breast cancer dataset. Information from this network helps distinguish copy-number driven from copy-number independent expression changes on a global scale. Our result further delineates cis- and trans-effects in a breast cancer dataset, for which important oncogenes such as ESR1 and ERBB2 appear to be highly copy-number dependent. Further, our model is shown to be efficient and in terms of goodness of fit no worse than other state-of the art predictors and network reconstruction models using both simulated and real data.

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