Biology – Quantitative Biology – Genomics
Scientific paper
2008-12-09
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Genomics
34 pages, 3 figures; to appear in Cancer Informatics
Scientific paper
Many types of tumors exhibit chromosomal losses or gains, as well as local amplifications and deletions. Within any given tumor type, sample specific amplifications and deletionsare also observed. Typically, a region that is aberrant in more tumors,or whose copy number change is stronger, would be considered as a more promising candidate to be biologically relevant to cancer. We sought for an intuitive method to define such aberrations and prioritize them. We define V, the volume associated with an aberration, as the product of three factors: a. fraction of patients with the aberration, b. the aberrations length and c. its amplitude. Our algorithm compares the values of V derived from real data to a null distribution obtained by permutations, and yields the statistical significance, p value, of the measured value of V. We detected genetic locations that were significantly aberrant and combined them with chromosomal arm status to create a succint fingerprint of the tumor genome. This genomic fingerprint is used to visualize the tumors, highlighting events that are co ocurring or mutually exclusive. We allpy the method on three different public array CGH datasets of Medulloblastoma and Neuroblastoma, and demonstrate its ability to detect chromosomal regions that were known to be altered in the tested cancer types, as well as to suggest new genomic locations to be tested. We identified a potential new subtype of Medulloblastoma, which is analogous to Neuroblastoma type 1.
Domany Eytan
Hegi Monika E.
Lambiv Wanyu L.
Reiner Anat
Shay Tal
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