Systematic identification of cancer driving signaling pathways based on mutual exclusivity of genomic alterations
We present a novel method for the identification of sets of mutually exclusive gene alterations in a given set of genomic profiles. We scan the groups of genes with a common downstream effect on the signaling network, using a mutual exclusivity criterion that ensures that each gene in the group sign...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Genome Biology 2015-02, Vol.16 (1), p.45-45, Article 45 |
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Zusammenfassung: | We present a novel method for the identification of sets of mutually exclusive gene alterations in a given set of genomic profiles. We scan the groups of genes with a common downstream effect on the signaling network, using a mutual exclusivity criterion that ensures that each gene in the group significantly contributes to the mutual exclusivity pattern. We test the method on all available TCGA cancer genomics datasets, and detect multiple previously unreported alterations that show significant mutual exclusivity and are likely to be driver events. |
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ISSN: | 1465-6906 1474-7596 1474-760X 1465-6906 1465-6914 |
DOI: | 10.1186/s13059-015-0612-6 |