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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2007

SIRAC: Supervised Identification of Regions of Aberration in aCGH datasets.

Carmen Lai, Hugo M Horlings, Marc J van de Vijver, Eric H van Beers, Petra M Nederlof, Lodewyk F A Wessels, Marcel J T Reinders

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Carmen LaiBioinformatics group, Delft University, Delft, The Netherlands. c.lai@tudelft.nl
Hugo M Horlings
Marc J van de Vijver
Eric H van Beers
Petra M Nederlof
Lodewyk F A Wessels
Marcel J T Reinders
The Netherlands Cancer Institute · NLDelft University of Technology · NL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundArray comparative genome hybridization (aCGH) provides information about genomic aberrations. Alterations in the DNA copy number may cause the cell to malfunction, leading to cancer. Therefore, the identification of DNA amplifications or deletions across tumors may reveal key genes involved in cancer and improve our understanding of the underlying biological processes associated with the disease.

resultsWe propose a supervised algorithm for the analysis of aCGH data and the identification of regions of chromosomal alteration (SIRAC). We first determine the DNA-probes that are important to distinguish the classes of interest, and then evaluate in a systematic and robust scheme if these relevant DNA-probes are closely located, i.e. form a region of amplification/deletion. SIRAC does not need any preprocessing of the aCGH datasets, and requires only few, intuitive parameters.

conclusionWe illustrate the features of the algorithm with the use of a simple artificial dataset. The results on two breast cancer datasets show promising outcomes that are in agreement with previous findings, but SIRAC better pinpoints the dissimilarities between the classes of interest.

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AlgorithmsDatabases, GeneticArtificial IntelligenceBreast NeoplasmsChromosome MappingDNA Mutational AnalysisHumansIn Situ HybridizationNeoplasm ProteinsPattern Recognition, AutomatedSequence Analysis, DNASoftwareNeoplasm Proteins

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PMID17971227
PMCPMC2198922
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