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ArticleCancer research2009

Cancer-specific high-throughput annotation of somatic mutations: computational prediction of driver missense mutations.

Hannah Carter, Sining Chen, Leyla Isik, Svitlana Tyekucheva, Victor E Velculescu, Kenneth W Kinzler, Bert Vogelstein, Rachel Karchin

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Article in Cancer research, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 272 papers.

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272citing papers in PubMed
8.1field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

272 citing papers in PubMed, 480 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Hannah CarterDepartment of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
Sining Chen
Leyla Isik
Svitlana Tyekucheva
Victor E Velculescu
Kenneth W Kinzler
Bert Vogelstein
Rachel Karchin
Johns Hopkins University · USSidney Kimmel Cancer Center · USCancer Genetics (United States) · US

Funding

Tumor Antigens for Individual Signatures and TherapyP50CA062924 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI LENNON, ANNE MARIE · 1993 to 2022
$54.6M
MOLECULAR GENETIC ANALYSIS OF COLORECTAL CANCERR37CA043460 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI VOGELSTEIN, BERT · 1997 to 2016
$7.4M
Genes from the FAP LocusR37CA057345 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI KINZLER, KENNETH W. · 2002 to 2016
$7.4M
Large-Scale Genetic Analyses of Human CancerR01CA121113 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI ANAGNOSTOU, VALSAMO, VELCULESCU, VICTOR E. · 2006 to 2022
$4.3M
GENES FROM THE FAP LOCUSR01CA057345 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI KINZLER, KENNETH W. · 1992 to 2001
$734k
Tools for Large-Scale Analysis of Driver PathwaysR21CA135877 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI KARCHIN, RACHEL · 2008 to 2009
$406k
THE P53 GENE IN HUMAN NEOPLASIAR01CA043460 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI VOGELSTEIN, BERT · 1986 to 1995
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NCI NIH HHS CA121113NCI NIH HHS CA135877NCI NIH HHS CA43460NCI NIH HHS CA57345NCI NIH HHS CA62924NCI NIH HHS P50 CA062924NCI NIH HHS R01 CA057345NCI NIH HHS R01 CA121113NCI NIH HHS R21 CA135877NCI NIH HHS R37 CA043460NCI NIH HHS R37 CA057345PHS HHS 28XS268
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Large-scale sequencing of cancer genomes has uncovered thousands of DNA alterations, but the functional relevance of the majority of these mutations to tumorigenesis is unknown. We have developed a computational method, called Cancer-specific High-throughput Annotation of Somatic Mutations (CHASM), to identify and prioritize those missense mutations most likely to generate functional changes that enhance tumor cell proliferation. The method has high sensitivity and specificity when discriminating between known driver missense mutations and randomly generated missense mutations (area under receiver operating characteristic curve, >0.91; area under Precision-Recall curve, >0.79). CHASM substantially outperformed previously described missense mutation function prediction methods at discriminating known oncogenic mutations in P53 and the tyrosine kinase epidermal growth factor receptor. We applied the method to 607 missense mutations found in a recent glioblastoma multiforme sequencing study. Based on a model that assumed the glioblastoma multiforme mutations are a mixture of drivers and passengers, we estimate that 8% of these mutations are drivers, causally contributing to tumorigenesis.

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Databases, GeneticAlgorithmsCell Transformation, NeoplasticComputational BiologyGenome-Wide Association StudyGlioblastomaHumansMutation, MissenseNeoplasmsPolymorphism, Single NucleotideROC CurveSensitivity and SpecificitySoftware Design

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PMID19654296
PMCPMC2763410
OpenAlexW2072572998

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