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ArticleGenome research2017

HIT'nDRIVE: patient-specific multidriver gene prioritization for precision oncology.

Raunak Shrestha, Ermin Hodzic, Thomas Sauerwald, Phuong Dao, Kendric Wang, Jake Yeung, Shawn Anderson, Fabio Vandin, Gholamreza Haffari, Colin C Collins and 1 more

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Article in Genome research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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29 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Raunak ShresthaBioinformatics Training Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4.ORCID 0000-0002-1144-1413
Ermin HodzicSchool of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6.
Thomas SauerwaldComputer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0FD, United Kingdom.
Phuong DaoNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA.
Kendric WangLaboratory for Advanced Genome Analysis, Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6H 3Z6.
Jake YeungLaboratory for Advanced Genome Analysis, Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6H 3Z6.
Shawn AndersonLaboratory for Advanced Genome Analysis, Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6H 3Z6.
Fabio VandinDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy.
Gholamreza HaffariFaculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne 3800, Australia.
Colin C CollinsLaboratory for Advanced Genome Analysis, Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6H 3Z6.
S Cenk SahinalpLaboratory for Advanced Genome Analysis, Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6H 3Z6.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prioritizing molecular alterations that act as drivers of cancer remains a crucial bottleneck in therapeutic development. Here we introduce HIT'nDRIVE, a computational method that integrates genomic and transcriptomic data to identify a set of patient-specific, sequence-altered genes, with sufficient collective influence over dysregulated transcripts. HIT'nDRIVE aims to solve the "random walk facility location" (RWFL) problem in a gene (or protein) interaction network, which differs from the standard facility location problem by its use of an alternative distance measure: "multihitting time," the expected length of the shortest random walk from any one of the set of sequence-altered genes to an expression-altered target gene. When applied to 2200 tumors from four major cancer types, HIT'nDRIVE revealed many potentially clinically actionable driver genes. We also demonstrated that it is possible to perform accurate phenotype prediction for tumor samples by only using HIT'nDRIVE-seeded driver gene modules from gene interaction networks. In addition, we identified a number of breast cancer subtype-specific driver modules that are associated with patients' survival outcome. Furthermore, HIT'nDRIVE, when applied to a large panel of pan-cancer cell lines, accurately predicted drug efficacy using the driver genes and their seeded gene modules. Overall, HIT'nDRIVE may help clinicians contextualize massive multiomics data in therapeutic decision making, enabling widespread implementation of precision oncology.

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