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ArticleNucleic acids research2018

TumorFusions: an integrative resource for cancer-associated transcript fusions.

Xin Hu, Qianghu Wang, Ming Tang, Floris Barthel, Samirkumar Amin, Kosuke Yoshihara, Frederick M Lang, Emmanuel Martinez-Ledesma, Soo Hyun Lee, Siyuan Zheng and 1 more

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 164 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Xin HuDepartment of Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Qianghu WangDepartment of Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Ming TangDepartment of Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Floris BarthelThe Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, CT 06032, USA.
Samirkumar AminThe Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, CT 06032, USA.
Kosuke YoshiharaDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, 951-8510, Japan.
Frederick M LangDepartment of Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Emmanuel Martinez-LedesmaDepartment of Neuro-Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Soo Hyun LeeDepartment of Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Siyuan ZhengDepartment of Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Roel G W VerhaakThe Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, CT 06032, USA.

Funding

Shared Resource ManagementP30CA034196 · NCI · JACKSON LABORATORY · PI William Carl Skarnes · 1985 to 2026
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NCI NIH HHS P30 CA034196
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gene fusion represents a class of molecular aberrations in cancer and has been exploited for therapeutic purposes. In this paper we describe TumorFusions, a data portal that catalogues 20 731 gene fusions detected in 9966 well characterized cancer samples and 648 normal specimens from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). The portal spans 33 cancer types in TCGA. Fusion transcripts were identified via a uniform pipeline, including filtering against a list of 3838 transcript fusions detected in a panel of 648 non-neoplastic samples. Fusions were mapped to somatic DNA rearrangements identified using whole genome sequencing data from 561 cancer samples as a means of validation. We observed that 65% of transcript fusions were associated with a chromosomal alteration, which is annotated in the portal. Other features of the portal include links to SNP array-based copy number levels and mutational patterns, exon and transcript level expressions of the partner genes, and a network-based centrality score for prioritizing functional fusions. Our portal aims to be a broadly applicable and user friendly resource for cancer gene annotation and is publicly available at http://www.tumorfusions.org.

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Databases, GeneticGene FusionDNA Copy Number VariationsGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansNeoplasmsOncogene Proteins, FusionPolymorphism, Single NucleotideReproducibility of ResultsUser-Computer InterfaceWhole Genome SequencingOncogene Proteins, Fusion

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PMID29099951
PMCPMC5753333

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