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ArticleScientific reports2019

VCF2CNA: A tool for efficiently detecting copy-number alterations in VCF genotype data and tumor purity.

Daniel K Putnam, Xiaotu Ma, Stephen V Rice, Yu Liu, Scott Newman, Jinghui Zhang, Xiang Chen

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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  4. Identification of Copy Number Alterations from Next-Generation Sequencing Data.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2022
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Daniel K PutnamDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8080-775X
Xiaotu MaDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
Stephen V RiceDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
Yu LiuDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
Scott NewmanDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9309-4752
Jinghui ZhangDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3350-9682
Xiang ChenDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA. xiang.chen@stjude.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2499-8261

Funding

Viral Vector Technology (VVTSR)P30CA021765 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI CHARLES ROBERTS · 1985 to 2026
$166.9M
The DNA Damage Response and Tumorigenesis in the BrainP01CA096832 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI BAKER, SUZANNE J. · 2003 to 2025
$38.0M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA096832NCI NIH HHS P30 CA021765
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

VCF2CNA is a tool (Linux commandline or web-interface) for copy-number alteration (CNA) analysis and tumor purity estimation of paired tumor-normal VCF variant file formats. It operates on whole genome and whole exome datasets. To benchmark its performance, we applied it to 46 adult glioblastoma and 146 pediatric neuroblastoma samples sequenced by Illumina and Complete Genomics (CGI) platforms respectively. VCF2CNA was highly consistent with a state-of-the-art algorithm using raw sequencing data (mean F1-score = 0.994) in high-quality whole genome glioblastoma samples and was robust to uneven coverage introduced by library artifacts. In the whole genome neuroblastoma set, VCF2CNA identified MYCN high-level amplifications in 31 of 32 clinically validated samples compared to 15 found by CGI's HMM-based CNA model. Moreover, VCF2CNA achieved highly consistent CNA profiles between WGS and WXS platforms (mean F1 score 0.97 on a set of 15 rhabdomyosarcoma samples). In addition, VCF2CNA provides accurate tumor purity estimates for samples with sufficient CNAs. These results suggest that VCF2CNA is an accurate, efficient and platform-independent tool for CNA and tumor purity analyses without accessing raw sequence data.

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DNA Copy Number VariationsExome SequencingGenes, NeoplasmSoftwareWhole Genome SequencingAdultAlgorithmsArtifactsChildClone CellsDatasets as TopicDNA, NeoplasmGene AmplificationGlioblastomaHumansInternetDNA, Neoplasm

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