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ArticleCancer informatics2020

A Pan-Cancer and Polygenic Bayesian Hierarchical Model for the Effect of Somatic Mutations on Survival.

Sarah Samorodnitsky, Katherine A Hoadley, Eric F Lock

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Article in Cancer informatics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sarah SamorodnitskyDivision of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Katherine A HoadleyDepartment of Genetics, Computational Medicine Program, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Eric F LockDivision of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4663-2356
University of Minnesota · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

Bidimensional integration for pan-omics pan-cancer analysisR21CA231214 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI LOCK, ERIC F · 2018 to 2019
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NCI NIH HHS R21 CA231214
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We built a novel Bayesian hierarchical survival model based on the somatic mutation profile of patients across 50 genes and 27 cancer types. The pan-cancer quality allows for the model to "borrow" information across cancer types, motivated by the assumption that similar mutation profiles may have similar (but not necessarily identical) effects on survival across different tissues of origin or tumor types. The effect of a mutation at each gene was allowed to vary by cancer type, whereas the mean effect of each gene was shared across cancers. Within this framework, we considered 4 parametric survival models (normal, log-normal, exponential, and Weibull), and we compared their performance via a cross-validation approach in which we fit each model on training data and estimate the log-posterior predictive likelihood on test data. The log-normal model gave the best fit, and we investigated the partial effect of each gene on survival via a forward selection procedure. Through this we determined that mutations at

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Bayesian hierarchical modelingpan-cancer modelingsurvival analysisThe Cancer Genome Atlas

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