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ArticleJournal of the American Statistical Association2020

Mapping Tumor-Specific Expression QTLs in Impure Tumor Samples.

Douglas R Wilson, Joseph G Ibrahim, Wei Sun

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Article in Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 38% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 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.

Douglas R WilsonDoug R. Wilson is a graduate student, Department of Biostatistics, UNC Chapel Hill, NC 27599.
Joseph G IbrahimJoseph G. Ibrahim is Alumni Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, UNC Chapel Hill, NC 27599.
Wei SunWei Sun is an Associate Member in Biostatistics Program at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USFred Hutch Cancer Center · US

Funding

UNC-CH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH &SUSCEPTIBILITYP30ES010126 · NIEHS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Melissa A. Troester · 2001 to 2026
$36.3M
Statistical Methods for RNA-seq Data AnalysisR01GM105785 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Wei Sun · 2014 to 2026
$4.6M
Statistical Methods for Analysis of Tumor Heterogeneity in Genetic EpidemiologyR01CA189532 · NCI · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI HSU, LI · 2015 to 2023
$4.2M
Bayesian Approaches to Model Selection for Survival DataR01GM070335 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI IBRAHIM, JOSEPH G · 2003 to 2019
$4.0M
Unlocking complex co-expression network using graphical modelsR01GM126550 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI LIU, YUFENG · 2017 to 2020
$1.6M
Estimation and association analysis of biomarkers for tumor immune microenvironmentR21CA224026 · NCI · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI SUN, WEI · 2018 to 2019
$415k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA189532NCI NIH HHS R21 CA224026NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES010126NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM070335NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM105785NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM126550
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The study of gene expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) is an effective approach to illuminate the functional roles of genetic variants. Computational methods have been developed for eQTL mapping using gene expression data from microarray or RNA-seq technology. Application of these methods for eQTL mapping in tumor tissues is problematic because tumor tissues are composed of both tumor and infiltrating normal cells (e.g. immune cells) and eQTL effects may vary between tumor and infiltrating normal cells. To address this challenge, we have developed a new method for eQTL mapping using RNA-seq data from tumor samples. Our method separately estimates the eQTL effects in tumor and infiltrating normal cells using both total expression and allele-specific expression (ASE). We demonstrate that our method controls type I error rate and has higher power than some alternative approaches. We applied our method to study RNA-seq data from The Cancer Genome Atlas and illustrated the similarities and differences of eQTL effects in tumor and normal cells.

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Allele Specific ExpressioneQTLRNA-SeqTumor Purity

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PMID32773912
PMCPMC7410098
OpenAlexW2950546499

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