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ArticleNature communications2020

FastClone is a probabilistic tool for deconvoluting tumor heterogeneity in bulk-sequencing samples.

Yao Xiao, Xueqing Wang, Hongjiu Zhang, Peter J Ulintz, Hongyang Li, Yuanfang Guan

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Article in Nature communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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6 authors.

Yao Xiao *Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Xueqing Wang *Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Hongjiu Zhang *Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Peter J UlintzDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2037-8655
Hongyang LiDepartment of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Yuanfang GuanDepartment of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. gyuanfan@umich.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8275-2852

Funding

Machine Learning for Drug Response PredictionR35GM133346 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Yuanfang Guan · 2019 to 2026
$3.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM133346
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dissecting tumor heterogeneity is a key to understanding the complex mechanisms underlying drug resistance in cancers. The rich literature of pioneering studies on tumor heterogeneity analysis spurred a recent community-wide benchmark study that compares diverse modeling algorithms. Here we present FastClone, a top-performing algorithm in accuracy in this benchmark. FastClone improves over existing methods by allowing the deconvolution of subclones that have independent copy number variation events within the same chromosome regions. We characterize the behavior of FastClone in identifying subclones using stage III colon cancer primary tumor samples as well as simulated data. It achieves approximately 100-fold acceleration in computation for both simulated and patient data. The efficacy of FastClone will allow its application to large-scale data and clinical data, and facilitate personalized medicine in cancers.

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AlgorithmsDNA Copy Number VariationsColonic NeoplasmsComputational BiologyComputer SimulationDNA, NeoplasmDrug Resistance, NeoplasmHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansModels, GeneticNeoplasmsPhylogenyPrecision MedicineSequence Analysis, DNADNA, Neoplasm

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PMID32901013
PMCPMC7478963

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