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ArticleGenome medicine2021

A mixture model for signature discovery from sparse mutation data.

Itay Sason, Yuexi Chen, Mark D M Leiserson, Roded Sharan

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Article in Genome medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Mutational signature refitting on sparse pan-cancer data.Algorithms for molecular biology : AMB · 2026
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  2. Mutational signatures in hematological malignancies.Einstein (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2026
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  10. ScalpelSig Designs Targeted Genomic Panels from Data to Detect Activity of Mutational Signatures.Journal of computational biology : a journal of computational molecular cell biology · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Itay SasonBlavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel.
Yuexi ChenDepartment of Computer Science and Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, 20742, MD, USA.
Mark D M LeisersonDepartment of Computer Science and Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, 20742, MD, USA.
Roded SharanBlavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel. roded@tauex.tau.ac.il.ORCID 0000-0001-8363-4882

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mutational signatures are key to understanding the processes that shape cancer genomes, yet their analysis requires relatively rich whole-genome or whole-exome mutation data. Recently, orders-of-magnitude sparser gene-panel-sequencing data have become increasingly available in the clinic. To deal with such sparse data, we suggest a novel mixture model, Mix. In application to simulated and real gene-panel sequences, Mix is shown to outperform current approaches and yield mutational signatures and patient stratifications that are in higher agreement with the literature. We further demonstrate its utility in several clinical settings, successfully predicting therapy benefit and patient groupings from MSK-IMPACT pan-cancer data. Availability: https://github.com/itaysason/Mix-MMM .

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MutationAlgorithmsExomeExome SequencingHumansLung NeoplasmsModels, GeneticNeoplasmsGene panel sequencingMutational signaturesProbabilistic modeling

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