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ArticleBiomolecules2023

CVAM: CNA Profile Inference of the Spatial Transcriptome Based on the VGAE and HMM.

Jian Ma, Jingjing Guo, Zhiwei Fan, Weiling Zhao, Xiaobo Zhou

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Article in Biomolecules, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Jian MaCollege of Electronic and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China.
Jingjing GuoWest China Biomedical Big Data Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
Zhiwei FanWest China School of Public Health and West China Fourth Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610040, China.
Weiling ZhaoCenter for Computational Systems Medicine, School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Xiaobo ZhouCenter for Computational Systems Medicine, School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA.

Funding

Systems Modeling Guided Bone regenerationU01AR069395 · NIAMS · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI YANG, YUNZHI, ZHOU, XIAOBO · 2016 to 2021
$3.4M
Multiscale Resolution and Deep Network Approaches for Deconvolving Different Cell Types in Bulk Tumor using Single-cell Sequencing Data (scDEC)R01CA241930 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI ZHOU, XIAOBO · 2019 to 2023
$2.7M
Integrative approach to studying LncRNA functionsR01GM123037 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI ZHOU, XIAOBO · 2017 to 2020
$1.5M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA241930NIAMS NIH HHS U01 AR069395NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM123037
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Abstract

Tumors are often polyclonal due to copy number alteration (CNA) events. Through the CNA profile, we can understand the tumor heterogeneity and consistency. CNA information is usually obtained through DNA sequencing. However, many existing studies have shown a positive correlation between the gene expression and gene copy number identified from DNA sequencing. With the development of spatial transcriptome technologies, it is urgent to develop new tools to identify genomic variation from the spatial transcriptome. Therefore, in this study, we developed CVAM, a tool to infer the CNA profile from spatial transcriptome data. Compared with existing tools, CVAM integrates the spatial information with the spot's gene expression information together and the spatial information is indirectly introduced into the CNA inference. By applying CVAM to simulated and real spatial transcriptome data, we found that CVAM performed better in identifying CNA events. In addition, we analyzed the potential co-occurrence and mutual exclusion between CNA events in tumor clusters, which is helpful to analyze the potential interaction between genes in mutation. Last but not least, Ripley's K-function is also applied to CNA multi-distance spatial pattern analysis so that we can figure out the differences of different gene CNA events in spatial distribution, which is helpful for tumor analysis and implementing more effective treatment measures based on spatial characteristics of genes.

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DNA Copy Number VariationsNeoplasmsGene DosageHumansMutationTranscriptomecopy number alterationHMMspatial transcriptomevariational graph convolutional autoencoder

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PMID37238637
PMCPMC10216626

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