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ArticleCommunications biology2025

RCANE: a deep learning algorithm for whole-genome pan-cancer somatic copy number aberration prediction using RNA-seq data.

Changhao Ge, Xiaowen Hu, Lin Zhang, Hongzhe Li

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Article in Communications biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Changhao GeGraduate Group of Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Xiaowen HuDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Lin ZhangDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1998-0611
Hongzhe LiDepartment of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. hongzhe@upenn.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3662-3907

Funding

Methods for Integrative Genomic Data AnalysisR01GM129781 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Hongzhe Lee · 2018 to 2026
$3.5M
Penn-DISAM: Data Integration and Statistical Analysis Methods for dGTEx DataU01HG013841 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI GAO, ZIYUE, LEE, HONGZHE · 2024 to 2024
$1.9M
NHGRI NIH HHS U01 HG013841NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM129781U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) GM129781
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Abstract

Transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq) of cancers is widely employed in cancer research to investigate gene expression patterns and their role in disease progression. Somatic copy-number aberrations (SCNAs)-critical genomic drivers of tumorigenesis-can also be inferred directly from RNA-seq, yielding a "two-for-one" return of quantitative expression measures plus structural-variation calls at a fraction of the cost of separate DNA assays. Here, we present RCANE, a deep-learning framework that predicts genome-wide SCNAs across diverse cancer types using only RNA-seq data. Trained on The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and DepMap cell-line cohorts, RCANE consistently outperforms existing approaches, delivering a scalable, robust solution for improving somatic copy-number aberration profiling in cancer diagnostics and therapeutic decision-making.

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Deep LearningDNA Copy Number VariationsNeoplasmsRNA-SeqAlgorithmsGenome, HumanHumans

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