A novel network regularized matrix decomposition method to detect mutated cancer genes in tumour samples with inter-patient heterogeneity

Abstract Inter-patient heterogeneity is a major challenge for mutated cancer genes detection which is crucial to advance cancer diagnostics and therapeutics. To detect mutated cancer genes in heterogeneous tumour samples, a prominent strategy is to determine whether the genes are recurrently mutated...

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Autores principales: Jianing Xi, Ao Li, Minghui Wang
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:7d5e39f1640644ceaa6c86b08e56c6022021-12-02T12:32:55ZA novel network regularized matrix decomposition method to detect mutated cancer genes in tumour samples with inter-patient heterogeneity10.1038/s41598-017-03141-w2045-2322https://doaj.org/article/7d5e39f1640644ceaa6c86b08e56c6022017-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03141-whttps://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Inter-patient heterogeneity is a major challenge for mutated cancer genes detection which is crucial to advance cancer diagnostics and therapeutics. To detect mutated cancer genes in heterogeneous tumour samples, a prominent strategy is to determine whether the genes are recurrently mutated in their interaction network context. However, recent studies show that some cancer genes in different perturbed pathways are mutated in different subsets of samples. Subsequently, these genes may not display significant mutational recurrence and thus remain undiscovered even in consideration of network information. We develop a novel method called mCGfinder to efficiently detect mutated cancer genes in tumour samples with inter-patient heterogeneity. Based on matrix decomposition framework incorporated with gene interaction network information, mCGfinder can successfully measure the significance of mutational recurrence of genes in a subset of samples. When applying mCGfinder on TCGA somatic mutation datasets of five types of cancers, we find that the genes detected by mCGfinder are significantly enriched for known cancer genes, and yield substantially smaller p-values than other existing methods. All the results demonstrate that mCGfinder is an efficient method in detecting mutated cancer genes.Jianing XiAo LiMinghui WangNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2017)
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Jianing Xi
Ao Li
Minghui Wang
A novel network regularized matrix decomposition method to detect mutated cancer genes in tumour samples with inter-patient heterogeneity
description Abstract Inter-patient heterogeneity is a major challenge for mutated cancer genes detection which is crucial to advance cancer diagnostics and therapeutics. To detect mutated cancer genes in heterogeneous tumour samples, a prominent strategy is to determine whether the genes are recurrently mutated in their interaction network context. However, recent studies show that some cancer genes in different perturbed pathways are mutated in different subsets of samples. Subsequently, these genes may not display significant mutational recurrence and thus remain undiscovered even in consideration of network information. We develop a novel method called mCGfinder to efficiently detect mutated cancer genes in tumour samples with inter-patient heterogeneity. Based on matrix decomposition framework incorporated with gene interaction network information, mCGfinder can successfully measure the significance of mutational recurrence of genes in a subset of samples. When applying mCGfinder on TCGA somatic mutation datasets of five types of cancers, we find that the genes detected by mCGfinder are significantly enriched for known cancer genes, and yield substantially smaller p-values than other existing methods. All the results demonstrate that mCGfinder is an efficient method in detecting mutated cancer genes.
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author Jianing Xi
Ao Li
Minghui Wang
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Ao Li
Minghui Wang
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title A novel network regularized matrix decomposition method to detect mutated cancer genes in tumour samples with inter-patient heterogeneity
title_short A novel network regularized matrix decomposition method to detect mutated cancer genes in tumour samples with inter-patient heterogeneity
title_full A novel network regularized matrix decomposition method to detect mutated cancer genes in tumour samples with inter-patient heterogeneity
title_fullStr A novel network regularized matrix decomposition method to detect mutated cancer genes in tumour samples with inter-patient heterogeneity
title_full_unstemmed A novel network regularized matrix decomposition method to detect mutated cancer genes in tumour samples with inter-patient heterogeneity
title_sort novel network regularized matrix decomposition method to detect mutated cancer genes in tumour samples with inter-patient heterogeneity
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url https://doaj.org/article/7d5e39f1640644ceaa6c86b08e56c602
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