PARADIGM-SHIFT predicts the function of mutations in multiple cancers using pathway impact analysis

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Motivation: A current challenge in understanding cancer processes is to pinpoint which mutations influence the onset and progression of disease. Toward this goal, we describe a method called PARADIGMSHIFT that can predict whether a mutational event is neutral, gainor loss-of-function in a tumor sample. The method uses a belief-propagation algorithm to infer gene activity from gene expression and copy number data in the context of a set of pathway interactions. Results: The method was found to be both sensitive and specific on a set of positive and negative controls for multiple cancers for which pathway information was available. Application to the Cancer Genome Atlas glioblastoma, ovarian and lung squamous cancer datasets revealed several novel mutations with predicted high impact including several genes mutated at low frequency suggesting the approach will be complementary to current approaches that rely on the prevalence of events to reach statistical significance. © The Author(s) 2012. Published by Oxford University Press.

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Ng, S., Collisson, E. A., Sokolov, A., Goldstein, T., onzalez-Perez, A., Lopez-Bigas, N., … Stuart, J. M. (2012). PARADIGM-SHIFT predicts the function of mutations in multiple cancers using pathway impact analysis. Bioinformatics, 28(18). https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bts402

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