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Comment on "The consensus coding sequences of human breast and colorectal cancers".

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Although the biological methodology in Sjöblom et al. is sound, more samples are needed to achieve sufficient power, and few genes with significantly elevated mutation rates remain.
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Sjoblom et al (Research Article, 13 October 2006, p 268) reported nearly 200 novel cancer genes said to have a 90% probability of being involved in colon or breast cancer However, their analysis raises two statistical concerns When these concerns are addressed, few genes with significantly elevated mutation rates remain Although the biological methodology in Sjoblom et al is sound, more samples are needed to achieve sufficient power

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Sensitive detection of somatic point mutations in impure and heterogeneous cancer samples

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The Somatic Genomic Landscape of Glioblastoma

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TL;DR: Correlative analyses confirm that the survival advantage of the proneural subtype is conferred by the G-CIMP phenotype, and MGMT DNA methylation may be a predictive biomarker for treatment response only in classical subtype GBM.
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The landscape of somatic copy-number alteration across human cancers

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- 18 Feb 2010 - 
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Sensitive detection of somatic point mutations in impure and heterogeneous cancer samples

TL;DR: MuTect is presented, a method that applies a Bayesian classifier to detect somatic mutations with very low allele fractions, requiring only a few supporting reads, followed by carefully tuned filters that ensure high specificity.
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Consensus coding sequences of human breast and colorectal cancers

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed 13,023 genes in 11 breast and 11 colorectal cancers and found that individual tumors accumulate an average of 90 mutant genes but only a subset of these contribute to the neoplastic process.
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Empirical Bayes analysis of a microarray experiment

TL;DR: A simple nonparametric empirical Bayes model is introduced, which is used to guide the efficient reduction of the data to a single summary statistic per gene, and also to make simultaneous inferences concerning which genes were affected by the radiation.
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