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JISTIC: Identification of Significant Targets in Cancer

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JISTIC is an easy-to-install platform independent implementation of GISTIC that outperforms the original algorithm detecting more relevant candidate genes and regions and is an improvement over the widely used GISTic algorithm.
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Background Cancer is caused through a multistep process, in which a succession of genetic changes, each conferring a competitive advantage for growth and proliferation, leads to the progressive conversion of normal human cells into malignant cancer cells. Interrogation of cancer genomes holds the promise of understanding this process, thus revolutionizing cancer research and treatment. As datasets measuring copy number aberrations in tumors accumulate, a major challenge has become to distinguish between those mutations that drive the cancer versus those passenger mutations that have no effect.

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GISTIC2.0 facilitates sensitive and confident localization of the targets of focal somatic copy-number alteration in human cancers.

TL;DR: By separating SCNA profiles into underlying arm-level and focal alterations, the estimation of background rates for each category is improved, and a probabilistic method for defining the boundaries of selected-for SCNA regions with user-defined confidence is described.
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An integrated approach to uncover drivers of cancer.

TL;DR: A computational framework is developed that integrates chromosomal copy number and gene expression data for detecting aberrations that promote cancer progression and correctly identified known drivers of melanoma and predicted multiple tumor dependencies.
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Identifying driver mutations in sequenced cancer genomes: computational approaches to enable precision medicine

TL;DR: Approaches to detect somatic mutations from high-throughput DNA sequencing data, particularly for tumor samples that comprise heterogeneous populations of cells, and techniques to identify recurrent combinations of somatics mutations are described.
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Multilevel Whole-Genome Analysis Reveals Candidate Biomarkers in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma

TL;DR: These findings provide a significant advance in the delineation of the ccRCC genome by better defining the impact of CNAs in conjunction with methylation changes on the expression of cancer-related genes, miRNAs, and proteins and their influence on patient survival.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a different approach to problems of multiple significance testing is presented, which calls for controlling the expected proportion of falsely rejected hypotheses -the false discovery rate, which is equivalent to the FWER when all hypotheses are true but is smaller otherwise.
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TL;DR: The goal of the Gene Ontology Consortium is to produce a dynamic, controlled vocabulary that can be applied to all eukaryotes even as knowledge of gene and protein roles in cells is accumulating and changing.
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Roger E. McLendon, +233 more
- 23 Oct 2008 - 
TL;DR: The interim integrative analysis of DNA copy number, gene expression and DNA methylation aberrations in 206 glioblastomas reveals a link between MGMT promoter methylation and a hypermutator phenotype consequent to mismatch repair deficiency in treated gliobeasts, demonstrating that it can rapidly expand knowledge of the molecular basis of cancer.
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A census of human cancer genes

TL;DR: A 'census' of cancer genes is conducted that indicates that mutations in more than 1% of genes contribute to human cancer.
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