EMu: probabilistic inference of mutational processes and their localization in the cancer genome |
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Authors: | Andrej Fischer Christopher JR Illingworth Peter J Campbell Ville Mustonen |
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Affiliation: | 1.Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, CB10 1SA, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK |
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Abstract: | The spectrum of mutations discovered in cancer genomes can be explained by the activity of a few elementary mutational processes. We present a novel probabilistic method, EMu, to infer the mutational signatures of these processes from a collection of sequenced tumors. EMu naturally incorporates the tumor-specific opportunity for different mutation types according to sequence composition. Applying EMu to breast cancer data, we derive detailed maps of the activity of each process, both genome-wide and within specific local regions of the genome. Our work provides new opportunities to study the mutational processes underlying cancer development. EMu is available at http://www.sanger.ac.uk/resources/software/emu/. |
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Keywords: | cancer genomes expectation-maximization chromatin state breast cancer mutation clustering |
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