Title
contamDE: differential expression analysis of RNA-seq data for contaminated tumor samples.
Abstract
Motivation: Accurate detection of differentially expressed genes between tumor and normal samples is a primary approach of cancer-related biomarker identification. Due to the infiltration of tumor surrounding normal cells, the expression data derived from tumor samples would always be contaminated with normal cells. Ignoring such cellular contamination would deflate the power of detecting DE genes and further confound the biological interpretation of the analysis results. For the time being, there does not exists any differential expression analysis approach for RNA-seq data in literature that can properly account for the contamination of tumor samples. Results: Without appealing to any extra information, we develop a new method 'contamDE' based on a novel statistical model that associates RNA-seq expression levels with cell types. It is demonstrated through simulation studies that contamDE could be much more powerful than the existing methods that ignore the contamination. In the application to two cancer studies, contamDE uniquely found several potential therapy and prognostic biomarkers of prostate cancer and non-small cell lung cancer.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1093/bioinformatics/btv657
BIOINFORMATICS
Field
DocType
Volume
Data mining,Gene,RNA-Seq,Computer science,Cell type,Biomarker (medicine),Cell,Prostate cancer,Bioinformatics,Gene expression profiling,Cancer
Journal
32
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
1367-4803
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
9
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qi Shen110.35
Jiyuan Hu220.73
Ning Jiang3300.77
Xiaohua Hu42819314.15
Zewei Luo510.35
Hong Zhang682.09