Title
Inferring Perturbation Profiles Of Cancer Samples
Abstract
Motivation: Cancer is one of the most prevalent diseases in the world. Tumors arise due to important genes changing their activity, e.g. when inhibited or over-expressed. But these gene perturbations are difficult to observe directly. Molecular profiles of tumors can provide indirect evidence of gene perturbations. However, inferring perturbation profiles from molecular alterations is challenging due to error-prone molecular measurements and incomplete coverage of all possible molecular causes of gene perturbations.Results: We have developed a novel mathematical method to analyze cancer driver genes and their patient-specific perturbation profiles. We combine genetic aberrations with gene expression data in a causal network derived across patients to infer unobserved perturbations. We show that our method can predict perturbations in simulations, CRISPR perturbation screens and breast cancer samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1093/bioinformatics/btab113
BIOINFORMATICS
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
37
16
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1367-4803
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Martin Pirkl141.78
Niko Beerenwinkel2116.13