[HTML][HTML] A review of somatic single nucleotide variant calling algorithms for next-generation sequencing data

C Xu - Computational and structural biotechnology journal, 2018 - Elsevier
Detection of somatic mutations holds great potential in cancer treatment and has been a
very active research field in the past few years, especially since the breakthrough of the next …

Review of current methods, applications, and data management for the bioinformatics analysis of whole exome sequencing

R Bao, L Huang, J Andrade, W Tan… - Cancer …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
The advent of next-generation sequencing technologies has greatly promoted advances in
the study of human diseases at the genomic, transcriptomic, and epigenetic levels. Exome …

Pan-cancer analysis of the extent and consequences of intratumor heterogeneity

N Andor, TA Graham, M Jansen, LC Xia, CA Aktipis… - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
Intratumor heterogeneity (ITH) drives neoplastic progression and therapeutic resistance. We
used the bioinformatics tools' expanding ploidy and allele frequency on nested …

Mutational landscape and significance across 12 major cancer types

C Kandoth, MD McLellan, F Vandin, K Ye, B Niu, C Lu… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Abstract The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) has used the latest sequencing and analysis
methods to identify somatic variants across thousands of tumours. Here we present data and …

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

K Cibulskis, MS Lawrence, SL Carter… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Detection of somatic point substitutions is a key step in characterizing the cancer genome.
However, existing methods typically miss low-allelic-fraction mutations that occur in only a …

The clonal and mutational evolution spectrum of primary triple-negative breast cancers

SP Shah, A Roth, R Goya, A Oloumi, G Ha, Y Zhao… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Primary triple-negative breast cancers (TNBCs), a tumour type defined by lack of oestrogen
receptor, progesterone receptor and ERBB2 gene amplification, represent approximately …

Extremely high genetic diversity in a single tumor points to prevalence of non-Darwinian cell evolution

S Ling, Z Hu, Z Yang, F Yang, Y Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The prevailing view that the evolution of cells in a tumor is driven by Darwinian selection has
never been rigorously tested. Because selection greatly affects the level of intratumor …

A computational approach to distinguish somatic vs. germline origin of genomic alterations from deep sequencing of cancer specimens without a matched normal

JX Sun, Y He, E Sanford, M Montesion… - PLoS computational …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
A key constraint in genomic testing in oncology is that matched normal specimens are not
commonly obtained in clinical practice. Thus, while well-characterized genomic alterations …

De novo somatic mutations in components of the PI3K-AKT3-mTOR pathway cause hemimegalencephaly

JH Lee, M Huynh, JL Silhavy, S Kim, T Dixon-Salazar… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
De novo somatic mutations in focal areas are well documented in diseases such as
neoplasia but are rarely reported in malformation of the developing brain …

MuSE: accounting for tumor heterogeneity using a sample-specific error model improves sensitivity and specificity in mutation calling from sequencing data

Y Fan, L Xi, DST Hughes, J Zhang, J Zhang, PA Futreal… - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Subclonal mutations reveal important features of the genetic architecture of tumors.
However, accurate detection of mutations in genetically heterogeneous tumor cell …