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BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS
卷 23, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbac381
关键词
tumors; somatic variant; random forest; identification method; genotype imputation
资金
- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB38030400]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31970634, 32170669]
- National Key Research Program of China [2020YFA0907001]
This article introduces a new method for identifying somatic and germline variants using tumor samples. The method shows higher accuracy and better capability in detecting somatic variants, and accurately identifies germline variants in tumor samples.
Somatic variants act as critical players during cancer occurrence and development. Thus, an accurate and robust method to identify them is the foundation of cutting-edge cancer genome research. However, due to low accessibility and high individual-/sample-specificity of the somatic variants in tumor samples, the detection is, to date, still crammed with challenges, particularly when lacking paired normal samples as control. To solve this burning issue, we developed a tumor-only somatic and germline variant identification method (TSomVar) using the random forest algorithm established on sample-specific variant datasets derived from genotype imputation, reads-mapping level annotation and functional annotation. We trained TSomVar by using genomic variant datasets of three major cancer types: colorectal cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma and skin cutaneous melanoma. Compared with existing tumor-only somatic variant identification tools, TSomVar shows excellent performances in somatic variant detection with higher accuracy and better capability of recalling for test datasets from colorectal cancer and skin cutaneous melanoma. In addition, TSomVar is equipped with the competence of accurately identifying germline variants in tumor samples. Taken together, TSomVar will undoubtedly facilitate and revolutionize somatic variant explorations in cancer research.
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