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Distinguishing potential bacteria-tumor associations from contamination in a secondary data analysis of public cancer genome sequence data

Overview of attention for article published in Microbiome, January 2017
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Title
Distinguishing potential bacteria-tumor associations from contamination in a secondary data analysis of public cancer genome sequence data
Published in
Microbiome, January 2017
DOI 10.1186/s40168-016-0224-8
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Kelly M. Robinson, Jonathan Crabtree, John S. A. Mattick, Kathleen E. Anderson, Julie C. Dunning Hotopp

Abstract

A variety of bacteria are known to influence carcinogenesis. Therefore, we sought to investigate if publicly available whole genome and whole transcriptome sequencing data generated by large public cancer genome efforts, like The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), could be used to identify bacteria associated with cancer. The Burrows-Wheeler aligner (BWA) was used to align a subset of Illumina paired-end sequencing data from TCGA to the human reference genome and all complete bacterial genomes in the RefSeq database in an effort to identify bacterial read pairs from the microbiome. Through careful consideration of all of the bacterial taxa present in the cancer types investigated, their relative abundance, and batch effects, we were able to identify some read pairs from certain taxa as likely resulting from contamination. In particular, the presence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in the ovarian serous cystadenocarcinoma (OV) and glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) samples was correlated with the sequencing center of the samples. Additionally, there was a correlation between the presence of Ralstonia spp. and two specific plates of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) samples. At the end, associations remained between Pseudomonas-like and Acinetobacter-like read pairs in AML, and Pseudomonas-like read pairs in stomach adenocarcinoma (STAD) that could not be explained through batch effects or systematic contamination as seen in other samples. This approach suggests that it is possible to identify bacteria that may be present in human tumor samples from public genome sequencing data that can be examined further experimentally. More weight should be given to this approach in the future when bacterial associations with diseases are suspected.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 139 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 28 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 27 19%
Student > Master 16 11%
Student > Bachelor 8 6%
Other 7 5%
Other 16 11%
Unknown 38 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 33 24%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 26 19%
Medicine and Dentistry 15 11%
Immunology and Microbiology 7 5%
Chemistry 3 2%
Other 10 7%
Unknown 46 33%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 38. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 September 2022.
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