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Identification of recurrent focal copy number variations and their putative targeted driver genes in ovarian cancer

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Bioinformatics, May 2016
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Title
Identification of recurrent focal copy number variations and their putative targeted driver genes in ovarian cancer
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BMC Bioinformatics, May 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12859-016-1085-7
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Authors

Liangcai Zhang, Ying Yuan, Karen H. Lu, Li Zhang

Abstract

Genomic regions with recurrent DNA copy number variations (CNVs) are generally believed to encode oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) that drive cancer growth. However, it remains a challenge to delineate the key cancer driver genes from the regions encoding a large number of genes. In this study, we developed a new approach to CNV analysis based on spectral decomposition of CNV profiles into focal CNVs and broad CNVs. We performed an analysis of CNV data of 587 serous ovarian cancer samples on multiple platforms. We identified a number of novel focal regions, such as focal gain of ESR1, focal loss of LSAMP, prognostic site at 3q26.2 and losses of sub-telomere regions in multiple chromosomes. Furthermore, we performed network modularity analysis to examine the relationships among genes encoded in the focal CNV regions. Our results also showed that the recurrent focal gains were significantly associated with the known oncogenes and recurrent losses associated with TSGs and the CNVs had a greater effect on the mRNA expression of the driver genes than that of the non-driver genes. Our results demonstrate that spectral decomposition of CNV profiles offers a new way of understanding the role of CNVs in cancer.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Sweden 1 2%
Unknown 40 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 24%
Student > Master 7 17%
Student > Bachelor 6 15%
Researcher 5 12%
Other 3 7%
Other 4 10%
Unknown 6 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 14 34%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 20%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 15%
Computer Science 4 10%
Mathematics 1 2%
Other 1 2%
Unknown 7 17%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 22 June 2016.
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#4,684,553
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#1,743
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#79,781
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#24
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