Computational purification of individual tumor gene expression profiles leads to significant improvements in prognostic prediction

Gerald Quon, Syed Haider, Amit G. Deshwar, Ang Cui, Paul C. Boutros, Quaid Morris

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Abstract

Tumor heterogeneity is a limiting factor in cancer treatment and in the discovery of biomarkers to personalize it. We describe a computational purification tool, ISOpure, which directly addresses the effects of variable contamination by normal tissue in clinical tumor specimens. ISOpure uses a set of tumor expression profiles and a panel of healthy tissue expression profiles to generate a purified cancer profile for each tumor sample, and an estimate of the proportion of RNA originating from cancerous cells. Applying ISOpure before identifying gene signatures leads to significant improvements in the prediction of prognosis and other clinical variables in lung and prostate cancer.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number29
JournalGenome Medicine
Volume5
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 28 2013
Externally publishedYes

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Neoplasms
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  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Molecular Medicine

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Computational purification of individual tumor gene expression profiles leads to significant improvements in prognostic prediction. / Quon, Gerald; Haider, Syed; Deshwar, Amit G.; Cui, Ang; Boutros, Paul C.; Morris, Quaid.

In: Genome Medicine, Vol. 5, No. 3, 29, 28.03.2013.

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Quon, G, Haider, S, Deshwar, AG, Cui, A, Boutros, PC & Morris, Q 2013, 'Computational purification of individual tumor gene expression profiles leads to significant improvements in prognostic prediction', Genome Medicine, vol. 5, no. 3, 29. https://doi.org/10.1186/gm433
Quon G, Haider S, Deshwar AG, Cui A, Boutros PC, Morris Q. Computational purification of individual tumor gene expression profiles leads to significant improvements in prognostic prediction. Genome Medicine. 2013 Mar 28;5(3). 29. https://doi.org/10.1186/gm433
Quon, Gerald ; Haider, Syed ; Deshwar, Amit G. ; Cui, Ang ; Boutros, Paul C. ; Morris, Quaid. / Computational purification of individual tumor gene expression profiles leads to significant improvements in prognostic prediction. In: Genome Medicine. 2013 ; Vol. 5, No. 3.
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