Statistical analysis of pathogenicity of somatic mutations in cancer

Greenman, Chris, Wooster, Richard, Futreal, P. Andrew, Stratton, Michael R. and Easton, Douglas F. (2006) Statistical analysis of pathogenicity of somatic mutations in cancer. Genetics, 173 (4). pp. 2187-2198. ISSN 0016-6731

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Abstract

Recent large-scale sequencing studies have revealed that cancer genomes contain variable numbers of somatic point mutations distributed across many genes. These somatic mutations most likely include passenger mutations that are not cancer causing and pathogenic driver mutations in cancer genes. Establishing a significant presence of driver mutations in such data sets is of biological interest. Whereas current techniques from phylogeny are applicable to large data sets composed of singly mutated samples, recently exemplified with a p53 mutation database, methods for smaller data sets containing individual samples with multiple mutations need to be developed. By constructing distinct models of both the mutation process and selection pressure upon the cancer samples, exact statistical tests to examine this problem are devised. Tests to examine the significance of selection toward missense, nonsense, and splice site mutations are derived, along with tests assessing variation in selection between functional domains. Maximum-likelihood methods facilitate parameter estimation, including levels of selection pressure and minimum numbers of pathogenic mutations. These methods are illustrated with 25 breast cancers screened across the coding sequences of 518 kinase genes, revealing 90 base substitutions in 71 genes. Significant selection pressure upon truncating mutations was established. Furthermore, an estimated minimum of 29.8 mutations were pathogenic.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Computing Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Computational Biology
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	04 Jul 2014 12:47
Last Modified:	04 Mar 2024 16:54
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/48909
DOI:	10.1534/genetics.105.044677

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