OncodriveFML: a general framework to identify coding and non-coding regions with cancer driver mutations

Distinguishing the driver mutations from somatic mutations in a tumor genome is one of the major challenges of cancer research. This challenge is more acute and far from solved for non-coding mutations. Here we present OncodriveFML, a method designed to analyze the pattern of somatic mutations acros...

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Autores: Mularoni, Loris, Sabarinathan, Radhakrishnan, Déu Pons, Jordi, González-Pérez, Abel, López Bigas, Núria
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/27626
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/27626
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-016-0994-0
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cancer drivers
Non-coding regions
Local functional mutations bias
Non-coding drivers
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Sumario:Distinguishing the driver mutations from somatic mutations in a tumor genome is one of the major challenges of cancer research. This challenge is more acute and far from solved for non-coding mutations. Here we present OncodriveFML, a method designed to analyze the pattern of somatic mutations across tumors in both coding and non-coding genomic regions to identify signals of positive selection, and therefore, their involvement in tumorigenesis. We describe the method and illustrate its usefulness to identify protein-coding genes, promoters, untranslated regions, intronic splice regions, and lncRNAs-containing driver mutations in several malignancies.