UMMS Affiliation
Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology
Publication Date
8-15-2017
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Cancer Biology | Genetic Phenomena | Genetics and Genomics | Neoplasms
Abstract
Asymmetric allele content in the transcriptome can be indicative of functional and selective features of the underlying genetic variants. Yet, imbalanced alleles, especially from diploid genome regions, are poorly explored in cancer. Here we systematically quantify and integrate the variant allele fraction from corresponding RNA and DNA sequence data from patients with breast cancer acquired through The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). We test for correlation between allele prevalence and functionality in known cancer-implicated genes from the Cancer Gene Census (CGC). We document significant allele-preferential expression of functional variants in CGC genes and across the entire dataset. Notably, we find frequent allele-specific overexpression of variants in tumor-suppressor genes. We also report a list of over-expressed variants from non-CGC genes. Overall, our analysis presents an integrated set of features of somatic allele expression and points to the vast information content of the asymmetric alleles in the cancer transcriptome.
Keywords
Breast cancer, Cancer genomics, Data mining
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DOI of Published Version
10.1038/s41598-017-08416-w
Source
Sci Rep. 2017 Aug 15;7(1):8287. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-08416-w. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Scientific reports
Related Resources
PubMed ID
28811643
Repository Citation
Restrepo, Paula; Movassagh, Mercedeh; Alomran, Nawaf; Miller, Christian; Li, Muzi; Trenkov, Chris; Manchev, Yulian; Bahl, Sonali; Warnken, Stephanie; Spurr, Liam; Apanasovich, Tatiyana; Crandall, Keith; Edwards, Nathan; and Horvath, Anelia, "Overexpressed somatic alleles are enriched in functional elements in Breast Cancer" (2017). Open Access Articles. 3243.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/oapubs/3243
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