A community effort to create standards for evaluating tumor subclonal reconstruction
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Adriana Salcedo Maxime Tarabichi Shadrielle Melijah G Espiritu Amit G Deshwar Matei David Nathan M Wilson Stefan Dentro Jeff A Wintersinger Lydia Y Liu Minjeong Ko Srinivasan Sivanandan Hongjiu Zhang Kaiyi Zhu Tai-Hsien Ou Yang John M Chilton Alex Buchanan Christopher M Lalansingh Christine P'ng Catalina V Anghel Imaad Umar Bryan Lo William Zou DREAM SMC-Het Participants Jared T Simpson Joshua M Stuart Dimitris Anastassiou Yuanfang Guan Adam D Ewing Kyle Ellrott David C Wedge Quaid Morris Peter Van Loo Paul C Boutros Toggle all authors (33)
Abstract
Tumor DNA sequencing data can be interpreted by computational methods that analyze genomic heterogeneity to infer evolutionary dynamics. A growing number of studies have used these approaches to link cancer evolution with clinical progression and response to therapy. Although the inference of tumor phylogenies is rapidly becoming standard practice in cancer genome analyses, standards for evaluating them are lacking. To address this need, we systematically assess methods for reconstructing tumor subclonality. First, we elucidate the main algorithmic problems in subclonal reconstruction and develop quantitative metrics for evaluating them. Then we simulate realistic tumor genomes that harbor all known clonal and subclonal mutation types and processes. Finally, we benchmark 580 tumor reconstructions, varying tumor read depth, tumor type and somatic variant detection. Our analysis provides a baseline for the establishment of gold-standard methods to analyze tumor heterogeneity.
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Journal Nature Biotechnology
Volume 38
Issue number 1
Pages 97-107
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Publisher website (DOI) 10.1038/s41587-019-0364-z
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