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- Title
Analytical methods for inferring functional effects of single base pair substitutions in human cancers.
- Authors
Lee, William; Peng Yue; Zemin Zhang
- Abstract
Cancer is a genetic disease that results from a variety of genomic alterations. Identification of some of these causal genetic events has enabled the development of targeted therapeutics and spurred efforts to discover the key genes that drive cancer formation. Rapidly improving sequencing and genotyping technology continues to generate increasingly large datasets that require analytical methods to identify functional alterations that deserve additional investigation. This review examines statistical and computational approaches for the identification of functional changes among sets of single-nucleotide substitutions. Frequency-based methods identify the most highly mutated genes in large-scale cancer sequencing efforts while bioinformatics approaches are effective for independent evaluation of both non-synonymous mutations and polymorphisms. We also review current knowledge and tools that can be utilized for analysis of alterations in non-protein-coding genomic sequence.
- Subjects
CANCER; GENETIC polymorphisms; GENETIC mutation; GENETICS; POPULATION genetics
- Publication
Human Genetics, 2009, Vol 126, Issue 4, p481
- ISSN
0340-6717
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00439-009-0677-y