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  • changjpark
    Junior Member
    • Jan 2012
    • 3

    #1

    Question about SGS computational analysis for Cancer Genomics

    I am currently working on a project where we have cancer and normal patient samples, in which we developed a pipeline for variant calls for SNPs and Indels. Before I can analyze it, I need to make sure the pipeline is suited for cancer genomics.

    As for the pipeline, I've used BWA for alignment and GATK's Unified Genotyper for mutation calling. I understand that this method is appropriate for non-cancer sample analysis, as commented in Nature Review: http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v1...l/nrg2841.html

    My problem comes from needing to call the somatic genome alteration detected in tumour and not detected in the normal data, as a differential analysis. From GATK, I've taken a look at "SomaticIndelDetector" (http://www.broadinstitute.org/gsa/ga...torWalker.html), which seems to call Indel, but ignores all the other possible SNP mutations. Beyond this, I have not had luck in finding online sources for appropriate Cancer Genome SGS analysis with Tumour-Normal paired analysis.

    Can I ask those who have insight regarding to this matter for the advices and latest tools that I can use? Thanks in advance.

    Regards,

    CJ
  • adaptivegenome
    Super Moderator
    • Nov 2009
    • 436

    #2
    Well one problem is that you want compare normal to tumor. The second is most mutation callers make assumptions about the number of alleles (in humans, the expectation is 1-2 alleles per locus). However in cancer samples, there is heterogeneity and thus there could be any number of alleles. You don't want to employ a method that incorrectly assumes the sample contains only one genome.

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    • aurelielaugraud
      Member
      • Aug 2009
      • 37

      #3
      have a look at ...

      http://www.broadinstitute.org/gsa/wiki/index.php/MuTect

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      • changjpark
        Junior Member
        • Jan 2012
        • 3

        #4
        Thanks for the link. MuTect is not public, but I can definitely use the MuSIC.

        The thing about MuSIC is that it will work with a candidate set of mutated gene list, but I'm not yet in this stage. Is there a standard or published protocol/tools for obtaining candidate mutations in normal/tumour pair samples from same patients? I've checked out SNVMix and UnifiedGenotyper, and would like your opinion in their appropriateness for the scenario.

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