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Detection of Copy Number Alterations Using Single Cell Sequencing
Published on: February 17, 2017
Change-point analysis of paired allele-specific copy number variation data
1Department of Statistics and Biostatistics Center, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
Abstract:
The recent genome-wide allele-specific copy number variation data enable us to explore two types of genomic information including chromosomal genotype variations as well as DNA copy number variations. For a cancer study, it is common to collect data for paired normal and tumor samples. Then, two types of paired data can be obtained to study a disease subject. However, there is a lack of methods for a simultaneous analysis of these four sequences of data. In this study, we propose a statistical framework based on the change-point analysis approach. The validity and usefulness of our proposed statistical framework are demonstrated through the simulation studies and applications based on an experimental data set.
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