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Deconvolution of heterogeneous tumor samples using partial reference signals.

Yufang Qin^1,2, Weiwei Zhang³, Xiaoqiang Sun⁴

¹College of Information Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China.

Plos Computational Biology

|November 30, 2020

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PREDE, a novel partial reference-based deconvolution method, accurately estimates cell proportions and profiles in tumor samples. This approach improves the detection of novel cell types and aids in predicting patient survival.

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Area of Science:

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Bioinformatics
Genomics

Background:

Deconvoluting heterogeneous bulk tumor samples into distinct cellular populations is crucial but challenging, especially with incomplete cell type references.
Existing methods often over-estimate known cell types and miss novel ones when using partial references.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a robust partial reference-based deconvolution method for analyzing heterogeneous tumor samples.
To accurately estimate cell proportions and expression profiles, including novel cell types.

Main Methods:

Proposed PREDE (Partial Reference-based DEconvolution), an iterative non-negative matrix factorization algorithm.
Validated using simulated datasets across various parameter settings.
Applied to The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) tumor samples.

Main Results:

PREDE effectively estimates cell proportions and expression profiles of both known and unknown cell types.
Proportions of pure cancer cells correlate with tumor subtypes.
Identified cell types whose proportions predict patient survival.

Conclusions:

PREDE offers a significant advancement in deconvoluting heterogeneous tumor samples with partial references.
The method has broad applicability to various high-throughput bulk data.
PREDE is available as an R package on GitHub.