Combining calls from multiple somatic mutation-callers

BMC Bioinformatics

Su Yeon Kim¹  Laurent Jacob³  Terence P Speed² 

[1] Department of Statistics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley CA 94720, USA

[2] , Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and the University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

[3] Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, INRA, UMR5558 Villeurbanne, France

关键词: Stacking;    Combining calls;    Somatic mutation-calling;    Cancer genome;   

Others  :  818544
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2105-15-154

 received in 2014-02-16, accepted in 2014-05-12,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Accurate somatic mutation-calling is essential for insightful mutation analyses in cancer studies. Several mutation-callers are publicly available and more are likely to appear. Nonetheless, mutation-calling is still challenging and there is unlikely to be one established caller that systematically outperforms all others. Therefore, fully utilizing multiple callers can be a powerful way to construct a list of final calls for one’s research.

Results

Using a set of mutations from multiple callers that are impartially validated, we present a statistical approach for building a combined caller, which can be applied to combine calls in a wider dataset generated using a similar protocol. Using the mutation outputs and the validation data from The Cancer Genome Atlas endometrial study (6,746 sites), we demonstrate how to build a statistical model that predicts the probability of each call being a somatic mutation, based on the detection status of multiple callers and a few associated features.

Conclusion

The approach allows us to build a combined caller across the full range of stringency levels, which outperforms all of the individual callers.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Kim et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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