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Cancer Classification from Blood-Derived DNA

Jain, Siddharth and Mazaheri, Bijan and Raviv, Netanel and Bruck, Jehoshua (2020) Cancer Classification from Blood-Derived DNA. . (Unpublished) https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20200423-125742527

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Abstract

The genome is traditionally viewed as a time-independent source of information; a paradigm that drives researchers to seek correlations between the presence of certain genes and a patient's risk of disease. This analysis neglects genomic temporal changes, which we believe to be a crucial signal for predicting an individual's susceptibility to cancer. We hypothesize that each individual's genome passes through an evolution channel (The term channel is motivated by the notion of communication channel introduced by Shannon in 1948 and started the area of Information Theory), that is controlled by hereditary, environmental and stochastic factors. This channel differs among individuals, giving rise to varying predispositions to developing cancer. We introduce the concept of mutation profiles that are computed without any comparative analysis, but by analyzing the short tandem repeat regions in a single healthy genome and capturing information about the individual's evolution channel. Using machine learning on data from more than 5,000 TCGA cancer patients, we demonstrate that these mutation profiles can accurately distinguish between patients with various types of cancer. For example, the pairwise validation accuracy of the classifier between PAAD (pancreas) patients and GBM (brain) patients is 93%. Our results show that healthy unaffected cells still contain a cancer-specific signal, which opens the possibility of cancer prediction from a healthy genome.


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Jain, Siddharth0000-0002-9164-6119
Raviv, Netanel0000-0002-1686-1994
Bruck, Jehoshua0000-0001-8474-0812
Additional Information:The copyright holder for this preprint is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. Posted April 23, 2020. This work was supported in part by The Caltech Mead New Adventure Fund and a Caltech CI2 Fund. The authors would like to thank Eytan Ruppin for his valuable advice and feedback. Author contributions statement: S.J. analyzed the TCGA genomic data, implemented repeat finding and history estimation steps in the pipeline, helped with the machine learning step in building pairwise and multiclassifiers, and wrote the manuscript; B.M. implemented the machine learning pipeline; N.R. implemented the alignment algorithm; J.B. originated and guided the study. S.J., B.M., N.R. and J.B. participated in brainstorming of the concepts and discussions and revisions of the manuscript. The authors declare no competing interests. Ethics Statement: The ethics approval to the TCGA data was granted by Caltech Institutional Review Board. Data Availability: The BAM files for WXS samples of cancer patients used in the study were obtain from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA)20. These files have controlled access and cannot be availed publicly. However, request to access TCGA controlled data can be made via dbGap38 (accession code: phs000178.v1.p1). The file names for the analyzed samples are given in Supplementary Files 1-15.
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Caltech Mead New Adventure FundUNSPECIFIED
Rothenberg Innovation Initiative (RI2)UNSPECIFIED
DOI:10.1101/517839
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Official Citation:Cancer Classification from Blood-Derived DNA. Siddharth Jain, Bijan Mazaheri, Netanel Raviv, Jehoshua Bruck. bioRxiv 517839; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/517839
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