Robust Recurrent CNV Detection in the Presence of Inter-Subject Variability. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The study of recurrent copy number variations (CNVs) plays an important role in understanding the onset and evolution of complex diseases such as cancer. Array-based comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) is a widely used microarray based technology for identifying CNVs. However, due to high noise levels and inter-sample variability, detecting recurrent CNVs from aCGH data remains a challenging topic. This paper proposes a novel method for identification of the recurrent CNVs. In the proposed method, the noisy aCGH data is modeled as the superposition of three matrices: a full-rank matrix of weighted piece-wise generating signals accounting for the clean aCGH data, a Gaussian noise matrix to model the inherent experimentation errors and other sources of error, and a sparse matrix to capture the sparse inter-sample (sample-specific) variations. We demonstrated the ability of our method to separate accurately recurrent CNVs from sample-specific variations and noise in both simulated (artificial) data and real data. The proposed method produced more accurate results than current state-of-the-art methods used in recurrent CNV detection and exhibited robustness to noise and sample-specific variations.

published proceedings

  • IEEE/ACM Trans Comput Biol Bioinform

author list (cited authors)

  • Alshawaqfeh, M., Al Kawam, A., Serpedin, E., & Datta, A.

citation count

  • 1

complete list of authors

  • Alshawaqfeh, Mustafa||Al Kawam, Ahmad||Serpedin, Erchin||Datta, Aniruddha

publication date

  • May 2020