Detecting HRD in whole-genome and whole-exome sequenced breast and ovarian cancers.

ABSTRACT: Breast and ovarian cancers harboring homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) are sensitive to PARP inhibitors and platinum chemotherapy. Conventionally, detecting HRD involves screening for defects in BRCA1, BRCA2, and other relevant genes. Recent analyses have shown that HRD cancers exhibit characteristic mutational patterns due to the activities of HRD-associated mutational signatures. At least three machine learning tools exist for detecting HRD based on mutational patterns. Here, using sequencing data from 1,043 breast and 182 ovarian cancers, we trained Homologous Recombination Proficiency Profiler (HRProfiler), a machine learning method for detecting HRD using six mutational features. HRProfiler's performance is assessed against prior approaches using additional indep

SUBMITTER: Abbasi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11261949 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature