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Distinguishing excess mutations and increased cell death based on variant allele frequencies.


ABSTRACT: Tumors often harbor orders of magnitude more mutations than healthy tissues. The increased number of mutations may be due to an elevated mutation rate or frequent cell death and correspondingly rapid cell turnover, or a combination of the two. It is difficult to disentangle these two mechanisms based on widely available bulk sequencing data, where sequences from individual cells are intermixed and, thus, the cell lineage tree of the tumor cannot be resolved. Here we present a method that can simultaneously estimate the cell turnover rate and the rate of mutations from bulk sequencing data. Our method works by simulating tumor growth and finding the parameters with which the observed data can be reproduced with maximum likelihood. Applying this method to a real tumor sample, we find that both the mutation rate and the frequency of death may be high.

SUBMITTER: Tibely G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9071171 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Distinguishing excess mutations and increased cell death based on variant allele frequencies.

Tibély Gergely G   Schrempf Dominik D   Derényi Imre I   Szöllősi Gergely J GJ  

PLoS computational biology 20220425 4


Tumors often harbor orders of magnitude more mutations than healthy tissues. The increased number of mutations may be due to an elevated mutation rate or frequent cell death and correspondingly rapid cell turnover, or a combination of the two. It is difficult to disentangle these two mechanisms based on widely available bulk sequencing data, where sequences from individual cells are intermixed and, thus, the cell lineage tree of the tumor cannot be resolved. Here we present a method that can sim  ...[more]

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