A statistical test for clonal exclusivity in tumour evolution
Kuipers, J.; Moore, A. L.; Jahn, K.; Schraml, P.; Wang, F.; Morita, K.; Futreal, A.; Takahashi, K.; Beisel, C.; Moch, H.; Beerenwinkel, N.
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Tumour progression is an evolutionary process in which different clones evolve over time, leading to intra-tumour heterogeneity. Interactions between clones can affect tumour evolution and hence disease progression and treatment outcome. Pairs of mutations that are overrepresented in a clonally exclusive fashion over a cohort of patient samples may be suggestive of a synergistic effect between the different clones carrying these mutations. We therefore developed a novel statistical test, called GeneAccord, to identify such gene pairs that are altered in distinct subclones of the same tumour. We analysed our test for calibration and power. By comparing its performance to baseline methods, we demonstrate that to control type I errors, it is essential to account for the evolutionary dependencies among clones. In applying GeneAccord to the single-cell sequencing of a cohort of 123 acute myeloid leukaemia patients, we find 6 clonally exclusive and 2 clonally co-occurring gene pairs. The clonally exclusive pairs mostly involve genes of the key signalling pathways.
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