Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on July 29, 2004
Bioinformatics 2004 20(18):3533-3543; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bth440
Bioinformatics vol. 20 issue 18 © Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved.
Accurate detection of aneuploidies in array CGH and gene expression microarray data
1 Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Carl Icahn Laboratory, 2 Department of Electrical Engineering and 3 Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Received on May 28, 2004; revised on July 12, 2004; accepted on July 24, 2004
Advance Access Publication July 29, 2004
Motivation: Chromosomal copy number changes (aneuploidies) are common in cell populations that undergo multiple cell divisions including yeast strains, cell lines and tumor cells. Identification of aneuploidies is critical in evolutionary studies, where changes in copy number serve an adaptive purpose, as well as in cancer studies, where amplifications and deletions of chromosomal regions have been identified as a major pathogenetic mechanism. Aneuploidies can be studied on whole-genome level using array CGH (a microarray-based method that measures the DNA content), but their presence also affects gene expression. In gene expression microarray analysis, identification of copy number changes is especially important in preventing aberrant biological conclusions based on spurious gene expression correlation or masked phenotypes that arise due to aneuploidies. Previously suggested approaches for aneuploidy detection from microarray data mostly focus on array CGH, address only whole-chromosome or whole-arm copy number changes, and rely on thresholds or other heuristics, making them unsuitable for fully automated general application to gene expression datasets. There is a need for a general and robust method for identification of aneuploidies of any size from both array CGH and gene expression microarray data.
Results: We present ChARM (Chromosomal Aberration Region Miner), a robust and accurate expectation–maximization based method for identification of segmental aneuploidies (partial chromosome changes) from gene expression and array CGH microarray data. Systematic evaluation of the algorithm on synthetic and biological data shows that the method is robust to noise, aneuploidal segment size and P-value cutoff. Using our approach, we identify known chromosomal changes and predict novel potential segmental aneuploidies in commonly used yeast deletion strains and in breast cancer. ChARM can be routinely used to identify aneuploidies in array CGH datasets and to screen gene expression data for aneuploidies or array biases. Our methodology is sensitive enough to detect statistically significant and biologically relevant aneuploidies even when expression or DNA content changes are subtle as in mixed populations of cells.
Availability: Code available by request from the authors and on Web supplement at http://function.cs.princeton.edu/ChARM/
Contact: ogt{at}cs.princeton.edu
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