qpure: A tool to estimate tumor cellularity from genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism profiles.

Tumour cellularity, the relative proportion of tumour and normal cells in a sample, affects the sensitivity of mutation detection, copy number analysis, cancer gene expression and methylation profiling. Tumour cellularity is traditionally estimated by pathological review of sectioned specimens; howe...

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Main Authors: Sarah Song, Katia Nones, David Miller, Ivon Harliwong, Karin S Kassahn, Mark Pinese, Marina Pajic, Anthony J Gill, Amber L Johns, Matthew Anderson, Oliver Holmes, Conrad Leonard, Darrin Taylor, Scott Wood, Qinying Xu, Felicity Newell, Mark J Cowley, Jianmin Wu, Peter Wilson, Lynn Fink, Andrew V Biankin, Nic Waddell, Sean M Grimmond, John V Pearson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23049875/?tool=EBI