An EM algorithm to improve the estimation of the probability of clonal relatedness of pairs of tumors in cancer patients

Abstract Background We previously introduced a random-effects model to analyze a set of patients, each of which has two distinct tumors. The goal is to estimate the proportion of patients for which one of the tumors is a metastasis of the other, i.e. where the tumors are clonally related. Matches of...

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Main Authors: Audrey Mauguen, Venkatraman E. Seshan, Irina Ostrovnaya, Colin B. Begg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-11-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-019-3148-z