Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-4-2018

JAX Source

Nucleic Acids Res 2018 Jan 4; 46(D1):D1144-D1149

Volume

46

Issue

D1

First Page

1144

Last Page

1144

ISSN

1362-4962

PMID

29099951

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkx1018

Grant

R140606, CA19012, CA198320, CA034196, CA16672, CA198320

Abstract

Gene fusion represents a class of molecular aberrations in cancer and has been exploited for therapeutic purposes. In this paper we describe TumorFusions, a data portal that catalogues 20 731 gene fusions detected in 9966 well characterized cancer samples and 648 normal specimens from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). The portal spans 33 cancer types in TCGA. Fusion transcripts were identified via a uniform pipeline, including filtering against a list of 3838 transcript fusions detected in a panel of 648 non-neoplastic samples. Fusions were mapped to somatic DNA rearrangements identified using whole genome sequencing data from 561 cancer samples as a means of validation. We observed that 65% of transcript fusions were associated with a chromosomal alteration, which is annotated in the portal. Other features of the portal include links to SNP array-based copy number levels and mutational patterns, exon and transcript level expressions of the partner genes, and a network-based centrality score for prioritizing functional fusions. Our portal aims to be a broadly applicable and user friendly resource for cancer gene annotation and is publicly available at http://www.tumorfusions.org. Nucleic Acids Res 2018 Jan 4; 46(D1):D1144-D1149.

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This article is available under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC license

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