Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Pan-cancer deconvolution of tumour composition using DNA methylation

  • Ankur Chakravarthy,
  • Andrew Furness,
  • Kroopa Joshi,
  • Ehsan Ghorani,
  • Kirsty Ford,
  • Matthew J. Ward,
  • Emma V. King,
  • Matt Lechner,
  • Teresa Marafioti,
  • Sergio A. Quezada,
  • Gareth J. Thomas,
  • Andrew Feber,
  • Tim R. Fenton

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05570-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Determining the extent of immune cell infiltration into solid tumours is essential for adequate therapeutic response. Here the authors develop a DNA methylation-based approach for tumour cell fraction deconvolution and analyse tumour composition and genomics across a wide spectrum of solid cancers.