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GeneCount: genome-wide calculation of absolute tumor DNA copy numbers from array comparative genomic hybridization data

Heidi Lyng1*, Malin Lando1, Runar S Brøvig1, Debbie H Svendsrud1, Morten Johansen2, Eivind Galteland1, Odd T Brustugun3,1, Leonardo A Meza-Zepeda4,2, Ola Myklebost4,2, Gunnar B Kristensen5,6, Eivind Hovig2,7,6 and Trond Stokke1

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Radiation Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Montebello, NO-0310 Oslo, Norway

2 Department of Tumor Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Montebello, NO-0310 Oslo, Norway

3 Department of Oncology, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Montebello, NO-0310 Oslo, Norway

4 Norwegian Microarray Consortium, Department of Molecular Bioscience, University of Oslo, NO-0316 Oslo, Norway

5 Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Montebello, NO-0310 Oslo, Norway

6 Department of Medical Informatics, University of Oslo, NP-0316 Oslo, Norway

7 Institute of Informatics, University of Oslo, NO-0316 Oslo, Norway

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Genome Biology 2008, 9:R86 doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-5-r86

Published: 23 May 2008

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Additional data file 1:

Calculation steps in GeneCount.

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Additional data file 2:

An example of FISH probe locations.

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Additional data file 3:

Comparison of FISH DNA copy numbers and smoothed aCGH ratio levels in non-Hodgkin's lymphomas.

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Additional data file 4:

Discrepancies between GeneCount and FISH DNA copy numbers.

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Additional data file 5:

Comparison of tumor cell fractions derived by histological examination and by GeneCount estimation in cervical cancers.

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Standard deviation (noise) of the log-transformed aCGH ratios.

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Additional data file 7:

Comparison of results from ratio level and GeneCount analyses in cervical cancers.

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Additional data file 8:

Regions with DNA copy number heterogeneity in non-Hodgkin's lymphomas.

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Additional data file 9:

Regions with DNA copy number heterogeneity in cervical cancers.

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Additional data file 10:

Tumor cell fraction required for detection of heterogeneous copy number changes.

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Additional data file 11:

Analysis of the evolutionary sequence of subpopulations in heterogeneous tumors.

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Additional data file 12:

The minimum tumor cell fraction that can be calculated in GeneCount.

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Additional data file 13:

The tumor cell fraction required for detection of homogeneous copy number changes.

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