TY  - JOUR
A1  - Geeleher, Paul
A1  - Zhang, Zhenyu
A1  - Wang, Fan
A1  - Gruener, Robert F.
A1  - Nath, Aritro
A1  - Morrison, Gladys
A1  - Bhutra, Steven
A1  - Grossman, Robert L.
A1  - Huang, R. Stephanie
T1  - Discovering novel pharmacogenomic biomarkers by imputing drug response in cancer patients from large genomics studies
Y1  - 2017/10/01 
JF  - Genome Research 
JO  - Genome Research 
SP  - 1743 
EP  - 1751 
DO  - 10.1101/gr.221077.117 
VL  - 27 
IS  - 10 
UR  - http://genome.cshlp.org/content/27/10/1743.abstract 
N2  - Obtaining accurate drug response data in large cohorts of cancer patients is very challenging; thus, most cancer pharmacogenomics discovery is conducted in preclinical studies, typically using cell lines and mouse models. However, these platforms suffer from serious limitations, including small sample sizes. Here, we have developed a novel computational method that allows us to impute drug response in very large clinical cancer genomics data sets, such as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). The approach works by creating statistical models relating gene expression to drug response in large panels of cancer cell lines and applying these models to tumor gene expression data in the clinical data sets (e.g., TCGA). This yields an imputed drug response for every drug in each patient. These imputed drug response data are then associated with somatic genetic variants measured in the clinical cohort, such as copy number changes or mutations in protein coding genes. These analyses recapitulated drug associations for known clinically actionable somatic genetic alterations and identified new predictive biomarkers for existing drugs. 
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