DITHER: an algorithm for Defining IntraTumor Heterogeneity based on EntRopy.

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Lin LiXiaosheng Wang

Abstract

Intratumor heterogeneity (ITH) is associated with tumor development, prognosis, immune evasion and therapeutic effects. We proposed the Defining ITH based on EntRopy (DITHER) algorithm for evaluating ITH. We first evaluated the entropies of somatic mutation profiles and copy number alteration (CNA) profiles in a tumor, respectively, and defined their average as the ITH level for the tumor. Using DITHER, we analyzed 33 cancer types from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) program. We demonstrated that the ITH defined by DITHER had the typical properties of ITH, namely its strong correlations with tumor progression, unfavorable phenotype, genomic instability and immune evasion. Compared with two other ITH evaluation methods: MATH and PhyloWGS, the DITHER ITH had more prominent characteristics of ITH. Moreover, different from MATH and PhyloWGS, DITHER scores were positively correlated with tumor purity, suggesting that DITHER tends to capture the ITH between tumor cells. Interestingly, microsatellite instability (MSI)-high tumors had significantly lower DITHER scores than microsatellite stability (MSS)/MSI-low tumors, although the former had significantly higher tumor mutation loads than the latter. It suggests that the hypermutability...Continue Reading

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