title: High-resolution mapping of copy-number alterations with massively parallel sequencing.
abstract: Cancer results from somatic alterations in key genes, including point mutations, copy-number alterations and structural rearrangements. A powerful way to discover cancer-causing genes is to identify genomic regions that show recurrent copy-number alterations (gains and losses) in tumor genomes. Recent advances in sequencing technologies suggest that massively parallel sequencing may provide a feasible alternative to DNA microarrays for detecting copy-number alterations. Here we present: (i) a statistical analysis of the power to detect copy-number alterations of a given size; (ii) SegSeq, an algorithm to segment equal copy numbers from massively parallel sequence data; and (iii) analysis of experimental data from three matched pairs of tumor and normal cell lines. We show that a collection of approximately 14 million aligned sequence reads from human cell lines has comparable power to detect events as the current generation of DNA microarrays and has over twofold better precision for localizing breakpoints (typically, to within approximately 1 kilobase).
authors.affiliation: Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
authors.forename: Derek Y
authors.initials: DY
authors.lastname: Chiang
authors.forename: Gad
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Getz
authors.forename: David B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Jaffe
authors.forename: Michael J T
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: O'Kelly
authors.forename: Xiaojun
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Scott L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Carter
authors.forename: Carsten
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Russ
authors.forename: Chad
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Nusbaum
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meyerson
authors.forename: Eric S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Lander
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001483:Base Sequence; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D002877:Chromosomes, Human / Q000235:genetics; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D018628:Gene Dosage / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans