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NIMBus: a negative binomial regression based Integrative Method for mutation Burden Analysis.
BMC bioinformatics - 22 Oct 2020
Zhang Jing, Liu Jason, McGillivray Patrick, Yi Caroline, Lochovsky Lucas, Lee Donghoon, Gerstein Mark
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BACKGROUND: Identifying frequently mutated regions is a key approach to discover DNA elements influencing cancer progression. However, it is challenging to identify these burdened regions due to mutation rate heterogeneity across the genome and across different individuals. Moreover, it is known that this heterogeneity partially stems from genomic confounding factors, such as replication timing and chromatin...
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