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SUBMITTER: Martinez P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5468233 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Martinez Pierre P Kimberley Christopher C BirkBak Nicolai J NJ Marquard Andrea A Szallasi Zoltan Z Graham Trevor A TA
Scientific reports 20170612 1
Intra-tumour genetic heterogeneity (ITH) fosters drug resistance and is a critical hurdle to clinical treatment. ITH can be well-measured using multi-region sampling but this is costly and challenging to implement. There is therefore a need for tools to estimate ITH in individual samples, using standard genomic data such as SNP-arrays, that could be implemented routinely. We designed two novel scores S and R, respectively based on the Shannon diversity index and Ripley's L statistic of spatial h ...[more]