Family study designs informed by tumor heterogeneity and multi-cancer pleiotropies: the power of the Utah population database

HA Hanson, CL Leiser, MJ Madsen, J Gardner… - … Biomarkers & Prevention, 2020 - AACR
Background: Previously, family-based designs and high-risk pedigrees have illustrated
value for the discovery of high-and intermediate-risk germline breast cancer susceptibility …

An improved, assay platform agnostic, absolute single sample breast cancer subtype classifier

M Seo, S Paik, S Kim - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary A platform and normalization bias agnostic single sample classifier (SSC)
is needed. A random forest SSC (MiniABS) utilizing 11 genes was developed and validated …

[PDF][PDF] SPECTRA: Agnostic expression variables for flexible transcriptome modelling in complex disease

R Waller, HA Hanson, MJ Madsen, B Avery, D Sborov… - medRxiv, 2020 - scholar.archive.org
We describe SPECTRA, a novel approach to measure variation in the transcriptome, 7
providing unsupervised quantitative variables to model with any clinical, demographic, or 8 …

Deep transcriptome profiling of multiple myeloma with quantitative measures using the SPECTRA approach

RG Waller, HA Hanson, BJ Avery, MJ Madsen… - medRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
ABSTRACT SPECTRA is a new data framework to describe variation in a transcriptome as a
set of unsupervised quantitative variables. Spectra variables provide a deep dive into the …

Mapping Genes and Modeling Transcriptomes in Myeloma

RG Waller - 2020 - search.proquest.com
Complex diseases are a substantial burden on society and are caused by multiple genetic
and environmental factors. This heterogeneity leads to unique challenges in understanding …