Quantifying tumor-infiltrating immune cells from transcriptomics data

F Finotello, Z Trajanoski - Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy, 2018 - Springer
By exerting pro-and anti-tumorigenic actions, tumor-infiltrating immune cells can profoundly
influence tumor progression, as well as the success of anti-cancer therapies. Therefore, the …

Cancer transcriptome profiling at the juncture of clinical translation

M Cieślik, AM Chinnaiyan - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Methodological breakthroughs over the past four decades have repeatedly revolutionized
transcriptome profiling. Using RNA sequencing (RNA-seq), it has now become possible to …

Determining cell type abundance and expression from bulk tissues with digital cytometry

AM Newman, CB Steen, CL Liu, AJ Gentles… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA-sequencing has emerged as a powerful technique for characterizing
cellular heterogeneity, but it is currently impractical on large sample cohorts and cannot be …

Profiling cell type abundance and expression in bulk tissues with CIBERSORTx

CB Steen, CL Liu, AA Alizadeh… - Stem Cell Transcriptional …, 2020 - Springer
CIBERSORTx is a suite of machine learning tools for the assessment of cellular abundance
and cell type-specific gene expression patterns from bulk tissue transcriptome profiles. With …

EPIC: a tool to estimate the proportions of different cell types from bulk gene expression data

J Racle, D Gfeller - Bioinformatics for cancer immunotherapy: methods and …, 2020 - Springer
Gene expression profiling is nowadays routinely performed on clinically relevant samples
(eg, from tumor specimens). Such measurements are often obtained from bulk samples …

Simultaneous enumeration of cancer and immune cell types from bulk tumor gene expression data

J Racle, K de Jonge, P Baumgaertner, DE Speiser… - elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Immune cells infiltrating tumors can have important impact on tumor progression and
response to therapy. We present an efficient algorithm to simultaneously estimate the …

The molecular taxonomy of primary prostate cancer

A Abeshouse, J Ahn, R Akbani, A Ally, S Amin… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
There is substantial heterogeneity among primary prostate cancers, evident in the spectrum
of molecular abnormalities and its variable clinical course. As part of The Cancer Genome …

Comprehensive molecular portraits of invasive lobular breast cancer

G Ciriello, ML Gatza, AH Beck, MD Wilkerson, SK Rhie… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) is the second most prevalent histologic subtype of invasive
breast cancer. Here, we comprehensively profiled 817 breast tumors, including 127 ILC, 490 …

Estimation of tumor cell total mRNA expression in 15 cancer types predicts disease progression

S Cao, JR Wang, S Ji, P Yang, Y Dai, S Guo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing studies have suggested that total mRNA content correlates with
tumor phenotypes. Technical and analytical challenges, however, have so far impeded at …

Computational deconvolution of transcriptomics data from mixed cell populations

F Avila Cobos, J Vandesompele, P Mestdagh… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Gene expression analyses of bulk tissues often ignore cell type composition as an important
confounding factor, resulting in a loss of signal from lowly abundant cell types. In this review …