BaalChIP: Bayesian analysis of allele-specific transcription factor binding in cancer genomes

de Santiago, I., Liu, W., Yuan, K. , O'Reilly, M., Chilamakuri, C. S. R., Ponder, B. A.J., Meyer, K. B. and Markowetz, F. (2017) BaalChIP: Bayesian analysis of allele-specific transcription factor binding in cancer genomes. Genome Biology, 18, 39. (doi: 10.1186/s13059-017-1165-7) (PMID:28235418) (PMCID:PMC5326502)

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Abstract

Allele-specific measurements of transcription factor binding from ChIP-seq data are key to dissecting the allelic effects of non-coding variants and their contribution to phenotypic diversity. However, most methods of detecting an allelic imbalance assume diploid genomes. This assumption severely limits their applicability to cancer samples with frequent DNA copy-number changes. Here we present a Bayesian statistical approach called BaalChIP to correct for the effect of background allele frequency on the observed ChIP-seq read counts. BaalChIP allows the joint analysis of multiple ChIP-seq samples across a single variant and outperforms competing approaches in simulations. Using 548 ENCODE ChIP-seq and six targeted FAIRE-seq samples, we show that BaalChIP effectively corrects allele-specific analysis for copy-number variation and increases the power to detect putative cis-acting regulatory variants in cancer genomes.

Item Type:Articles
Additional Information:The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the University of Cambridge, Cancer Research UK (CRUK), and Hutchison Whampoa Limited. Parts of this work were funded by CRUK core grants C14303/A17197 and A19274 and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Yuan, Dr Ke and Liu, Dr Wei
Authors: de Santiago, I., Liu, W., Yuan, K., O'Reilly, M., Chilamakuri, C. S. R., Ponder, B. A.J., Meyer, K. B., and Markowetz, F.
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine
Journal Name:Genome Biology
Publisher:BioMed Central
ISSN:1474-760X
ISSN (Online):1474-760X
Copyright Holders:Copyright © 2017 The Authors
First Published:First published in Genome Biology 18: 39
Publisher Policy:Reproduced under a Creative Commons License

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