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Statistical Tools and R Software for Cancer Driver Probabilities

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Gene Function Analysis

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 1101))

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This chapter provides a description and illustration of CancerMutationAnalysis and Cancer MutationMCMC, two open source R packages specifically designed for the analysis of somatic mutations in cancer genome studies, at both the gene and gene-set levels.

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  1. Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA

    Giovanni Parmigiani, Jie Ding & Lorenzo Trippa

  2. Biostatistics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Simina Boca

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Parmigiani, G., Boca, S., Ding, J., Trippa, L. (2014). Statistical Tools and R Software for Cancer Driver Probabilities. In: Ochs, M. (eds) Gene Function Analysis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1101. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-721-1_7

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