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M3C: Monte Carlo reference-based consensus clustering

John, CR; Watson, D; Russ, D; Goldmann, K; Ehrenstein, M; Pitzalis, C; Lewis, M; (2020) M3C: Monte Carlo reference-based consensus clustering. Scientific Reports , 10 , Article 1816. 10.1038/s41598-020-58766-1. Green open access

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Abstract

Genome-wide data is used to stratify patients into classes for precision medicine using clustering algorithms. A common problem in this area is selection of the number of clusters (K). The Monti consensus clustering algorithm is a widely used method which uses stability selection to estimate K. However, the method has bias towards higher values of K and yields high numbers of false positives. As a solution, we developed Monte Carlo reference-based consensus clustering (M3C), which is based on this algorithm. M3C simulates null distributions of stability scores for a range of K values thus enabling a comparison with real data to remove bias and statistically test for the presence of structure. M3C corrects the inherent bias of consensus clustering as demonstrated on simulated and real expression data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). For testing M3C, we developed clusterlab, a new method for simulating multivariate Gaussian clusters.

Type: Article
Title: M3C: Monte Carlo reference-based consensus clustering
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-58766-1
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-58766-1
Language: English
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Keywords: Cancer genomics, Data mining
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine > Inflammation
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Statistical Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10092200
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