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Alizadeh et. al. (2000)
Stephen Ayers
12/2/01
Clustering
“Clustering is finding a natural grouping in
a set of data, so that samples within a
cluster will be more similar to each other
than they are to samples in other clusters.”
Finding groups of correlated genes
“signature groups”
Genes without well established
relationships
Extract features of groups
Hierarchical Clustering
• Tiers of points from a bottom layer of 1
point in each of n clusters to top level of n
points, all in one cluster
• Usually represented in dendrogram
Divisive
• Top-down
• Start with all samples and
successively split into separate
clusters
Agglomerative
• Bottom-up approach
• Less computationally intensive
• Start with n singletons and
successively merge clusters
– Place all values in separate clusters
– Merge most similar clusters into higher
clusters
– Repeat until all clusters have been merged
Average-Linkage Method
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Available <<http://rana.stanford.edu/clustering >>
1. Compute similarity matrix
2. Scan matrix to find most highest similarity
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Uses form of the correlation coefficient
3. A node is created between these values
4. Values are replaced by node
Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma
• Most common subtype of non-Hodgkin’s
Lymphoma
• 25,000 cases/year
• 40% of patients respond well
• Possible undetected heterogeneity
• Found 2 classes using clustering (Eisen
1998): Germinal Center B-like and
Activated B-like
Lymphochip
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17,856 cDNA clones total
12,069 germinal center B-cell library
2,338 lymphomic cancer genes
3,186 genes important to lymphocyte or
cancer biology
• ¼ of genes = duplicates
Expression Analysis
• DLBCL, Follicular Lymphoma, Chronic
Lympohcytic Leukemia
• Lymphocyte subpopulations with a range of
conditions
• -normal human tonsils, lymph nodes
• -lymphoma, leukemia cell lines
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GC
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Activated
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Conclusions
• More categories likely
• Changes in treatment
• Possible drug targets