TCGA cancer genome CNA data

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zhan...@gmail.com

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Feb 17, 2016, 10:30:39 AM2/17/16
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Hi, I am trying to find out how TCGA calculates the average CNA per tumor sample. How is homo and hetero loss treated compared to gains? I am aware of the way of dealing with single regions, for which CNA ranges from -2 to +2. Does anyone know a source of literature about this?

JianJiong Gao

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Feb 17, 2016, 10:55:15 AM2/17/16
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You may find the following post be helpful:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/cbioportal/6oe7tpI9ppM/pmtnlXn0ywQJ

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-JJ

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:30 AM <zhan...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, I am trying to find out how TCGA calculates the average CNA per tumor sample. How is homo and hetero loss treated compared to gains? I am aware of the way of dealing with single regions, for which CNA ranges from -2 to +2. Does anyone know a source of literature about this?

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