Number of tumor samples and analysis by SomaticSignature Package
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arsala521 ▴ 10
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Hello

I am using SomaticSignatures package for data analysis. If I have four cancers under study should the number of samples for each cancer type be the same. I mean to ask that is this alright if for one cancer type I have data for 200 samples and for other cancer type I have data for 400 samples. Would the analysis by SomaticSignatures be reliable in such case?

Can someone kindly answer my question?

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Julian Gehring ★ 1.3k
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The number of samples in each group can differ, i.e. your design of 200 vs 400 samples does not pose a problem. To account for different numbers of mutations, the motif matrix gets normalised and does not use the absolute number of variants. You can have a look at the vignette to see an example of this.

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Thank you so much.

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