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Differential analysis of gene expression relative to a driver mutation on patient samples could provide us with new insights in understanding driver mutation dysregulation in tumor genome and developing personalized treatment strategies.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: Here, we introduce the Snowball approach as a highly sensitive statistical analysis method to identify transcriptional signatures that are affected by a recurrent driver mutation. Snowball utilizes a resampling-based approach and combines a distance-based regression framework to assign a robust ranking index of genes based on their aggregated association with the presence of the mutation, and further selects the top significant genes for downstream data analyses or experiments. In our application of the Snowball approach to both synthesized and TCGA data, we demonstrated that it outperforms the standard methods and provides more accurate inferences to the functional effects and transcriptional dysregulation of driver mutations.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability and implementation: R package and source code are available from CRAN at http:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/web\/packages\/DESnowball , and also available at http:\/\/bioinfo.mc.vanderbilt.edu\/DESnowball\/ .<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0zhongming.zhao@vanderbilt.edu<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btu603","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,9,6]],"date-time":"2014-09-06T04:48:38Z","timestamp":1409978918000},"page":"84-93","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Snowball: resampling combined with 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