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. 2019 Mar 20;9:119. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2019.00119

Table 3.

Parameters and notation.

Variable Descriptions
INPUTS TO MODEL
RT, RB Total tumor read depth, B allele read depth
RC Mean read depth of unmatched normals
πS, πAB, πAA prior probability of somatic, germline heterozygous, germline homozygous variant
QAm, QBm Mean mapping quality of reads supporting the A or B allele
QBb Mean base quality of bases supporting B allele
X Total number of exons,
Y Number of heterozygous germline variants
Z Number of somatic variants
G Number of segments
K Number of clonal variant groups
J Number of samples from the patient
ηg Number of bases within the bed file in segment g
ηd Number of bases within the bed file with min (F A, F B) > Fmax−somatic
PARAMETERS FIT IN MAXIMIZATION
fjk fraction of cells in the sample j with the variants in clone k
C centering parameter
W controls the spread of the allelic fraction distributions
INTERMEDIATE VARIABLES
N total copy number
M minor allele copy number
φS, φG expected allele fraction of somatic or germline variant
IS, Ij Index of clonal subset containing somatic variant or copy number variant
A Allele of somatic variant (A = 1 for allele A = 2 for minor allele)
XCNA Number of copy number altered exons
OTHER NOTATION
GAA, GAB Germline homozygous or heterozygous genotype
O Other genotype beside somatic, germline homozygous AA, or germline heterozygous AB
U Unknown genotype due to poor mapping
k Index of clonal subset {1, 2, …, K}
g Index of segment {1, 2, …, G}
z Index of somatic variant {1, 2, …, Z}
y Index of heterozygous variant {1, 2, …, Y}
x Index of exon {1, 2, …, X}