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ArticleCell genomics2025

In silico generation of synthetic cancer genomes using generative AI.

Ander Díaz-Navarro, Xindi Zhang, Wei Jiao, Bo Wang, Lincoln Stein

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Article in Cell genomics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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5 authors.

Ander Díaz-NavarroOntario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. Electronic address: ander.d.navarro@gmail.com.
Xindi ZhangOntario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Wei JiaoOntario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Bo WangPeter Munk Cardiac Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Vector Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Lincoln SteinOntario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Vector Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada. Electronic address: lincoln.stein@gmail.com.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding how genomic alterations drive cancer is key to advancing precision oncology. To detect these alterations, accurate algorithms are used; however, due to privacy concerns, few deeply sequenced cancer genomes can be shared, limiting benchmarking and representing a major obstacle to the improvement of analytic tools. To address this, we developed OncoGAN, a generative AI model combining adversarial networks and variational autoencoders to create realistic synthetic cancer genomes. Trained on large-scale genomic datasets, OncoGAN accurately reproduces somatic mutations, copy number alterations, and structural variants across cancer types while preserving donors' privacy. The synthetic genomes reflect tumor-specific mutational signatures and positional mutation patterns. Using DeepTumour, we validated the synthetic data's fidelity, showing high concordance between generated and predicted tumors. Moreover, augmenting the training data with synthetic genomes improved DeepTumour's accuracy, underscoring OncoGAN's potential to generate shareable datasets with known ground truths for benchmarking and enhancement of cancer genome analysis tools.

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Artificial IntelligenceGenomicsNeoplasmsAlgorithmsComputer SimulationDNA Copy Number VariationsGenome, HumanHumansMutationartificial intelligencebenchmarkingcancer genomesgenerative adversarial networkssynthetic data

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PMID40803317
PMCPMC12648103

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