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Scalable whole-exome sequencing of cell-free DNA reveals high concordance with metastatic tumors

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Communications, November 2017
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Title
Scalable whole-exome sequencing of cell-free DNA reveals high concordance with metastatic tumors
Published in
Nature Communications, November 2017
DOI 10.1038/s41467-017-00965-y
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Authors

Viktor A. Adalsteinsson, Gavin Ha, Samuel S. Freeman, Atish D. Choudhury, Daniel G. Stover, Heather A. Parsons, Gregory Gydush, Sarah C. Reed, Denisse Rotem, Justin Rhoades, Denis Loginov, Dimitri Livitz, Daniel Rosebrock, Ignaty Leshchiner, Jaegil Kim, Chip Stewart, Mara Rosenberg, Joshua M. Francis, Cheng-Zhong Zhang, Ofir Cohen, Coyin Oh, Huiming Ding, Paz Polak, Max Lloyd, Sairah Mahmud, Karla Helvie, Margaret S. Merrill, Rebecca A. Santiago, Edward P. O’Connor, Seong H. Jeong, Rachel Leeson, Rachel M. Barry, Joseph F. Kramkowski, Zhenwei Zhang, Laura Polacek, Jens G. Lohr, Molly Schleicher, Emily Lipscomb, Andrea Saltzman, Nelly M. Oliver, Lori Marini, Adrienne G. Waks, Lauren C. Harshman, Sara M. Tolaney, Eliezer M. Van Allen, Eric P. Winer, Nancy U. Lin, Mari Nakabayashi, Mary-Ellen Taplin, Cory M. Johannessen, Levi A. Garraway, Todd R. Golub, Jesse S. Boehm, Nikhil Wagle, Gad Getz, J. Christopher Love, Matthew Meyerson

Abstract

Whole-exome sequencing of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) could enable comprehensive profiling of tumors from blood but the genome-wide concordance between cfDNA and tumor biopsies is uncertain. Here we report ichorCNA, software that quantifies tumor content in cfDNA from 0.1× coverage whole-genome sequencing data without prior knowledge of tumor mutations. We apply ichorCNA to 1439 blood samples from 520 patients with metastatic prostate or breast cancers. In the earliest tested sample for each patient, 34% of patients have ≥10% tumor-derived cfDNA, sufficient for standard coverage whole-exome sequencing. Using whole-exome sequencing, we validate the concordance of clonal somatic mutations (88%), copy number alterations (80%), mutational signatures, and neoantigens between cfDNA and matched tumor biopsies from 41 patients with ≥10% cfDNA tumor content. In summary, we provide methods to identify patients eligible for comprehensive cfDNA profiling, revealing its applicability to many patients, and demonstrate high concordance of cfDNA and metastatic tumor whole-exome sequencing.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 715 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 163 23%
Student > Ph. D. Student 111 16%
Student > Master 57 8%
Other 49 7%
Student > Bachelor 46 6%
Other 92 13%
Unknown 197 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 172 24%
Medicine and Dentistry 128 18%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 85 12%
Computer Science 26 4%
Engineering 16 2%
Other 68 10%
Unknown 220 31%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 250. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 February 2024.
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#149,495
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