Validation Strategy for Ultrasensitive Mutation Detection.
Mol Diagn Ther
; 22(5): 603-611, 2018 10.
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| ID: mdl-29974360
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Ultrasensitive detection of low-abundance DNA point mutations is a challenging molecular biology problem, because nearly identical mutant and wild-type molecules exhibit crosstalk. Reliable ultrasensitive point mutation detection will facilitate early detection of cancer and therapeutic monitoring of cancer patients.OBJECTIVE:
The objective of this study was to develop a method to correct errors in low-level cell line mixes. MATERIALS ANDMETHODS:
We tested sample mixes with digital-droplet PCR (ddPCR) and next-generation sequencing.RESULTS:
We introduced two corrections baseline variant allele frequency (VAF) in the parental cell line was used to correct for copy number variation; and haplotype counting was used to correct errors in cell counting and pipetting. We found ddPCR to have better correlation for detecting low-level mutations without applying any correction (R2 = 0.80) and be more linear after introducing both corrections (R2 = 0.99).CONCLUSIONS:
The VAF correction was found to be more significant than haplotype correction. It is imperative that various technologies be evaluated against each other and laboratories be provided with defined quality control samples for proficiency testing.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Análisis Mutacional de ADN
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Mutación
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Screening_studies
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Mol Diagn Ther
Asunto de la revista:
BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR
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FARMACOLOGIA
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TECNICAS E PROCEDIMENTOS DE LABORATORIO
Año:
2018
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos