Cost-effective methylome sequencing of cell-free DNA for accurately detecting and locating cancer.
Nat Commun
; 13(1): 5566, 2022 09 29.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-36175411
ABSTRACT
Early cancer detection by cell-free DNA faces multiple challenges low fraction of tumor cell-free DNA, molecular heterogeneity of cancer, and sample sizes that are not sufficient to reflect diverse patient populations. Here, we develop a cancer detection approach to address these challenges. It consists of an assay, cfMethyl-Seq, for cost-effective sequencing of the cell-free DNA methylome (with > 12-fold enrichment over whole genome bisulfite sequencing in CpG islands), and a computational method to extract methylation information and diagnose patients. Applying our approach to 408 colon, liver, lung, and stomach cancer patients and controls, at 97.9% specificity we achieve 80.7% and 74.5% sensitivity in detecting all-stage and early-stage cancer, and 89.1% and 85.0% accuracy for locating tissue-of-origin of all-stage and early-stage cancer, respectively. Our approach cost-effectively retains methylome profiles of cancer abnormalities, allowing us to learn new features and expand to other cancer types as training cohorts grow.
Full text:
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Stomach Neoplasms
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Cell-Free Nucleic Acids
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
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Health_economic_evaluation
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Screening_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Nat Commun
Journal subject:
BIOLOGIA
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CIENCIA
Year:
2022
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Estados Unidos