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Circulating tumour DNA sequence analysis as an alternative to multiple myeloma bone marrow aspirates

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Communications, May 2017
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Title
Circulating tumour DNA sequence analysis as an alternative to multiple myeloma bone marrow aspirates
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Nature Communications, May 2017
DOI 10.1038/ncomms15086
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Olena Kis, Rayan Kaedbey, Signy Chow, Arnavaz Danesh, Mark Dowar, Tiantian Li, Zhihua Li, Jessica Liu, Mark Mansour, Esther Masih-Khan, Tong Zhang, Scott V. Bratman, Amit M. Oza, Suzanne Kamel-Reid, Suzanne Trudel, Trevor J. Pugh

Abstract

The requirement for bone-marrow aspirates for genomic profiling of multiple myeloma poses an obstacle to enrolment and retention of patients in clinical trials. We evaluated whether circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) analysis is comparable to molecular profiling of myeloma using bone-marrow tumour cells. We report here a hybrid-capture-based Liquid Biopsy Sequencing (LB-Seq) method used to sequence all protein-coding exons of KRAS, NRAS, BRAF, EGFR and PIK3CA in 64 cfDNA specimens from 53 myeloma patients to >20,000 × median coverage. This method includes a variant filtering algorithm that enables detection of tumour-derived fragments present in cfDNA at allele frequencies as low as 0.25% (median 3.2%, range 0.25-46%). Using LB-Seq analysis of 48 cfDNA specimens with matched bone-marrow data, we detect 49/51 likely somatic mutations, with subclonal hierarchies reflecting tumour profiling (96% concordance), and four additional mutations likely missed by bone-marrow testing (>98% specificity). Overall, LB-Seq is a high fidelity adjunct to genetic profiling of bone-marrow in multiple myeloma.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 165 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 41 25%
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 13%
Student > Bachelor 19 12%
Other 16 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 7%
Other 27 16%
Unknown 28 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 46 28%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 44 27%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 19 12%
Computer Science 6 4%
Engineering 5 3%
Other 14 8%
Unknown 31 19%
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