Robust methylation-based classification of brain tumours using nanopore sequencing

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BACKGROUND: DNA methylation-based classification of cancer provides a comprehensive molecular approach to diagnose tumours. In fact, DNA methylation profiling of human brain tumours already profoundly impacts clinical neuro-oncology. However, current implementation using hybridisation microarrays is time consuming and costly. We recently reported on shallow nanopore whole-genome sequencing for rapid and cost-effective generation of genome-wide 5-methylcytosine profiles as input to supervised classification. Here, we demonstrate that this approach allows us to discriminate a wide spectrum of primary brain tumours.

RESULTS: Using public reference data of 82 distinct tumour entities, we performed nanopore genome sequencing on 382 tissue samples covering 46 brain tumour (sub)types. Using bootstrap sampling in a cohort of 55 cases, we found that a minimum set of 1000 random CpG features is sufficient for high-confidence classification by ad hoc random forests. We implemented score recalibration as a confidence measure for interpretation in a clinical context and empirically determined a platform-specific threshold in a randomly sampled discovery cohort (N = 185). Applying this cut-off to an independent validation series (n = 184) yielded 148 classifiable cases (sensitivity 80.4%) and demonstrated 100% specificity. Cross-lab validation demonstrated robustness with concordant results across four laboratories in 10/11 (90.9%) cases. In a prospective benchmarking (N = 15), the median time to results was 21.1 h.

CONCLUSIONS: In conclusion, nanopore sequencing allows robust and rapid methylation-based classification across the full spectrum of brain tumours. Platform-specific confidence scores facilitate clinical implementation for which prospective evaluation is warranted and ongoing.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:49

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Neuropathology and applied neurobiology - 49(2023), 1 vom: 21. Feb., Seite e12856

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kuschel, Luis P [VerfasserIn]
Hench, Jürgen [VerfasserIn]
Frank, Stephan [VerfasserIn]
Hench, Ivana Bratic [VerfasserIn]
Girard, Elodie [VerfasserIn]
Blanluet, Maud [VerfasserIn]
Masliah-Planchon, Julien [VerfasserIn]
Misch, Martin [VerfasserIn]
Onken, Julia [VerfasserIn]
Czabanka, Marcus [VerfasserIn]
Yuan, Dongsheng [VerfasserIn]
Lukassen, Sören [VerfasserIn]
Karau, Philipp [VerfasserIn]
Ishaque, Naveed [VerfasserIn]
Hain, Elisabeth G [VerfasserIn]
Heppner, Frank [VerfasserIn]
Idbaih, Ahmed [VerfasserIn]
Behr, Nikolaus [VerfasserIn]
Harms, Christoph [VerfasserIn]
Capper, David [VerfasserIn]
Euskirchen, Philipp [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Brain tumour
Epigenomics
Journal Article
Machine learning
Molecular pathology
Nanopore sequencing
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Whole-genome sequencing

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Date Completed 28.02.2023

Date Revised 28.02.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/nan.12856

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM347842186