SJPedPanel : A pan-cancer gene panel for childhood malignancies

Background: Large scale genomics projects have identified driver alterations for most childhood cancers that provide reliable biomarkers for clinical diagnosis and disease monitoring using targeted sequencing. However, there is lack of a comprehensive panel that matches the list of known driver genes. Here we fill this gap by developing SJPedPanel for childhood cancers.

Results: SJPedPanel covers 5,275 coding exons of 357 driver genes, 297 introns frequently involved in rearrangements that generate fusion oncoproteins, commonly amplified/deleted regions (e.g., MYCN for neuroblastoma, CDKN2A and PAX5 for B-/T-ALL, and SMARCB1 for AT/RT), and 7,590 polymorphism sites for interrogating tumors with aneuploidy, such as hyperdiploid and hypodiploid B-ALL or 17q gain neuroblastoma. We used driver alterations reported from an established real-time clinical genomics cohort (n=253) to validate this gene panel. Among the 485 pathogenic variants reported, our panel covered 417 variants (86%). For 90 rearrangements responsible for oncogenic fusions, our panel covered 74 events (82%). We re-sequenced 113 previously characterized clinical specimens at an average depth of 2,500X using SJPedPanel and recovered 354 (91%) of the 389 reported pathogenic variants. We then investigated the power of this panel in detecting mutations from specimens with low tumor purity (as low as 0.1%) using cell line-based dilution experiments and discovered that this gene panel enabled us to detect ∼80% variants with allele fraction of 0.2%, while the detection rate decreases to ∼50% when the allele fraction is 0.1%. We finally demonstrate its utility in disease monitoring on clinical specimens collected from AML patients in morphologic remission.

Conclusions: SJPedPanel enables the detection of clinically relevant genetic alterations including rearrangements responsible for subtype-defining fusions for childhood cancers by targeted sequencing of ∼0.15% of human genome. It will enhance the analysis of specimens with low tumor burdens for cancer monitoring and early detection.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences - (2024) vom: 09. Feb.

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Englisch

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Kolekar, Pandurang [VerfasserIn]
Balagopal, Vidya [VerfasserIn]
Dong, Li [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Yanling [VerfasserIn]
Foy, Scott [VerfasserIn]
Tran, Quang [VerfasserIn]
Mulder, Heather [VerfasserIn]
Huskey, Anna Lw [VerfasserIn]
Plyler, Emily [VerfasserIn]
Liang, Zhikai [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Jingqun [VerfasserIn]
Nakitandwe, Joy [VerfasserIn]
Gu, Jiali [VerfasserIn]
Namwanje, Maria [VerfasserIn]
Maciaszek, Jamie [VerfasserIn]
Payne-Turner, Debbie [VerfasserIn]
Mallampati, Saradhi [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Lu [VerfasserIn]
Easton, John [VerfasserIn]
Klco, Jeffery M [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Xiaotu [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 21.02.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1101/2023.11.27.23299068

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NLM365677515