Retrospective evaluation of whole exome and genome mutation calls in 746 cancer samples

© 2020, The Author(s). The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) curated consensus somatic mutation calls using whole exome sequencing (WES) and whole genome sequencing (WGS), respectively. Here, as part of the ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PC...

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Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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Language:English
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132260.2
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description © 2020, The Author(s). The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) curated consensus somatic mutation calls using whole exome sequencing (WES) and whole genome sequencing (WGS), respectively. Here, as part of the ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) Consortium, which aggregated whole genome sequencing data from 2,658 cancers across 38 tumour types, we compare WES and WGS side-by-side from 746 TCGA samples, finding that ~80% of mutations overlap in covered exonic regions. We estimate that low variant allele fraction (VAF < 15%) and clonal heterogeneity contribute up to 68% of private WGS mutations and 71% of private WES mutations. We observe that ~30% of private WGS mutations trace to mutations identified by a single variant caller in WES consensus efforts. WGS captures both ~50% more variation in exonic regions and un-observed mutations in loci with variable GC-content. Together, our analysis highlights technological divergences between two reproducible somatic variant detection efforts.
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spelling mit-1721.1/132260.22024-06-07T17:54:56Z Retrospective evaluation of whole exome and genome mutation calls in 746 cancer samples Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory © 2020, The Author(s). The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) curated consensus somatic mutation calls using whole exome sequencing (WES) and whole genome sequencing (WGS), respectively. Here, as part of the ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) Consortium, which aggregated whole genome sequencing data from 2,658 cancers across 38 tumour types, we compare WES and WGS side-by-side from 746 TCGA samples, finding that ~80% of mutations overlap in covered exonic regions. We estimate that low variant allele fraction (VAF < 15%) and clonal heterogeneity contribute up to 68% of private WGS mutations and 71% of private WES mutations. We observe that ~30% of private WGS mutations trace to mutations identified by a single variant caller in WES consensus efforts. WGS captures both ~50% more variation in exonic regions and un-observed mutations in loci with variable GC-content. Together, our analysis highlights technological divergences between two reproducible somatic variant detection efforts. 2022-02-10T22:40:16Z 2021-09-20T18:21:32Z 2022-02-10T22:40:16Z 2020-09 2019-03 2021-01-07T17:48:29Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2041-1723 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132260.2 en http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18151-y Nature Communications Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/octet-stream Springer Science and Business Media LLC Nature
spellingShingle Retrospective evaluation of whole exome and genome mutation calls in 746 cancer samples
title Retrospective evaluation of whole exome and genome mutation calls in 746 cancer samples
title_full Retrospective evaluation of whole exome and genome mutation calls in 746 cancer samples
title_fullStr Retrospective evaluation of whole exome and genome mutation calls in 746 cancer samples
title_full_unstemmed Retrospective evaluation of whole exome and genome mutation calls in 746 cancer samples
title_short Retrospective evaluation of whole exome and genome mutation calls in 746 cancer samples
title_sort retrospective evaluation of whole exome and genome mutation calls in 746 cancer samples
url https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132260.2