A comprehensive assessment of somatic mutation detection in cancer using whole-genome sequencing
Abstract
As whole-genome sequencing for cancer genome analysis becomes a clinical tool, a full understanding of the variables affecting sequencing analysis output is required. Here using tumour-normal sample pairs from two different types of cancer, chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and medulloblastoma, we conduct a benchmarking exercise within the context of the International Cancer Genome Consortium. We compare sequencing methods, analysis pipelines and validation methods. We show that using PCR-free methods and increasing sequencing depth to similar to 100 x shows benefits, as long as the tumour: control coverage ratio remains balanced. We observe widely varying mutation call rates and low concordance among analysis pipelines, reflecting the artefact-prone nature of the raw data and lack of standards for dealing with the artefacts. However, we show that, using the benchmark mutation set we have created, many issues are in fact easy to remedy and have an immediate positive impact on mutation detection accuracy.
Citation
Alioto , T S , Buchhalter , I , Derdak , S , Hutter , B , Eldridge , M D , Hovig , E , Heisler , L E , Beck , T A , Simpson , J T , Tonon , L , Sertier , A-S , Patch , A-M , Jaeger , N , Ginsbach , P , Drews , R , Paramasivam , N , Kabbe , R , Chotewutmontri , S , Diessl , N , Previti , C , Schmidt , S , Brors , B , Feuerbach , L , Heinold , M , Groebner , S , Korshunov , A , Tarpey , P S , Butler , A P , Hinton , J , Jones , D , Menzies , A , Raine , K , Shepherd , R , Stebbings , L , Teague , J W , Ribeca , P , Giner , F C , Beltran , S , Raineri , E , Dabad , M , Heath , S C , Gut , M , Denroche , R E , Harding , N J , Yamaguchi , T N , Fujimoto , A , Nakagawa , H , Quesada , C , Valdes-Mas , R , Nakken , S , Vodak , D , Bower , L , Lynch , A G , Anderson , C L , Waddell , N , Pearson , J V , Grimmond , S M , Peto , M , Spellman , P , He , M , Kandoth , C , Lee , S , Zhang , J , Letourneau , L , Ma , S , Seth , S , Torrents , D , Xi , L , Wheeler , D A , Lopez-Otin , C , Campo , E , Campbell , P J , Boutros , P C , Puente , X S , Gerhard , D S , Pfister , S M , McPherson , J D , Hudson , T J , Schlesner , M , Lichter , P , Eils , R , Jones , D T W & Gut , I G 2015 , ' A comprehensive assessment of somatic mutation detection in cancer using whole-genome sequencing ' , Nature Communications , vol. 6 , 10001 . https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10001
Publication
Nature Communications
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
2041-1723Type
Journal article
Description
Sequence data for this study have been deposited in the European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA) under the accession number EGAS00001001539.Collections
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