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Cross-Site Concordance Evaluation of Tumor DNA and RNA Sequencing Platforms for the CIMAC-CIDC Network

12/2020

Journal Article

Authors:
Zeng, Z.; Fu, J.; Cibulskis, C.; Jhaveri, A. ; Gumbs, C.; Das, B.; Sanchez-Espiridion, B.; Janssens, S.; Taing, L.; Wang, J.; Lindsay, J.; Vilimas, T.; Zhang, J.; Tokheim, C.; Sahu, A.; Jiang, P.; Yan, C.; Duose, D. Y.; Cerami, E.; Chen, L.; Cohen, D.; Chen, Q.; Enos, R.; Huang, X. ; Lee, J. J.; Liu, Y.; Neuberg, D. S.; Nguyen, C.; Patterson, C.; Sarkar, S.; Shukla, S.; Tang, M.; Tsuji, J.; Uduman, M.; Wang, X.; Weirather, J. L.; Yu, J.; Zhang, J.; Meerzaman, D.; Thurin, M.; Futreal, A.; Karlovich, C.; Gabriel, S. B.; Wistuba, II ; Liu, X. S.; Wu, C. J.

Volume:
27

Pagination:
5049-5061

Issue:
18

Journal:
Clin Cancer Res

PMID:
33323402

URL:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33323402

DOI:
10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-20-3251

Keywords:
*Base Sequence DNA, Neoplasm/*analysis Humans Monitoring, Immunologic Neoplasms/*genetics/immunology RNA, Neoplasm/*analysis *Exome Sequencing

Abstract:
PURPOSE: Whole-exome (WES) and RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) are key components of cancer immunogenomic analyses. To evaluate the consistency of tumor WES and RNA-seq profiling platforms across different centers, the Cancer Immune Monitoring and Analysis Centers (CIMAC) and the Cancer Immunologic Data Commons (CIDC) conducted a systematic harmonization study. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: DNA and RNA were centrally extracted from fresh frozen and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded non-small cell lung carcinoma tumors and distributed to three centers for WES and RNA-seq profiling. In addition, two 10-plex HapMap cell line pools with known mutations were used to evaluate the accuracy of the WES platforms. RESULTS: The WES platforms achieved high precision (> 0.98) and recall (> 0.87) on the HapMap pools when evaluated on loci using > 50x common coverage. Nonsynonymous mutations clustered by tumor sample, achieving an index of specific agreement above 0.67 among replicates, centers, and sample processing. A DV200 > 24% for RNA, as a putative presequencing RNA quality control (QC) metric, was found to be a reliable threshold for generating consistent expression readouts in RNA-seq and NanoString data. MedTIN > 30 was likewise assessed as a reliable RNA-seq QC metric, above which samples from the same tumor across replicates, centers, and sample processing runs could be robustly clustered and HLA typing, immune infiltration, and immune repertoire inference could be performed. CONCLUSIONS: The CIMAC collaborating laboratory platforms effectively generated consistent WES and RNA-seq data and enable robust cross-trial comparisons and meta-analyses of highly complex immuno-oncology biomarker data across the NCI CIMAC-CIDC Network.

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