Circulating Tumor DNA in a Breast Cancer Patient's Plasma Represents Driver Alterations in the Tumor Tissue

Tumor tissues from biopsies or surgery are major sources for the next generation sequencing (NGS) study, but these procedures are invasive and have limitation to overcome intratumor heterogeneity. Recent studies have shown that driver alterations in tumor tissues can be detected by liquid biopsy whi...

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Main Authors: Jieun Lee, Sung-Min Cho, Min Sung Kim, Sug Hyung Lee, Yeun-Jun Chung, Seung-Hyun Jung
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Published: BioMed Central 2017-03-01
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Online Access:http://genominfo.org/upload/pdf/gni-15-48.pdf
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Sung-Min Cho
Min Sung Kim
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Seung-Hyun Jung
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description Tumor tissues from biopsies or surgery are major sources for the next generation sequencing (NGS) study, but these procedures are invasive and have limitation to overcome intratumor heterogeneity. Recent studies have shown that driver alterations in tumor tissues can be detected by liquid biopsy which is a less invasive technique capable of both capturing the tumor heterogeneity and overcoming the difficulty in tissue sampling. However, it is still unclear whether the driver alterations in liquid biopsy can be detected by targeted NGS and how those related to the tissue biopsy. In this study, we performed whole-exome sequencing for a breast cancer tissue and identified PTEN p.H259fs*7 frameshift mutation. In the plasma DNA (liquid biopsy) analysis by targeted NGS, the same variant initially identified in the tumor tissue was also detected with low variant allele frequency. This mutation was subsequently validated by digital polymerase chain reaction in liquid biopsy. Our result confirm that driver alterations identified in the tumor tissue were detected in liquid biopsy by targeted NGS as well, and suggest that a higher depth of sequencing coverage is needed for detection of genomic alterations in a liquid biopsy.
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spelling doaj-art-9216b3fcd18f4a5ca9a95462a7551ef12025-02-02T18:52:13ZengBioMed CentralGenomics & Informatics1598-866X2234-07422017-03-01151485010.5808/GI.2017.15.1.48209Circulating Tumor DNA in a Breast Cancer Patient's Plasma Represents Driver Alterations in the Tumor TissueJieun Lee0Sung-Min Cho1Min Sung Kim2Sug Hyung Lee3Yeun-Jun Chung4Seung-Hyun Jung5Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, Seoul 06591, Korea.Integrated Research Center for Genome Polymorphism, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Korea.Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Korea.Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Korea.Integrated Research Center for Genome Polymorphism, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Korea.Cancer Evolution Research Center, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Korea.Tumor tissues from biopsies or surgery are major sources for the next generation sequencing (NGS) study, but these procedures are invasive and have limitation to overcome intratumor heterogeneity. Recent studies have shown that driver alterations in tumor tissues can be detected by liquid biopsy which is a less invasive technique capable of both capturing the tumor heterogeneity and overcoming the difficulty in tissue sampling. However, it is still unclear whether the driver alterations in liquid biopsy can be detected by targeted NGS and how those related to the tissue biopsy. In this study, we performed whole-exome sequencing for a breast cancer tissue and identified PTEN p.H259fs*7 frameshift mutation. In the plasma DNA (liquid biopsy) analysis by targeted NGS, the same variant initially identified in the tumor tissue was also detected with low variant allele frequency. This mutation was subsequently validated by digital polymerase chain reaction in liquid biopsy. Our result confirm that driver alterations identified in the tumor tissue were detected in liquid biopsy by targeted NGS as well, and suggest that a higher depth of sequencing coverage is needed for detection of genomic alterations in a liquid biopsy.http://genominfo.org/upload/pdf/gni-15-48.pdfbreast neoplasmsCDK4 amplificationcirculating tumor DNAliquid biopsynext generation sequencingPTEN mutation
spellingShingle Jieun Lee
Sung-Min Cho
Min Sung Kim
Sug Hyung Lee
Yeun-Jun Chung
Seung-Hyun Jung
Circulating Tumor DNA in a Breast Cancer Patient's Plasma Represents Driver Alterations in the Tumor Tissue
Genomics & Informatics
breast neoplasms
CDK4 amplification
circulating tumor DNA
liquid biopsy
next generation sequencing
PTEN mutation
title Circulating Tumor DNA in a Breast Cancer Patient's Plasma Represents Driver Alterations in the Tumor Tissue
title_full Circulating Tumor DNA in a Breast Cancer Patient's Plasma Represents Driver Alterations in the Tumor Tissue
title_fullStr Circulating Tumor DNA in a Breast Cancer Patient's Plasma Represents Driver Alterations in the Tumor Tissue
title_full_unstemmed Circulating Tumor DNA in a Breast Cancer Patient's Plasma Represents Driver Alterations in the Tumor Tissue
title_short Circulating Tumor DNA in a Breast Cancer Patient's Plasma Represents Driver Alterations in the Tumor Tissue
title_sort circulating tumor dna in a breast cancer patient s plasma represents driver alterations in the tumor tissue
topic breast neoplasms
CDK4 amplification
circulating tumor DNA
liquid biopsy
next generation sequencing
PTEN mutation
url http://genominfo.org/upload/pdf/gni-15-48.pdf
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