1. Refphase: Multi-sample phasing reveals haplotype-specific copy number heterogeneity.
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Watkins TBK, Colliver EC, Huska MR, Kaufmann TL, Lim EL, Duncan CB, Haase K, Van Loo P, Swanton C, McGranahan N, and Schwarz RF
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- Humans, Haplotypes genetics, Algorithms, DNA Copy Number Variations genetics, Neoplasms genetics, Neoplasms pathology
- Abstract
Most computational methods that infer somatic copy number alterations (SCNAs) from bulk sequencing of DNA analyse tumour samples individually. However, the sequencing of multiple tumour samples from a patient's disease is an increasingly common practice. We introduce Refphase, an algorithm that leverages this multi-sampling approach to infer haplotype-specific copy numbers through multi-sample phasing. We demonstrate Refphase's ability to infer haplotype-specific SCNAs and characterise their intra-tumour heterogeneity, to uncover previously undetected allelic imbalance in low purity samples, and to identify parallel evolution in the context of whole genome doubling in a pan-cancer cohort of 336 samples from 99 tumours., Competing Interests: I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: CS acknowledges grant support from AstraZeneca, Boehringer-Ingelheim, BMS, Pfizer, Roche-Ventana, Invitae (previously Archer Dx, collaboration in minimal residual disease sequencing technologies), Ono Pharmaceutical, and Personalis; is an AstraZeneca advisory board member and chief investigator for the AZ MeRmaiD 1 and 2 clinical trials and is also co-chief investigator of the NHS Galleri trial funded by GRAIL and a paid member of GRAIL’s scientific advisory board; receives consultant fees from Achilles Therapeutics (also a scientific advisory board member), Bicycle Therapeutics (also a scientific advisory board member), Genentech, Medicxi, China Innovation Centre of Roche (CICoR) formerly Roche Innovation Centre – Shanghai, Metabomed (until July 2022) and the Sarah Cannon Research Institute; has received honoraria from Amgen, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, MSD, Bristol Myers Squibb, Illumina, and Roche-Ventana; had stock options in Apogen Biotechnologies and GRAIL until June 2021, and currently has stock options in Epic Bioscience, Bicycle Therapeutics, and has stock options and is co-founder of Achilles Therapeutics; is listed as an inventor on a European patent application relating to assay technology to detect tumour recurrence (PCT/GB2017/053289), the patent has been licensed to commercial entities and, under his terms of employment, CS is due a revenue share of any revenue generated from such license(s); holds patents relating to targeting neoantigens (PCT/EP2016/059401), identifying patient response to immune checkpoint blockade (PCT/EP2016/071471), determining HLA LOH (PCT/GB2018/052004), predicting survival rates of patients with cancer (PCT/GB2020/050221), identifying patients who respond to cancer treatment (PCT/GB2018/051912), a US patent relating to detecting tumour mutations (PCT/US2017/28013), methods for lung cancer detection (US20190106751A1) and both a European and US patent related to identifying insertion/deletion mutation targets (PCT/GB2018/051892) and is listed as a co-inventor on a patent application to determine methods and systems for tumour monitoring (PCT/EP2022/077987) and is a named inventor on a provisional patent protection related to a ctDNA detection algorithm. NM has received consultancy fees and has stock options in Achilles Therapeutics. NM holds European patents relating to targeting neoantigens (PCT/EP2016/ 059401), identifying patient response to immune checkpoint blockade (PCT/ EP2016/071471), determining HLA LOH (PCT/GB2018/052004), predicting survival rates of patients with cancer (PCT/GB2020/050221). All other authors declare no competing interests., (Copyright: © 2023 Watkins et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
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- 2023
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