1. Whole-genome sequencing facilitates patient-specific quantitative PCR-based minimal residual disease monitoring in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, neuroblastoma and Ewing sarcoma.
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Subhash VV, Huang L, Kamili A, Wong M, Chen D, Venn NC, Atkinson C, Mayoh C, Venkat P, Tyrrell V, Marshall GM, Cowley MJ, Ekert PG, Norris MD, Haber M, Henderson MJ, Sutton R, Fletcher JI, and Trahair TN
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- Adolescent, Bone Neoplasms blood, Bone Neoplasms genetics, Bone Neoplasms pathology, Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, Infant, Male, N-Myc Proto-Oncogene Protein genetics, Neoplasm, Residual genetics, Neuroblastoma blood, Neuroblastoma genetics, Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma blood, Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma genetics, Proto-Oncogene Protein c-fli-1 genetics, Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell genetics, Sarcoma, Ewing blood, Sarcoma, Ewing genetics, Transcriptional Regulator ERG genetics, Biomarkers, Tumor genetics, Gene Rearrangement, Neoplasm, Residual pathology, Neuroblastoma pathology, Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma pathology, Sarcoma, Ewing pathology, Whole Genome Sequencing methods
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Background: Minimal residual disease (MRD) measurement is a cornerstone of contemporary acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) treatment. The presence of immunoglobulin (Ig) and T cell receptor (TCR) gene recombinations in leukaemic clones allows widespread use of patient-specific, DNA-based MRD assays. In contrast, paediatric solid tumour MRD remains experimental and has focussed on generic assays targeting tumour-specific messenger RNA, methylated DNA or microRNA., Methods: We examined the feasibility of using whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data to design tumour-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based MRD tests (WGS-MRD) in 18 children with high-risk relapsed cancer, including ALL, high-risk neuroblastoma (HR-NB) and Ewing sarcoma (EWS) (n = 6 each)., Results: Sensitive WGS-MRD assays were generated for each patient and allowed quantitation of 1 tumour cell per 10
-4 (0.01%)-10-5 (0.001%) mononuclear cells. In ALL, WGS-MRD and Ig/TCR-MRD were highly concordant. WGS-MRD assays also showed good concordance between quantitative PCR and droplet digital PCR formats. In serial clinical samples, WGS-MRD correlated with disease course. In solid tumours, WGS-MRD assays were more sensitive than RNA-MRD assays., Conclusions: WGS facilitated the development of patient-specific MRD tests in ALL, HR-NB and EWS with potential clinical utility in monitoring treatment response. WGS data could be used to design patient-specific MRD assays in a broad range of tumours., (© 2021. The Author(s).)- Published
- 2022
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