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. 2010 Feb 24;2(20):20ra14.
doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3000702.

Development of personalized tumor biomarkers using massively parallel sequencing

Rebecca J Leary  1 , Isaac Kinde, Frank Diehl, Kerstin Schmidt, Chris Clouser, Cisilya Duncan, Alena Antipova, Clarence Lee, Kevin McKernan, Francisco M De La Vega, Kenneth W Kinzler, Bert Vogelstein, Luis A Diaz Jr, Victor E Velculescu
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Development of personalized tumor biomarkers using massively parallel sequencing

Rebecca J Leary et al. Sci Transl Med. .

Abstract

Clinical management of human cancer is dependent on the accurate monitoring of residual and recurrent tumors. The evaluation of patient-specific translocations in leukemias and lymphomas has revolutionized diagnostics for these diseases. We have developed a method, called personalized analysis of rearranged ends (PARE), which can identify translocations in solid tumors. Analysis of four colorectal and two breast cancers with massively parallel sequencing revealed an average of nine rearranged sequences (range, 4 to 15) per tumor. Polymerase chain reaction with primers spanning the breakpoints was able to detect mutant DNA molecules present at levels lower than 0.001% and readily identified mutated circulating DNA in patient plasma samples. This approach provides an exquisitely sensitive and broadly applicable approach for the development of personalized biomarkers to enhance the clinical management of cancer patients.

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Fig. 1
Schematic of PARE approach. The method is based on next-generation mate-paired analysis of resected tumor DNA to identify individualized tumor-specific rearrangements. Such alterations are used to develop PCR-based quantitative analyses for personalized tumor monitoring of plasma samples or other bodily fluids.
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Fig. 2
Detection of tumor-specific rearrangements in breast and colorectal cancers. Two representative rearrangements are shown for each tumor sample. (A) PCR amplification across breakpoint regions. MW, molecular weight; T, tumor; N, normal. (B) Genomic coordinates for a representative mate pair of each rearrangement.
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Fig. 3
Detection of tumor-specific rearrangements in mixtures of tumor and normal DNA. Decreasing amounts of tumor DNA were mixed with increasing amounts of normal tissue DNA (300 ng total) and were used as template molecules for PCR using chromosome 4:8 translocation-specific primers or chromosome 3 control primers (see Materials and Methods for additional information).
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Fig. 4
Detection of tumor-specific rearrangements in plasma of cancer patients. (A) The identified chromosome 4:8 and 16 rearrangements were used to design PCR primers spanning breakpoints and to amplify rearranged DNA from tumor tissue and plasma from patients H×402 and H×403, respectively. A plasma sample from an unrelated healthy individual was used as a control for both rearrangements. (B) Plasma samples from patient H×402 were analyzed at different time points using digital PCR to determine the fraction of genomic equivalents of plasma DNA containing the chromosome 4:8 rearrangement. The fraction of rearranged DNA at day 137 was 0.3%, consistent with residual metastatic lesions present in the remaining lobe of the liver.
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