Journal
HUMAN MUTATION
Volume 31, Issue 12, Pages 1360-1365Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/humu.21365
Keywords
IDH1; COLD PCR; high-resolution melting; HRM; HRMA; glioma
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- Association pour la Recherche sur les Tumeurs Cerebrales (ARTC)
- Association pour la Recherche contre le Cancer (ARC)
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The p.Arg132His mutation of isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1(R132H)) is a frequent alteration and a major prognostic marker in gliomas. However, direct sequencing of highly contaminated tumor samples may fail to detect this mutation. Our objective was to evaluated the sensitivity of a newly described amplification method, coamplification at lower temperature-PCR (COLD PCR), combined with high-resolution melting (HRM) for the detection of the IDH1(R132H) mutation. To this end, we used serial dilutions of mutant DNA with wild-type DNA. PCR-HRM assay detects IDH1(R132H) at an abundance of 25%, similar to the detection limit of direct Sanger sequencing. Introducing a run of COLD PCR allows the detection of 2% mutant DNA. Using two consecutive runs of COLD PCR, we detected 0.25% mutant DNA in a background of wild-type DNA, that mimics a tumor sample highly contaminated by normal DNA. We then analyzed 10 biopsies of tumor edges, considered free of tumor cells by histological analysis, and showed that immunohistochemistry of IDH1(R132H) was positive in three cases (30%), whereas double COLD PCR HRM was positive in the 10 cases studied (100%). In summary, COLD PCR HRM analysis is 100-fold more sensitive than Sanger sequencing, rendering this rapid and powerful strategy particularly useful for samples highly contaminated with normal tissue. Hum Mutat 31:1360-1365, 2010. (c) 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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