Journal
BMC BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 19, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-018-2428-3
Keywords
ctDNA; Next-generation sequencing; Variant calling; Error suppression; Single-nucleotide variant
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- Pfizer Inc.
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BackgroundUltra-deep next-generation sequencing of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) holds great promise as a tool for the early detection of cancer and for monitoring disease progression and therapeutic responses. However, the low abundance of ctDNA in the bloodstream coupled with technical errors introduced during library construction and sequencing complicates mutation detection.ResultsTo achieve high accuracy of variant calling via better distinguishing low-frequency ctDNA mutations from background errors, we introduce TNER (Tri-Nucleotide Error Reducer), a novel background error suppression method that provides a robust estimation of background noise to reduce sequencing errors. The results on both simulated data and real data from healthy subjects demonstrate that the proposed algorithm consistently outperforms a current, state-of-the-art, position-specific error polishing model, particularly when the sample size of healthy subjects is small.ConclusionsTNER significantly enhances the specificity of downstream ctDNA mutation detection without sacrificing sensitivity. The tool is publicly available at https://github.com/ctDNA/TNER.
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