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JOURNAL OF HISTOCHEMISTRY & CYTOCHEMISTRY
Volume 68, Issue 8, Pages 543-552Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1369/0022155420945050
Keywords
cytosine; deamination; formaldehyde; UDG; uracil-DNA glycosylase
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Fresh-frozen tissue is the gold standard biospecimen type for next-generation sequencing (NGS). However, collecting frozen tissue is usually not feasible because clinical workflows deliver formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue blocks. Some clinicians and researchers are reticent to embrace the use of FFPE tissue for NGS because FFPE tissue can yield low quantities of degraded DNA, containing formalin-induced mutations. We describe the process by which formalin-induced deamination can lead to artifactual cytosine (C) to thymine (T) and guanine (G) to adenine (A) (C:G > T:A) mutation calls and perform a literature review of 17 publications that compare NGS data from patient-matched fresh-frozen and FFPE tissue blocks. We conclude that although it is indeed true that sequencing data from FFPE tissue can be poorer than those from frozen tissue, any differences occur at an inconsequential magnitude, and FFPE biospecimens can be used in genomic medicine with confidence:
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