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CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY
Volume 1, Issue 5, Pages 516-534Publisher
ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmgh.2015.06.009
Keywords
Circulating Tumor DNA; Exome Sequencing; Hepatocellular Carcinoma; Whole-Genome Sequencing
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- Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare
- Ministry of Education Culture Sports Science and Technology, Government of Japan
- RIKEN President's Fund 2011
- Princess Takamatsu Cancer Research Fund
- Takeda Science Foundation
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26860536, 26430196, 26114721, 15H04814] Funding Source: KAKEN
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) carrying tumor-specific sequence alterations has been found in the cell-free fraction of blood. Liver cancer tumor specimens are difficult to obtain, and noninvasive methods are required to assess cancer progression and characterize underlying genomic features. METHODS: We analyzed 46 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma who underwent hepatectomy or liver transplantation and for whom whole-genome sequencing data was available. We designed personalized assays targeting somatic rearrangements of each tumor to quantify serum ctDNA. Exome sequencing was performed using cell-free DNA paired primary tumor tissue DNA from a patient with recurrent liver cancer after transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE). RESULTS: We successfully detected ctDNA from 100 mu L of serum samples in 7 of the 46 patients before surgery, increasing with disease progression. The cumulative incidence of recurrence and extrahepatic metastasis in the ctDNA-positive group were statistically significantly worse than in the ctDNA-negative group (P = .0102 and.0386, respectively). Multivariate analysis identified ctDNA (OR 6.10; 95% CI, 1.11-33.33, P = .038) as an independent predictor of microscopic vascular invasion of the portal vein (VP). We identified 45 non-synonymous somatic mutations in cell-free DNA after TACE and 71 nonsynonymous somatic mutations in primary tumor tissue by exome sequencing. We identified 25 common mutations in both samples, and 83% of mutations identified in the primary tumor could be detected in the cell-free DNA. CONCLUSIONS: The presence of ctDNA reflects tumor progression, and detection of ctDNA can predict VP and recurrence, especially extrahepatic metastasis within 2 years. Our study demonstrated the usefulness of ctDNA detection and sequencing analysis of cell-free DNA for personalized treatment of liver cancer.
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