1. Quality control and quantification in IG/TR next-generation sequencing marker identification: protocols and bioinformatic functionalities by EuroClonality-NGS
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Jos Rijntjes, K. Stamatopoulos, C. Pott, Ramón García-Sanz, Karla Plevová, Giovanni Cazzaniga, Elizabeth Macintyre, Nikos Darzentas, Blanca Scheijen, John Moppett, F. Appelt, Jack Bartram, Eva Froňková, Michael Svatoň, Frederic Davi, Michaela Kotrova, Jan Trka, Simona Songia, Kamila Stránská, Andrea Grioni, Henrik Knecht, Monika Brüggemann, David Gonzalez, Dietrich Herrmann, Michael Hummel, Karol Pál, Anthonie Willem Langerak, Tomáš Reigl, Adam Krejci, van Dongen Jjm, Groenen Pjta, J. Hancock, Peter Stewart, Bystry, Immunology, Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Knecht, H, Reigl, T, Kotrova, M, Appelt, F, Stewart, P, Bystry, V, Krejci, A, Grioni, A, Pal, K, Stranska, K, Plevova, K, Rijntjes, J, Songia, S, Svaton, M, Fronkova, E, Bartram, J, Scheijen, B, Herrmann, D, Garcia-Sanz, R, Hancock, J, Moppett, J, van Dongen, J, Cazzaniga, G, Davi, F, Groenen, P, Hummel, M, Macintyre, E, Stamatopoulos, K, Trka, J, Langerak, A, Gonzalez, D, Pott, C, Bruggemann, M, and Darzentas, N
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0301 basic medicine ,Genetic Markers ,Quality Control ,Cancer Research ,Neoplasm, Residual ,Cancer development and immune defence Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences [Radboudumc 2] ,Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell ,Immunoglobulins ,Human cell line ,Computational biology ,Biology ,Rare cancers Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences [Radboudumc 9] ,DNA sequencing ,Article ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,All institutes and research themes of the Radboud University Medical Center ,SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being ,Genetic Marker ,Genetics research ,Immunoglobulin ,Humans ,Multiplex ,Cancer genetics ,Gene Rearrangement ,Computational Biology ,High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing ,Reproducibility of Results ,Hematology ,Gene rearrangement ,Minimal residual disease ,3. Good health ,Identification (information) ,030104 developmental biology ,Oncology ,Genetic marker ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Primer (molecular biology) ,Human - Abstract
Assessment of clonality, marker identification and measurement of minimal residual disease (MRD) of immunoglobulin (IG) and T cell receptor (TR) gene rearrangements in lymphoid neoplasms using next-generation sequencing (NGS) is currently under intensive development for use in clinical diagnostics. So far, however, there is a lack of suitable quality control (QC) options with regard to standardisation and quality metrics to ensure robust clinical application of such approaches. The EuroClonality-NGS Working Group has therefore established two types of QCs to accompany the NGS-based IG/TR assays. First, a central polytarget QC (cPT-QC) is used to monitor the primer performance of each of the EuroClonality multiplex NGS assays; second, a standardised human cell line-based DNA control is spiked into each patient DNA sample to work as a central in-tube QC and calibrator for MRD quantification (cIT-QC). Having integrated those two reference standards in the ARResT/Interrogate bioinformatic platform, EuroClonality-NGS provides a complete protocol for standardised IG/TR gene rearrangement analysis by NGS with high reproducibility, accuracy and precision for valid marker identification and quantification in diagnostics of lymphoid malignancies., This work was supported by Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, grant no. 16-34272A; computational resources were provided by the CESNET LM2015042 and the CERIT Scientific Cloud LM2015085, provided under the programme “Projects of Large Research, Development, and Innovations Infrastructures”. Analyses in Prague (JT, EF and MS) were supported by Ministry of Health, Czech Republic, grant no. 00064203, and by PRIMUS/17/MED/11. Analyses in the Monza (Centro Ricerca Tettamanti, SS, AG and GC) laboratory were supported by the Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC) and Comitato Maria Letizia Verga.
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- 2019