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- Title
Population bias in somatic measurement of microsatellite instability status.
- Authors
Saul, Michelle; Poorman, Kelsey; Tae, Hongseok; Vanderwalde, Ari; Stafford, Phillip; Spetzler, David; Korn, Wolfgang M.; Gatalica, Zoran; Swensen, Jeff
- Abstract
Microsatellite instability (MSI) is a key secondary effect of a defective DNA mismatch repair mechanism resulting in incorrectly replicated microsatellites in many malignant tumors. Historically, MSI detection has been performed by fragment analysis (FA) on a panel of representative genomic markers. More recently, using next‐generation sequencing (NGS) to analyze thousands of microsatellites has been shown to improve the robustness and sensitivity of MSI detection. However, NGS‐based MSI tests can be prone to population biases if NGS results are aligned to a reference genome instead of patient‐matched normal tissue. We observed an increased rate of false positives in patients of African ancestry with an NGS‐based diagnostic for MSI status utilizing 7317 microsatellite loci. We then minimized this bias by training a modified calling model that utilized 2011 microsatellite loci. With these adjustments 100% (95% CI: 89.1% to 100%) of African ancestry patients in an independent validation test were called correctly using the updated model. This poses not only a significant technical improvement but also has an important clinical impact on directing immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy.
- Subjects
DNA mismatch repair; IMMUNE checkpoint inhibitors; MICROSATELLITE repeats; DNA repair; NUCLEOTIDE sequencing
- Publication
Cancer Medicine, 2020, Vol 9, Issue 17, p6452
- ISSN
2045-7634
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/cam4.3294