METHODS FOR DETECTING MUTATION LOAD FROM A TUMOR SAMPLE

    公开(公告)号:US20180165410A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-06-14

    申请号:US15834520

    申请日:2017-12-07

    Abstract: A targeted panel with low sample input requirements from a tumor only sample may be processed to estimate mutation load in a tumor sample. The method, including detecting variants in nucleic acid sequence reads corresponding to targeted locations in the tumor sample genome; annotating detected variants with an annotation information from a population database; filtering the detected variants, wherein the filtering rule set retains the somatic variants and removes germ-line variants; counting the identified somatic variants to give a number of somatic variants; determining a number of bases in covered regions of the targeted locations in the tumor sample genome; and calculating a number of somatic variants per megabase, provides an estimate of the mutation load per megabase in the tumor sample genome.

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