Variant calling and benchmarking in an era of complete human genome sequences

ND Olson, J Wagner, N Dwarshuis, KH Miga… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Genetic variant calling from DNA sequencing has enabled understanding of germline
variation in hundreds of thousands of humans. Sequencing technologies and variant-calling …

[HTML][HTML] A review of somatic single nucleotide variant calling algorithms for next-generation sequencing data

C Xu - Computational and structural biotechnology journal, 2018 - Elsevier
Detection of somatic mutations holds great potential in cancer treatment and has been a
very active research field in the past few years, especially since the breakthrough of the next …

Whole genome, transcriptome and methylome profiling enhances actionable target discovery in high-risk pediatric cancer

M Wong, C Mayoh, LMS Lau, DA Khuong-Quang… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Zero Childhood Cancer Program is a precision medicine program to benefit
children with poor-outcome, rare, relapsed or refractory cancer. Using tumor and germline …

Pan-cancer whole-genome analyses of metastatic solid tumours

P Priestley, J Baber, MP Lolkema, N Steeghs… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Metastatic cancer is a major cause of death and is associated with poor treatment efficacy. A
better understanding of the characteristics of late-stage cancer is required to help adapt …

Reference standards for next-generation sequencing

SA Hardwick, IW Deveson, TR Mercer - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017 - nature.com
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) provides a broad investigation of the genome, and it is
being readily applied for the diagnosis of disease-associated genetic features. However, the …

Rearrangement bursts generate canonical gene fusions in bone and soft tissue tumors

ND Anderson, R de Borja, MD Young, F Fuligni… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Gene fusions are often disease-defining events in cancer. The mutational
processes that give rise to fusions, their timing relative to initial diagnosis, and whether they …

Precise characterization of somatic complex structural variations from tumor/control paired long-read sequencing data with nanomonsv

Y Shiraishi, J Koya, K Chiba, A Okada… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present our novel software, nanomonsv, for detecting somatic structural variations (SVs)
using tumor and matched control long-read sequencing data with a single-base resolution …

SJPedPanel: a pan-cancer gene panel for childhood malignancies to enhance cancer monitoring and early detection

P Kolekar, V Balagopal, L Dong, Y Liu… - Clinical Cancer …, 2024 - aacrjournals.org
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to design a pan-cancer gene panel for childhood
malignancies and validate it using clinically characterized patient samples. Experimental …

Unscrambling cancer genomes via integrated analysis of structural variation and copy number

C Shale, DL Cameron, J Baber, M Wong, MJ Cowley… - Cell Genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Complex somatic genomic rearrangements and copy number alterations are hallmarks of
nearly all cancers. We have developed an algorithm, LINX, to aid interpretation of structural …

Single-cell sequencing of genomic DNA resolves sub-clonal heterogeneity in a melanoma cell line

EI Velazquez-Villarreal, S Maheshwari… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
We performed shallow single-cell sequencing of genomic DNA across 1475 cells from a cell-
line, COLO829, to resolve overall complexity and clonality. This melanoma tumor-line has …