Journal Article

Evaluation of somatic copy number variation detection by NGS technologies and bioinformatics tools on a hyper-diploid cancer genome

Virata, Michael, Cha, Seong Won, Meerzaman, Daoud M., Zhao, Yongmei, Truong, Sean, Brundu, Francesco G., Beaver, Julia A., Li, Yong, Masood, Daniall, Nguyen, Cu, Alberto, Reyes, Xiao, Chunlin, Shi, Leming, Halpern, Aaron, Cross, Frank, Ren, Luyao, Chen, Qingrong, Pang, Andy, Yang, Zhaowei, Yan, Chunhua, Xiao, Wenming, Catreux, Severine, Jaeger, Erich, Zheng, Lily, Chen, Wanqiu, Wang, Charles

2024

Overview

Background Copy number variation (CNV) is a key genetic characteristic for cancer diagnostics and can be used as a biomarker for the selection of therapeutic treatments. Using data sets established in our previous study, we benchmark the performance of cancer CNV calling by six most recent and commonly used software tools on their detection accuracy, sensitivity, and reproducibility. In comparison to other orthogonal methods, such as microarray and Bionano, we also explore the consistency of CNV calling across different technologies on a challenging genome. Results While consistent results are observed for copy gain, loss, and loss of heterozygosity (LOH) calls across sequencing centers, CNV callers, and different technologies, variation of CNV calls are mostly affected by the determination of genome ploidy. Using consensus results from six CNV callers and confirmation from three orthogonal methods, we establish a high confident CNV call set for the reference cancer cell line (HCC1395). Conclusions NGS technologies and current bioinformatics tools can offer reliable results for detection of copy gain, loss, and LOH. However, when working with a hyper-diploid genome, some software tools can call excessive copy gain or loss due to inaccurate assessment of genome ploidy. With performance matrices on various experimental conditions, this study raises awareness within the cancer research community for the selection of sequencing platforms, sample preparation, sequencing coverage, and the choice of CNV detection tools.

• Publisher: BioMed Central,Springer Nature B.V,BMC
• Subject: Accuracy / Animal Genetics and Genomics / Bioinformatics / Bioinformatics tools / biomarkers / Biomedical and Life Sciences / Cancer / Cancer genome / Cell Line, Tumor / cell lines / Computational Biology - methods / computer software / Consistency / Copy number / Copy number variation / Datasets / diagnostic techniques / Diploids / Diploidy / DNA Copy Number Variations / Evolutionary Biology / Genetic diversity / genome / Genome, Human / Genomes / Heterozygosity / High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing - methods / Human Genetics / Humans / Life Sciences / Loss of Heterozygosity / microarray technology / Microbial Genetics and Genomics / neoplasm cells / Neoplasms - genetics / Next-generation sequencing / Plant Genetics and Genomics / Ploidy / Reproducibility / Reproducibility of Results / Sequence Analysis, DNA - methods / Software / therapeutics