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ArticleFrontiers in genetics2022

Combinatorial and Machine Learning Approaches for Improved Somatic Variant Calling From Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Genome Sequence Data.

Dollina D Dodani, Matthew H Nguyen, Ryan D Morin, Marco A Marra, Richard D Corbett

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Article in Frontiers in genetics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Dollina D DodaniThe Bioinformatics Graduate Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Matthew H NguyenThe Bioinformatics Graduate Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Ryan D MorinCanada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Research Institute, Provincial Health Services Authority, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Marco A MarraCanada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Research Institute, Provincial Health Services Authority, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Richard D CorbettCanada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Research Institute, Provincial Health Services Authority, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Formalin fixation of paraffin-embedded tissue samples is a well-established method for preserving tissue and is routinely used in clinical settings. Although formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues are deemed crucial for research and clinical applications, the fixation process results in molecular damage to nucleic acids, thus confounding their use in genome sequence analysis. Methods to improve genomic data quality from FFPE tissues have emerged, but there remains significant room for improvement. Here, we use whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data from matched Fresh Frozen (FF) and FFPE tissue samples to optimize a sensitive and precise FFPE single nucleotide variant (SNV) calling approach. We present methods to reduce the prevalence of false-positive SNVs by applying combinatorial techniques to five publicly available variant callers. We also introduce FFPolish, a novel variant classification method that efficiently classifies FFPE-specific false-positive variants. Our combinatorial and statistical techniques improve precision and F1 scores compared to the results of publicly available tools when tested individually.

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combinatoricsFFPE (formalin fixed paraffin-embedded)machine learningsomatic variant callingwhole genome

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PMID35571031
PMCPMC9092826

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