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Supplemental Figure S12 from Subclonal Cancer Driver Mutations Are Prevalent in the Unresected Peritumoral Edema of Adult Diffuse Gliomas

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posted on 2024-04-01, 07:20 authored by Hunter R. Underhill, Michael Karsy, Christian J. Davidson, Sabine Hellwig, Samuel Stevenson, Eric A. Goold, Sydney Vincenti, Drew L. Sellers, Charlie Dean, Brion E. Harrison, Mary P. Bronner, Howard Colman, Randy L. Jensen

Supplemental Figure S12. Sample relatedness using Somalier.

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Adult diffuse gliomas commonly recur regardless of therapy. As recurrence typically arises from the peritumoral edema adjacent to the resected bulk tumor, the profiling of somatic mutations from infiltrative malignant cells within this critical, unresected region could provide important insights into residual disease. A key obstacle has been the inability to distinguish between next-generation sequencing (NGS) noise and the true but weak signal from tumor cells hidden among the noncancerous brain tissue of the peritumoral edema. Here, we developed and validated True2 sequencing to reduce NGS-associated errors to <1 false positive/100 kb panel positions while detecting 97.6% of somatic mutations with an allele frequency ≥0.1%. True2 was then used to study the tumor and peritumoral edema of 22 adult diffuse gliomas including glioblastoma, astrocytoma, oligodendroglioma, and NF1-related low-grade neuroglioma. The tumor and peritumoral edema displayed a similar mutation burden, indicating that surgery debulks these cancers physically but not molecularly. Moreover, variants in the peritumoral edema included unique cancer driver mutations absent in the bulk tumor. Finally, analysis of multiple samples from each patient revealed multiple subclones with unique mutations in the same gene in 17 of 22 patients, supporting the occurrence of convergent evolution in response to patient-specific selective pressures in the tumor microenvironment that may form the molecular foundation of recurrent disease. Collectively, True2 enables the detection of ultralow frequency mutations during molecular analyses of adult diffuse gliomas, which is necessary to understand cancer evolution, recurrence, and individual response to therapy. True2 is a next-generation sequencing workflow that facilitates unbiased discovery of somatic mutations across the full range of variant allele frequencies, which could help identify residual disease vulnerabilities for targeted adjuvant therapies.

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