Whole-exome sequencing of circulating tumor cells provides a window into metastatic prostate cancer
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Adalsteinsson, Viktor A.
Tallapragada, Naren
Tahirova, Narmin
Regev, Aviv
Love, John C
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April 2014
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Nature Biotechnology
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Nature Publishing Group
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Lohr, Jens G, Viktor A Adalsteinsson, Kristian Cibulskis, Atish D Choudhury, Mara Rosenberg, Peter Cruz-Gordillo, Joshua M Francis, et al. “Whole-Exome Sequencing of Circulating Tumor Cells Provides a Window into Metastatic Prostate Cancer.” Nature Biotechnology 32, no. 5 (April 20, 2014): 479–484.
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Comprehensive analyses of cancer genomes promise to inform prognoses and precise cancer treatments. A major barrier, however, is inaccessibility of metastatic tissue. A potential solution is to characterize circulating tumor cells (CTCs), but this requires overcoming the challenges of isolating rare cells and sequencing low-input material. Here we report an integrated process to isolate, qualify and sequence whole exomes of CTCs with high fidelity using a census-based sequencing strategy. Power calculations suggest that mapping of >99.995% of the standard exome is possible in CTCs. We validated our process in two patients with prostate cancer, including one for whom we sequenced CTCs, a lymph node metastasis and nine cores of the primary tumor. Fifty-one of 73 CTC mutations (70%) were present in matched tissue. Moreover, we identified 10 early trunk and 56 metastatic trunk mutations in the non-CTC tumor samples and found 90% and 73% of these mutations, respectively, in CTC exomes. This study establishes a foundation for CTC genomics in the clinic.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering
Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2892
