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. 2024 Feb 20;22:43. doi: 10.1186/s12915-024-01839-8

Table 2.

Filters applied for TMB calculation with Foundation One ® (FO) algorithm and Institut Curie (IC) algorithm

FoundationOne® algorithm Institut Curie algorithm
Metrics
 Low-quality variant removal

YES

PASS tag from VarScan2

YES

Intra-run recurrence

 Minimum VAF 5%

5% for frozen tumors

10% for FFPE tumors

 Minimum depth of coverage 100X 100X
 Germline removal

SGZ algorithm

And SNP from 1000 Genomes or Exac with a MAF > 0.1% were filtered

SNP from 1000 Genomes, Gnomad or Exac with a MAF > 0.1% were filtered
Variants types
 Drivers

Excluded

COSMIC

Included
 Synonymous Included Excluded
 Splicing Included Excluded
 Indels Included Included
 Nonsense Included Included
 Non-coding Excluded Excluded

The FO algorithm was applied on FFPE samples only as required by the FoundationOne®CDx test, while the IC algorithm was used on both frozen and FFPE samples

FFPE Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded, VAF Variant allele frequency, SGZ Somatic-germline-zygosity, COSMIC Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer, MAF Mutation allele frequency, SNP Single-nucleotide polymorphism