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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 17.
Published in final edited form as: Next Gener Seq Appl. 2014 Jun 28;1:1000106. doi: 10.4172/jngsa.1000106

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Comparison of the probability that an observed variant is real [54] for subclonal variants using Q30-filtered reads of an Illumina HiSeq2500 (NGS) versus Duplex Sequencing. Error Frequencies of each approach is given in parenthesis. PPV (Positive Predictive Value)=(Expected Number of true positives)/(Expected Total Number of Positive Calls). Note that the PPV is 0.50 for NGS when the variant frequency at a single position is ~1/100, i.e., any variant call has a 50/50 chance of being real hen the frequency of real variants equals the frequency of mistakes invalidity [62].