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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Oncogene. 2018 Apr 9;37(27):3740–3752. doi: 10.1038/s41388-018-0206-3

Table 2.

Mutations Identified in HCC-tissue and in Plasma

Patient ID Size
(cm)
Mutation
location
(hg.38)
Gene Tissue mutation
validated by
Sanger
Tissue mutation
validated by
ddPCR
Druggable Sub-
clonal
Ref
Allele
Alt
Allele
VAF (%,
Tissue)
bVAF (%,
plasma/serum)
Plasma
mutation
validated
by ddPCR
Detection in plasma/serum
(Hypergeometric test p-value)
1 9.8 5:1295113 TERT Prom Not tested Not tested No No G A 23 0 Not tested Not detected
2 3.5 5:1295135 TERT Prom Yes Not tested No No G A 29 0.21 Not tested Detected (low confidence, p>0.05)
1:64839716 JAK1 Yes Yes Yes No A G 58 2.47 Yes Detected (high confidence, p<0.05)
3:41224610 CTNNB1 Yes Not tested No No C A 32 0.02 Not tested Detected (low confidence, p>0.05)
3 6.5 5:1295113 TERT Prom Yes Not tested No No G A 26 0.9 Not tested Detected (low confidence, p>0.05)
17:7675223 TP53 Yes Yes No No A C 74 0.4 Yes Detected (high confidence, p<0.05)
2:21013095 APOB Not tested Not tested No Yes G C 25 0 Not tested Not detected
5:150117795 PDGFRB Yes Yes Yes No C T 31 0.72 Yes Detected (high confidence, p<0.05)
7:140800180 BRAF Not tested Not tested No Yes C G 21 0 Not tested Not detected
4 13.5 5:1295113 TERT Prom Yes Not tested No No G A 36 0 Not tested Not detected
2:21029497 APOB Not tested Not tested No Yes A G 86 0 Not tested Not detected
5 4.7 5:1295113 TERT Prom Yes Not tested No No G A 41 2.65 Not tested Detected (high confidence, p<0.05)
15:88183508 NTRK3 Not tested Yes No No A T 45 3.25 Yes Detected (high confidence, p<0.05)
17:7674885 TP53 Yes Yes No No C A 80 4.12 Yes Detected (high confidence, p<0.05)
17:7674888 TP53 Yes Yes No No T G 80 3.92 Yes Detected (high confidence, p<0.05)
3:41224607 CTNNB1 Yes Yes No No A C 45 0.04 Yes Detected (low confidence, p>0.05
4:73417849 ALB Not tested Not tested No Yes A G 23 0 Not tested Not detected
6 4.5 No mutation identified in tissue
7 2.1 16:346446 AXIN* Not tested Not tested No NA C A 33 0.03 Not tested Detected (low confidence, p>0.05
16:346447 C A 33 0.02
17:7674216 TP53 Not tested Yes No NA C A 46 0.09 Yes Detected (high confidence,
p<0.05)
7:116783444 MET Not tested Not tested Yes NA A T 28 0.05 Not tested Detected (low confidence, p>0.05)
7:140777205 BRAF Yes Yes No NA T A 30 8.93 Yes Detected (high confidence, p<0.05)
8 2.1 No mutation identified in tissue

Ref All: Reference allele; Alt All: Alternative allele; tVAF : Variant allele frequency in tissue; bVAF : Variant allele frequency in blood; HCC: Hepatocellular carcinoma.

*

Dinucleotide mutation; Draggable is defined as per http://dgidb.genome.wustl.edu/