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. 2019 Nov 7;17:1348–1359. doi: 10.1016/j.csbj.2019.10.004

Table 4.

Selected example of studies that analysed mutations using targeted DNA sequencing in human samples.

Disease Tissue Origin Authors Journal Genes Depth Platform Target capture mode Machine FFPE/fresh frozen (FF) Duplicate handling Variant Calling
Acute Myeloid Leukaemia Tumour Ivey et al. 2016 New England Journal of Medicine 51 1280x Agilent HaloplexHS Amplification HiSeq 2000 Not Reported Not Reported VarScan2
Normal Peripheral blood Abelson et al. 2018 Nature 111 Not Reported Roche NimbleGen Hybrid Capture HiSeq 2000 FF MBC Varscan2
Agilent SureSelect Shearwater ML Pindel
Breast Cancer Tumour Ellis et al. 2012 Nature Variable Not Reported Roche NimbleGen Hybrid Capture Not Reported FFPE Picard VarScan2
BreakDancer
Germline Couch et al. 2015 Journal of Clinical Oncology 122 300x Illumina TruSeq Amplicon Amplification HiSeq™ 2000 Not Reported Not Reported GATK Unified Genotyper/SAMtools
FL Tumour Okosun et al. 2014 Nature Genetics 28 840x Fluidigm Access Array™ Amplification Miseq FF Not Reported VarScan2
Tumour Pastore et al. 2015 The Lancet Oncology 74 Not Reported Agilent SureSelect Hybrid Capture HiSeq 2500 FFPE Picard MuTect
Indel Locator
Tumour Araf et al. 2018 Leukaemia 25 8000x Agilent HaloplexHS Amplification MiSeq FFPE UMI VarScan2
Pancreas Tumour Sausen et al. 2015 Nature Communications 116 754x Agilent SureSelect Hybrid Capture HiSeq 2000/25000 & MiSeq Both CASAVA VariantDx
Skin Cancer Normal Skin Martincorena et al. 2015 Science 74 500x Agilent SureDesign Hybrid Capture HiSeq 2000/25000 FF Picard Shearwater ML