Fig. 4. DeePaN can identify patients with non-high TMB but with beneficial post-IO outcomes.
a High tumor mutation burden (TMB) is associated with beneficial post-IO outcomes, as observed in the overall IO cohort (log-rank P-value of 6 × 10−4, median survival of 13.3 vs. 24.3 months for TMB non-high vs. high groups, respectively). b DeePaN can identify patients with non-high TMB but with beneficial post-IO outcomes. Subgroups discovered by “DeePaN” are able to strategy TMB-non-high patients into subgroups with significantly differentiated survival post IO therapy (P-value of 3.8 × 10−6 from log-rank test, median survival of 20.8 months and 10.8 months, respectively), with about 10 months’ median survival difference between the IO-beneficial vs. non-beneficial group.