Welcome from the founders (ID 14) Opening session

Welcome to MAP 2018 (ID 1)

Lecture Time
08:40 - 08:45
Speakers
  • Fabrice André (Villejuif, FR)
Location
Room Scene AB, Paris Marriott Rive Gauche, Paris, France
Date
14.09.2018
Time
08:40 - 08:45
Therapeutic targets (ID 13) Educational session

Kidney cancer (ID 4)

Lecture Time
09:45 - 10:05
Speakers
  • Samra Turajlic (London, GB)
Location
Room Scene AB, Paris Marriott Rive Gauche, Paris, France
Date
14.09.2018
Time
08:45 - 10:35
Therapeutic targets (ID 13) Educational session

Copy number alterations and breast cancers (ID 58)

Lecture Time
09:25 - 09:45
Speakers
  • Carlos Caldas (Cambridge, GB)
Location
Room Scene AB, Paris Marriott Rive Gauche, Paris, France
Date
14.09.2018
Time
08:45 - 10:35
Therapeutic targets (ID 13) Educational session

Head and neck (ID 2)

Lecture Time
08:45 - 09:05
Speakers
  • Kevin J. Harrington (London, GB)
Location
Room Scene AB, Paris Marriott Rive Gauche, Paris, France
Date
14.09.2018
Time
08:45 - 10:35
Therapeutic targets (ID 13) Educational session

Molecular epidemiology of metastatic cancer: Data from DRUP trial (ID 5)

Lecture Time
10:05 - 10:25
Speakers
  • Emile E. Voest (Amsterdam, NL)
Location
Room Scene AB, Paris Marriott Rive Gauche, Paris, France
Date
14.09.2018
Time
08:45 - 10:35
Therapeutic targets (ID 13) Educational session

Genomic characterisation of metastatic breast cancers (ID 3)

Lecture Time
09:05 - 09:25
Speakers
  • François Bertucci (Marseille, FR)
Location
Room Scene AB, Paris Marriott Rive Gauche, Paris, France
Date
14.09.2018
Time
08:45 - 10:35
Therapeutic targets (ID 13) Educational session

18O - Representative sequencing: Profiling extreme tumor diversity (ID 86)

Lecture Time
10:25 - 10:35
Speakers
  • Kevin Litchfield (London, GB)
Location
Room Scene AB, Paris Marriott Rive Gauche, Paris, France
Date
14.09.2018
Time
08:45 - 10:35

Abstract

Background

While next-generation sequencing (NGS) has been applied to thousands of solid tumors to date, there exists a fundamental undersampling bias inherent in current methodologies. This is caused by a biopsy input sample of fixed dimensions, which becomes grossly under-powered as tumor volume scales. Indeed, analysis of pan-cancer data reveals that current protocols sample on average only 1.5% of cancer cells, decreasing to 0.3% for stage IV tumors. Failure to address this bias risks undermining the clinical utility of genomic medicine in cancer.

Methods

Here we demonstrate Representative Sequencing (Rep-Seq), as a novel method to achieve unbiased sampling of solid tumor tissue. The Rep-Seq protocol comprises homogenization of all residual tumor material not taken for pathology into a well-mixed solution, coupled with NGS. Rep-Seq was implemented on a proof of concept basis in > 10 tumors, and benchmarked against single and multi-region sequencing approaches.

Results

Rep-Seq achieved a linear rate of novel variant discovery in whole-exome sequencing across 0 to 5,000x coverage, detecting four-fold more mutations as compared to multi-region sequencing at equivalent total read depth. All variants were validated using custom panel and Ion Torrent platforms. Targeted panel Rep-Seq at 50,000x showed sensitivity to detect extreme parallel evolution, with 16 independent mutations in the gene SETD2 observed in a single tumor. Clonal clustering analysis revealed rapid convergence of cancer cell fraction estimates in Rep-Seq towards true values, as validated in > 70 biopsies taken from a single tumor. As a consequence, 97% of variants were correctly classified as clonal by Rep-Seq, compared to > 85% in single biopsy sequencing. Finally, in a rapid autopsy setting Rep-Seq was able to accurately reconstruct the clonal phylogency of advanced stage disease, recovering a high proportion of all primary and metastatic variants, from deep sequencing of primary tissue alone.

Conclusions

Rep-Seq effectively implements unbiased tumor sampling, drawing DNA molecules from a well-mixed solution of the entire tumor mass, hence removing spatial bias inherent in current approaches. As a result, Rep-Seq detects more mutations, and achieves greater accuracy in determining clonal from subclonal variants.

Legal entity responsible for the study

The Francis Crick Institute.

Funding

Roche.

Disclosure

C. Swanton: Consulting and speaker fees from Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly, Novartis, and Roche; Research grants from Roche. S. Turajlic: Research grants from Roche. All other authors have declared no conflicts of interest.

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Clonal evolution (ID 12) Educational session

PDX (ID 52)

Lecture Time
11:55 - 12:15
Speakers
  • Samuel Aparicio (Vancouver, CA)
Location
Room Scene AB, Paris Marriott Rive Gauche, Paris, France
Date
14.09.2018
Time
10:55 - 12:45
Clonal evolution (ID 12) Educational session

APOBEC (ID 8)

Lecture Time
11:15 - 11:35
Speakers
  • Reuben Harris (Minneapolis, US)
Location
Room Scene AB, Paris Marriott Rive Gauche, Paris, France
Date
14.09.2018
Time
10:55 - 12:45
Clonal evolution (ID 12) Educational session

Mutational processes (ID 59)

Lecture Time
11:35 - 11:55
Speakers
  • Serena Nik-Zainal (Cambridge, GB)
Location
Room Scene AB, Paris Marriott Rive Gauche, Paris, France
Date
14.09.2018
Time
10:55 - 12:45
Clonal evolution (ID 12) Educational session

Single cell/PDX (ID 9)

Lecture Time
12:15 - 12:35
Speakers
  • Sohrab Shah (Vancouver, CA)
Location
Room Scene AB, Paris Marriott Rive Gauche, Paris, France
Date
14.09.2018
Time
10:55 - 12:45
Clonal evolution (ID 12) Educational session

Clonal evolution in lung cancers (ID 7)

Lecture Time
10:55 - 11:15
Speakers
  • Nicholas McGranahan (London, GB)
Location
Room Scene AB, Paris Marriott Rive Gauche, Paris, France
Date
14.09.2018
Time
10:55 - 12:45