Formalin fixation increases deamination mutation signature but should not lead to false positive mutations in clinical practice.
Plos One
Prentice, Leah M LM; Miller, Ruth R RR; Knaggs, Jeff J; Mazloomian, Alborz A; Aguirre Hernandez, Rosalia R; Franchini, Patrick P; Parsa, Kourosh K; Tessier-Cloutier, Basile B; Lapuk, Anna A; Huntsman, David D; Schaeffer, David F DF; Sheffield, Brandon S BS
Somatic POLE exonuclease domain mutations are early events in sporadic endometrial and colorectal carcinogenesis, determining driver mutational landscape, clonal neoantigen burden and immune response.
The Journal Of Pathology
Temko, Daniel D; Van Gool, Inge C IC; Rayner, Emily E; Glaire, Mark M; Makino, Seiko S; Brown, Matthew M; Chegwidden, Laura L; Palles, Claire C; Depreeuw, Jeroen J; Beggs, Andrew A; Stathopoulou, Chaido C; Mason, John J; Baker, Ann-Marie AM; Williams, Marc M; Cerundolo, Vincenzo V; Rei, Margarida M; Taylor, Jenny C JC; Schuh, Anna A; Ahmed, Ahmed A; Amant, Frédéric F; Lambrechts, Diether D; Smit, Vincent Thbm VT; Bosse, Tjalling T; Graham, Trevor A TA; Church, David N DN; Tomlinson, Ian I
Amplicon sequencing of colorectal cancer: variant calling in frozen and formalin-fixed samples.
Plos One
Betge, Johannes J; Kerr, Grainne G; Miersch, Thilo T; Leible, Svenja S; Erdmann, Gerrit G; Galata, Christian L CL; Zhan, Tianzuo T; Gaiser, Timo T; Post, Stefan S; Ebert, Matthias P MP; Horisberger, Karoline K; Boutros, Michael M
The human epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene in European patients with advanced colorectal cancer harbors infrequent mutations in its tyrosine kinase domain.
Bmc Medical Genetics
Metzger, Brigitte B; Chambeau, Laetitia L; Begon, Dominique Y DY; Faber, Carlo C; Kayser, Jacques J; Berchem, Guy G; Pauly, Marc M; Boniver, Jacques J; Delvenne, Philippe P; Dicato, Mario M; Wenner, Thomas T