Estimating tumor mutational burden from RNA-sequencing without a matched-normal sample

Rotem Katzir, Noam Rudberg and Keren Yizhak ()
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Rotem Katzir: University of Maryland
Noam Rudberg: Department of Cell Biology and Cancer Science, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology
Keren Yizhak: Department of Cell Biology and Cancer Science, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology

Nature Communications, 2022, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-10

Abstract: Abstract Detection of somatic mutations using patients sequencing data has many clinical applications, including the identification of cancer driver genes, detection of mutational signatures, and estimation of tumor mutational burden (TMB). We have previously developed a tool for detection of somatic mutations using tumor RNA and a matched-normal DNA. Here, we further extend it to detect somatic mutations from RNA sequencing data without a matched-normal sample. This is accomplished via a machine-learning approach that classifies mutations as either somatic or germline based on various features. When applied to RNA-sequencing of >450 melanoma samples high precision and recall are achieved, and both mutational signatures and driver genes are correctly identified. Finally, we show that RNA-based TMB is significantly associated with patient survival, showing similar or higher significance level as compared to DNA-based TMB. Our pipeline can be utilized in many future applications, analyzing novel and existing datasets where only RNA is available.

Date: 2022
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