IMR Press / CEOG / Volume 50 / Issue 7 / DOI: 10.31083/j.ceog5007152
Open Access Original Research
Non-Invasive Detection of Breast Cancer by Low-Coverage Whole-Genome Sequencing from Plasma
Li Peng1,†Ru Yao1,†Sihang Gao2,†Yang Qu1Li Qu2Jingbo Zhang2Yidong Zhou1,*
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1 Department of Breast Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, 100026 Beijing, China
2 Department of Clinical Investigation, Beijing USCI Medical Laboratory, 100024 Beijing, China
*Correspondence: zhouydpumch@126.com (Yidong Zhou)
These authors contributed equally.
Clin. Exp. Obstet. Gynecol. 2023, 50(7), 152; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.ceog5007152
Submitted: 7 January 2023 | Revised: 30 March 2023 | Accepted: 3 April 2023 | Published: 26 July 2023
Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Abstract

Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide. Here we aimed to develop an effective non-invasive method to screen for breast cancer and reduce mortality while still being curable. Methods: Here we propose a method that leverages the available data by incorporating information on copy number variations, mutation signature, and fragment size. Our approach adopted principal component analysis and a generalized linear model algorithm to distinguish between breast cancer and normal samples. Results: A total of 100 samples (85 tumor, 15 controls) were used for training, and 44 samples (37 tumor, 7 controls) were used to validate the proposed method based on whether the sample originated from breast cancer. Our model reached an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve reached 1.0 and 0.690 in the training set and in the validation set, respectively. Conclusions: Our method can differentiate between breast cancer patients and controls using non-invasive, cost-effective, low-coverage whole-genome sequencing technology that may provide new ideas for future breast cancer screenings.

Keywords
breast neoplasms
generalized linear model
non-invasive diagnosis
whole-genome sequencing
Funding
2019XK320019/Non-profit Central Research Institute Fund of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
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