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The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) curated consensus somatic mutation calls using whole exome sequencing (WES) and whole genome sequencing (WGS), respectively. Here, as part of the ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) Consortium, which aggregated whole genome sequencing data from 2,658 cancers across 38 tumour types, we compare WES and WGS side-by-side from 746 TCGA samples, finding that ~80% of mutations overlap in covered exonic regions. We estimate that low variant allele fraction (VAF 

Original publication

DOI

10.1038/s41467-020-18151-y

Type

Journal article

Journal

Nat Commun

Publication Date

21/09/2020

Volume

11

Keywords

Base Composition, DNA, Intergenic, Databases, Genetic, Exome, Exons, Genome, Human, Humans, Mutation, Neoplasms, Retrospective Studies, Whole Exome Sequencing, Whole Genome Sequencing