Table 1 Summary of extraction and sequence QC results.

From: Analytical evaluation of circulating tumor DNA sequencing assays

Assay

cfDNA extraction (min/avg/max)

Sequence QC (min/avg/max)

< 20 ng

20–50 ng

> 50 ng

Plasma 150 ng

Mapping percentage

Mean sequence depth

On-target rate

A

7.3/10.4/12.0

23.3/30.7/40.0

52.2/58.4/63.5

107.0/108.7/110.0

0.990/0.998/0.999

7684/13729/31483

0.65/0.70/0.73

B

5.0/9.0/15.0

29.0/36.4/52.0

47.0/53.0/58.0

146.0/150.7/159.0

0.999/0.999/1

1644/6047/10468

0.63/0.68/0.71

C

7.9/12.9/20.4

34.8/40.9/48.0

60.3/65.4/69.3

91.2/104.0/120.0

0.856/0.887/0.908

3256/7555/10551

0.64/0.74/0.78

D (big)

6.1/9.2/12.0

36.1/56.1/107.0

145.0/163.7/187.1

32.4/129.9/223.6

0.995/0.995/0.995

1111/4036/7688

0.59/0.65/0.71

E (big)

11.0/12.9/15.4

28.1/39.6/47.5

39.8/50.1/61.2

145.6/160.5/175.8

0.999/0.999/0.999

1895/2624/3456

0.72/0.72/0.73

F

7.2/10.4/19.6

32.9/36.8/42.4

45.6/52.1/58.0

14.7/24.9/30.5

0.998/0.999/0.999

1515/3417/5022

0.51/0.58/0.64

G

7.5/10.4/14.1

28.4/35.0/50.6

69.1/77.1/90.6

124.3/127.4/131.0

0.993/0.995/0.997

7110/14898/36100

0.54/0.77/0.87

H

5.9/5.8/11.8

23.8/28.1/34.8

41.8/53.5/66.6

108.3/121.9/133.8

0.998/0.999/0.999

2056/4946/7026

0.69/0.71/0.72

I (big)

5.4/6.7/7.6

17.6/18.9/20.3

29.3/32.2/35.0

77.3/83.0/90.2

NA

NA

NA

Assay

Panel sensitivity

Specificity (# FP; Definition 2)

Expected vs. Observed VAF correlation

0.1%

0.2%

0.5%

1.0%

2.5%

0.0%

< 20 ng/20–50 ng/> 50 ng

A

0.28

0.38

0.76

0.82

0.84

0

0.86/0.81/0.93

B

0.64

0.95

0.90

0.95

0.95

0

0.91/0.96/0.94

C

0.33

0.55

0.68

0.75

0.77

0

0.82/0.88/0.86

D (big)

0.47

0.91

0.96

0.96

0.98

0

0.7/0.91/0.9

E (big)

0.18

0.41

0.68

0.80

0.89

0

0.82/0.81/0.81

F

0.17

0.56

0.73

0.72

0.81

1

0.77/0.82/0.86

G

0.68

0.98

0.94

0.98

0.98

0

0.83/0.88/0.87

H

0.30

0.60

0.81

0.85

0.95

0

0.86/0.91/0.92

I (big)

0.18

0.79

0.55

0.78

0.92

0

0.53/0.87/0.89

  1. ctDNA circulating tumor DNA, FP false positive, NA not available, QC quality control, VAF variant allele frequency.
  2. Big denotes panel size > 1 Mb.