AN INTERNATIONAL INTER-LABORATORY DIGITAL PCR STUDY DEMONSTRATES HIGH REPRODUCIBILITY FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF A RARE SEQUENCE VARIANT
2016
This study tested the claim that digital PCR (dPCR) can offer highly
reproduciblequantitative measurements in disparate labs. Twenty-one laboratories measured four blinded samples containing different quantities of a
KRASfragment encoding G12D, an important
genetic markerfor guiding therapy of certain cancers. This marker is challenging to quantify
reproduciblyusing qPCR or NGS due to the presence of competing wild type sequences and the need for calibration. Using dPCR, eighteen laboratories were able to quantify the G12D marker within 12% of each other in all samples. Three laboratories appeared to measure consistently outlying results; however, proper application of a follow-up analysis recommendation rectified their data. Our findings show that dPCR has demonstrable
reproducibilityacross a large number of laboratories without calibration and could enable the
reproducibleapplication of molecular stratification to guide therapy, and potentially for molecular diagnostics.
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