Noninvasive diagnosis of fetal aneuploidy by sequencing
First Claim
1. A method of testing for a fetal aneuploidy in a mixed sample of normally and abnormally distributed chromosome portions obtained from a subject, comprising:
- (a) sequencing DNA from the mixed sample to obtain sequences from multiple chromosome portions, wherein said sequences comprise a number of sequence tags of about 20-100 bp, to be assigned to a chromosome location within a genome;
(b) aligning the sequence tags to corresponding chromosome portions including at least the specified chromosome;
(c) counting a number of sequence tags mapping to chromosome portions by counting sequence tags within a number of windows of defined length within chromosome portions presumed to be normally distributed to obtain a first value and within chromosome portions that are possibly abnormally distributed to obtain a second value therefrom; and
(d) using the values from step (c) to calculate a differential between the first value and the second value, wherein a statistically significant differential as determined by a t-test and as represented by a t statistic outside −
3.09 to 3.09 indicates that an abnormal distribution of a specified chromosome portion exists, thereby identifying a fetal aneuploidy.
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Abstract
Disclosed is a method to achieve digital quantification of DNA (i.e., counting differences between identical sequences) using direct shotgun sequencing followed by mapping to the chromosome of origin and enumeration of fragments per chromosome. The preferred method uses massively parallel sequencing, which can produce tens of millions of short sequence tags in a single run and enabling a sampling that can be statistically evaluated. By counting the number of sequence tags mapped to a predefined window in each chromosome, the over- or under-representation of any chromosome in maternal plasma DNA contributed by an aneuploid fetus can be detected. This method does not require the differentiation of fetal versus maternal DNA. The median count of autosomal values is used as a normalization constant to account for differences in total number of sequence tags is used for comparison between samples and between chromosomes.
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26 Claims
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1. A method of testing for a fetal aneuploidy in a mixed sample of normally and abnormally distributed chromosome portions obtained from a subject, comprising:
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(a) sequencing DNA from the mixed sample to obtain sequences from multiple chromosome portions, wherein said sequences comprise a number of sequence tags of about 20-100 bp, to be assigned to a chromosome location within a genome; (b) aligning the sequence tags to corresponding chromosome portions including at least the specified chromosome; (c) counting a number of sequence tags mapping to chromosome portions by counting sequence tags within a number of windows of defined length within chromosome portions presumed to be normally distributed to obtain a first value and within chromosome portions that are possibly abnormally distributed to obtain a second value therefrom; and (d) using the values from step (c) to calculate a differential between the first value and the second value, wherein a statistically significant differential as determined by a t-test and as represented by a t statistic outside −
3.09 to 3.09 indicates that an abnormal distribution of a specified chromosome portion exists, thereby identifying a fetal aneuploidy. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 17)
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11. A method of testing for a fetal aneuploidy in a mixed sample of normally and abnormally distributed DNA molecules, comprising:
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(a) sequencing DNA in said sample by massively parallel sequencing to obtain a number of sequence tags (b) mapping said sequence tags to specific chromosome portions, each chromosomal portion being comprised in a non-overlapping sliding window of a predetermined length; (c) counting numbers of sequence tags mapped to each sliding window on at least each autosome; (d) calculating a mean of said numbers for each autosome and a second mean for at least all autosomes; (e) calculating a normalized value from all autosomes, using said second mean;
wherein a statistically significant difference as determined by a t-test among normalized values among autosomes indicates the presence of an abnormally distributed autosomal chromosome portion of interest, and wherein said statistically significant difference is represented by a t statistic outside −
3.09 to 3.09, thereby identifying a fetal aneuploidy. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
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15. A method of identifying genetically altered DNA in a mixed sample of normal and genetically altered DNA from a tumor obtained from a subject, comprising:
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(a) sequencing DNA from the mixed sample to obtain sequences from multiple chromosome portions, wherein said sequences comprise a number of sequence tags of about 20-100 bp, to be assigned to a chromosome location within a genome; (b) aligning the sequence tags to corresponding chromosome portions including at least the specified chromosome; (c) counting a number of sequence tags mapping to chromosome portions by counting sequence tags within a number of windows of defined length within chromosome portions presumed to be normally distributed to obtain a first value and within chromosome portions that are possibly abnormally distributed to obtain a second value therefrom; and (d) using the values from step (c) to calculate a differential between the first value and the second value, wherein a statistically significant differential as determined by a t-test and as represented by a t statistic outside −
3.09 to 3.09 identifies the presence of genetically altered DNA in the tumor. - View Dependent Claims (16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A method of identifying genetically altered DNA in a mixed sample of normal and genetically altered DNA from a tumor obtained from a subject, comprising:
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(a) sequencing DNA in said sample by massively parallel sequencing to obtain a number of sequence tags (b) mapping said sequence tags to specific chromosome portions, each chromosomal portion being comprised in a non-overlapping sliding window of a predetermined length; (c) counting numbers of sequence tags mapped to each sliding window on at least each autosome; (d) calculating a mean of said numbers for each autosome and a second mean for at least all autosomes; (e) calculating a normalized value from all autosomes, using said second mean;
wherein a statistically significant difference as determined by a t-test among normalized values among autosomes indicates the presence of an abnormally distributed autosomal chromosome portion of interest, and wherein said statistically significant difference represented by a t statistic outside −
3.09 to 3.09 identifies the presence of genetically altered DNA in the tumor. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26)
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