Genome-wide quantification of rare somatic mutations in normal human tissues using massively parallel sequencing
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We present the bottleneck sequencing system (BotSeqS), a next-generation sequencing method that simultaneously quantifies rare somatic point mutations across the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes. BotSeqS combines molecular barcoding with a simple dilution step immediately before library amplification. We use BotSeqS to show age- and tissue-dependent accumulations of rare mutations and demonstrate that somatic mutational burden in normal human tissues can vary by several orders of magnitude, depending on biologic and environmental factors. We further show major differences between the mutational patterns of the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes in normal tissues. Lastly, the mutation spectra of normal tissues were different from each other, but similar to those of the cancers that arose in them. This technology can provide insights into the number and nature of genetic alterations in normal tissues and can be used to address a variety of fundamental questions about the genomes of diseased tissues.
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Aging is associated with a steady increase in the number of somatic mutations in virtually all tissues.
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- Authors
- Hoang, M. L., Kinde, I., Tomasetti, C., McMahon, K. W., Rosenquist, T. A., Grollman, A. P., Kinzler, K. W., Vogelstein, B., & Papadopoulos, N.
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Stony Brook University (US)
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- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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- National Academy of Sciences
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- 2016-08-15
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- 35
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- 9846-9851
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- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
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- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomics and Rare Diseases
- Keywords
- normal human tissues, DNA barcoding, mitochondrial genome, nuclear genome, mutation spectrum
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Cell Nucleus, Child, Child, Preschool, DNA, Mitochondrial, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Mutation, Genome, Human, Genomics, Young Adult, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
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