Diagnostic and Prognostic/Therapeutic Significance of Comprehensive Analysis of Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors Using Optical Genome Mapping and Next-Generation Sequencing

Jen Ghabrial, Victoria Stinnett, Efrain Ribeiro, Melanie Klausner, Laura Morsberger, Patty Long, William Middlezong, Rena Xian, Christopher Gocke, Ming Tseh Lin, Lisa Rooper, Ezra Baraban, Pedram Argani, Aparna Pallavajjala, Jaclyn Murry, John M. Gross, Ying S. Zou

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Abstract

Detecting somatic structural variants (SVs), copy number variants (CNVs), and mutations in bone and soft tissue tumors is essential for accurately diagnosing, treating, and prognosticating outcomes. Optical genome mapping (OGM) holds promise to yield useful data on SVs and CNVs but requires fresh or snap-frozen tissues. This study aimed to evaluate the clinical utility of data from OGM compared with current standard-of-care cytogenetic testing. We evaluated 60 consecutive specimens from bone and soft tissue tumors using OGM and karyotyping, fluorescence in situ hybridization, gene fusion assays, and deep next-generation sequencing. OGM accurately identified diagnostic SVs/CNVs previously detected by karyotyping and fluorescence in situ hybridization (specificity = 100%). OGM identified diagnostic and pathogenic SVs/CNVs (∼23% of cases) undetected by karyotyping (cryptic/submicroscopic). OGM allowed the detection and further characterization of complex structural rearrangements including chromoanagenesis (27% of cases) and complex 3- to 6-way translocations (15% of cases). In addition to identifying 321 SVs and CNVs among cases with chromoanagenesis events, OGM identified approximately 9 SVs and 12 CNVs per sample. A combination of OGM and deep next-generation sequencing data identified diagnostic, disease-associated, and pathogenic SVs, CNVs, and mutations in ∼98% of the cases. Our cohort contained the most extensive collection of bone and soft tissue tumors profiled by OGM. OGM had excellent concordance with standard-of-care cytogenetic testing, detecting and assigning high-resolution genome-wide genomic abnormalities with higher sensitivity than routine testing. This is the first and largest study to provide insights into the clinical utility of combined OGM and deep sequencing for the pathologic diagnosis and potential prognostication of bone and soft tissue tumors in routine clinical practice.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number100684
JournalModern Pathology
Volume38
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2025
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • bone and soft tissue tumors
  • copy number variants
  • gene fusions
  • mutations
  • next-generation sequencing
  • optical genome mapping

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Medicine

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