Guardant Health, Inc.
METHODS FOR DETECTING AND SUPPRESSING ALIGNMENT ERRORS CAUSED BY FUSION EVENTS

Abstract:

Methods and systems for producing a filtered read sequence information data set by identifying one or more split sequence reads in a set of test sequence reads obtained from cell-free nucleic acid (cfNA) in a biological sample obtained from a subject, wherein each split sequence read comprises at least one breakpoint; and, suppressing, in the set of test sequence reads, (i) at least a portion of one or more of the split sequence reads and/or at least a portion of one or more of the test sequence reads that comprise at least one sequence variant within a selected number of nucleotides from a given breakpoint, thereby producing the filtered sequence information data set, or, (ii) one or more base calls of the split sequence reads and/or one or more base calls of the test sequence reads that comprise at least one sequence variant within a selected number of nucleotides from a given breakpoint, thereby producing the filtered sequence information data set.