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Table 1 Breakdown of assays, panels, samples and variants contained within PMCC database (PathOS)

From: Findings from precision oncology in the clinic: rare, novel variants are a significant contributor to scaling molecular diagnostics

Analysis group

Assay

Average genes/panel (range)

Average genome coverage in Kb (range)

Patients

Samples

Average reported variants/patient (std. err.)

Average variants/patient (std. err.)

Germline

Hyb-capture

217

460.0

9283

10,728

0.3 (± 0.0)

1.4 (± 0.0)

 

Amplicon

6 (4–11)

52.7 (42–81)

17,950

24,818

0.0 (± 0.0)

0.7 (± 0.0)

 

Sub-total

35 (4–217)

130.3 (42–460)

27,233

35,839

0.1 (± 0.0)

1.0 (± 0.0)

Haematology

Hyb-capture

337 (312–362)

2069.6 (2052–2086)

634

1420

1.1 (± 0.1)

34.3 (± 1.2)

 

Amplicon

29 (20–36)

39.2 (26–67)

9204

25,797

0.8 (± 0.0)

2.0 (± 0.0)

 

Sub-total

68 (20–362)

293.0 (26–2087)

9838

27,217

0.8 (± 0.0)

4.0 (± 0.1)

Somatic

Hyb-capture

449 (90–701)

2083.7 (421–2994)

1820

3923

1.9 (± 0.1)

30.1 (± 0.5)

 

Amplicon

31 (13–119)

53.0 (22–158)

9145

29,268

0.6 (± 0.0)

1.2 (± 0.0)

 

Sub-total

161 (13–701)

705.3 (22–2994)

10,965

32,898

0.8 (± 0.0)

6.0 (± 0.1)

 

Grand Total

96 (4–701)

404.2 (22–2994)

48,036

95,954

0.4 (± 0.0)

2.8 (± 0.0)