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CNVkit background(Noise)

Hi, I did Tumor-Normal CNVkit analysis using WES data.

Tumor data was generated from FFPE DNA, Normal was from blood DNA.

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I can see many background(Noise)... Is this because of FFPE tumor data?

Thank you.

cnvkit

1 answer

Yes, this is noisy. You might be able to bring down the noise by using a larger pool of normal samples to build the reference profile (instead of T/N pairing), and maybe exclude problematic genomic regions if you know what they are.

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