Accurate pan-cancer molecular diagnosis of microsatellite instability by single molecule molecular inversion probe capture and high throughput sequencing

摘要

BACKGROUND:Microsatellite instability (MSI) is an emerging, actionable phenotype in oncology that informs tumor response to immune checkpoint pathway immunotherapy. However, there remains a need for MSI diagnostics that are low cost, highly accurate, and generalizable across cancer types. We developed a method for targeted high throughput sequencing of numerous microsatellite loci with pan-cancer informativity for MSI using single-molecule molecular inversion probes (smMIPs).