Performance of the cobas EZH2 mutation test on clinical samples from non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients

To present the technical verification and clinical validation of the companion diagnostic assay, cobas® EZH2 Mutation Test (cobas EZH2 Test), targeting gain-of-function EZH2 mutations in follicular lymphoma (FL) and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). The focus is on patient clinical samples prov...

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Published in:PloS one Vol. 18; no. 12; p. e0292251
Main Authors: Shyu, Johnny Y, Schlag, Peter A, Karwowska, Sylwia M, Manohar, Chitra F, Truong, Huan M, Longshore, John W, Zhang, Guili
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States Public Library of Science 14-12-2023
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Summary:To present the technical verification and clinical validation of the companion diagnostic assay, cobas® EZH2 Mutation Test (cobas EZH2 Test), targeting gain-of-function EZH2 mutations in follicular lymphoma (FL) and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). The focus is on patient clinical samples proving that the test met the performance criteria required for FDA approval of a companion diagnostic test. Epizyme, Inc., Eisai Co., Ltd., and Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., collaborated to develop the cobas EZH2 Test on an RT-PCR platform. The assay design needed to detect the gain-of-function EZH2 mutations found in FL and DLBCL indications. Thus, the test was optimized for investigational purposes in a clinical trial setting. Part of its technical verification included testing of patient tumor samples with a documented diagnosis of FL and DLBCL procured from commercial vendors, and the clinical validation used patient samples from the Epizyme clinical study. Both the technical performance verification method correlation study (104 clinical commercially acquired samples) and the clinical validation accuracy study (341 patient samples from the therapeutic study) used next-generation sequencing as a reference method to establish true vs. false results by cobas EZH2 Test. The reproducibility study used a 15-member panel of DNA samples with varying EZH2 mutation status from procured clinical FL and DLBCL patient samples under multiple variables. Single and rare, infrequent double EZH2 mutations were detected in FL and DLBCL samples. Agreements between results from cobas EZH2 and sequencing were >98% from commercial clinical samples and from the therapeutic study clinical samples. The reproducibility study obtained 178 to 180 valid results for each panel member, with an overall invalid rate of 0.37%. The agreement for each per panel member was 100%. cobas EZH2 Test data demonstrated that the test is reliable and will perform well in a commercial customer environment.
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Competing Interests: Peter Schlag, Johnny Shyu, Chitra Manohar, and Huan Truong are employees of Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. Sylwia Karwowska and Guili Zhang were employees of Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. at the time of the study and manuscript development. John Longshore was employed at Carolinas Pathology Group and Carolinas HealthCare System at the time of the study and manuscript development, and is now an employee of AstraZeneca; he has received research support from Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0292251