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The goal of a clinical analysis is to identify, from millions of patient's variants, a few ones that may explain the disease. Once selected a few variants, they are classified according to a pathogenicity or clinical significance criteria.
For each selected variant, OpenCGA creates a clinical variant that mainly, consists of a list of clinical variant evidences. And each evidence classifies the variant according to a tier, ACGM value, clinical significance, drug response, trait association and functional effect and more.
Clinical analysis classification
OpenCGA provides two types of clinical analysis depending on the outcome:
- Analysis that return a list of clinical variants:
- Analysis that return a clinical analysis interpretation.
An interpretation consists of two lists of clinical variants (one for primary findings, and one for secondary findings), a list of panels and the low-coverage regions for that panel genes. OpenCGA implements different interpretation analysis for both rare disease and cancer.- Interpretation analysis for rare diseases:
- Interpretation analysis for cancer:
- Interpretation analysis based on GEL cancer tiering algorithm.
- Interpretation analysis for rare diseases:
Tier calculator
To assign the tier value of a selected variant is crucial in clinical analysis. OpenCGA considers three values:
- Tier 1, variants with strong clinical significance
- Tier 2, variants with potential clinical significance
- Tier 3, other findings
OpenCGA implements two algorithms to assign tier values:
- Default tier calculator
- GEL-based tier calculator
Default tier calculator
Default tier calculator sets the tier score for each clinical variant evidence taking into account:
- the genomic feature type (VARIANT, GENE or REGION)
- the mode of inheritance (MoI) and
- the overlap percentage.
The default tier calculator is used by the primary findings, secondary findings, Zetta interpretation and TEAM-based interpretation analysis.
The following diagram shows how the default tier calculator assigns a tier value:
GEL-based tier calculator
GEL-based tier calculator sets the tier value for each reported event of a given reported variant taking into account:
- the genomic feature type (GENE or REGION),
- the mode of inheritance (MoI) and
- the overlap percentage.
The GEL-based tier calculator is used by the interpretation analysis based on GEL algorithms.
The following diagram shows how the GEL-based tier calculator assigns a tier value:
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