Evaluation of CNV detection tools for NGS panel data in genetic diagnostics

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Although germline copy-number variants (CNVs) are the genetic cause of multiple hereditary diseases, detecting them from targeted next-generation sequencing data (NGS) remains a challenge.

Existing tools perform well for large CNVs but struggle with single and multi-exon alterations. The aim of this work is to evaluate CNV calling tools working on gene panel NGS data and their

suitability as a screening step before orthogonal confirmation in genetic diagnostics strategies. Five tools (DECoN, CoNVaDING, panelcn.MOPS, ExomeDepth, and CODEX2) were tested against

four genetic diagnostics datasets (two in-house and two external) for a total of 495 samples with 231 single and multi-exon validated CNVs. The evaluation was performed using the default and

sensitivity-optimized parameters. Results showed that most tools were highly sensitive and specific, but the performance was dataset dependant. When evaluating them in our diagnostics

scenario, DECoN and panelcn.MOPS detected all CNVs with the exception of one mosaic CNV missed by DECoN. However, DECoN outperformed panelcn.MOPS specificity achieving values greater than

0.90 when using the optimized parameters. In our in-house datasets, DECoN and panelcn.MOPS showed the highest performance for CNV screening before orthogonal confirmation. Benchmarking and

optimization code is freely available at https://github.com/TranslationalBioinformaticsIGTP/CNVbenchmarkeR.

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Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is an outstanding technology to detect single-nucleotide variants and small deletion and insertion variants in genetic testing for Mendelian conditions.

However, detection of large rearrangements such as copy-number variants (CNV) from NGS data is still challenging due to issues intrinsic to the technology including short read lengths and

GC-content bias [1]. Nevertheless, it is well recognized that germline CNVs are the genetic cause of several hereditary diseases [2], so their analysis is a necessary step in a comprehensive

genetic diagnostics strategy.

The gold standards for CNV detection in genetic diagnostics are multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) and array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) [3, 4]. Both

methods are time consuming and costly, so frequently only a subset of genes is tested, excluding others from the analysis, especially when using single-gene approaches. Therefore, the

possibility of using NGS data as a first CNV screening step would decrease the number of MLPA/aCGH tests required and would free up resources.

Many tools for CNVs detection from NGS data have been developed [5,6,7]. Most of them can reliably call large CNVs (in the order of megabases) but show poor performance when dealing with

small CNVs affecting only one or a few small exons, which are CNVs frequently involved in several genetic diseases [8]. In addition, most of these tools were designed to work with

whole-genome or whole-exome data and struggle with the sparser data from NGS gene panels used in routine genetic testing. Therefore, the challenge is to identify a tool able to detect CNVs

from NGS panel data at a single-exon resolution with sufficient sensitivity to be used as a screening step in a diagnostic setting.

Other benchmarks of CNV calling tools on targeted NGS panel data have been published. However, they were performed by the authors of the tools and executed against a single dataset

[9,10,11,12,13], or used mainly simulated data with a small number of validated CNVs [14]. The aim of this work is to perform an independent benchmark of multiple CNV calling tools,

optimizing, and evaluating them against multiple datasets generated in diagnostics settings, to identify the most suitable tools to be used for genetic diagnostics (Fig. 1).

Benchmark design and augmented datasets.

a The panel shows the benchmark design and the objective of applying the results in the diagnostics routine. b To evaluate the diagnostics scenario, a new dataset was built for each run

belonging to the original dataset. The augmented datasets contained all the samples originally sequenced in the run and, in the case of the MiSeq datasets (upper), a set of 51 samples with

no known CNV from different runs (MLPA multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification; aCGH array comparative genomic hybridization; NGS next-generation sequencing; CNV copy-number

variant).

Four datasets were included in this benchmark (ICR96 exon CNV validation series [15], panelcnDataset [11], In-house MiSeq and In-House HiSeq) (Table 1) with data from two hybridization-based

target capture NGS panels designed for hereditary cancer diagnostics: TruSight Cancer Panel (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA) and I2HCP [16]. All datasets were generated in real diagnostics

settings and contained single and multi-exon CNVs, all of them validated by MLPA. Negative MLPA data, meaning no detection of any CNV, were also available for a subset of genes. Detailed

information on MLPA-detected CNVs for each dataset can be found in Supplementary files 2–5.

Samples from the In-house MiSeq and in-house HiSeq datasets were generated at the ICO-IGTP Joint Program for Hereditary Cancer and are available at the EGA under the accession number

EGAS00001004316. In addition to these samples, a total of 1103 additional samples (505 MiSeq and 598 HiSeq), with no CNVs detected in the subset of genes tested by MLPA, were used to build

the augmented datasets used in the diagnostics scenario analysis. Informed consent was obtained for all samples in the in-house datasets.

Five tools were tested in the benchmark (Table 2): CoNVaDING v1.2.0 [9], DECoN v1.0.1 [10], panelcn.MOPS v1.0.0 [11], ExomeDepth v1.1.10 [17], and CODEX2 v1.2.0 [18].

in the benchmark.Full size tableData preprocessing

All samples were aligned to the GRCh37 human genome assembly using BWA mem v0.7.12 [19, 20]. SAMtools v0.1.19 [21] was used to sort and index BAM files. No additional processing or filtering

was applied to the BAM files.

The regions of interest (ROIs) were dependent on the dataset. For TruSight based datasets, ICR96 and panelcnDataset, we used the targets bed file published elsewhere [10] with some

modifications: the fourth column was removed, the gene was added and it was sorted by chromosome and start position (Supplementary file 6). For in-house datasets, we generated a target bed

file containing all coding exons from all protein-coding transcripts of genes in the I2HCP panel v2.1 (Supplementary file 7). These data were retrieved from Ensembl BioMart version 67 [22]

(http://may2012.archive.ensembl.org). All genes tested by MLPA and used in the benchmark were common to all I2HCP versions (v2.0-2.2).

The performance of each tool for CNVs detection was evaluated at two levels: per ROI and per gene.

Per ROI metrics treated all ROI as independent entities, assigning each of them a correctness value: true positive (TP) or true negative (TN) if the tool matched the results of MLPA, false

negative (FN) if the tool missed a CNV detected by MLPA and false positive (FP) if the tool called a CNV not detected by MLPA. This is the most fine-grained metric.

Per gene metrics consider the fact that most MLPA kits cover a whole gene and so the true CNVs would be detected by MLPA when confirming any CNV call in any ROI of the affected gene.

Therefore, per gene metrics assigned a correctness value to each gene taking into account all its exons: TP if one of its ROIs was a TP; FN if MLPA detected a CNV in at least one of its ROIs

and none of them were detected by the tool; FP if the tool called a CNV in at least one ROI and none of them were detected by MLPA; TN if neither MLPA nor the tool detected a CNV in any of

its ROIs.

For each tool against each dataset and evaluation level various performance metrics were computed: sensitivity defined as TP/(TP + FN), specificity defined as TN/(TN + FP), positive

predictive value (PPV) defined as TP/(TP + FP), negative predictive value (NPV) defined as TN/(TN + FN), false negative rate (FNR) defined as FN/(FN + TP), false positive rate (FPR) defined

as FP/(FP + TN), and F1 score (F1) defined as 2TP/(2TP + FP + FN).

Parameters of each tool were optimized against each dataset to maximize sensitivity while limiting specificity loss: each dataset was split into two halves, a training set used to optimize

tool parameters and a validation set to evaluate them (Supplementary file 8). The optimization algorithm followed a greedy approach: a local optimization was performed at each step with the

aim of obtaining a solution close enough to the global optimum. Further details of the optimization algorithm can be found in Supplementary file 9.

An R framework, CNVbenchmarkeR, was built to perform the benchmark in an automatically and configurable way. Code and documentation are available at

https://github.com/TranslationalBioinformaticsIGTP/CNVbenchmarkeR. Each selected tool was first executed against each dataset using default parameters as defined in tool documentation and

then using the optimized parameters. Default and optimized parameter values can be found in Supplementary file 10. Tool outputs were processed with R v3.4.2, Bioconductor v3.5 [23], plyr

[24], GenomicRanges [25], and biomaRt [26]. Plots were created with ggplot2 [27]. Confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated with epiR v1.0-14 at a CI of 95%. In addition, for each dataset,

all executions were repeated to compare performance on two subsets: one excluding single-exon CNVs samples and one excluding multi-exon CNVs samples.

The In-house MiSeq and In-house HiSeq datasets were composed of a selection of samples from different sequencing runs. In a real diagnostics scenario, the objective is to analyze a new run

with all its sequenced samples. To simulate and evaluate the diagnostics scenario, we built the augmented datasets (Fig. 1), which contained all the samples from the sequencing runs instead

of a selection of them. For the augmented datasets, the tools were executed against each run and metrics were computed by combining the results of all runs. Since some tools recommend more

than 16 samples for optimal performance, we added 51 samples from other runs with no known CNVs when executing the tools on the runs of the augmented MiSeq dataset.

We also defined a new metric, whole diagnostics strategy, to take into account that in a diagnostics setting all regions where the screening tool was not able to produce a result (no call)

should be identified and tested by other methods. Thus, any gene containing at least one positive call or no call in a ROI was considered as a positive call of the whole gene: TP if the gene

contained at least one ROI affected by a CNV; FP if the gene did not contain any ROI affected by a CNV. In addition, if a tool identified a ROI both as a deletion and a duplication, it was

considered a no call when computing metrics.

To identify the CNV calling tools that could be used as a screening step in a genetic diagnostics setting, we needed first to select the candidate tools, and then to evaluate their

performance with a special emphasis on the sensitivity, both with their default parameters and with dataset-dependent optimized parameters.

The first in the benchmark was to identify candidate tools that have shown promising results. After a literature search process, we selected five CNV calling tools to be evaluated (Table 2),

all of them based on depth-of-coverage analysis. Three tools have been reported to perform well on NGS panel data at single-exon resolution: CoNVaDING v1.2.0 [9], DECoN v1.0.1 [10], and

panelcn.MOPS v1.0.0 [11]. ExomeDepth v1.1.10 [17] was included due to its high performance in benchmarks on WES data [28, 29] and because the developers reported good performance with panel

data (https://github.com/vplagnol/ExomeDepth). CODEX2 v1.2.0 was included due to the high sensitivity shown on WES data [18] and the availability of specific scripts for panel data

(https://github.com/yuchaojiang/CODEX2).

We executed each tool on each dataset with the default parameters and computed evaluation statistics at two levels: per ROI and per gene (see “Methods”).

Regarding the per ROI metric, most tools showed sensitivity and specificity values over 0.75, with sensitivity in general over 0.9 (Fig. 2 and Table 3). However, tool performance varied

across datasets. For the ICR96 and panelcnDataset datasets, specificity was always higher than 0.98, while sensitivity remained higher than 0.94 (with the exception of CODEX2). This

performance was not achieved when using the in-house datasets, where lower sensitivity and specificity can be observed, and only CoNVaDING obtained sensitivity close to 1 at the expense of a

lower specificity.

Shows results when executing tools with the default parameters and computing the per ROI metrics. ExomeDepth and DECoN tools obtained same sensitivity and specificity in panelcnDataset (ROI

region of interest; PPV positive predictive value; F1 F1 score).

As expected in unbalanced datasets with a much larger number of negative elements than positive ones, NPV was higher than the PPV in all tool-dataset combinations. All NPVs were above 0.96

while PPV varied across datasets, ranging from 0.36 (CoNVaDING in ICR96) to 0.96 (ExomeDepth in In-house MiSeq). ExomeDepth had the highest PPV in all datasets.

Regarding the per gene metric, sensitivity was slightly improved compared to per ROI, and for each dataset, at least one tool showed a sensitivity of 1 and was able to identify all CNVs

(Supplementary files 11 and 12).

When excluding single-exon CNVs or multi-exon CNVs, the exclusion of single-exon CNVs generally provided a better PPV, while sensitivity varied depending on the dataset (Supplementary file 

13).

In addition to evaluating the performance of the different tools tested with default parameters, we performed an optimization process to identify, for each tool and dataset, the combination

of parameters that maximized the sensitivity as required for a screening tool in a diagnostics context (see “Methods” and Supplementary files 8 and 9).

Parameter optimization was performed on a subset (training) of each dataset and the optimized parameters (Supplementary file 10) were compared to the default ones on the samples not used for

training (validation subset). Figure 3 shows the optimization results at the ROI level. In general, the optimization process improved sensitivity by slightly decreasing specificity. For

panelcnDataset, sensitivity was increased by a higher margin driven by CODEX2, which increased its sensitivity by 58.6%. On the other hand, tools were not able to improve or showed small

differences in the In-house MiSeq dataset (Supplementary files 14 and 15).

Shows sensitivity and specificity on validation sets when executing tools with the optimized parameters in comparison to the default parameters (ROI region of interest).

imageBenchmark in a diagnostics scenario

In a real diagnostic setting, all CNVs detected in genes of interest and all regions where the screening tool was not able to produce a result (no call) should be confirmed by an orthogonal

technique. To account for this, we evaluated the performance of all tools using the whole diagnostics strategy metric which takes the no calls into account. This evaluation was performed in

a modified version of the in-house datasets, the augmented in-house datasets (Fig. 1), which contained all the samples from the original sequencing runs instead of a selection of them (see

“Methods”).

Figure 4 shows sensitivity and specificity on the augmented in-house datasets when executing tools with the optimized parameters compared to the default parameters. For the In-house MiSeq

dataset, two tools detected all CNVs: panelcn.MOPS achieved it with both optimized and default parameters (CI: 94.4–100%), with a specificity of 67.8% (CI: 60.3–74.8%) and 80.7% (CI:

74.0–86.3%), respectively. DECoN detected all CNVs only with the optimized parameters (CI: 94.4–100%) reaching 91.3% (CI: 86.0–95.0%) specificity. CoNVaDING also detected all CNVs, but its

high no-call rate led to very low specificity, 4.1% (CI: 1.6–8.2%). For the In-house HiSeq dataset, only panelcn.MOPS detected all CNVs (CI: 93.8–100%) with an acceptable specificity (81.5%

(CI: 75.0–86.9%) and 83.2% (CI: 76.8–88.3%) with the default and optimized parameters respectively). DECoN missed one CNV, being a mosaic sample, and its specificity remained high, 96.6%

(CI: 92.8–98.8%) with the optimized parameters. On the other hand, CODEX2 and ExomeDepth obtained high sensitivity and specificity values for both datasets, but they did not report no calls

(Table 4 and Supplementary files 16 and 17).

Shows sensitivity and specificity on the augmented in-house datasets when executing tools with the optimized parameters in comparison to the default parameters.

Benchmark results with default and optimized parameters in the diagnostics scenario.Full size tableDiscussion

CNVs are the genetic cause of multiple hereditary diseases [2]. To detect them, specific tools and techniques are required. In genetic diagnostics, this is mainly done using either MLPA and

aCGH or using software tools to infer copy-number alterations from NGS data generated in the diagnostics process. MLPA and aCGH are the gold standard methods [3], but both are time-consuming

and expensive approaches that frequently lead laboratories to only use them in a subset of genes of interest. On the other hand, multiple tools for CNV calling from NGS data have been

published [5,6,7], but their performance on NGS gene panel data has not been properly evaluated in a genetic diagnostics context. This evaluation is especially critical when these tools are

used as a screening step in a diagnostics strategy, since a nonoptimal sensitivity would lead to a higher number of misdiagnosis.

Most CNV calling tools have not been developed to be used as a screening step in genetic diagnostics but as part of a research-oriented data analysis pipeline. Therefore, they were

originally tuned and optimized for a certain sensitivity-specificity equilibrium. To be used as screening tools, we need to alter their default parameters to shift that equilibrium toward

maximizing the sensitivity even at the expense of lowering their specificity. This parameter optimization must be performed in a dataset-specific way, since tools show performance

differences between dataset due to dataset specificities coming from target regions composition, technical differences, or sequencing characteristics.

In this work, we selected 5 tools that have shown promising results on panel data, and we measured their performance, with the default and sensitivity-optimized parameters, over 4 validated

datasets from different sources: a total of 495 samples with 231 single and multi-exon CNVs. CNVbenchmarkeR, a framework for evaluating CNV calling tools performance, was developed to

undertake this task. We also evaluated their performance in a genetic diagnostics-like scenario and showed that some of the tools are suitable to be used as screening methods before MLPA or

aCGH confirmation.

The benchmark with default parameters showed that most tools are highly sensitive and specific, but the top performers depend on the specific dataset. Most tools performed best when using

data from panelcnDataset. DECoN, ExomeDepth and CoNVaDING reached almost 100% sensitivity and specificity. A possible reason for this is that this dataset contains the lowest number of

single-exon CNVs (n = 13), which are the most difficult type of CNVs to be detected. DECoN was the best performer for ICR96, a dataset published by the same authors, but other tools obtained

similar results in that dataset. CoNVaDING was the most sensitive tool when analyzing our in-house datasets but showed the lowest PPV in all datasets with the exception of panelcnDataset.

ExomeDepth showed the highest PPV in all datasets, making it one of the most balanced tools regarding sensitivity and specificity. Differences in tool performance depending on the dataset

were also observed in previous works [29, 30].

The different CNV calling tools included in this work were originally designed with different aims with respect to their preferred sensitivity and specificity equilibrium or the type of CNVs

they expected to detect, and this is reflected in their default parameters and their performance in the initial benchmark. Our aim with this work was to evaluate these CNV callers as

potential screening tools in a genetic diagnostics setting and for this reason, we required their maximum sensitivity.

The parameter optimization process allowed us to determine the dataset-specific parameter combination maximizing their sensitivity without an excessive specificity loss. The optimization had

a different impact on different tools: while CODEX2 showed a higher sensitivity in all four datasets the rest of the tools showed modest improvements. This is mainly due to the fact that

sensitivity was already over 0.9 for most combinations and the number of false negatives to correctly call was small (between 4 and 8) in the per gene metric.

The final optimized parameters were dataset specific, so we do not recommend using them directly on other datasets where the data have been obtained differently (different capture protocol

or sequencing technologies, for example).

Based on our results, we would recommend optimizing the parameters for each specific dataset before adding any CNV calling tool to a genetic diagnostics pipeline to maximize its sensitivity

and reduce the risk of misdiagnosis. To that end, we have developed an R framework, CNVbenchmarkeR (freely available at https://github.com/TranslationalBioinformaticsIGTP/CNVbenchmarkeR),

that will help to perform the testing and optimization process in any new dataset.

Two tools showed performance good enough to be implemented as screening methods in the diagnostics scenario evaluated in our two in-house datasets (Fig. 4): DECoN and panelcn.MOPS. While

panelcn.MOPS was able to detect all CNVs both with the default and the optimized parameters, DECoN reached almost perfect sensitivity and outperformed panelcn.MOPS specificity when using the

optimized parameters, although the difference is not statistically significant. DECoN only missed a mosaic CNV affecting two exons of the NF2 gene. CoNVaDING also detected all CNVs, but the

high number of no-call regions reduced its specificity to values between 4.1 and 21.9%, which rendered it non-valid as a screening tool.

The parameter optimization process improved the sensitivity of most tools. For example, for the In-house MiSeq dataset, DECoN sensitivity increased from 98.4% (CI: 91.6–100%) to 100% (CI:

94.4–100%), and the specificity increased from 78.5% (CI: 71.6–84.4%) to 91.3% (CI: 86.0–95.0%). This improvement highlights the importance of fine-tuning the tool parameters for each

specific task, and shows that the optimization process performed in this work has been key for the evaluation of the different tools.

The high sensitivity reached by DECoN and panelcn.MOPS in different datasets, where they identified all known CNVs, shows that NGS data can be used as a CNV screening step in a genetic

diagnostics setting. This screening step has the potential to improve the diagnostics routines. As an example, the high specificity reached by DECoN in the in-house MiSeq dataset with the

optimized parameters means that around 91% of genes with no CNV would not need to be specifically tested for CNVs when using DECoN as a screening step. The resources saved by the reduction

in the number of required tests could be used to expand the number of genes analyzed, potentially increasing the final diagnostics yield.

In conclusion, according to our analysis, DECoN and panelcn.MOPS provide the highest performance for CNV screening before orthogonal confirmation. Although panelcn.MOPS showed a slightly

higher sensitivity in one of the datasets, DECoN showed a much higher specificity in the diagnostics scenario. Our results also showed that tools performance depends on the dataset.

Therefore, it may be important to evaluate potential tools on an in-house dataset before implementing one as a screening method in the diagnostics routine.

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This study makes use of the ICR96 exon CNV validation series data generated by Professor Nazneen Rahman’s team at The Institute of Cancer Research, London as part of the TGMI. We are

grateful to the Katharina Wimmer team at Division Human Genetics, Medical University Innsbruck for providing access to the dataset deposited at EGA and hosted by the EBI, under the accession

number EGAS00001002481. We thank the participating patients and all the members of the Unit of Genetic Diagnostics of the Hereditary Cancer Program of the Catalan Institute of Oncology

(ICO-IDIBELL) and the Genetics Diagnostics Unit of the Hereditary Cancer Group of the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP). We also thank the IGTP HPC Core Facility, Iñaki

Martínez de Ilarduya and Adriana López-Doriga for their help. We thank CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya for institutional support.

This work has been supported by: the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII), Plan Estatal de I + D + I 2013–2016, and co-financed by the FEDER

program; the Government of Catalonia, the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC) and Fundació La Marató de TV3. Contract grant numbers: ISCIIIRETIC RD06/0020/1051, RD12/0036/008,

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José Marcos Moreno-Cabrera, Elisabeth Castellanos, Eduard Serra & Bernat Gel

Hereditary Cancer Program, Joint Program on Hereditary Cancer, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge—IDIBELL, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona,

Spain

José Marcos Moreno-Cabrera, Jesús del Valle, Lidia Feliubadaló, Marta Pineda, Joan Brunet, Gabriel Capellà & Conxi Lázaro

Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Cáncer (CIBERONC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

José Marcos Moreno-Cabrera, Jesús del Valle, Lidia Feliubadaló, Marta Pineda, Joan Brunet, Eduard Serra, Gabriel Capellà & Conxi Lázaro

Hereditary Cancer Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBGi, Girona, Spain

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