Research Article

Performance Characterization and Validation of Saliva as an Alternative Specimen Source for Detecting Hereditary Breast Cancer Mutations by Next Generation Sequencing

Table 6

Percentage concordance in the Variant Caller data from blood versus paired saliva and blood in-house data versus blood reference lab data.

SamplesVariant Caller data concordance
In-house blood versus saliva
Variant Caller data concordance
In-house blood versus reference lab blood
Variant Caller data concordance
In-house blood versus reference lab blood (considering only exonic variants)

1601074001100%Data not availableData not available
1601074002100%96%100%
1601074003100%84.2%100%
160107400496.9%89.6%100%
1601074005100%88.9%100%
160107400690.3%85.7%100%
Mean97.988.9100%