A Pilot Study Comparing HPV-Positive and HPV-Negative Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinomas by Whole Exome Sequencing

Figure 3

Detection of HPV 16 sequences with the exome captures of the four patient samples. Short read sequences generated from the exome sequencing data denoted by the small bars were found exclusively in the DNA from the HPV-positive tumor but not in the matched blood from the same patient or the HPV-negative patient’s tumor or blood with the exception of the nonspecific poly-A signal.