Plasma-SeqSensei™ Melanoma RUO Kit

The Plasma-SeqSensei™ (PSS) Melanoma RUO (research use only) Kit allows the highly sensitive and specific detection of mutations in circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) from plasma of patients with melanoma cancer.

The kit is based on the next-generation sequencing technology and covers key mutations of the BRAF and NRAS oncogenes. These genes have been shown to enhance tumour growth, promote disease progression and can be considered prognostic and predictive biomarkers in melanoma.

BRAF mutations are present in approximately 50% of all melanomas (~ 90% of these mutations occur at amino acid 600, majority of which are BRAF V600E mutations).

Mutations in NRAS are currently known to be present in 20% of all melanomas (majority (>80%) involve a point mutation leading to the substitution of glutamine to leucine at position 61).

For the configuration of the Plasma-SeqSensei™ Melanoma RUO Kits, two key cancer genes were selected after comparison of mutation frequencies using the COSMIC (Catalogue of Somatic Mutation in Cancer) and cBioPortal for cancer genomics databases.

Features

• Highly sensitive <0.07 % MAF
• Able to detect 7 MM with 95 % confidence across all mutations (absolute quantification)
• High flexibility of between 2 - 16 samples/run
• Fast TAT (2 days)
• Convenient software