VAF (variant allele frequency) vs CCF (cancer cell fraction)
VAF - variant allele frequency
Variant allele fraction or frequency (VAF): the fraction of mutated reads for a given variant, which is a readout for the proportion of DNA mutated in the sequenced tissue.
测序时特定位点突变的reads数比上总的reads数,可以从VCF中获得。
CCF - cancer cell fraction
Cancer cell fraction (CCF): the fraction of cancer cells from the sequenced sample carrying a set of SNVs.
携带突变的癌细胞比例,可以通过pyclone(https://github.com/Roth-Lab/pyclone-vi)或sciclone(https://github.com/genome/sciclone)计算。
$$ CCF = VAF *\frac{1}{p}[pCN_t + CN_n(1-p)] $$
VAF: corresponds to the variant allele frequency at the mutated base
p: the tumor purity肿瘤纯度
CNt: the tumor locus specific copy number所在位置的拷贝数
CNn: the normal locus specific copy number (CNn was assumed to be 2 for autosomal chromosomes)正常样本的拷贝数