From the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland (Dr Keung); Biostatistics Department (Ms Souers) and Proficiency Testing (Ms Vasalos), College of American Pathologists, Northfield, Illinois; Division of Molecular Pathology, The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen)/Ashion Laboratory, Phoenix, Arizona, and the Department of Pathology & Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha (Dr Bridge); the Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston (Dr Faquin); the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota (Dr Graham); the Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York (Dr Hameed); the Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee (Dr Lewis); the Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine & Genetics, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill (Dr Merker); and Office of the Director, The Joint Pathology Center, Silver Spring, Maryland (Dr Moncur).
Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2020 Mar;144(3):344-349. doi: 10.5858/arpa.2019-0093-CP. Epub 2019 Sep 4.
CONTEXT.—: Detection of high-risk human papillomavirus (HR-HPV) in squamous cell carcinoma is important for classification and prognostication. In situ hybridization (ISH) is a commonly used HR-HPV-specific test that targets viral RNA or DNA. The College of American Pathologists (CAP) provides proficiency testing for laboratories performing HR-HPV ISH.
OBJECTIVE.—: To compare the analytical performance of RNA- and DNA-based ISH methods on CAP HR-HPV proficiency tests.
DESIGN.—: Data from the 2016-2018 CAP HPV ISH proficiency testing surveys were reviewed. These surveys consist of well-characterized samples with known status for HR-HPV, including 1 to 2 copies, 50 to 100 copies, 300 to 500 copies, and no copies of HR-HPV per cell.
RESULTS.—: Ninety-five participants submitted 1268 survey results from 20 cores. Overall, RNA ISH had a significantly higher percentage of correct responses than DNA ISH: 97.4% (450 of 462) versus 80.6% (650 of 806) ( < .001). This disparity appears to be the consequence of a superior sensitivity of RNA ISH compared to DNA ISH for samples with 1 to 2 and with 50 to 100 copies of HR-HPV per cell: 95.2% (120 of 126) versus 53.8% (129 of 240), < .001, respectively, and 100% (89 of 89) versus 76.3% (119 of 156), < .001, respectively.
CONCLUSIONS.—: An assessment of CAP HR-HPV proficiency test performance indicates that RNA ISH shows significantly higher accuracy than DNA ISH owing to higher analytical sensitivity of RNA ISH in tumors with low (1-2 copies per cell) to intermediate (50-100 copies per cell) HR-HPV viral copy numbers. These data support the use of RNA over DNA ISH in clinical laboratories that perform HR-HPV testing as part of their testing algorithms.
检测高危型人乳头瘤病毒(HR-HPV)对鳞癌的分类和预后具有重要意义。原位杂交(ISH)是一种常用的 HPV 特异性检测方法,针对病毒 RNA 或 DNA。美国病理学家学会(CAP)为进行 HR-HPV ISH 的实验室提供专业能力测试。
比较基于 RNA 和 DNA 的 ISH 方法在 CAP HR-HPV 专业能力测试中的分析性能。
回顾了 2016-2018 年 CAP HPV ISH 专业能力测试调查的数据。这些调查包括具有 HR-HPV 已知状态的特征明确样本,包括每个细胞 1 至 2 个拷贝、50 至 100 个拷贝、300 至 500 个拷贝和无 HR-HPV 拷贝。
95 名参与者提交了 20 个核心的 1268 个调查结果。总体而言,RNA ISH 的正确应答率显著高于 DNA ISH:97.4%(450/462)比 80.6%(650/806)(<0.001)。这种差异似乎是 RNA ISH 比 DNA ISH 对每个细胞 1 至 2 个拷贝和 50 至 100 个拷贝的 HR-HPV 样本具有更高灵敏度的结果:95.2%(120/126)比 53.8%(129/240)(<0.001)和 100%(89/89)比 76.3%(119/156)(<0.001)。
对 CAP HR-HPV 专业能力测试性能的评估表明,由于 RNA ISH 在 HR-HPV 病毒载量较低(每个细胞 1-2 个拷贝)至中等(每个细胞 50-100 个拷贝)的肿瘤中具有更高的分析灵敏度,因此 RNA ISH 的准确性显著高于 DNA ISH。这些数据支持在进行 HR-HPV 检测的临床实验室中使用 RNA 而不是 DNA ISH,作为其检测算法的一部分。