WES samples of patients with anti-PD-1 resistant HNSCC from a non-randomized, open-label phase 1b clinical trial

Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) is an effective treatment for a subset of patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC); however, the majority remain refractory. In a nonrandomized, open-label Phase 1b clinical trial, participants with recurrent and/or metastatic (R/M) HNSCC who had progressed on ICB were treated with low-dose 5-azacytidine (5-aza) daily for either 5 or 10 days, in combination with durvalumab and tremelimumab. The primary objective was to determine the biologically effective dose of 5-aza. In this study, whole exome sequencing (WES) was performed on baseline samples from 12 participants, and genomic alterations were analyzed to access the genetic background of these participants.

Type: Exome Sequencing
Archiver: European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA)

1 Dataset

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Dataset ID	Description	Technology	Samples
EGAD50000001011	Whole exome sequencing (WES) was performed on baseline (before low-dose 5-aza treatment) blood and tumor paired samples from 12 participants with head and neck cancer who were refractory to anti-PD-1 therapy. DNA extractions were performed by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard using Qiagen AllPrep DNA/RNA kits (Cat. 80204). In total, 24 150-bp pair-end WES data were generated by Illumina.	Illumina HiSeq 4000	24