Targeted next generation sequencing of MLH1-deficient, MLH1 promoter hypermethylated, and BRAF/RAS-wild-type colorectal adenocarcinomas is effective in detecting tumors with actionable oncogenic gene fusions
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11130%2F20%3A10411881" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11130/20:10411881 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11140/20:10411881 RIV/00669806:_____/20:10411881
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=nMKgv9V-9" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=nMKgv9V-9</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gcc.22861" target="_blank" >10.1002/gcc.22861</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Targeted next generation sequencing of MLH1-deficient, MLH1 promoter hypermethylated, and BRAF/RAS-wild-type colorectal adenocarcinomas is effective in detecting tumors with actionable oncogenic gene fusions
Original language description
Oncogenic gene fusions represent attractive targets for therapy of cancer. However, the frequency of actionable genomic rearrangements in colorectal cancer (CRC) is very low, and universal screening for these alterations seems to be impractical and costly. To address this problem, several large scale studies retrospectivelly showed that CRC with gene fusions are highly enriched in groups of tumors defined by MLH1 DNA mismatch repair protein deficiency (MLH1d), and hypermethylation of MLH1 promoter (MLH1ph), and/or the presence of microsatellite instability, and BRAF/KRAS wild-type status (BRAFwt/KRASwt). In this study, we used targeted next generation sequencing (NGS) to explore the occurence of potentially therapeutically targetable gene fusions in an unselected series of BRAFwt/KRASwt CRC cases that displayed MLH1d/MLH1ph. From the initially identified group of 173 MLH1d CRC cases, 141 cases (81.5%) displayed MLH1ph. BRAFwt/RASwt genotype was confirmed in 23 of 141 (similar to 16%) of MLH1d/MLH1ph cases. Targeted NGS of these 23 cases identified oncogenic gene fusions in nine patients (39.1%; CI95: 20.5%-61.2%). Detected fusions involved NTRK (four cases), ALK (two cases), and BRAF genes (three cases). As a secondary outcome of NGS testing, we identified PIK3K-AKT-mTOR pathway alterations in two CRC cases, which displayed PIK3CA mutation. Altogether, 11 of 23 (similar to 48%) MLH1d/MLH1ph/BRAFwt/RASwt tumors showed genetic alterations that could induce resistance to anti-EGFR therapy. Our study confirms that targeted NGS of MLH1d/MLH1ph and BRAFwt/RASwt CRCs could be a cost-effective strategy in detecting patients with potentially druggable oncogenic kinase fusions.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30204 - Oncology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Genes, Chromosomes & Cancer
ISSN
1045-2257
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
59
Issue of the periodical within the volume
10
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
562-568
UT code for WoS article
000539106900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85086155320