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Whole-Exome Sequencing of Salivary Gland Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma.

ABSTRACT: Mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) is the most common salivary gland malignancy. To explore the genetic origins of MEC, we performed systematic genomic analyses of these tumors.Whole-exome sequencing and gene copy-number analyses were performed for 18 primary cancers with matched normal tissue. FISH was used to determine the presence or absence of the MECT1-MAML2 translocation in 17 tumors.TP53 was the most commonly mutated gene in MEC (28%), and mutations were found only in intermediate- and high-grade tumors. Tumors with TP53 mutations had more mutations overall than tumors without TP53 mutations (P = 0.006). POU6F2 was the second most frequently mutated gene, found in three low-grade MECs with the same in-frame deletion. Somatic alterations in IRAK1, MAP3K9, ITGAL, ERBB4, OTOGL, KMT2C, and OBSCN were identified in at least two of the 18 tumors sequenced. FISH analysis confirmed the presence of the MECT1-MAML2 translocation in 15 of 17 tumors (88%).Through these integrated genomic analyses, MECT1-MAML2 translocation and somatic TP53 and POU6F2 mutations appear to be the main drivers of MEC. Clin Cancer Res; 23(1); 283-8. ©2016 AACR.

SUBMITTER: Kang H

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5182193 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Whole-Exome Sequencing of Salivary Gland Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma.

Kang Hyunseok H Tan Marietta M Bishop Justin A JA Jones Siân S Sausen Mark M Ha Patrick K PK Agrawal Nishant N

Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 20160623 1

<h4>Purpose</h4>Mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) is the most common salivary gland malignancy. To explore the genetic origins of MEC, we performed systematic genomic analyses of these tumors.<h4>Experimental design</h4>Whole-exome sequencing and gene copy-number analyses were performed for 18 primary cancers with matched normal tissue. FISH was used to determine the presence or absence of the MECT1-MAML2 translocation in 17 tumors.<h4>Results</h4>TP53 was the most commonly mutated gene in MEC (28% ...[more]

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Project description:Mammary mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) is a rare entity. The molecular characteristics of breast MEC have not been fully investigated due to its rarity. We performed a retrospective study among 1000 patients with breast carcinomas and identified four cases of breast MEC. Clinical and demographic data were collected. Immunohistochemistry panels which were used to diagnose salivary gland MEC and breast carcinomas were also performed. MAML2 rearrangements were detected by FISH and fusion partners were identified by RNA sequencing. Whole-exome sequencing (WES) was used to reveal the genomes of these four breast MEC. Then, the biological functions and features of breast MEC were further compared with those of invasive breast carcinomas and salivary gland MEC.According to Ellis and Auclair's methods, these four breast MEC could be classified as low-grade breast MEC. All the patients were alive, and disease-free survival (PFS) ranged from 20 months to 67 months. Among these four breast MEC, two cases were triple-negative, and the other two cases were found to be ER positive, with one also showing HER2 equivocal by immunohistochemical staining, but no amplification in FISH. FISH analysis confirmed the presence of the MAML2 translocation in three of four tumors, and CRTC1-MAML2 fusion was confirmed in two of them by RNA-sequencing. The average coverage size of WES for the tumor mutation burden estimation was 32 Mb. MUC4, RP1L1 and QRICH2 mutations were identified in at least three tumors, and these mutation also existed in breast invasive carcinoma databases (TCGA, Cell 2015; TCGA, Nature 2012). The results showed that there were many genes in breast MEC overlapping with the breast invasive carcinoma databases mentioned above, range from 5 to 63 genes (median:21 genes). Next, we assessed immune cell infiltration levels in these tumors. In all these tumors, M2 macrophages and plasma cell were in the high infiltration group. Our breast MEC showed different results from the salivary gland MEC, whose plasma cells were in the low infiltration group. Overall, we first analyzed the genomics and tumor microenvironment of breast mucoepidermoid carcinoma and proposed our hypothesis that although MECs arising in the breast resemble their salivary gland counterparts phenotypically, our findings indicate that breast MECs probably resemble invasive breast carcinomas at the genetic level and immune cell infiltration levels. More cases and in deep research need to be done to further understand this rare carcinoma.

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Whole-Exome Sequencing of Salivary Gland Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma.

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