Genomic architecture and evolution of clear cell renal cell carcinomas defined by multiregion sequencing
Open Access
- 2 February 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Genetics
- Vol. 46 (3), 225-233
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2891
Abstract
Charles Swanton and colleagues used multiregion exome sequencing to study the evolutionary histories of ten clear cell renal cell carcinomas. They observed marked intratumoral heterogeneity in all cases, with extensive evidence of parallel evolution of tumor subclones and only a small number of truncal driver events. Clear cell renal carcinomas (ccRCCs) can display intratumor heterogeneity (ITH). We applied multiregion exome sequencing (M-seq) to resolve the genetic architecture and evolutionary histories of ten ccRCCs. Ultra-deep sequencing identified ITH in all cases. We found that 73–75% of identified ccRCC driver aberrations were subclonal, confounding estimates of driver mutation prevalence. ITH increased with the number of biopsies analyzed, without evidence of saturation in most tumors. Chromosome 3p loss and VHL aberrations were the only ubiquitous events. The proportion of C>T transitions at CpG sites increased during tumor progression. M-seq permits the temporal resolution of ccRCC evolution and refines mutational signatures occurring during tumor development.Keywords
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