Integrated genomic characterization of endometrial carcinoma
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- 1 May 2013
- journal article
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- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature
- Vol. 497 (7447), 67-73
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12113
Abstract
We performed an integrated genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic characterization of 373 endometrial carcinomas using array- and sequencing-based technologies. Uterine serous tumours and ∼25% of high-grade endometrioid tumours had extensive copy number alterations, few DNA methylation changes, low oestrogen receptor/progesterone receptor levels, and frequent TP53 mutations. Most endometrioid tumours had few copy number alterations or TP53 mutations, but frequent mutations in PTEN, CTNNB1, PIK3CA, ARID1A and KRAS and novel mutations in the SWI/SNF chromatin remodelling complex gene ARID5B. A subset of endometrioid tumours that we identified had a markedly increased transversion mutation frequency and newly identified hotspot mutations in POLE. Our results classified endometrial cancers into four categories: POLE ultramutated, microsatellite instability hypermutated, copy-number low, and copy-number high. Uterine serous carcinomas share genomic features with ovarian serous and basal-like breast carcinomas. We demonstrated that the genomic features of endometrial carcinomas permit a reclassification that may affect post-surgical adjuvant treatment for women with aggressive tumours. An integrative genomic analysis of several hundred endometrial carcinomas shows that a minority of tumour samples carry copy number alterations or TP53 mutations and many contain key cancer-related gene mutations, such as those involved in canonical pathways and chromatin remodelling; a reclassification of endometrial tumours into four distinct types is proposed, which may have an effect on patient treatment regimes. This paper from The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network presents an in-depth genome-wide analysis of endometrial (uterine) carcinomas from more than 350 patients. Based on a series of genomic features including newly identified hotspot mutations in the DNA polymerase gene POLE, and novel mutations in the ARID5B DNA-binding protein, the authors propose a reclassification of endometrial tumours into four distinct types. This might have clinical relevance for post-surgical adjuvant treatment of women with aggressive tumours.Keywords
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