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Clinical implications of genomic profiles in metastatic breast cancer with a focus on TP53 and PIK3CA, the most frequently mutated genes

Ji-Yeon Kim, Eunjin Lee, Kyunghee Park, Woong-Yang Park, Hae Hyun Jung, Jin Seok Ahn, Young-Hyuck Im and Yeon Hee Park _

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Oncotarget. 2017; 8:27997-28007. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.15881

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Abstract

Ji-Yeon Kim1,*, Eunjin Lee2,*, Kyunghee Park2, Woong-Yang Park2, Hae Hyun Jung4, Jin Seok Ahn1, Young-Hyuck Im1,3, Yeon Hee Park1,3,4

1Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, 06351, Korea

2Samsung Genome Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, 06351, Korea

3Biomedical Research Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, 06351, Korea

4Samsung Advanced Institute for Health Sciences and Technology, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, 06351, Korea

*These authors contributed equally to this work

Correspondence to:

Yeon Hee Park, email: [email protected]

Keywords: metastatic, breast cancer, TP53, PIK3CA

Received: September 09, 2016     Accepted: February 20, 2017     Published: March 03, 2017

ABSTRACT

Breast cancer (BC) has been genetically profiled through large-scale genome analyses. However, the role and clinical implications of genetic alterations in metastatic BC (MBC) have not been evaluated. Therefore, we conducted whole-exome sequencing (WES) and RNA-Seq of 37 MBC samples and targeted deep sequencing of another 29 MBCs. We evaluated somatic mutations from WES and targeted sequencing and assessed gene expression and performed pathway analysis from RNA-Seq. In this analysis, PIK3CA was the most commonly mutated gene in estrogen receptor (ER)-positive BC, while in ER-negative BC, TP53 was the most commonly mutated gene (p = 0.018 and p < 0.001, respectively). TP53 stopgain/loss and frameshift mutation was related to low expression of TP53 in contrast nonsynonymous mutation was related to high expression. The impact of TP53 mutation on clinical outcome varied with regard to ER status. In ER-positive BCs, wild type TP53 had a better prognosis than mutated TP53 (median overall survival (OS) (wild type vs. mutated): 88.5 ± 54.4 vs. 32.6 ± 10.7 (months), p = 0.002). In contrast, mutated TP53 had a protective effect in ER-negative BCs (median OS: 0.10 vs. 32.6 ± 8.2, p = 0.026). However, PIK3CA mutation did not affect patient survival. In gene expression analysis, CALM1, a potential regulator of AKT, was highly expressed in PIK3CA-mutated BCs. In conclusion, mutation of TP53 was associated with expression status and affect clinical outcome according to ER status in MBC. Although mutation of PIK3CA was not related to survival in this study, mutation of PIK3CA altered the expression of other genes and pathways including CALM1 and may be a potential predictive marker of PI3K inhibitor effectiveness.


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