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Title: Histotype-specific copy-number alterations in ovarian cancer.
Authors: Huang, R.Y 
Chen, G.B.
Matsumura, N.
Lai, H.C.
Mori, S.
Li, J.
Wong, M.K.
Konishi, I.
Thiery, J.P.
Goh,
Keywords: epidermal growth factor receptor 2
ERBB2 protein, human
Ras protein
TPM3 protein, human
tropomyosin
article
colloid carcinoma
copy number variation
cystadenocarcinoma
endometrioid carcinoma
female
genetics
human
metabolism
mutation
ovary tumor
pathology
Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous
Carcinoma, Endometrioid
Cystadenocarcinoma, Serous
DNA Copy Number Variations
Female
Humans
Mutation
Ovarian Neoplasms
ras Proteins
Receptor, erbB-2
Tropomyosin
Issue Date: 2012
Publisher: BMC
Citation: Huang, R.Y, Chen, G.B., Matsumura, N., Lai, H.C., Mori, S., Li, J., Wong, M.K., Konishi, I., Thiery, J.P., Goh, (2012). Histotype-specific copy-number alterations in ovarian cancer.. BMC medical genomics 5. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1186/1755-8794-5-47
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
Abstract: Epithelial ovarian cancer is characterized by multiple genomic alterations; most are passenger alterations which do not confer tumor growth. Like many cancers, it is a heterogeneous disease and can be broadly categorized into 4 main histotypes of clear cell, endometrioid, mucinous, and serous. To date, histotype-specific copy number alterations have been difficult to elucidate. The difficulty lies in having sufficient sample size in each histotype for statistical analyses. To dissect the heterogeneity of ovarian cancer and identify histotype-specific alterations, we used an in silico hypothesis-driven approach on multiple datasets of epithelial ovarian cancer. In concordance with previous studies on global copy number alterations landscape, the study showed similar alterations. However, when the landscape was de-convoluted into histotypes, distinct alterations were observed. We report here significant histotype-specific copy number alterations in ovarian cancer and showed that there is genomic diversity amongst the histotypes. 76 cancer genes were found to be significantly altered with several as potential copy number drivers, including ERBB2 in mucinous, and TPM3 in endometrioid histotypes. ERBB2 was found to have preferential alterations, where it was amplified in mucinous (28.6%) but deleted in serous tumors (15.1%). Validation of ERBB2 expression showed significant correlation with microarray data (p=0.007). There also appeared to be reciprocal relationship between KRAS mutation and copy number alterations. In mucinous tumors where KRAS mutation is common, the gene was not significantly altered. However, KRAS was significantly amplified in serous tumors where mutations are rare in high grade tumors. The study demonstrates that the copy number landscape is specific to the histotypes and identification of these alterations can pave the way for targeted drug therapy specific to the histotypes.
Source Title: BMC medical genomics
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/178156
ISSN: 1755-8794
DOI: 10.1186/1755-8794-5-47
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
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