Gularte-Mérida, Rodrigo, Smith, Shaleigh, Bowman, Anita S, da Cruz Paula, Arnaud, Chatila, Walid, Bielski, Craig M, Vyas, Monika, Borsu, Laetitia, Zehir, Ahmet, Martelotto, Luciano G, Shia, Jinru, Yaeger, Rona, Fang, Fang, Gardner, Rui, Luo, Ruibang, Schatz, Michael C, Shen, Ronglai, Weigelt, Britta, Sánchez-Vega, Francisco, Reis-Filho, Jorge S, Hechtman, Jaclyn F (March 2022) Same-Cell Co-Occurrence of RAS Hotspot and BRAF V600E Mutations in Treatment-Naive Colorectal Cancer. JCO Precision Oncology, 6 (6). e2100365. ISSN 2473-4284
Abstract
PURPOSE: Mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway-activating mutations occur in the majority of colorectal cancer (CRC) cases and show mutual exclusivity. We identified 47 epidermal growth factor receptor/BRAF inhibitor-naive CRC patients with dual RAS hotspot/BRAF V600E mutations (CRC-DD) from a cohort of 4,561 CRC patients with clinical next-generation sequencing results. We aimed to define the molecular phenotypes of the CRC-DD and to test if the dual RAS hotspot/BRAF V600E mutations coexist within the same cell. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We developed a single-cell genotyping method with a mutation detection rate of 96.3% and a genotype prediction accuracy of 92.1%. Mutations in the CRC-DD cohort were analyzed for clonality, allelic imbalance, copy number, and overall survival. RESULTS: Application of single-cell genotyping to four CRC-DD revealed the co-occurrence of both mutations in the following percentages of cells per case: NRAS G13D/KRAS G12C, 95%; KRAS G12D/NRAS G12V, 48%; BRAF V600E/KRAS G12D, 44%; and KRAS G12D/NRAS G13V, 14%, respectively. Allelic imbalance favoring the oncogenic allele was less frequent in CRC-DD (24 of 76, 31.5%, somatic mutations) compared with a curated cohort of CRC with a single-driver mutation (CRC-SD; 119 of 232 mutations, 51.3%; P = .013). Microsatellite instability-high status was enriched in CRC-DD compared with CRC-SD (23% v 11.4%, P = .028). Of the seven CRC-DD cases with multiregional sequencing, five retained both driver mutations throughout all sequenced tumor sites. Both CRC-DD cases with discordant multiregional sequencing were microsatellite instability-high. CONCLUSION: Our findings indicate that dual-driver mutations occur in a rare subset of CRC, often within the same tumor cells and across multiple tumor sites. Their presence and a lower rate of allelic imbalance may be related to dose-dependent signaling within the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway.
| Item Type: | Paper |
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| Subjects: | bioinformatics diseases & disorders > cancer bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification diseases & disorders bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics diseases & disorders > cancer > cancer types > colorectal bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > mutations diseases & disorders > cancer > cancer types |
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| Communities: | CSHL labs > Schatz lab |
| SWORD Depositor: | CSHL Elements |
| Depositing User: | CSHL Elements |
| Date: | 2 March 2022 |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Mar 2022 15:04 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Jan 2024 20:22 |
| PMCID: | PMC8906458 |
| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/40550 |
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