| Autor: |
Kaseb H; Department of Clinical Sciences Pathology, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, Florida, USA.; Department of Pathology, University of Central Florida Lake Nona Hospital, Orlando, Florida, USA., Tan C; Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA., Townsend JP; Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA., Costa J; Department of Pathology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA., Laskin WB; Department of Pathology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. |
| Abstrakt: |
Background: Osteosarcoma (OS), the most common primary malignant bone tumor, occurs mostly in the pediatric and adolescent (P/A) population where it has been subject to intense study whereas OS arising in the older-aged adult population has undergone less scrutiny. Materials and Methods: In this study, we assess the molecular aberrations detected in eight older adult patients (>59 years of age) with OS of bone by whole-exome sequencing (WES) on formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue and quantified the contributions of endogenous and exogenous mutational processes to tumor mutational burden and to tumorigenesis through computational analysis. Results: We identified 86 clinically significant somatic mutations. TP53 mutations occurred in OSs of three patients and one patient harbored a pathogenic germline mutation of TP53 . Loss-of-heterozygosity of DNA-damage repair genes occurred in all six tumors evaluated. Computational analysis of single nucleotide variants within each tumor detected eight distinct mutagenic processes of which age-associated mutational processes, thiopurine chemotherapy, and defective homologous DNA recombination repair contributed the most to both tumor mutation burden and tumor pathogenesis. Conclusion: The genomic landscape of our older OS patients deciphered by WES is extremely diverse with only 15% of mutated somatic genes uncovered in our study previously described in P/A-enriched OS studies. Endogenous age-related mutagenic processes, defective DNA homologous recombination repair, and exogenous effects of chemotherapy are mainly responsible for pathogenic mutations in OS occurring in our cohort. |
