Intra‐ and extra‐cranial BCOR‐ITD tumours are separate entities within the BCOR‐rearranged family

Autor: Yassine Bouchoucha, Arnault Tauziède‐Espariat, Arnaud Gauthier, Delphine Guillemot, Dorian Bochaton, Julien Vibert, Matthieu Carton, Sarah Watson, Sandrine Grossetête, Chloé Quignot, Daniel Orbach, Nadège Corradini, Gudrun Schleiermacher, Franck Bourdeaut, Marie Simbozel, Christelle Dufour, Véronique Minard‐Colin, Mehdi Brahmi, Franck Tirode, Daniel Pissaloux, Marie Karanian, Marie‐Christine Machet, Julien Masliah‐Planchon, Olivier Delattre, Liesbeth Cardoen, Gaëlle Pierron, François Doz
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: The Journal of Pathology: Clinical Research, Vol 8, Iss 3, Pp 217-232 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2056-4538
DOI: 10.1002/cjp2.255
Popis: Abstract BCOR‐ITD tumours form an emerging family of aggressive entities with an internal tandem duplication (ITD) in the last exon of the BCOR gene. The family includes cerebral tumours, termed central nervous system BCOR‐ITD (CNS BCOR‐ITD), and sarcomatous types described in the kidney as clear cell sarcoma of the kidney (CCSK), in the endometrium as high‐grade endometrial stromal sarcoma, and in the bone and soft tissue as undifferentiated round cell sarcoma or primitive myxoid mesenchymal tumour of infancy. Based on a series of 33 retrospective cases, including 10 CNS BCOR‐ITD and 23 BCOR‐ITD sarcomas, we interrogated the homogeneity of the entity regarding clinical, radiological, and histopathological findings, and molecular signatures. Whole‐transcriptomic sequencing and DNA methylation profiling were used for unsupervised clustering. BCOR‐ITD tumours mostly affected young children with a median age at diagnosis of 2.1 years (range 0–62.4). Median overall survival was 3.9 years and progression‐free survival was 1.4 years. This dismal prognosis is shared among tumours in all locations except CCSK. Histopathological review revealed marked differences between CNS BCOR‐ITD and BCOR‐ITD sarcomas. These two groups were consistently segregated by unsupervised clustering of expression (n = 22) and DNA methylation (n = 21) data. Proximity between the two groups may result from common somatic changes within key pathways directly related to the novel activity of the ITD itself. Conversely, comparison of gene signatures with single‐cell RNA‐Seq atlases suggests that the distinction between BCOR‐ITD sarcomas and CNS BCOR‐ITD may result from differences in cells of origin.
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