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Structural Alterations Driving Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Revealed by Linked-Read Genome Sequencing

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Viswanathan, Srinivas R., Ha, Gavin, Hoff, Andreas M., Wala, Jeremiah A., Carrot-Zhang, Jian, Whelan, Christopher W., Haradhvala, Nicholas J., Freeman, Samuel S. +22 more·2018·Cell

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Nearly all prostate cancer deaths are from metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), but there have been few whole-genome sequencing (WGS) studies of this disease state. We performed linked-read WGS on 23 mCRPC biopsy specimens and analyzed cell-free DNA sequencing data from 86 patients with mCRPC. In addition to frequent rearrangements affecting known prostate cancer genes, we observed complex rearrangements of the AR locus in most cases. Unexpectedly, these rearrangements include highly recurrent tandem duplications involving an upstream enhancer of AR in 70%-87% of cases compared with <2% of primary prostate cancers. A subset of cases displayed AR or MYC enhancer duplication in the context of a genome-wide tandem duplicator phenotype associated with CDK12 inactivation. Our findings highlight the complex genomic structure of mCRPC, nominate alterations that may inform prostate cancer treatment, and suggest that additional recurrent events in the non-coding mCRPC genome remain to be discovered.

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Viswanathan, S. R., Ha, G., Hoff, A. M., Wala, J. A., Carrot-Zhang, J., Whelan, C. W., Haradhvala, N. J., Freeman, S. S., Reed, S. C., Rhoades, J., Polak, P., Cipicchio, M., Wankowicz, S. A., Wong, A., Kamath, T., Zhang, Z., Gydush, G. J., Rotem, D., Love, J. C., Getz, G., Gabriel, S., Zhang, C.-Z., Dehm, S. M., Nelson, P. S., Van Allen, E. M., Choudhury, A. D., Adalsteinsson, V. A., Beroukhim, R., Taplin, M.-E., & Meyerson, M.
Affiliations
  • Broad Institute (US)
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (US)
  • University of Minnesota (US)
  • Fred Hutch Cancer Center (US)
  • Harvard University (US)
Corresponding author
Meyerson, Matthew
Venue
Cell
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2018-07
Volume
174
Issue
2
Pages
433-447.e19
ISSN
0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2807985734
Cited by
365
References
65
Citations by year
2026: 17 · 2025: 28 · 2024: 47 · 2023: 48 · 2022: 59 · 2021: 51 · 2020: 53 · 2019: 45 · 2018: 16
FWCI
31.27
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cell (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Funders
  • Department of Defense (W81XWH-17-1-0358)
  • Prostate Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (MFE-140389)
  • Norwegian Cancer Society (PR-2007-0166)
  • NIH (K08 CA188615, R01CA174777, P01CA163227, NIH R01 CA215489)
  • NCI (R35 CA197568)
  • PCF-V Foundation
  • Movember
  • PCF
  • Gerstner Family Foundation
  • Prostate SPORE (P50CA097186)
  • Fund for Innovation in Cancer Informatics
  • American Cancer Society Research Professorship
  • American Association for Cancer Research (SU2C-AACR-DT0712)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Chromatin Remodeling and Cancer
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
Keywords
castration-resistant prostate cancer, metastatic prostate cancer, tandem duplication, genome rearrangement, cell-free DNA, linked-read sequencing
MeSH terms
Whole Genome Sequencing, Aged, Anilides, Enhancer Elements, Genetic, Haplotypes, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Neoplasm Metastasis, Phenotype, Pyridines, Receptors, Androgen, Gene Rearrangement, Genes, myc, Prostate-Specific Antigen, Cyclin-Dependent Kinases, Gene Duplication, Protein Kinase Inhibitors, PTEN Phosphohydrolase, Genetic Loci, Prostatic Neoplasms, Castration-Resistant

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