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Limited heterogeneity of known driver gene mutations among the metastases of individual patients with pancreatic cancer

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Makohon-Moore, Alvin P, Zhang, Ming, Reiter, Johannes G, Bozic, Ivana, Allen, Benjamin, Kundu, Deepanjan, Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Wong, Fay +12 more·2017·Nature Genetics

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The extent of heterogeneity among driver gene mutations present in naturally occurring metastases-that is, treatment-naive metastatic disease-is largely unknown. To address this issue, we carried out 60× whole-genome sequencing of 26 metastases from four patients with pancreatic cancer. We found that identical mutations in known driver genes were present in every metastatic lesion for each patient studied. Passenger gene mutations, which do not have known or predicted functional consequences, accounted for all intratumoral heterogeneity. Even with respect to these passenger mutations, our analysis suggests that the genetic similarity among the founding cells of metastases was higher than that expected for any two cells randomly taken from a normal tissue. The uniformity of known driver gene mutations among metastases in the same patient has critical and encouraging implications for the success of future targeted therapies in advanced-stage disease.

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Makohon-Moore, A. P., Zhang, M., Reiter, J. G., Bozic, I., Allen, B., Kundu, D., Chatterjee, K., Wong, F., Jiao, Y., Kohutek, Z. A., Hong, J., Attiyeh, M., Javier, B., Wood, L. D., Hruban, R. H., Nowak, M. A., Papadopoulos, N., Kinzler, K. W., Vogelstein, B., & Iacobuzio-Donahue, C. A.
Affiliations
  • Johns Hopkins University (US)
  • Harvard University (US)
  • Institute of Science and Technology Austria (AT)
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (US)
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
Venue
Nature Genetics
Published
2017-01-16
Volume
49
Issue
3
Pages
358-366
ISSN
  • 1061-4036 (ISSN-L)
  • 1546-1718
OpenAlex
W2576896693
Cited by
403
References
63
Citations by year
2026: 17 · 2025: 35 · 2024: 34 · 2023: 38 · 2022: 37 · 2021: 54 · 2020: 55 · 2019: 33 · 2018: 62 · 2017: 37
FWCI
17.16
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature Genetics (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  • National Cancer Institute (T32CA160001, R01CA179991, F31CA180682, R37CA043460, P50CA062924, P30CA008748)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Chromatin Remodeling and Cancer
Keywords
pancreatic cancer, metastasis, intratumoral heterogeneity, driver mutations, passenger mutations, clonal evolution, primary tumor, targeted therapy, cancer genomics
MeSH terms
Humans, Mutation, Neoplasm Metastasis, Pancreatic Neoplasms

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