Cited by 251Sarcoma Diagnosis and TreatmentCancer Immunotherapy and BiomarkersBone Tumor Diagnosis and Treatments

Immuno-genomic landscape of osteosarcoma

Open access
Wu, Chia-Chin, Beird, Hannah C., Andrew Livingston, J., Advani, Shailesh, Mitra, Akash, Cao, Shaolong, Reuben, Alexandre, Ingram, Davis +18 more·2020·Nature Communications

Abstract

Limited clinical activity has been seen in osteosarcoma (OS) patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI). To gain insights into the immunogenic potential of these tumors, we conducted whole genome, RNA, and T-cell receptor sequencing, immunohistochemistry and reverse phase protein array profiling (RPPA) on OS specimens from 48 pediatric and adult patients with primary, relapsed, and metastatic OS. Median immune infiltrate level was lower than in other tumor types where ICI are effective, with concomitant low T-cell receptor clonalities. Neoantigen expression in OS was lacking and significantly associated with high levels of nonsense-mediated decay (NMD). Samples with low immune infiltrate had higher number of deleted genes while those with high immune infiltrate expressed higher levels of adaptive resistance pathways. PARP2 expression levels were significantly negatively associated with the immune infiltrate. Together, these data reveal multiple immunosuppressive features of OS and suggest immunotherapeutic opportunities in OS patients.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1038/s41467-020-14646-w

Cites

59 of 59 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • A recent comprehensive characterization of the immuno-genomic landscape of osteosarcoma suggests that the majority of osteosarcomas are "cold" tumors, with low levels of immune cell infiltration, low-to-moderate tumor mutation burden and lack of neoantigen expression.

    “A recent and comprehensive characterization of the immuno-genomic landscape of osteosarcoma suggests that the majority of osteosarcomas are “cold” tumors, with low levels of immune cell infiltration, low-to-moderate tumor mutation burden and lack of neoantigen expression [24].”

    From Pembrolizumab in advanced osteosarcoma: results of a single-arm, open-label, phase 2 trial (2021) · cites this paper as [24]

    Split into 2 atoms — 0 confirmed, 2 partially supported, 0 disputed, 0 misattributed, 0 unverifiable. Expand the claim to see per-atom verdicts.

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured
  • Due to high heterogeneity of somatic mutations in osteosarcoma, a tumor-agnostic MRD panel would compromise sensitivity.

    “However, due to the high heterogeneity of somatic mutations in osteosarcoma,14,15 the use of a tumor-agnostic MRD panel would compromise sensitivity, leading to reduced sequencing depth and overlooking unique somatic variants.”
  • There are likely multiple immune-suppressive mechanisms in play in osteosarcoma.

    “Besides, there are likely multiple immune-suppressive mechanisms in play in osteosarcoma [75].”

    From Advances on immunotherapy for osteosarcoma (2024) · cites this paper as [75]

  • Osteosarcoma tumours often show signs of whole-genome duplication, which probably occurs in response to stresses imposed by pervasive copy number losses.

    “Osteosarcoma tumours often show signs of whole-genome duplication, which probably occurs in response to stresses imposed by pervasive copy number losses 36 .”

    From Osteosarcoma (2022) · cites this paper as [36]

  • Deletion of ATRX seems to activate alternative lengthening of telomeres and is associated with decreased survival in osteosarcoma.

    “deletion of ATRX, which seems to activate alternative lengthening of telomeres and is associated with decreased survival 36,43 .”

    From Osteosarcoma (2022) · cites this paper as [36]

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

1 of the 60 references couldn’t be matched to a known paper.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Wu, C.-C., Beird, H. C., Andrew Livingston, J., Advani, S., Mitra, A., Cao, S., Reuben, A., Ingram, D., Wang, W.-L., Ju, Z., Hong Leung, C., Lin, H., Zheng, Y., Roszik, J., Wang, W., Patel, S., Benjamin, R. S., Somaiah, N., Conley, A. P., Mills, G. B., Hwu, P., Gorlick, R., Lazar, A., Daw, N. C., Lewis, V., & Futreal, P. A.
Affiliations
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (US)
Corresponding author
Futreal, P. Andrew
Venue
Nature Communications
Published
2020-02-21
Volume
11
Issue
1
Pages
1008-1008
ISSN
2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3006860236
Cited by
251
References
60
Citations by year
2026: 27 · 2025: 39 · 2024: 44 · 2023: 30 · 2022: 44 · 2021: 48 · 2020: 19
FWCI
19.87
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
  • A Shelter for Cancer Families
  • Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (R120501)
  • QuadW Foundation
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Rheumatology › Bone Tumor Diagnosis and Treatments
Keywords
osteosarcoma, tumor immune microenvironment, immune checkpoint inhibitors, T-cell receptor clonality, neoantigens, nonsense-mediated mRNA decay, immune cell infiltration, PARP2, immunosuppression, pediatric osteosarcoma, immunotherapy
MeSH terms
Whole Genome Sequencing, RNA-Seq, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Bone Neoplasms, Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Mutation, Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, Osteosarcoma, Cohort Studies, Immunogenetic Phenomena, Young Adult

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review