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Canine osteosarcoma genome sequencing identifies recurrent mutations in DMD and the histone methyltransferase gene SETD2

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Gardner, Heather L., Sivaprakasam, Karthigayini, Briones, Natalia, Zismann, Victoria, Perdigones, Nieves, Drenner, Kevin, Facista, Salvatore, Richholt, Ryan +13 more·2019·Communications Biology

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Osteosarcoma (OS) is a rare, metastatic, human adolescent cancer that also occurs in pet dogs. To define the genomic underpinnings of canine OS, we performed multi-platform analysis of OS tumors from 59 dogs, including whole genome sequencing (n = 24) and whole exome sequencing (WES;n = 13) of primary tumors and matched normal tissue, WES (n = 10) of matched primary/metastatic/normal samples and RNA sequencing (n = 54) of primary tumors. We found that canine OS recapitulates features of human OS including low point mutation burden (median 1.98 per Mb) with a trend towards higher burden in metastases, high structural complexity, frequent TP53(71%), PI3K pathway (37%), and MAPK pathway mutations (17%), and low expression of immune-associated genes. We also identified novel features of canine OS including putatively inactivating somatic SETD2(42%) and DMD(50%) aberrations. These findings set the stage for understanding OS development in dogs and humans, and establish genomic contexts for future comparative analyses.

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Gardner, H. L., Sivaprakasam, K., Briones, N., Zismann, V., Perdigones, N., Drenner, K., Facista, S., Richholt, R., Liang, W., Aldrich, J., Trent, J. M., Shields, P. G., Robinson, N., Johnson, J., Lana, S., Houghton, P., Fenger, J., Lorch, G., Janeway, K. A., London, C. A., & Hendricks, W. P. D.
Affiliations
  • Tufts University (US)
  • Translational Genomics Research Institute (US)
  • The Ohio State University (US)
  • Broad Institute (US)
  • Colorado State University (US)
  • The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center (US)
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (US)
Corresponding author
Hendricks, William P. D.
Venue
Communications Biology
Published
2019-07-19
Volume
2
Issue
1
Pages
266-266
ISSN
2399-3642 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2963498060
Cited by
120
References
82
Citations by year
2026: 11 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 4
FWCI
10.65
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Communications Biology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (P30CA006516, CA006516)
  • National Institutes of Health (UL1TR002733, K01OD019923, CA 006516, CA016058)
  • NIH Office of the Director (K01OD019923, P30 CA016058)
  • National Cancer Institute (CA016058, P01CA165995, CA006516, P30CA016058, P30CA006516)
  • National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Veterinary Oncology Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
Keywords
canine osteosarcoma, canine cancer, DMD gene mutations, SETD2, histone methyltransferase, somatic mutations, TP53, PI3K signaling, MAPK signaling, metastasis, comparative oncology
MeSH terms
Whole Genome Sequencing, Animals, Bone Neoplasms, Dogs, Mutation, Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase, Osteosarcoma, Dystrophin

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