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Patterns of structural variation define prostate cancer across disease states
Meng Zhou, Minjeong Ko, Anna C.H. Hoge, Kelsey Luu, Yuzhen Liu, Magdalena L. Russell, William W. Hannon, Zhenwei Zhang, Jian Carrot-Zhang, Rameen Beroukhim, Eliezer M. Van Allen, Atish D. Choudhury, Peter S. Nelson, Matthew L. Freedman, Mary-Ellen Taplin, Matthew Meyerson, Srinivas R. Viswanathan, Gavin Ha
Meng Zhou, Minjeong Ko, Anna C.H. Hoge, Kelsey Luu, Yuzhen Liu, Magdalena L. Russell, William W. Hannon, Zhenwei Zhang, Jian Carrot-Zhang, Rameen Beroukhim, Eliezer M. Van Allen, Atish D. Choudhury, Peter S. Nelson, Matthew L. Freedman, Mary-Ellen Taplin, Matthew Meyerson, Srinivas R. Viswanathan, Gavin Ha
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Research Article Genetics Oncology

Patterns of structural variation define prostate cancer across disease states

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Abstract

The complex genomic landscape of prostate cancer evolves across disease states under therapeutic pressure directed toward inhibiting androgen receptor (AR) signaling. While significantly altered genes in prostate cancer have been extensively defined, there have been fewer systematic analyses of how structural variation shapes the genomic landscape of this disease across disease states. We uniformly characterized structural alterations across 531 localized and 143 metastatic prostate cancers profiled by whole genome sequencing, 125 metastatic samples of which were also profiled via whole transcriptome sequencing. We observed distinct significantly recurrent breakpoints in localized and metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancers (mCRPC), with pervasive alterations in noncoding regions flanking the AR, MYC, FOXA1, and LSAMP genes enriched in mCRPC and TMPRSS2-ERG rearrangements enriched in localized prostate cancer. We defined 9 subclasses of mCRPC based on signatures of structural variation, each associated with distinct genetic features and clinical outcomes. Our results comprehensively define patterns of structural variation in prostate cancer and identify clinically actionable subgroups based on whole genome profiling.

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Meng Zhou, Minjeong Ko, Anna C.H. Hoge, Kelsey Luu, Yuzhen Liu, Magdalena L. Russell, William W. Hannon, Zhenwei Zhang, Jian Carrot-Zhang, Rameen Beroukhim, Eliezer M. Van Allen, Atish D. Choudhury, Peter S. Nelson, Matthew L. Freedman, Mary-Ellen Taplin, Matthew Meyerson, Srinivas R. Viswanathan, Gavin Ha

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Study overview of prostate cancer across disease stages and the genomic landscape of mCRPC.

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(A) Workflow of study and data analysis. Tumor specimens (gray) from both primary prostate cancer and mCRPC were included in this study. Linked-read and short-read WGS and RNA-Seq data sets were either generated for this study or reanalyzed from prior studies (9, 33). An overview of the genomic alteration and characterization analysis is shown. (B) Clinical annotations and somatic alterations for 143 patient samples in the pooled mCRPC cohort. Samples are ordered by treatment type; the 4 patients with pretreatment and post-progression pairs are placed at the right. Top: Clinical and sample information and genomic pattern classifications, including neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) and androgen receptor pathway active prostate cancer (ARPC). Middle: Distribution of genomic rearrangement types in individual samples. Bottom: Mutational burden for SNVs and indels computed as number of mutations per mega–base pair (Mb). Y axis shown in logarithmic scale. Threshold lines indicate mutational burden at 2.5 and 5 mutations per Mb. (C) Genomic rearrangement alteration profiles of key mCRPC genes. Top: Events were categorized into gene transecting or gene flanking based on the overlap of breakpoints with the gene body and flanking 1 Mb of either the transcription start site or the termination site of the gene. Only 159 genes reported and known to be involved in prostate cancer were considered in this analysis (Supplemental Table 1, G and H). Middle: Frequency and distribution of rearrangement types for gene transecting events; genes with ≥10% frequency are shown. Gene transecting events were prioritized over flanking events during annotation. The category “Multiple” represents gene-sample pairs carrying more than 1 type of rearrangement event. Bottom: Frequency of gene flanking events by tandem duplication; genes with ≥10% are shown.

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