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Nuevas mutaciones somáticas y de la línea germinal en tumores intracraneales de células germinales

Linghua Wang¹, Shigeru Yamaguchi², Matthew D Burstein³

¹Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.

|June 5, 2014

Resumen

Los tumores intracraneales de células germinales (IGCT) son cánceres cerebrales raros. El análisis genómico revela mutaciones frecuentes en las vías KIT/RAS y AKT/mTOR, ofreciendo nuevas dianas terapéuticas para esta enfermedad.

Área de la Ciencia:

Neuro-oncología y neuro-oncología.
La genómica es la genómica.
Biología molecular La biología molecular.

Sus antecedentes:

Los tumores intracraneales de células germinales (IGCT) son tumores cerebrales raros y heterogéneos con distintas distribuciones geográficas y de género.
Se sabe poco sobre los IGCT debido a la limitación de muestras de investigación, a pesar de su similitud clínica con los tumores de células germinales gonadales.

Objetivo del estudio:

Para dilucidar los fundamentos moleculares de los tumores intracraneales de células germinales (IGCT).
Identificar posibles objetivos terapéuticos para los IGCT.

Principales métodos:

Secuenciación de próxima generación.
Una matriz de polimorfismo de un solo nucleótido.
Análisis de matriz de expresiones de 62 casos de IGCT.

Principales resultados:

Más del 50% de los IGCTs albergan mutaciones en la vía de señalización KIT/RAS, incluidas nuevas mutaciones en KIT, KRAS, NRAS y CBL.
Se identificaron alteraciones somáticas en la vía AKT / mTOR, incluidas ganancias en el número de copias AKT1 en el 19% de los pacientes.
Se observaron mutaciones de pérdida de función en BCORL1 y enriquecimiento de variantes de línea germinal en JMJD1C en pacientes japoneses con IGCT.

Conclusiones:

Este estudio proporciona una base molecular para la comprensión de la biología IGCT.
La inhibición de la activación de KIT/RAS y la vía AKT1/mTOR presenta estrategias terapéuticas prometedoras para los IGCT.

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