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ArticleNPJ precision oncology2021

Hypermutated phenotype in gliosarcoma of the spinal cord.

Christopher S Hong, Gregory A Kuzmik, Adam J Kundishora, Aladine A Elsamadicy, Andrew B Koo, Declan McGuone, Nicholas A Blondin, Michael L DiLuna, E Zeynep Erson-Omay

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Article in NPJ precision oncology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christopher S HongDepartment of Neurosurgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA.
Gregory A KuzmikDepartment of Neurosurgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA.
Adam J KundishoraDepartment of Neurosurgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA.
Aladine A ElsamadicyDepartment of Neurosurgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA.
Andrew B KooDepartment of Neurosurgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA.
Declan McGuoneDepartment of Pathology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA.
Nicholas A BlondinDepartment of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA.
Michael L DiLunaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA. michael.diluna@yale.edu.
E Zeynep Erson-OmayDepartment of Neurosurgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA. zeynep.erson@yale.edu.
Yale University · US

Funding

Yale Clinical and Translational Science Award (U Component)UL1TR001863 · NCATS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI John H. Krystal, LUCILA OHNO-MACHADO · 2016 to 2026
$102.9M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001863
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gliosarcoma is a variant of glioblastoma with equally poor prognosis and characterized by mixed glial and mesenchymal pathology. Metastasis is not uncommon but the involvement of the spinal cord is rare, and comprehensive genetic characterization of spinal gliosarcoma is lacking. We describe a patient initially diagnosed with a low-grade brain glioma via biopsy, followed by adjuvant radiation and temozolomide treatment. Nearly 2 years after diagnosis, she developed neurological deficits from an intradural, extramedullary tumor anterior to the spinal cord at T4, which was resected and diagnosed as gliosarcoma. Whole-exome sequencing (WES) of this tumor revealed a hypermutated phenotype, characterized by somatic mutations in key DNA mismatch repair (MMR) pathway genes, an abundance of C>T transitions within the identified somatic single nucleotide variations, and microsatellite stability, together consistent with temozolomide-mediated hypermutagenesis. This is the first report of a hypermutator phenotype in gliosarcoma, which may represent a novel genomic mechanism of progression from lower grade glioma.

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PMID33580181
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