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ArticleMolecular oncology2023

Analysis of genomic and immune intratumor heterogeneity in linitis plastica via multiregional exome and T-cell receptor sequencing.

Jin Huang, Guofeng Zhao, Qiu Peng, Xin Yi, Liyan Ji, Jing Li, Pansong Li, Yanfang Guan, Jie Ge, Ling Chen and 9 more

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Article in Molecular oncology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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19 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Jin HuangThe Hunan Provincial Key Lab of Precision Diagnosis and Treatment for Gastrointestinal Tumor, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
Guofeng ZhaoGeneplus-Beijing Institute, Beijing, China.
Qiu PengCancer Research Institute, School of Basic Medical Science, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Xin YiGeneplus-Beijing Institute, Beijing, China.
Liyan JiGeneplus-Beijing Institute, Beijing, China.
Jing LiGeneplus-Beijing Institute, Beijing, China.
Pansong LiGeneplus-Beijing Institute, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-6278-5179
Yanfang GuanGeneplus-Beijing Institute, Beijing, China.
Jie GeDepartment of General Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Ling ChenDepartment of General Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Runzhe ChenDepartment of Thoracic and Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0678-980X
Xin HuDepartment of Thoracic and Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Won-Chul LeeDepartment of Thoracic and Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Alexandre ReubenDepartment of Thoracic and Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
P Andrew FutrealDepartment of Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Xuefeng XiaGeneplus-Beijing, Beijing, China.
Jian MaThe Hunan Provincial Key Lab of Precision Diagnosis and Treatment for Gastrointestinal Tumor, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
Jianjun ZhangDepartment of Thoracic and Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Zihua ChenThe Hunan Provincial Key Lab of Precision Diagnosis and Treatment for Gastrointestinal Tumor, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8467-7742
Annoroad Gene Technology (China) · CNCentral South University · CNThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The molecular landscape and the intratumor heterogeneity (ITH) architecture of gastric linitis plastica (LP) are poorly understood. We performed whole-exome sequencing (WES) and T-cell receptor (TCR) sequencing on 40 tumor regions from four LP patients. The landscape and ITH at the genomic and immunological levels in LP tumors were compared with multiple cancers that have previously been reported. The lymphocyte infiltration was further assessed by immunohistochemistry (IHC) in LP tumors. In total, we identified 6339 non-silent mutations from multi-samples, with a median tumor mutation burden (TMB) of 3.30 mutations per Mb, comparable to gastric adenocarcinoma from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) cohort (P = 0.53). An extremely high level of genomic ITH was observed, with only 12.42%, 5.37%, 5.35%, and 30.67% of mutations detectable across 10 regions within the same tumors of each patient, respectively. TCR sequencing revealed that TCR clonality was substantially lower in LP than in multi-cancers. IHC using antibodies against CD4, CD8, and PD-L1 demonstrated scant T-cell infiltration in the four LP tumors. Furthermore, profound TCR ITH was observed in all LP tumors, with no T-cell clones shared across tumor regions in any of the patients, while over 94% of T-cell clones were restricted to individual tumor regions. The Morisita overlap index (MOI) ranged from 0.21 to 0.66 among multi-regions within the same tumors, significantly lower than that of lung cancer (P = 0.002). Our results show that LP harbored extremely high genomic and TCR ITH and suppressed T-cell infiltration, suggesting a potential contribution to the frequent recurrence and poor therapeutic response of this adenocarcinoma.

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Linitis PlasticaStomach NeoplasmsExome SequencingGenes, T-Cell ReceptorGenetic HeterogeneityHumansMutationTumor Microenvironmentgastric linitis plasticaintratumor heterogeneitymultiregional whole-exome sequencingT-cell receptor repertoires

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