Integrated clinical and genomic analysis identifies driver events and molecular evolution of colitis-associated cancers Journal Article


Authors: Chatila, W. K.; Walch, H.; Hechtman, J. F.; Moyer, S. M.; Sgambati, V.; Faleck, D. M.; Srivastava, A.; Tang, L.; Benhamida, J.; Ismailgeci, D.; Campos, C.; Wu, F.; Chang, Q.; Vakiani, E.; de Stanchina, E.; Weiser, M. R.; Widmar, M.; Yantiss, R. K.; Shah, M. A.; Bass, A. J.; Stadler, Z. K.; Katz, L. H.; Mellinghoff, I. K.; Sethi, N. S.; Schultz, N.; Ganesh, K.; Kelsen, D.; Yaeger, R.
Article Title: Integrated clinical and genomic analysis identifies driver events and molecular evolution of colitis-associated cancers
Abstract: Inflammation has long been recognized to contribute to cancer development, particularly across the gastrointestinal tract. Patients with inflammatory bowel disease have an increased risk for bowel cancers, and it has been posited that a field of genetic changes may underlie this risk. Here, we define the clinical features, genomic landscape, and germline alterations in 174 patients with colitis-associated cancers and sequenced 29 synchronous or isolated dysplasia. TP53 alterations, an early and highly recurrent event in colitis-associated cancers, occur in half of dysplasia, largely as convergent evolution of independent events. Wnt pathway alterations are infrequent, and our data suggest transcriptional rewiring away from Wnt. Sequencing of multiple dysplasia/cancer lesions from mouse models and patients demonstrates rare shared alterations between lesions. These findings suggest neoplastic bowel lesions developing in a background of inflammation experience lineage plasticity away from Wnt activation early during tumorigenesis and largely occur as genetically independent events. © 2023, The Author(s).
Keywords: genetics; mouse; animal; animals; mice; inflammation; evolution; evolution, molecular; molecular evolution; hyperplasia; genomics; inflammatory bowel diseases; complication; inflammatory bowel disease; cancer; convergent evolution; colitis-associated neoplasms
Journal Title: Nature Communications
Volume: 14
ISSN: 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group  
Date Published: 2023-01-07
Start Page: 110
Language: English
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-35592-9
PUBMED: 36611031
PROVIDER: scopus
PMCID: PMC9825391
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Notes: Article -- MSK Cancer Center Support Grant (P30 CA008748) acknowledged in PubMed and PDF -- MSK corresponding author is Rona Yaeger -- Export Date: 1 February 2023 -- Source: Scopus
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  1. Zsofia Kinga Stadler
    393 Stadler
  2. Martin R Weiser
    539 Weiser
  3. Rona Denit Yaeger
    323 Yaeger
  4. Laura Hong Tang
    448 Tang
  5. Qing Chang
    37 Chang
  6. Efsevia Vakiani
    265 Vakiani
  7. David P Kelsen
    538 Kelsen
  8. Nikolaus D Schultz
    491 Schultz
  9. Carl Campos
    37 Campos
  10. Jaclyn Frances Hechtman
    212 Hechtman
  11. Karuna   Ganesh
    68 Ganesh
  12. Maria   Widmar
    77 Widmar
  13. Walid Khaled Chatila
    103 Chatila
  14. David M. Faleck
    51 Faleck
  15. Henry Stuart Walch
    100 Walch
  16. Fan Wu
    18 Wu