Title
Comparative Genomics Reveals Shared Mutational Landscape in Canine Hemangiosarcoma and Human Angiosarcoma
UMMS Affiliation
Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology; Program in Molecular Medicine
Publication Date
2019-09-30
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology | Cancer Biology | Computational Biology | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Genetics and Genomics | Integrative Biology | Neoplasms
Abstract
Angiosarcoma is a highly aggressive cancer of blood vessel-forming cells with few effective treatment options and high patient mortality. It is both rare and heterogenous, making large, well-powered genomic studies nearly impossible. Dogs commonly suffer from a similar cancer, called hemangiosarcoma, with breeds like the golden retriever carrying heritable genetic factors that put them at high risk. If the clinical similarity of canine hemangiosarcoma and human angiosarcoma reflects shared genomic etiology, dogs could be a critically needed model for advancing angiosarcoma research. We assessed the genomic landscape of canine hemangiosarcoma via whole-exome sequencing (47 golden retriever hemangiosarcomas) and RNA sequencing (74 hemangiosarcomas from multiple breeds). Somatic coding mutations occurred most frequently in the tumor suppressor TP53 (59.6% of cases) as well as two genes in the PI3K pathway: the oncogene PIK3CA (29.8%) and its regulatory subunit PIK3R1 (8.5%). The predominant mutational signature was the age-associated deamination of cytosine to thymine. As reported in human angiosarcoma, CDKN2A/B was recurrently deleted and VEGFA, KDR, and KIT recurrently gained. We compared the canine data to human data recently released by The Angiosarcoma Project, and found many of the same genes and pathways significantly enriched for somatic mutations, particularly in breast and visceral angiosarcomas. Canine hemangiosarcoma closely models the genomic landscape of human angiosarcoma of the breast and viscera, and is a powerful tool for investigating the pathogenesis of this devastating disease.
IMPLICATIONS: We characterize the genomic landscape of canine hemangiosarcoma and demonstrate its similarity to human angiosarcoma.
DOI of Published Version
10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-19-0221
Source
Mol Cancer Res. 2019 Sep 30. doi: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-19-0221. [Epub ahead of print] Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Molecular cancer research : MCR
Related Resources
PubMed ID
31570656
Repository Citation
Megquier K, Karlsson EK, Lindblad-Toh K. (2019). Comparative Genomics Reveals Shared Mutational Landscape in Canine Hemangiosarcoma and Human Angiosarcoma. Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology Publications and Presentations. https://doi.org/10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-19-0221. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/bioinformatics_pubs/159
Comments
Full author list omitted for brevity. For the full list of authors, see article.