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Åke Borg

Åke Borg

Principal investigator

Åke Borg

Molecular stratification of metastatic melanoma using gene expression profiling: prediction of survival outcome and benefit from molecular targeted therapy.

Author

  • Helena Cirenajwis
  • Henrik Ekedahl
  • Martin Lauss
  • Katja Harbst
  • Ana Carneiro
  • Jens Enoksson
  • Frida Rosengren
  • Linda Werner Hartman
  • Therese Törngren
  • Anders Kvist
  • Erik Fredlund
  • Pär-Ola Bendahl
  • Karin Jirström
  • Lotta Lundgren
  • Jillian Howlin
  • Åke Borg
  • Sofia Gruvberger
  • Lao Saal
  • Kari Nielsen
  • Markus Ringnér
  • Hensin Tsao
  • Håkan Olsson
  • Christian Ingvar
  • Johan Staaf
  • Göran B Jönsson
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Summary, in English

Melanoma is currently divided on a genetic level according to mutational status. However, this classification does not optimally predict prognosis. In prior studies, we have defined gene expression phenotypes (high-immune, pigmentation, proliferative and normal-like), which are predictive of survival outcome as well as informative of biology. Herein, we employed a population-based metastatic melanoma cohort and external cohorts to determine the prognostic and predictive significance of the gene expression phenotypes. We performed expression profiling on 214 cutaneous melanoma tumors and found an increased risk of developing distant metastases in the pigmentation (HR, 1.9; 95% CI, 1.05-3.28; P=0.03) and proliferative (HR, 2.8; 95% CI, 1.43-5.57; P=0.003) groups as compared to the high-immune response group. Further genetic characterization of melanomas using targeted deep-sequencing revealed similar mutational patterns across these phenotypes. We also used publicly available expression profiling data from melanoma patients treated with targeted or vaccine therapy in order to determine if our signatures predicted therapeutic response. In patients receiving targeted therapy, melanomas resistant to targeted therapy were enriched in the MITF-low proliferative subtype as compared to pre-treatment biopsies (P=0.02). In summary, the melanoma gene expression phenotypes are highly predictive of survival outcome and can further help to discriminate patients responding to targeted therapy.

Department/s

  • Melanoma Genomics
  • Breastcancer-genetics
  • Surgery (Lund)
  • Tumor microenvironment
  • Medical oncology
  • BioCARE: Biomarkers in Cancer Medicine improving Health Care, Education and Innovation
  • EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health

Publishing year

2015

Language

English

Pages

12297-12309

Publication/Series

Oncotarget

Volume

6

Issue

14

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Impact Journals

Topic

  • Cancer and Oncology

Status

Published

Research group

  • Melanoma Genomics

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1949-2553