
Åke Borg
Principal investigator

The mutational landscape of the SCAN‐B real‐world primary breast cancer transcriptome
Author
Summary, in English
Breast cancer is a disease of genomic alterations, of which the panorama of somatic mutations and how these relate to subtypes and therapy response is incompletely understood. Within SCAN‐B (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02306096), a prospective study elucidating the transcriptomic profiles for thousands of breast cancers, we developed a RNA‐seq pipeline for detection of SNVs/indels and profiled a real‐world cohort of 3,217 breast tumors. We describe the mutational landscape of primary breast cancer viewed through the transcriptome of a large population‐based cohort and relate it to patient survival. We demonstrate that RNA‐seq can be used to call mutations in genes such as PIK3CA, TP53, and ERBB2, as well as the status of molecular pathways and mutational burden, and identify potentially druggable mutations in 86.8% of tumors. To make this rich dataset available for the research community, we developed an open source web application, the SCAN‐B MutationExplorer (http://oncogenomics.bmc.lu.se/MutationExplorer). These results add another dimension to the use of RNA‐seq as a clinical tool, where both gene expression‐ and mutation‐based biomarkers can be interrogated in real‐time within 1 week of tumor sampling.
Department/s
- Translational Oncogenomics
- LUCC: Lund University Cancer Centre
- Transl oncogenomics
- Breastcancer-genetics
- Pathology, Lund
- Tumor Cell Biology
- Faculty office - The medical degree programme board
- Division of Translational Cancer Research
- Breast/ovarian cancer
- Breast cancer treatment
- The Liquid Biopsy and Tumor Progression in Breast Cancer
- Breast Cancer Surgery
- Surgery (Lund)
- Familial Breast Cancer
Publishing year
2020-09-14
Language
English
Publication/Series
EMBO Molecular Medicine
Volume
12
Issue
10
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Topic
- Cancer and Oncology
- Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bioinformatics (Computational Biology)
Keywords
- cancer
- breast cancer
- mutation
- RNA-seq
- survival
- transcriptome
Status
Published
Project
- Sweden Cancerome Analysis Network - Breast (SCAN-B): a large-scale multicenter infrastructure towards implementation of breast cancer genomic analyses in the clinical routine
- RNA sequencing for molecular diagnostics in breast cancer
Research group
- Translational Oncogenomics
- Tumor Cell Biology
- The Liquid Biopsy and Tumor Progression in Breast Cancer
- Breast Cancer Surgery
- Familial Breast Cancer
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1757-4684