作者
De-Chen Lin, Xuan Meng, Masaharu Hazawa, Yasunobu Nagata, Ana Maria Varela, Liang Xu, Yusuke Sato, Li-Zhen Liu, Ling-Wen Ding, Arjun Sharma, Boon Cher Goh, Soo Chin Lee, Bengt Fredrik Petersson, Feng Gang Yu, Paul Macary, Min Zin Oo, Chan Soh Ha, Henry Yang, Seishi Ogawa, Kwok Seng Loh, H Phillip Koeffler
发表日期
2014/8
期刊
Nature genetics
卷号
46
期号
8
页码范围
866-871
出版商
Nature Publishing Group US
简介
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) has extremely skewed ethnic and geographic distributions, is poorly understood at the genetic level and is in need of effective therapeutic approaches. Here we determined the mutational landscape of 128 cases with NPC using whole-exome and targeted deep sequencing, as well as SNP array analysis. These approaches revealed a distinct mutational signature and nine significantly mutated genes, many of which have not been implicated previously in NPC. Notably, integrated analysis showed enrichment of genetic lesions affecting several important cellular processes and pathways, including chromatin modification, ERBB-PI3K signaling and autophagy machinery. Further functional studies suggested the biological relevance of these lesions to the NPC malignant phenotype. In addition, we uncovered a number of new druggable candidates because of their genomic …
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