Journal Article

Assessing the genomic feature of Chinese patients with ampullary adenocarcinoma: potential therapeutic targets

Minghui, Dou, Zhimin, Geng, Chen, Chen, Longxi, Quan, Jiawei, Yuan, Mengke, Li, Chong, Wan, Liu, Jia, Qi, Li, Dong, Zhang, Hengchao, Liu

2024

Overview

Backgrounds Ampullary adenocarcinoma (AMPAC) is a rare malignancy, treated as pancreatic or intestinal cancer based on its histologic subtype. Little is known about the genomic features of Chinese patients with AMPAC. Materials and methods We enrolled 145 Chinese AMPAC patients in our local cohort and performed a compressive somatic and germline genetic testing using a 156 gene panel. Expression of PD-L1 (clone 28 − 8) was also assessed in tumor specimens from 64 patients. Results The frequency of genetic alterations (GAs) in Chinese patients with AMPAC was found to be distinctive, with TP53 , KRAS , SMAD4 , APC , CTNNB1 , ARID1A , and CDKN2A emerged as the most frequently mutated genes. Comparing with Western patients, significant differences were observed in the prevalence of PIK3CA and ARID2 . Furthermore, the incidence of MSI-H was lower in the Chinese cohort, with only two patients identified as MSI-H. Conversely, 11 patients (8.27%) had pathogenic/likely pathogenic germline alterations, all of which were in the DNA damage response (DDR) pathway. In our cohort, 34.48% (22/64) of patients exhibited positive PD-L1 expression in tumor cells, and this expression was associated with GAs in CTNNB1 and BLM . Importantly, over three-fourths of Chinese AMPAC patients in our study had at least one actionable GA, with more than one-fifth of them having actionable GAs classified as Level 3. These actionable GAs were primarily involved in the DDR and PI3K pathways. Notably, GAs in the DDR pathway were detected in both Chinese and Western patients, and regardless of their functional impact, these alterations demonstrated enhanced overall survival rates and higher tumor mutational burden (TMB) levels. Conclusion These findings underscore the distinct genomic landscape of Chinese AMPAC patients and highlight the potential for targeted therapies based on the identified GAs.

• Publisher: BioMed Central,BioMed Central Ltd,Springer Nature B.V,BMC
• Subject: 1-Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase / Accuracy / Actionable alteration / Adenocarcinoma / Adenomatous polyposis coli / Ampullary adenocarcinoma / Analysis / Bile ducts / Biomedical and Life Sciences / Biomedicine / Cancer / Cancer Research / Cancer therapies / Chemotherapy / Cloning / DDR / DNA damage / Gene mutations / Genes / Genetic aspects / Genetic screening / Genetic testing / Genomes / Genomics / Germline / Health aspects / Health Promotion and Disease Prevention / Histology / Malignancy / Medical prognosis / Medical research / Medicine, Experimental / Medicine/Public Health / Mutation / Oncology / p53 Protein / Pancreatic cancer / Pathology / PD-L1 protein / Smad4 protein / Software / Somatic / Surgical Oncology / Therapeutic targets / Tumor cells / Tumor proteins / Tumors