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Department of Oncology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
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Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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Department of Medical Radiation Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Department of Oncology, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
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Department of Clinical Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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Department of Oncology, Clinical Cancer Research Center, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
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Department of Oncology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
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High-grade gastroenteropancreatic (HG-GEP) neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) are highly aggressive cancers. The molecular etiology of these tumors remains unclear, and the prevalence of pathogenic germline variants in patients with HG-GEP NENs is unknown. We assessed sequencing data of 360 cancer genes in normal tissue from 240 patients with HG-GEP NENs; 198 patients with neuroendocrine carcinomas (NECs) and 42 with grade 3 neuroendocrine tumors (NET G3). Applying strict criteria, we identified pathogenic germline variants and compared the frequency with previously reported data from 33 different cancer types. We found a recurrent MYOC variant in three patients and a recurrent MUTYH variant in two patients, indicating that these genes may be important underlying risk factors for HG-GEP NENs when mutated. Further, germline variants were found in canonical tumor-suppressor genes, such as TP53, RB1, BRIP1 and BAP1. Overall, we found that 4.5% of patients with NEC and 9.5% of patients with NET G3 carry germline pathogenic or highly likely pathogenic variants. Applying identical criteria for variant classification in silico to mined data from 33 other cancer types, the median percentage of patients carrying pathogenic or highly likely pathogenic variants was 3.4% (range: 0–17%). The patients with NEC and pathogenic germline variants had a median overall survival of 9 months, similar to what is generally expected for metastatic GEP NECs. A patient with NET G3 and pathogenic MUTYH variant had much shorter overall survival than expected. The fraction of HG-GEP NENs with germline pathogenic variants is relatively high, but still <10%, meaning that that germline mutations cannot be the major underlying cause of HG-GEP NENs.
Department of Oncology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
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Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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Department of Oncology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
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Department of Oncology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
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Department of Medical Radiation Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Department of Oncology, St.Olavs Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
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Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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Department of Oncology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
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High-grade (HG) gastroenteropancreatic (GEP) neuroendocrine neoplasms (NEN) are rare but have a very poor prognosis and represent a severely understudied class of tumours. Molecular data for HG GEP-NEN are limited, and treatment strategies for the carcinoma subgroup (HG GEP-NEC) are extrapolated from small-cell lung cancer (SCLC). After pathological re-evaluation, we analysed DNA from tumours and matched blood samples from 181 HG GEP-NEN patients; 152 neuroendocrine carcinomas (NEC) and 29 neuroendocrine tumours (NET G3). Based on the sequencing of 360 cancer-related genes, we assessed mutations and copy number alterations (CNA). For NEC, frequently mutated genes were TP53 (64%), APC (28%), KRAS (22%) and BRAF (20%). RB1 was only mutated in 14%, but CNAs affecting RB1 were seen in 34%. Other frequent copy number losses were ARID1A (35%), ESR1 (25%) and ATM (31%). Frequent amplifications/gains were found in MYC (51%) and KDM5A (45%). While these molecular features had limited similarities with SCLC, we found potentially targetable alterations in 66% of the NEC samples. Mutations and CNA varied according to primary tumour site with BRAF mutations mainly seen in colon (49%), and FBXW7 mutations mainly seen in rectal cancers (25%). Eight out of 152 (5.3%) NEC were microsatellite instable (MSI). NET G3 had frequent mutations in MEN1 (21%), ATRX (17%), DAXX, SETD2 and TP53 (each 14%). We show molecular differences in HG GEP-NEN, related to morphological differentiation and site of origin. Limited similarities to SCLC and a high fraction of targetable alterations indicate a high potential for better-personalized treatments.