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Frequent mutations in chromatin-remodelling genes in pulmonary carcinoids

Pulmonary carcinoids are rare neuroendocrine tumours of the lung. The molecular alterations underlying the pathogenesis of these tumours have not been systematically studied so far. Here we perform gene copy number analysis (n¼54), genome/exome (n¼44) and transcriptome (n¼69) sequencing of pulmonary carcinoids and observe frequent mutations in chromatin-remodelling genes. Covalent histone modifiers and subunits of the SWI/SNF complex are mutated in 40 and 22.2% of the cases, respectively, with MEN1, PSIP1 and ARID1A being recurrently affected. In contrast to small-cell lung cancer and large-cell neuroendocrine tumours, TP53 and RB1 mutations are rare events, suggesting that pulmonary carcinoids are not early progenitor lesions of the highly aggressive lung neuroendocrine tumors but arise through independent cellular mechanisms. These data also suggest that inactivation of chromatinremodelling genes is sufficient to drive transformation in pulmonary carcinoids.

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Dataset ID Description Technology Samples
EGAD00001000795 Illumina HiSeq 2000 69
EGAD00001000813 Illumina HiSeq 2000 29
EGAD00001000820 Illumina HiSeq 2000 15
EGAD00010000546 Affymetrics_SNP_6.0- 74
Publications Citations
Frequent mutations in chromatin-remodelling genes in pulmonary carcinoids.
Nat Commun 5: 2014 3518
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Integrative and comparative genomic analyses identify clinically relevant pulmonary carcinoid groups and unveil the supra-carcinoids.
Nat Commun 10: 2019 3407
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A molecular map of lung neuroendocrine neoplasms.
Gigascience 9: 2020 giaa112
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