4.5 Article

Identifying Driver Genes Mutations with Clinical Significance in Thyroid Cancer

Journal

CMC-COMPUTERS MATERIALS & CONTINUA
Volume 67, Issue 1, Pages 1241-1251

Publisher

TECH SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.32604/cmc.2021.014910

Keywords

Medical informatics; papillary thyroid carcinoma; cancer; gene mutation analysis; BRAF; clinical significance

Funding

  1. Seoul National University Bundang Hospital research fund [02-2015-015]

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This study aimed to identify mutations in genes that co-exist with mutated BRAF in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) and analyze their frequency and clinical relevance. Results revealed that mutations in ALK, ATM, COL1A1, MSTIR, PRKCA, and WNK1 most commonly coincide with mutated BRAF in PTC.
Advances in technology are enabling gene mutations in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) to be analyzed and clinical outcomes, such as recurrence, to be predicted. To date, the most common genetic mutation in PTC is in BRAF kinase (BRAF). However, whether mutations in other genes coincide with those in BRAF remains to be clarified. The aim of this study was to find mutations in other genes that co-exist with mutated BRAF, and to analyze their frequency and clinical relevance in PTC. Clinical and genetic data were collected from 213 PTC patients with a total of 36,572 mutation sites in 735 genes. After matching with genes from PTC entries in a global database (NCBI Gene), 69 genes with mutations in coding regions were chosen for further study. Through frequency-based analysis, we identified commonly mutated genes co-existing with mutated BRAF and, using the mutation count correlation matrix (MCCM) method, analyzed their incidence according to age and gender. We designed Chord diagrams to reveal gene relationships concerning age and gender, and found that mutations in ALK, ATM, COL1A1, MSTIR, PRKCA, and WNK1 most commonly coincide with mutated BRAF, followed by APC, AURKA, and AURKB. These findings provide further insight into the genetic profile of PTC.

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