TY - JOUR
T1 - Sellar Region Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumors (ATRT) in Adults Display DNA Methylation Profiles of the ATRT-MYC Subgroup
AU - Johann, Pascal D.
AU - Bens, Susanne
AU - Oyen, Florian
AU - Wagener, Rabea
AU - Giannini, Caterina
AU - Perry, Arie
AU - Raisanen, Jack M.
AU - Reis, Gerald F.
AU - Nobusawa, Sumihito
AU - Arita, Kazunori
AU - Felsberg, Jörg
AU - Reifenberger, Guido
AU - Agaimy, Abbas
AU - Buslei, Rolf
AU - Capper, David
AU - Pfister, Stefan M.
AU - Schneppenheim, Reinhard
AU - Siebert, Reiner
AU - Frühwald, Michael C.
AU - Paulus, Werner
AU - Kool, Marcel
AU - Hasselblatt, Martin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor (ATRT) is a highly malignant brain tumor predominantly encountered in infants. Mutations of the SMARCB1 gene are the characteristic genetic lesion. A small group of ATRT stands out clinically, because these tumors are located in the sellar region of adults. To investigate if sellar region ATRT in adults represents a molecular distinct entity, we characterized molecular alterations in 7 sellar region ATRTs in adults as compared with 150 pediatric ATRTs and 47 pituitary adenomas using SMARCB1 sequencing, multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification and fluorescence in situ hybridization as well as DNA methylation profiling. The median age of the 6 female and 1 male patients was 56 years. On histopathologic examination, all tumors were malignant rhabdoid tumors showing loss of SMARCB1/INI1 protein expression. Two cases displayed compound heterozygous SMARCB1 point mutations, 3 cases showed heterozygous SMARCB1 deletions with point mutations of the other allele and 1 case a homozygous SMARCB1 deletion; in 1 case, underlying SMARCB1 alterations could not be identified. On unsupervised hierarchical cluster analysis of DNA methylation profiles, sellar region ATRTs did not form a distinct group, but clustered with ATRT-MYC, 1 of 3 recently described molecular subgroups of ATRT. On analysis of DNA methylation array intensity data, only 1 sellar region ATRT showed characteristic features of pediatric ATRT-MYC, that is, major copy number losses affecting the SMARCB1 region. In conclusion, these results suggest that sellar region ATRTs in adults form a clinically distinct entity with a different mutational spectrum, but epigenetic similarities with pediatric ATRTs of the ATRT-MYC subgroup.
AB - Atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor (ATRT) is a highly malignant brain tumor predominantly encountered in infants. Mutations of the SMARCB1 gene are the characteristic genetic lesion. A small group of ATRT stands out clinically, because these tumors are located in the sellar region of adults. To investigate if sellar region ATRT in adults represents a molecular distinct entity, we characterized molecular alterations in 7 sellar region ATRTs in adults as compared with 150 pediatric ATRTs and 47 pituitary adenomas using SMARCB1 sequencing, multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification and fluorescence in situ hybridization as well as DNA methylation profiling. The median age of the 6 female and 1 male patients was 56 years. On histopathologic examination, all tumors were malignant rhabdoid tumors showing loss of SMARCB1/INI1 protein expression. Two cases displayed compound heterozygous SMARCB1 point mutations, 3 cases showed heterozygous SMARCB1 deletions with point mutations of the other allele and 1 case a homozygous SMARCB1 deletion; in 1 case, underlying SMARCB1 alterations could not be identified. On unsupervised hierarchical cluster analysis of DNA methylation profiles, sellar region ATRTs did not form a distinct group, but clustered with ATRT-MYC, 1 of 3 recently described molecular subgroups of ATRT. On analysis of DNA methylation array intensity data, only 1 sellar region ATRT showed characteristic features of pediatric ATRT-MYC, that is, major copy number losses affecting the SMARCB1 region. In conclusion, these results suggest that sellar region ATRTs in adults form a clinically distinct entity with a different mutational spectrum, but epigenetic similarities with pediatric ATRTs of the ATRT-MYC subgroup.
KW - atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor
KW - DNA methylation profiling
KW - outcome
KW - pituitary
KW - SMARCB1/INI1
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U2 - 10.1097/PAS.0000000000001023
DO - 10.1097/PAS.0000000000001023
M3 - Article
C2 - 29324471
AN - SCOPUS:85044749690
SN - 0147-5185
VL - 42
SP - 506
EP - 511
JO - American Journal of Surgical Pathology
JF - American Journal of Surgical Pathology
IS - 4
ER -