Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar, Doha, Qatar
Muhammad Danyal Ahsan , Emily M. Webster , Ryan M Kahn , Sarah R. Levi , Murtaza Qazi , Luiza Perez , Jesse T. Brewer , Laura Keenahan , Evelyn Cantillo , Eloise Chapman-Davis , Kevin Holcomb , Melissa Kristen Frey
Background: Tumors deficient in homologous recombination DNA damage repair (HR-DDR) demonstrate sensitivity to therapeutic agents targeting the HR-DDR pathway, such as poly-ADP ribose phosphate (PARP) inhibitors. The landscape of homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) is not well-characterized for cervical cancer; thus, we sought to analyze the prevalence of somatic pathogenic gene variants (PGVs) in HRD genes in cervical cancers. Methods: The American Association for Cancer Research’s (AACR) Project Genomics Evidence Neoplasia Information Exchange (GENIE) database version 13.0 was queried for all cervical cancer tumors via cBioPortal (http://genie.cbioportal.org). This is a publicly available, multi-institutional database of next-generation sequencing (NGS) genomic profiles of multiple tumors. PGV frequencies of 27 genes involved in HR-DDR were descriptively reported for cervical cancer tumors, with histologic stratification: ATM, ARID1A, ATRX, BRCA1, BRCA2, BARD1, BRIP1, BLM, BAP1, CHEK1, CHEK2, FANCA, FANCC, FANCD2, FANCE, FANCF, FANCG, FANCL, MRE11, NBN, PALB2, RAD50, RAD51, RAD51B, RAD51C, RAD51D, WRN. Results: A total of 857 cervical tumors from 817 patients were included for analysis. At least one somatic PGV in an HRD gene was found in 16.5% of all tumors (141/857). When stratified by histological subtypes with at least 25 tumors sequenced, highest frequencies of ≥1 PGV in HRD genes were observed in mucinous cervical cancer (13/66, 19.7%), cervical adenocarcinoma (48/262, 18.3%), squamous cell cervical cancer (53/349, 15.2%), adenosquamous cervical cancer (6/43, 14.0%) and neuroendocrine cervical cancers (5/42, 11.9%). Substantial rates of PGVs in HRD genes were also observed in histological subtypes with fewer than 25 sequenced tumors. Across all tumors, HRD genes with the highest frequencies of PGVs were ARID1A (9%), BAP1 (3%), ATM (1.6%) and BRCA1 (1.6%). Conclusions: NGS data demonstrate a substantial rate of somatic PGVs in HRD genes in cervical cancers, including among HPV related subtypes. These data suggest the need to expand routine functional HRD status assessment to cervical cancers in order to further characterize the landscape of HRD in these tumors. Furthermore, genetically driven clinical trials are warranted to evaluate the efficacy of HRD-targeted therapies such as PARP inhibitors, ataxia telangiectasia, and Rad-3 related kinase (ATR) inhibitors.
Tumor Histology (n = tumors sequenced for ≥1 HRD gene) | Frequency of tumors with ≥1 HRD PGV | HRD gene with highest PGV frequency* |
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Squamous Cell (349) | 15.2% | BAP1, 6.5% |
Adenocarcinoma (262) | 18.3% | ARID1A, 11.2% |
Mucinous (66) | 19.7% | ARID1A, 11.6% |
Adenosquamous (43) | 14.0% | ARID1A, 8.8% |
Neuroendocrine (42) | 11.9% | ARID1A, 16.1% |
Serous (22) | 13.6% | ARID1A, 8.8% |
Endometrioid (21) | 9.5% | ARID1A, 12.5% |
Clear Cell (19) | 42.1% | ARID1A, 37.5% |
Mesonephric (10) | 20.0% | ARID1A, 8.0%, NBN, 8.0% |
Rhabdomyosarcoma 3 | 33.3% | CHEK2, 50.0% |
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