Mutational profiling of acral melanomas in Korean populations
- Authors
- Shim, JH[Shim, Joon Ho]; Shin, HT[Shin, Hyun-Tae]; Park, J[Park, Jiho]; Park, JH[Park, Ji-Hye]; Lee, JH[Lee, Jong-Hee]; Yang, JM[Yang, Jun-Mo]; Kim, DH[Kim, Duk-Hwan]; Jang, KT[Jang, Kee-Taek]; Lee, DY[Lee, Dong-Youn]
- Issue Date
- Oct-2017
- Publisher
- WILEY
- Keywords
- acral melanoma; mutational profile; next-generation sequencing; beta-catenin gene
- Citation
- EXPERIMENTAL DERMATOLOGY, v.26, no.10, pp.883 - 888
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- EXPERIMENTAL DERMATOLOGY
- Volume
- 26
- Number
- 10
- Start Page
- 883
- End Page
- 888
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/skku/handle/2021.sw.skku/27171
- DOI
- 10.1111/exd.13321
- ISSN
- 0906-6705
- Abstract
- The proportion of acral melanoma (AM) is much higher in Asian populations than in Caucasian populations. Although mutational profiles associated with AM have been discovered in Caucasian populations, knowledge of its genetic alterations in Asian populations is limited. To describe the molecular nature of AM in Korean patients, we performed mutational profiling of AM and matched normal tissues in patients. Fifty-one formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded AM samples and 32 matched pairs from patients' saliva DNA were analysed by next-generation sequencing. Only mutations confirmed via digital droplet PCR or in BRAF, KIT and NRAS, the most frequently altered cancer genes in cutaneous melanoma, were considered as positive. The relationship between mutational status and clinicopathological features were examined. Of the 47 AM patients screened, alteration of BRAF, NRAS and KIT genes was observed in 6.4%, 4.3% and 8.5%, respectively. We also tested matched normal tissues of patients to identify tumor-specific mutations. Examination of the mutational profile in a cohort of 28 primary melanomas and matched normal controls found BRAF mutations in two cases (7.1%), KIT mutations in three cases (10.7%) and CTNNB1 mutations in one case (3.6%). The BRAF, NRAS and KIT mutation status did not correlate with clinicopathological characteristics. Our results show that KIT, NRAS and BRAF hotspot mutations occur at a low frequency in Korean populations. We also observed a case with the CTNNB1 mutation, which raises the possibility that other pathways are associated with AM development.
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