PLoS ONE (Jan 2015)

Somatic copy number alterations associated with Japanese or endometriosis in ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma.

  • Aikou Okamoto,
  • Jalid Sehouli,
  • Nozomu Yanaihara,
  • Yukihiro Hirata,
  • Ioana Braicu,
  • Byoung-Gie Kim,
  • Satoshi Takakura,
  • Misato Saito,
  • Satoshi Yanagida,
  • Masataka Takenaka,
  • Noriko Yamaguchi,
  • Asuka Morikawa,
  • Hiroshi Tanabe,
  • Kyosuke Yamada,
  • Kosuke Yoshihara,
  • Takayuki Enomoto,
  • Hiroaki Itamochi,
  • Junzo Kigawa,
  • Noriomi Matsumura,
  • Ikuo Konishi,
  • Satoshi Aida,
  • Yuko Aoki,
  • Nobuya Ishii,
  • Kazunori Ochiai,
  • Tetsu Akiyama,
  • Mitsuyoshi Urashima

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0116977
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 2
p. e0116977

Abstract

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When compared with other epithelial ovarian cancers, the clinical characteristics of ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma (CCC) include 1) a higher incidence among Japanese, 2) an association with endometriosis, 3) poor prognosis in advanced stages, and 4) a higher incidence of thrombosis as a complication. We used high resolution comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) to identify somatic copy number alterations (SCNAs) associated with each of these clinical characteristics of CCC. The Human Genome CGH 244A Oligo Microarray was used to examine 144 samples obtained from 120 Japanese, 15 Korean, and nine German patients with CCC. The entire 8q chromosome (minimum corrected p-value: q = 0.0001) and chromosome 20q13.2 including the ZNF217 locus (q = 0.0078) were amplified significantly more in Japanese than in Korean or German samples. This copy number amplification of the ZNF217 gene was confirmed by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (Q-PCR). ZNF217 RNA levels were also higher in Japanese tumor samples than in non-Japanese samples (P = 0.027). Moreover, endometriosis was associated with amplification of EGFR gene (q = 0.047), which was again confirmed by Q-PCR and correlated with EGFR RNA expression. However, no SCNAs were significantly associated with prognosis or thrombosis. These results indicated that there may be an association between CCC and ZNF217 amplification among Japanese patients as well as between endometriosis and EGFR gene amplifications.