Nature Communications (May 2018)

Recurrent hotspot mutations in HRAS Q61 and PI3K-AKT pathway genes as drivers of breast adenomyoepitheliomas

  • Felipe C. Geyer,
  • Anqi Li,
  • Anastasios D. Papanastasiou,
  • Alison Smith,
  • Pier Selenica,
  • Kathleen A. Burke,
  • Marcia Edelweiss,
  • Huei-Chi Wen,
  • Salvatore Piscuoglio,
  • Anne M. Schultheis,
  • Luciano G. Martelotto,
  • Fresia Pareja,
  • Rahul Kumar,
  • Alissa Brandes,
  • Dan Fan,
  • Thais Basili,
  • Arnaud Da Cruz Paula,
  • John R. Lozada,
  • Pedro Blecua,
  • Simone Muenst,
  • Achim A. Jungbluth,
  • Maria P. Foschini,
  • Hannah Y. Wen,
  • Edi Brogi,
  • Juan Palazzo,
  • Brian P. Rubin,
  • Charlotte K. Y. Ng,
  • Larry Norton,
  • Zsuzsanna Varga,
  • Ian O. Ellis,
  • Emad A. Rakha,
  • Sarat Chandarlapaty,
  • Britta Weigelt,
  • Jorge S. Reis-Filho

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04128-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Adenomyoepithelioma is a rare tumor of the breast with an unknown genetic basis. Here the authors perform a genomic analysis of adenomyoepitheliomas revealing that their repertoire of somatic mutations vary according to the estrogen receptor (ER) status, and that ER-negative tumors harbor recurrent mutations in HRAS and PI3K pathway genes.