Author:
Benhaddou Ataaillah,Gaston Laetitia,Pérot Gaëlle,Desplat Nelly,Leroy Laura,Guellec Sophie Le,Haddou Mohamed Ben,Rochaix Philippe,Valentin Thibaud,Ferron Gwenaël,Chevreau Christine,Bui Binh,Stoeckle Eberhard,Cesne Axel Le,Piperno-Neumann Sophie,Colin Françoise,Firmin Nelly,De Pinieux Gonzague,Coindre Jean-Michel,Blay Jean-Yves,Chibon Frédéric
Abstract
AbstractLeiomyosarcoma (LMS) is an aggressive smooth muscle cancer with few therapeutic options. LMSs show a high level of genomic instability (GI) and the mechanisms underlying their oncogenic processes are poorly understood. While the level of GI influences treatment efficacy and resistance, an accurate measure of it is lacking. Current measures of GI are based on counts of specific structural variation (SV) and mutational signatures. Here, we present a holistic approach to measuring GI based on the quantification of the steady-state equilibrium between DNA damage and repair as assessed by the residual breakpoints (BP) remaining after repair, irrespective of SV type. We use the notion of Hscore, a BP “hotspotness” magnitude scale, to measure the propensity of genomic structural or functional DNA elements to break more than expected by chance. We then derived new measures of transcription- and replication-associated GI that we call iTRAC (Transcription-Associated Chromosomal instability index (iTRAC) and iRACIN (Replication-Associated Chromosomal INstability index). We show that iTRAC and iRACIN are predictive of metastatic relapse in LMS and that they may be combined to form a new classifier called MAGIC (Mixed transcription-and replication-Associated Genomic Instability Classifier). MAGIC outperforms the gold standards FNCLCC and CINSARC in stratifying metastatic risk in LMS. Furthermore, iTRAC stratifies chemotherapeutic response in LMS. We finally show that this approach is applicable to other cancers.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory