DAC

UCSF Sebaceous Carcinoma DAC for review of sequence data release from manuscript in Nature Communications, based in the UCSF Departments of Dermatology and Pathology

Dac ID Contact Person Email Access Information
EGAC00001000850 Raymond J. Cho raymond [dot] cho [at] ucsf [dot] edu No additional information is available

This DAC controls 1 dataset:

Dataset ID Description Technology Samples
EGAD00001004016 Sebaceous carcinomas (SeC) are cutaneous malignancies that, in rare cases, metastasize and prove fatal. Here we report whole exome sequencing on 32 SeC, revealing distinct mutational classes that explain both cancer ontogeny and clinical course. A UV-damage signature predominated 10/32 samples, while 9 were instead defined by microsatellite instability (MSI) mutations. UV-damage SeC exhibited poorly differentiated, infiltrative histopathologycompared to MSI signature SeC (p = 0.003), features previously associated with dissemination. Strikingly, UV-damage SeC transcriptomes and anatomic distributionclosely resembling those of cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas (SCC), implicating sun-exposed keratinocytes as a cell of origin. Like SCC, this UV-damage subclass harbors a high somatic mutation burden with >50 mutations/Mb, predicting immunotherapeutic response. In contrast, ocular SeC acquire far fewer mutations without a dominant signature, but show frequent truncating mutations in the ZNF750 epidermal differentiation regulator. Our data exemplify how different mutational processes convergently drive histopathologically related but clinically distinct cancers. Illumina HiSeq 2500 79