Whole-Exome Sequencing Characterizes the Landscape of Somatic Mutations and Copy Number Alterations in Adrenocortical Carcinoma
Juhlin CC, Goh G, Healy JM, Fonseca AL, Scholl UI, Stenman A, Kunstman JW, Brown TC, Overton JD, Mane SM, Nelson-Williams C, Bäckdahl M, Suttorp AC, Haase M, Choi M, Schlessinger J, Rimm DL, Höög A, Prasad ML, Korah R, Larsson C, Lifton RP, Carling T. Whole-Exome Sequencing Characterizes the Landscape of Somatic Mutations and Copy Number Alterations in Adrenocortical Carcinoma. The Journal Of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 2014, 100: e493-e502. PMID: 25490274, PMCID: PMC5393505, DOI: 10.1210/jc.2014-3282.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAdrenocortical carcinomaSomatic mutationsCopy number alterationsNumber alterationsNonsynonymous somatic mutationsWnt pathway dysregulationHomozygous deletionMajority of casesPotential disease-causing mutationsWhole-exome sequencingUnderlying somatic mutationsLethal malignancyPathway dysregulationTumorsExome sequencingFocal CNAsDisease-causing mutationsCarcinomaTERT locusZNRF3Recurrent CNAsAlterationsNormal samplesTP53Unknown role