Leendert Looijenga, Department of Pathology, Lab. Exp. Patho-Oncol. Erasmus MC, Rotterdam
- Mol. Med. October 8, 2018, 15.45-16.30 hours.
(Epi)Genetics in normal and malignant germ cell development.
OPTIMAL PATIENT CARE
(Epi)Genetics in normal and malignant germ cell development. - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
(Epi)Genetics in normal and malignant germ cell development. Leendert Looijenga, Department of Pathology, Lab. Exp. Patho-Oncol. Erasmus MC, Rotterdam OPTIMAL PATIENT CARE Diagnosis -- Treatment -- Follow-up Pathobiology of germ cell tumors
Leendert Looijenga, Department of Pathology, Lab. Exp. Patho-Oncol. Erasmus MC, Rotterdam
OPTIMAL PATIENT CARE
PhD co-promotor 2 /promotor 12/ongoing 9 = 23 Invited speaker 254; Funded research projects 50 Papers: 1st 39/co 154/last 124 = 317 Book chapters etc. 25
www.erasmusmc.nl/pathologie/research/lepo
Oosterhuis and Looijenga, Nat Rev Cancer 2005; Nat Rev Dis Primers 2018 in press; update 2018 in prep.
(THEORETICAL) ASSUMPTION: ALL (??????)
teratoma yolk sac tum. choriocarc.
INVASIVE:
seminoma
embr.carc.
PLURIPOTENT (TOTI-/OMNI-)
germ cells
INTRATUBULAR: seminoma
PRE-INVASIVE:
GCNIS (GB-DSD)
COMMON PRECURSOR
70% ~ 7 years
teratoma yolk sac tum. choriocarc.
INVASIVE:
seminoma
embr.carc.
PLURIPOTENT (TOTI-/OMNI-)
germ cells
INTRATUBULAR: seminoma
PRE-INVASIVE:
COMMON PRECURSOR
70% ~ 7 years
Palumbo et al., 2001; Looijenga et al., 2003, De Jong et al., 2005, Cheng et al., 2006; De Jong and Looijenga, 2007, Van Casteren et al., 2008a,b, 2009, De Jong et al., 2008, Nonaka et al., 2009, Sonne et al, 2010, Gillis et al., 2011, Ushida et al., 2012, Eini et al., 2014, and many others. GCNIS (GB-DSD)
teratoma yolk sac tum. choriocarc.
INVASIVE:
seminoma
embr.carc.
PLURIPOTENT (TOTI-/OMNI-)
germ cells
INTRATUBULAR: seminoma
PRE-INVASIVE:
COMMON PRECURSOR
70% ~ 7 years
Palumbo et al., 2001; Looijenga et al., 2003, De Jong et al., 2005, Cheng et al., 2006; De Jong and Looijenga, 2007, Van Casteren et al., 2008a,b, 2009, De Jong et al., 2008, Nonaka et al., 2009, Sonne et al, 2010, Gillis et al., 2011, Ushida et al., 2012, Eini et al., 2014, and many others.
GCNIS (GB-DSD)
Similar (protein) patterns normal development & (T)GCTs (highly informative diagnostic markers)
GBY: Page 1987 TSPY: Schnieders et al., 1996; Lau et al., 1999; Hildenbrand et al., 1999; Lau et al., 2000; Schubert et al., 2003; Kersemaekers et al., 2005, …
GCNIS/intrat. NS/NS No co-expression normal germ cells Abundant expression GCNIS/GB Predominant loss upon invasive growth, adult GCNIS can be heterogeneous
Chicago Consensus meeting October 2005
Risk overdiagnosis early age (<1 y): delayed maturation versus (pre-GCNIS) [OCT3/4 +]
Stoop et al., 2008
Wolffenbuttel et al., 2016
Risk alleles are the major alleles (lower in Asian & African = low risk (T)GCC)
+ KITLG [OR = 2.69 highest to date] + SPRY4 [inh. MAPK, downstream KITLG] + BAK1 [downstream KITLG] + DMRT1 [sex determination] + TERT, ATFIP [telomere maintenance] + UCK2, HPGDS, CENPE, CLPTM1L, MAD1L1, RFWD3, TEX14, PPM1E
< 1% of patients carry low risk KITLG allele < 3% of patients carry low risk DMRT1 allele
Rapley et al., 2009; Kanetsky et al. 2009; Turnbull et al. 2010; Kratz et al., 2011; Ruark et al., 2013; Chung et al., 2013.