title: Prioritization of driver mutations in pancreatic cancer using cancer-specific high-throughput annotation of somatic mutations (CHASM).
abstract: Over 20,000 genes were recently sequenced in a series of 24 pancreatic cancers. We applied CHASM (Cancer-specific High-throughput Annotation of Somatic Mutations) to 963 of the missense somatic missense mutations discovered in these 24 cancers. CHASM identified putative driver mutations (false discovery rate ≤0.3) in three known pancreatic cancer driver genes (P53, SMAD4, CDKN2A). An additional 15 genes with putative driver mutations include genes coding for kinases (PIK3CG, DGKA, STK33, TTK and PRKCG), for cell cycle related proteins (NEK8), and for proteins involved in cell adhesion (CMAS, PCDHB2). These and other mutations identified by CHASM point to potential "driver genes" in pancreatic cancer that should be prioritized for additional follow-up.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Computational Medicine, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Hannah
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Carter
authors.forename: Josue
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Samayoa
authors.forename: Ralph H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Hruban
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Karchin
mesh_terms: D019941:Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p16 / Q000235:genetics; D004252:DNA Mutational Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D009154:Mutation; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics*; D051901:Smad4 Protein / Q000235:genetics; D016159:Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D019941:Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p16; D051901:Smad4 Protein; D016159:Tumor Suppressor Protein p53