01889-G: Innovations in Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Cancer - Goldens Lead the Way
Grant Status: Closed
Abstract
Lymphoma and hemangiosarcoma are major health problems in Golden Retrievers, causing both suffering and premature death. Through ongoing collaboration, Drs. Jaime Modiano, Matthew Breen, and Kerstin Lindblad-Toh have identified several regions of the genome that contain genetic heritable risk factors for lymphoma and hemangiosarcoma in Golden Retrievers. They have tumor-specific mutations that occur recurrently in both cancers, some of which are linked to duration of remission when treated with standard of care. Their results indicate that a few heritable genetic risk factors account for as much as 50% of the risk for these cancers. These findings offer the potential to develop tests and strategies for DNA tests that can predict risk for individual dogs, as well as to manage risk across the population as a whole. Indeed, both the inherited risk factors and tumor mutations point to pathways that have been implicated in the pathogenesis of lymphoma and hemangiosarcoma, and thus should inform the development of targeted therapies. In the current study, Drs. Modiano, Breen, and Lindblad-Toh will find the precise mutations for the heritable genetic risk factors and to validate markers (mutations) used to determine risk at the heritable loci in a larger independent population of Golden Retrievers from the United States and from Europe in order to develop robust risk prediction tools and an accompanying DNA test. Further, they will identify and characterize tumor mutations and study their relationship to the heritable risk factors, tumor pathogenetic mechanisms, and disease outcome.
Publication(s)
Kim, J. H., Megquier, K., Thomas, R., Sarver, A. L., Song, J. M., Kim, Y. T., Cheng, N., Schulte, A. J., Linden, M. A., Murugan, P., Oseth, L., Forster, C. L., Elvers, I., Swofford, R., Turner-Maier, J., Karlsson, E. K., Breen, M., Lindblad-Toh, K., & Modiano, J. F. (2021). Genomically Complex Human Angiosarcoma and Canine Hemangiosarcoma Establish Convergent Angiogenic Transcriptional Programs Driven by Novel Gene Fusions. Molecular Cancer Research. https://doi.org/10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-20-0937
Megquier, K., Turner-Maier, J., Swofford, R., Kim, J.-H., Sarver, A. L., Wang, C., … Lindblad-Toh, K. (2019). Comparative Genomics Reveals Shared Mutational Landscape in Canine Hemangiosarcoma and Human Angiosarcoma. Molecular Cancer Research, 17(12), 2410–2421 https://doi.org/10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-19-0221
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