Metabolome-guided genomics to identify pathogenic variants in isocitrate dehydrogenase, fumarate hydratase, and succinate dehydrogenase genes in pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma

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Contributors

  • Susan Richter - , Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (Author)
  • Laura Gieldon - , Institute of Clinical Genetics, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden (Author)
  • Ying Pang - , National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Author)
  • Mirko Peitzsch - , Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, TUD Dresden University of Technology (Author)
  • Thanh Huynh - , National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Author)
  • Rocio Leton - , CIBER - Center for Biomedical Research Network (Author)
  • Bruna Viana - , National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Author)
  • Tonino Ercolino - , Careggi University Hospital (Author)
  • Anastasios Mangelis - , Department of Internal Medicine III (Author)
  • Elena Rapizzi - , University of Florence (Author)
  • Mario Menschikowski - , Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (Author)
  • Daniela Aust - , Institute of Pathology (Author)
  • Matthias Kroiss - , University of Würzburg (Author)
  • Felix Beuschlein - , Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, University of Zurich (Author)
  • Volker Gudziol - , TUD Dresden University of Technology (Author)
  • Henri Jlm Timmers - , Radboud University Nijmegen (Author)
  • Jacques Lenders - , Radboud University Nijmegen, TUD Dresden University of Technology (Author)
  • Massimo Mannelli - , University of Florence (Author)
  • Alberto Cascon - , CIBER - Center for Biomedical Research Network (Author)
  • Karel Pacak - , National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Author)
  • Mercedes Robledo - , CIBER - Center for Biomedical Research Network (Author)
  • Graeme Eisenhofer - , Department of Internal Medicine III (Author)
  • Barbara Klink - , Institute of Clinical Genetics (Author)

Abstract

Purpose: Metabolic aberrations have been described in neoplasms with pathogenic variants (PV) in the Krebs cycle genes encoding succinate dehydrogenase (SDH), fumarate hydratase (FH) and isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH). In turn, accumulation of oncometabolites succinate, fumarate, and 2-hydroxyglutarate can be employed to identify tumors with those PV. Additionally, such metabolic readouts may aid in genetic variant interpretation and improve diagnostics. Methods: Using liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry, 395 pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas (PPGLs) from 391 patients were screened for metabolites to indicate Krebs cycle aberrations. Multigene panel sequencing was applied to detect driver PV in cases with indicative metabolite profiles but undetermined genetic drivers. Results: Aberrant Krebs cycle metabolomes identified rare cases of PPGLs with germline PV in FH and somatic PV in IDHx and SDHx, including the first case of a somatic IDH2 PV in PPGL. Metabolomics also reliably identified PPGLs with SDHx loss-of-function (LOF) PV. Therefore we utilized tumor metabolite profiles to further classify variants of unknown significance in SDHx, thereby enabling missense variants associated with SDHx LOF to be distinguished from benign variants. Conclusion: We propose incorporation of metabolome data into the diagnostics algorithm in PPGLs to guide genetic testing and variant interpretation and to help identify rare cases with PV in FH and IDHx.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)705-717
Number of pages13
JournalGenetics in medicine
Volume21
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2019
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

PubMed 30050099
ORCID /0000-0002-3549-2477/work/142244881

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Keywords

  • 2-hydroxyglutarate, fumarate, next-generation sequencing, succinate, variant of unknown significance