Chromothripsis is a prognostic factor in early-onset breast cancer [OncoScan]

Breast cancer in Spain remains the first leading cause of cancer-related death in women from all age, and in younger women breast tumors often exhibit more aggressive phenotypes, worse prognosis and more frequently germline mutation in BRCA1/2 genes. Chromothripsis, a massive genome rearrangement, has been recently described but its etiology and effect on cancer cells remain unknown. Chromothripsis in breast cancer has been poorly studied and prevalence rates vary between 11-61%. We have studied chromothripsis-like patterns (CTLPs) in 58 DNA extracted from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) breast cancer tissues from patients below 40 years old. Chromothripsis was confirmed with website tool CTLPScanner in 10/58 (17%) and most frequently involved chromosomal segment was 17q12-q21 (5/10 cases, 50%). We have also find that chromothripsis was related to low recurrence rates and familial history of breast cancer. In summary, we have analyzed chromothripsis in early-onset breast cancer for the first time and could have a prognostic value for this patients We performed OncoScan™ FFPE Assay and Affymetrix® CytoScan™ 750k Assay to asses copy number alterations in 32 and 26 FFPE samples from women breast cancer tumors, respectively