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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 4.
Published in final edited form as: Oncogene. 2014 May 19;34(14):1745–1757. doi: 10.1038/onc.2014.115

Table 1.

Potentially actionable common genomic aberrations in prostate cancer

Type Frequency (ref. 86,92,172) Potential targeted therapeutic approach
Intracellular transduction pathways
    Androgen receptor Amplification, mutation 40–50% Novel AR-targeting agents
    KRAS Mutation 1–2% MEK inhibitor plus PI3K/AKT inhibitor
    PI3K/AKT pathway
        PTEN Deletion, mutation up to 60–65% PI3K/Akt inhibitor ± AR-targeting agents
        PIK3CA Amplification, mutation
        AKT Mutation
        PHLPP Deletion
        INPP4B Amplification
    RAF-MEK-Erk pathway
        BRAF Gene fusion, mutation 1–2% BRAF or MEK inhibitor
Transcription factors
    N-MYC (concurrent with AURKA) Amplification 5% Aurora-A inhibitor
65% NEPC
    ETS (ERG, ETV1, ETV4, FLI1) Gene fusion 50% PARP inhibitors±AR-targeting agents
Wnt/β-catenin pathway
    APC Deletion, mutation 4–16% Wnt-targeting drug
    B-catenin Amplification, mutation
Cell cycle control
    CDK4, CDK6, CyclinD1 Mutation, amplification 2–10% CDK4/6 inhibitor
Chromatin remodeling
    EZH2 Amplification 2–5% EZH2 inhibitor
DNA damage repair
    ATM, BRCA1 and BRCA2, RAD51 Mutation, deletion 20–25% PARP inhibitors