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. 2018 Jan 12;4:214. Originally published 2015 Jul 10. [Version 2] doi: 10.12688/f1000research.6746.2

Table 1. Clinical and Pathologic Features by Predisposing DICER1 Mutation Category.

Germline
LOF
mutations
Mosaic mutations Tumor-
specific
mutations
Loss of
function
RNase IIIb
hotspot
Number of patients 90 5 7 12
Sex distribution
   Male 44 3 4 10
   Female 46 2 3 2
Age at first diagnosis, months a
   Median (range) 35 (0–227) 25 (12–46) 12 (0–18) 33 (24–139)
   Mean (standard deviation) 36 (31) 27 (12) 11 (6) 42 (31)
   P-value, vs. germline group d 0.97 0.0161 0.99
Disease foci distribution
   Lung - cysts, PPB 90 5 7 12
   Kidney - cysts, cystic nephroma 12 0 6 0
   Kidney - Wilms tumor 1 0 0 0
   Thyroid - nodular hyperplasia 4 0 2 0
   Thyroid - cancer 4 0 1 0
   Nasal cavity - NCMH 5 0 2 0
   Ovary - Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor 3 0 2 0
   Uterine cervix - ERMS 4 0 0 0
   Urinary bladder - ERMS 2 0 0 0
   Pineoblastoma 1 0 1 0
   Ciliary body medulloepithelioma 1 0 1 0
   Small intestine - juvenile polyps 0 0 4 0
   Small intestine - juvenile polyps 0 0 4 0
   Pelvic sarcoma 0 0 1 0
PPB type distribution
   Type Ir 9 0 5 c 0
   Type I 25 2 1 1
   Type II 31 1 2 c 6
   Type III 25 2 0 5
Number of disease foci per patient b
   Median (range) 2 (1–6) 2 (1–2) 13 (9–24) 1 (1–1)
   Mean (standard deviation) 1.8 (1.0) 1.6 (0.5) 15 (6.4) 1 (0.0)
   P-value, vs. germline group d 0.99 0.0001 0.0072
Survival, number of patients (months)
   Alive (median age at present) 80 (100) 3 (46) 6 (87) 10 (85)
   Deceased (median age at death) 10 (60.5) 2 (64.5) 1(132) 2 (57)

Abbreviations: PPB pleuropulmonary blastoma; NCMH nasal chondromesenchymal hamartoma; ERMS embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma.

a. Age at first clinical presentation with PPB or other DICER1 syndrome pathology.

b. Total number of discrete disease foci, as defined in Subjects and Methods.

c. Two patients with both type Ir and type II PPB.

d. Medians compared using a Kruskal-Wallis test; post-hoc pair-wise tests adjusted for multiple comparisons.