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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Cancer Ther. 2017 Nov 13;17(1):297–305. doi: 10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-17-0360

Table 2.

Frequency and tissues of origin of patients sharing gene or alteration profiles* (excludes VUS)

Shared gene profile (N = 60) Number of patients Represented histologies in liquid biopsy
TP53 19 Hepatocellular carcinoma (N = 7), colorectal adenocarcinoma (N = 4), pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (N=3), esophageal adenocarcinoma (N = 2), cholangiocarcinoma (N = 1), appendix adenocarcinoma (N = 1), gallbladder carcinoma (N = 1)
KRAS 10 Colorectal adenocarcinoma (N=4), pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (N=2), appendix adenocarcinoma (N=2), cholangiocarcinoma (N=1), pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (N=1)
KRAS, TP53 9 Colorectal adenocarcinoma (N=5), pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (N=2), esophageal adenocarcinoma (N=1), GIST (N=1)
TP53, KRAS, MYC 4 Appendix adenocarcinoma (N=1), colorectal adenocarcinoma (N=1), gastric adenocarcinoma (N=1), pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (N=1)
RAF1 2 Duodenum adenocarcinoma (N=1), gastric adenocarcinoma (N=1)
APC 2 Colorectal adenocarcinoma (N=2)
GNAS 2 Appendix adenocarcinoma (N=1), colorectal adenocarcinoma (N=1)
CTNNB1 2 Hepatocellular carcinoma (N=2)
KRAS, MYC 2 Colorectal adenocarcinoma (N=1), pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (N=1)
CTNNB1, TP53 2 Hepatocellular carcinoma (N=2)
APC, TP53 2 Colorectal adenocarcinoma (N=2)
PIK3CA, TP53 2 Colorectal adenocarcinoma (N=1), hepatocellular carcinoma (N=1)
APC, KRAS, TP53 2 Colorectal adenocarcinoma (N=2)
Shared molecular alteration profile (N = 6) Number of patients Represented histologies in liquid biopsy
KRAS G12D 2 Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (N=1), colorectal adenocarcinoma (N=1)
GNAS R201H 2 Appendix adenocarcinoma (N=1), colorectal adenocarcinoma (N=1)
KRAS G12V 2 Appendix adenocarcinoma (N=2)
Shared molecular alteration profile (N = 2) Number of patients Represented histologies in tissue biopsy
KRAS G12R 2 Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (N=1), colorectal adenocarcinoma (N=1)

Abbreviations: VUS = variant of unknown significance, GIST = gastrointestinal stromal tumor

*

Patients sharing gene profiles had the same sets of genes altered, while shared alteration profiles were patients who had the same sets of specific alterations at the same gene.