Table 1.
Tumor Entity | NTRK Fusions Frequency | Most Frequently Reported NTRK Fusions |
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Glioblastoma | 1.1% (Frattini et al.) [134] 1.1% (Shah et al.) [135] 2.6% (Zheng et al.) [124] 1.2% (Kim et al.) [136] 1.7% (Ferguson et al.) [133] |
BCAN-NTRK1 NFASC-NTRK1 ARHGEF2-NTRK1 CHTOP-NTRK1 GKAP-NTRK2 KCTD8-NTRK2 TBC1D2-NTRK2 EML4-NTRK3 |
Non-brainstem high-grade glioma | 10%–40% (Wu et al.)# [121] |
ETV6-NTRK3 TPM3-NTRK1 BTBD1-NTRK3 VCL-NTRK2 AGBL4-NTRK2 |
DIPG° | 4% (Wu et al.) [121] | |
Pilocytic astrocytoma | 16.6% (Ferguson et al.) [133] 3.1% (Jones et al.) [114] |
BCAN-NTRK1 NACC2-NTRK2 QKI-NTRK2 |
Anaplastic astrocytoma | 2.3% (Ferguson et al.) [133] | NOS1AP-NTRK2 |
Glioma NOS | 4.1% (Ferguson et al.) [133] | SQSTM1-NTRK2 |
Low-grade glioma | 0.7% (Zhang et al.) [112] 0.43% (Stransky et al.) [72] 4.3% (Ferguson et al.) [133] |
ETV6-NTRK3 AFAP1-NTRK2 VCAN-NTRK2 |
High-grade glioneuronal tumor | Case report (Kurozumi et al.) [127] | ARHGEF2-NTRK1 |
Ganglioglioma | Case report (Prabhakaran et al.) [124] | TLE4-NTRK2 |
# Age-dependent frequency (highest rate was observed in <3yy patients). ° Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma.