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. 2020 Apr 17;11:33–39. doi: 10.2147/LCTT.S239675

Table 1.

Clinical and Genomic Characteristics of NSCLC Cases with ALK Internal Rearrangements

ALK Rearrangements in NSCLC Detected by CGP of DNA
ALK Internal Inversion Alone ALK Internal Inversion + Co-Occurring ALK Rearrangement/Fusion ALK Internal Deletion Alone ALK Internal Deletion + Co-Occurring ALK Rearrangement/Fusion
# cases 6 (6 tissue, 0 ctDNA) 19 (18 tissue, 1 ctDNA) 3 (3 tissue, 0 ctDNA) 5 (3 tissue, 2 ctDNA)
Median age, years (range) 60.5 (23–82) 63 (49–83) 55 (33–66) 55 (38–58)
Gender M:F 1:5 7:12 2:1 2:3
ALK breakpoints introns 8/19 (n=2) introns 11/18 introns 15/19 (n=2) introns 17/19 introns 1/19 (n=7) introns 3/19 (n=2) introns 4/19 (n=2) introns 8/19 introns 11/18 (n=2) introns 11/19 introns 12/17 introns 14/19 introns 15/19 introns 17/18 introns 1/18 introns 3/19 introns 12/19 introns 1/19 introns 3/19 introns 5/19 (n=3)
Co-occurring ALK rearrangement/fusion N/A EML4-ALK fusion (n=15) CLTC-ALK fusion CLIP4-ALK fusion ALK intron 19/MPV17 rearrangement ALK intron 19/intragenic space rearrangement N/A EML4-ALK fusion ALK-EML4 reciprocal only TYW1B-ALK fusion ALK intron 19/HDAC8 ALK intron 19/intragenic space rearrangement
# with other drivers present 1 (EGFR L858R) 1 (MET amplification) 0 0
ALK FISH/IHC status ALK+ FISHa ALK+ IHCb ALK FISH negative (n=2)c, d Not performed or unknown (n=2) NE ALK FISH negativea ALK+ FISHeNot performed or unknown NE
ALK rearrangement status on RNA EML4-ALK (n=2) Not performed or unknown (n=4) NE NE* NE

Notes: a: FISH testing performed by NeoGenomics; b: IHC testing performed by Genepath, clone ALKO1; c: FISH testing performed by Genepath; d: FISH testing performed by Integrated Oncology; e: FISH testing performed by Response Genetics. *For 3/3 non-NSCLC cases with ALK internal deletions in DNA RNA testing showed only an ALK deletion and did not detect the presence of an ALK fusion.

Abbreviations: N/A: not applicable, NE: not evaluated for this study.