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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ophthalmology. 2019 Dec 12;127(6):804–813. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2019.12.005

Table 5.

The presence of additional pathogenic alterations beyond RB1 inactivation correlates with specific clinicopathologic features in retinoblastoma

RB1 inactivation only (n=15) RB1 + additional pathogenic alteration# (n=13) p-value
Age at diagnosis, median (range) 14 months (3–92) 27 months (2–19) p=0.37
Germline RB1 alteration 8 (54%) 2 (15%) p=0.05
Laterality Unilateral 7 (47%) 11 (85%) p=0.05
Bilateral 8 (53%) 2 (15%)
IICR tumor group Group D 4 (27%) 1 (8%) p=0.33
Group E 11 (73%) 12 (92%)
Clinical TNM cT2 7 (47%) 8 (62%) p=0.48
stage cT3 or cT4 8 (53%) 5 (38%)
Extraocular extension on MRI 4 (27%) 4 (31%) p=1.00
Pathologic TNM pT1 14 (93%) 8 (62%) p=0.07
stage pT2 - pT4 1 (7%) 5 (38%)
Optic nerve involvement 3 (20%) 7 (58%) p=0.06
Choroidal invasion 3 (20%) 4 (33%) p=0.66
Histologic grade Grade 1 or 2 10 (67%) 1 (8%) P<0.01
Grade 3 or 4 5 (33%) 12 (92%)
Anaplastic histology 7 (47%) 11 (85%) p=0.05
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Additional likely pathogenic alterations beyond RB1 inactivation that were present in these 13 tumors included: focal high-level MYCN amplification (2), MDM2 amplification (1), RAF1 amplification (1), truncating BCOR mutation (4), truncating MGA mutation (2), truncating ARID1A mutation (2), and ATRX missense mutation (1). Somatic variants of unknown significance (e.g. missense mutations not recurrently found in the COSMIC database and involving genes not known to be recurrently mutated in retinoblastoma) were not considered as likely pathogenic alterations beyond RB1 inactivation for this analysis.