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Record W4417167783 · doi:10.1186/s40246-025-00886-8

Recurrent somatic copy number alterations in resected cerebral cavernous malformations

2025· article· en· W4417167783 on OpenAlex
Andrew K. Ressler, Evon DeBose-Scarlett, Amanda Fuenzalida, Rhonda Lightle, Shantel Weinsheimer, Marie E. Faughnan, Edda Spiekerkoetter, Katharina Schimmel, Michael T. Lawton, Helen Kim, Issam A. Awad, Douglas A. Marchuk

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Bibliographic record

VenueHuman Genomics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicVascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment
Canadian institutionsUniversity of TorontoSt. Michael's Hospital
FundersNational Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
KeywordsSomatic cellChromosomeAneuploidyHuman geneticsCopy-number variationComparative genomic hybridizationGenomeCavernous malformationsGene

Abstract

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Cerebral Cavernous Malformations (CCMs) are brain vascular lesions that occur in sporadic or inherited (autosomal dominant) forms. The malformations are driven by mutations in KRIT1, CCM2, PDCD10 or MAP3K3. Known oncogenic variants in PIK3CA accompany CCM-specific variants in lesions. While the primary genetic etiology of CCM lesions is relatively well understood, a subset of lesions does not yet have an identified molecular genetic etiology. Moreover, whether large genomic alterations occur somatically in CCM lesion tissue has been largely unexplored. In PIK3CA + cancers, large somatic copy number alterations ('CNAs') are frequent, with whole genome doubling and aneuploidy identified in most tumors. Such CNA events are known to be associated with course of disease and therapeutic response. In this study, using whole genome SNP-genotyping and Mosaic Chromosome Alteration (MoChA) analysis, we identify the presence of large (> 1 MB) somatic CNAs in CCMs, with specific enrichment of events in chromosome arms 16p,19p,17q, 20q. We also identify additional chromosome arm level events encompassing known CCM genes in a subset of lesions. Thus, we characterize a pattern of large genomic events that had remained hidden by the insensitivity of the molecular and analytical methods previously used. Finally, we propose that similar events may be found in other vascular malformations or PIK3CA overgrowth syndromes that have yet to be analyzed in this manner.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.190
Threshold uncertainty score0.478

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.312
Teacher spread0.292 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it