Overview

Gene Location [1]
5q22.2
Pathway
Beta-Catenin/WNT signaling
Variant Type
Loss
Gene
APC

APC Loss is present in 0.18% of AACR GENIE cases, with prostate adenocarcinoma, colon adenocarcinoma, lung adenocarcinoma, cancer of unknown primary, and colorectal adenocarcinoma having the greatest prevalence [4].

Top Disease Cases with APC Loss

Significance of APC Loss in Diseases

Medulloblastoma +

Familial Adenomatous Polyposis +

Medulloblastoma, Non-WNT/Non-SHH +

Medulloblastoma, WNT-Activated +

Anaplastic Astrocytoma +

Central Nervous System Embryonal Neoplasm +

Central Nervous System Ganglioneuroblastoma +

Central Nervous System Neuroblastoma +

Desmoplastic/Nodular Medulloblastoma +

Glioblastoma +

Large Cell/Anaplastic Medulloblastoma +

Medulloblastoma With Extensive Nodularity +

Medulloepithelioma +

Lymphoma +

Colorectal Carcinoma +

Ovarian Carcinoma +

Melanoma +

Malignant Solid Tumor +

Esophageal Adenocarcinoma +

Gastric Adenocarcinoma +

Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma +

Bladder Carcinoma +

Sarcoma +

Breast Carcinoma +

Pancreatic Carcinoma +

Adenocarcinoma Of The Gastroesophageal Junction +

Anaplastic Astrocytoma, IDH-Mutant +

Anaplastic Ependymoma +

Anaplastic Oligodendroglioma +

Anaplastic Oligodendroglioma, IDH-Mutant And 1p/19q-Codeleted +

Anaplastic Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma +

Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor +

Diffuse Glioma +

Diffuse Midline Glioma, H3 K27M-Mutant +

Embryonal Tumor With Multilayered Rosettes, C19MC-Altered +

Embryonal Tumor With Multilayered Rosettes, Not Otherwise Specified +

Ependymoma +

Ependymoma, RELA Fusion-Positive +

Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma +

Gastric Squamous Cell Carcinoma +

Head And Neck Carcinoma +

High-Grade Glioma, NOS +

Intracranial Primitive Neuroectodermal Neoplasm +

Malignant Glioma +

Medulloblastoma, SHH-Activated +

Pineoblastoma +

References

1. Hart R and Prlic A. Universal Transcript Archive Repository. Version uta_20180821. San Francisco CA: Github;2015. https://github.com/biocommons/uta

2. The UniProt Consortium. UniProt: a worldwide hub of protein knowledge. Nucleic Acids Research. 2019;47:D506-D515.

3. Liu X, Wu C, Li C, and Boerwinkle E. dbNSFP v3.0: A one-stop database of functional predictions and annotations for human nonsynonymous and splice site SNVs. Human Mutation. 2015;37:235-241.

Liu X, Jian X, and Boerwinkle E. dbNSFP: A lightweight database of human nonsynonymous SNPs and their functional predictions. Human Mutation. 2011;32:894-899.

4. The AACR Project GENIE Consortium. AACR Project GENIE: powering precision medicine through an international consortium. Cancer Discovery. 2017;7(8):818-831. Dataset Version 8. This dataset does not represent the totality of the genetic landscape; see paper for more information.

5. All assertions and clinical trial landscape data are curated from primary sources. You can read more about the curation process here.