ESPE Abstracts (2016) 86 P-P1-103

ESPE2016 Poster Presentations Bone & Mineral Metabolism P1 (48 abstracts)

Monostotic Fibrous Dysplasia is a Single Disorder Caused by Somatic Mosaic Activating Mutations in GNAS

Hironori Shibata a , Satoshi Narumi a , Tomohiro Ishii a , Yoshiaki Sakamoto b , Gen Nishimura c & Tomonobu Hasegawa a


aDepartment of Pediatrics, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; bDepartment of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; cDepartment of Radiology, Tokyo Metropolitan Children’s Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan


Background: Monostotic Fibrous Dysplasia (MFD) is thought to be caused by somatic mosaic activating mutations in GNAS. However, previous GNAS mutation analyses of MFD patients using direct sequencing of bone samples detected activating GNAS mutations only in 21 of 40 cases (52.5%) (Hum Pathol 2012; 43: 1234). We reported that next generation sequencing (NGS) detected somatic activating GNAS mutations sensitively from peripheral blood samples in McCune-Albright syndrome (PLoS One 2013; 8: e60525).

Objective and hypotheses: To determine if we could detect somatic activating GNAS mutations in MFD patients using direct sequencing of bone samples and NGS of peripheral blood samples.

Method: The study included eight patients with MFD who underwent operation at our institution. We performed direct sequencing of bone samples and NGS of blood samples from all patients.

Results: We detected somatic activating GNAS mutations in all patients by direct sequencing of bone samples and/or by NGS of blood samples (Table 1).

Table 1. (for abstract P1-P103)
PatientsAge (years)SexPCR amplification using bone sampleDetection of GNAS mutations
MaterialGNASGAPDHDS-boneNGS-bloodType of mutation
110MFFPEND+R201H
214FFFPENO+R201C
319MFrozen sample+ND+R201C
423FFrozen sample+ND++R201H
534MFFPEND+R201H
641MFrozen sample+ND+R201H
742FFrozen sample+ND+R201H
867FFrozen sampleND+R201C
DS: direct sequencing, FFPE: formalin fixed paraffin embedded sample. ND: not done.
1Previous repeated operations caused severe bone calcification.

Conclusion: This result indicates that MFD is a single disorder caused by somatic mosaic activating mutations in GNAS. Formic acid used for decalcification might cause DNA degradation in case 1, 2 and 5.

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