HIST1H2BC

Overview

This gene encodes the H2A protein, one of the core proteins comprising nucleosomes. Although relatively common in DLBCL, little is known about the function of these mutations.

History

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Relevance tier by entity

Entity Tier Description
PMBL 2 relevance in PMBL/cHL/GZL not firmly established1
DLBCL 1 high-confidence DLBCL gene2
FL 1 high-confidence FL gene3

Mutation incidence in large patient cohorts (GAMBL reanalysis)

Entity source frequency (%)
DLBCL GAMBL genomes 4.59
DLBCL Schmitz cohort 5.53
DLBCL Reddy cohort 4.30
DLBCL Chapuy cohort 5.56
FL GAMBL genomes 3.46

Mutation pattern and selective pressure estimates

Entity aSHM Significant selection dN/dS (missense) dN/dS (nonsense)
BL No No 2.806 35.161
DLBCL No No 1.712 0.000
FL No No 1.094 0.000

HIST1H2BC Hotspots

Chromosome Coordinate (hg19) ref>alt HGVSp
chr6 26123951 C>T G61D
chr6 26123944 C>T M63I
chr6 26123939 G>A S65F
chr6 26123939 G>C S65C
chr6 26123924 A>G I70T
chr6 26123923 T>C I70M
chr6 26123922 A>C F71V
chr6 26123920 A>C F71L
chr6 26123919 C>G E72Q
chr6 26123919 C>T E72K
chr6 26123917 C>G E72D
chr6 26123916 G>C R73G
chr6 26123916 G>A R73C
chr6 26123915 C>T R73H
chr6 26123904 C>T E77K
chr6 26123903 T>C E77G
chr6 26123901 C>T A78T
chr6 26123901 C>A A78S
chr6 26123900 G>A A78V
chr6 26123886 G>A H83Y
chr6 26123881 G>C Y84*
chr6 26123874 G>A R87C

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HIST1H2BC Expression

References

1.
Mottok A, Hung SS, Chavez EA, Woolcock B, Telenius A, Chong LC, Meissner B, Nakamura H, Rushton C, Viganò E, Sarkozy C, Gascoyne RD, Connors JM, Ben-Neriah S, Mungall A, Marra MA, Siebert R, Scott DW, Savage KJ, Steidl C. Integrative genomic analysis identifies key pathogenic mechanisms in primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma. Blood. 2019 Sep 5;134(10):802–813.
2.
Lohr JG, Stojanov P, Lawrence MS, Auclair D, Chapuy B, Sougnez C, Cruz-Gordillo P, Knoechel B, Asmann YW, Slager SL, Novak AJ, Dogan A, Ansell SM, Link BK, Zou L, Gould J, Saksena G, Stransky N, Rangel-Escareño C, Fernandez-Lopez JC, Hidalgo-Miranda A, Melendez-Zajgla J, Hernández-Lemus E, Schwarz-Cruz y Celis A, Imaz-Rosshandler I, Ojesina AI, Jung J, Pedamallu CS, Lander ES, Habermann TM, Cerhan JR, Shipp MA, Getz G, Golub TR. Discovery and prioritization of somatic mutations in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) by whole-exome sequencing. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Mar 6;109(10):3879–3884. PMCID: PMC3309757
3.
Krysiak K, Gomez F, White BS, Matlock M, Miller CA, Trani L, Fronick CC, Fulton RS, Kreisel F, Cashen AF, Carson KR, Berrien-Elliott MM, Bartlett NL, Griffith M, Griffith OL, Fehniger TA. Recurrent somatic mutations affecting B-cell receptor signaling pathway genes in follicular lymphoma. Blood. 2017 Jan 26;129(4):473–483. PMCID: PMC5270390

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