Clinical relevance of the somatic mutational landscaping in predicting outcome of bladder cancer patients

Abstract Bladder cancer (BC) displays a huge phenotypic variation and widespread clinical outcomes, attributed to the high mutational heterogeneity of the disease. Mutational landscaping became integral to cancer patient management as it unveils driver genes and yields genotype–phenotype association...

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Main Authors: Taoufik Nedjadi, Hifzur Ansari, Muhammad A. Khan, Naif Sannan, Mubarak Al-Mansour, Jaudah Al-Maghrabi, Ashraf Dallol
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Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-07-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-04363-z
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Mubarak Al-Mansour
Jaudah Al-Maghrabi
Ashraf Dallol
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description Abstract Bladder cancer (BC) displays a huge phenotypic variation and widespread clinical outcomes, attributed to the high mutational heterogeneity of the disease. Mutational landscaping became integral to cancer patient management as it unveils driver genes and yields genotype–phenotype associations. This study aims to identify somatic mutations, their frequencies and their associations with clinical and prognostic outcomes in BC. Eighty-one BC patients were analyzed by next-generation sequencing using the Ion AmpliSeq Cancer Hotspots Panel v2. Bioinformatics analysis, correlation studies and Kaplan–Meier curve were used to evaluate the relationship between genes’ mutational status and patients’ clinical parameters and outcomes. Our results indicated that the BC cohort exhibited a higher mutation burden than the TCGA data. Mutations were identified in 46 out of 50 genes, including 21 novel mutations not previously reported in BC. The TP53 gene was mutated in 82.5% of the analyzed cohort, followed by PIK3 CA (45%), FGFR3 (43.75%) and APC (35%). TP53 mutations were associated with poor survival (p = 0.003) while the FGFR3 mutation group exhibited signs of good prognosis (p = 0.018). Bioinformatics highlighted significant gene interactions associated with poor prognosis. These findings underline the importance of identifying novel genetic mutations that could significantly improve prognostic stratification and expand therapeutic options for managing BC patients.
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spelling doaj-art-3ca438d62c8c418ba4b56d261a0a66d92025-08-20T04:01:36ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222025-07-0115111510.1038/s41598-025-04363-zClinical relevance of the somatic mutational landscaping in predicting outcome of bladder cancer patientsTaoufik Nedjadi0Hifzur Ansari1Muhammad A. Khan2Naif Sannan3Mubarak Al-Mansour4Jaudah Al-Maghrabi5Ashraf Dallol6King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health SciencesKing Abdullah International Medical Research Center, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health SciencesCollege of Medicine, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health SciencesKing Abdullah International Medical Research Center, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health SciencesPrincess Noorah Oncology Center, King Khalid Hospital, Ministry of National Guard-Health AffairsDepartment of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz UniversityNoor Diagnostics and Discovery, King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyAbstract Bladder cancer (BC) displays a huge phenotypic variation and widespread clinical outcomes, attributed to the high mutational heterogeneity of the disease. Mutational landscaping became integral to cancer patient management as it unveils driver genes and yields genotype–phenotype associations. This study aims to identify somatic mutations, their frequencies and their associations with clinical and prognostic outcomes in BC. Eighty-one BC patients were analyzed by next-generation sequencing using the Ion AmpliSeq Cancer Hotspots Panel v2. Bioinformatics analysis, correlation studies and Kaplan–Meier curve were used to evaluate the relationship between genes’ mutational status and patients’ clinical parameters and outcomes. Our results indicated that the BC cohort exhibited a higher mutation burden than the TCGA data. Mutations were identified in 46 out of 50 genes, including 21 novel mutations not previously reported in BC. The TP53 gene was mutated in 82.5% of the analyzed cohort, followed by PIK3 CA (45%), FGFR3 (43.75%) and APC (35%). TP53 mutations were associated with poor survival (p = 0.003) while the FGFR3 mutation group exhibited signs of good prognosis (p = 0.018). Bioinformatics highlighted significant gene interactions associated with poor prognosis. These findings underline the importance of identifying novel genetic mutations that could significantly improve prognostic stratification and expand therapeutic options for managing BC patients.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-04363-zBladder cancerGenesMutationPrognosisSequencing
spellingShingle Taoufik Nedjadi
Hifzur Ansari
Muhammad A. Khan
Naif Sannan
Mubarak Al-Mansour
Jaudah Al-Maghrabi
Ashraf Dallol
Clinical relevance of the somatic mutational landscaping in predicting outcome of bladder cancer patients
Scientific Reports
Bladder cancer
Genes
Mutation
Prognosis
Sequencing
title Clinical relevance of the somatic mutational landscaping in predicting outcome of bladder cancer patients
title_full Clinical relevance of the somatic mutational landscaping in predicting outcome of bladder cancer patients
title_fullStr Clinical relevance of the somatic mutational landscaping in predicting outcome of bladder cancer patients
title_full_unstemmed Clinical relevance of the somatic mutational landscaping in predicting outcome of bladder cancer patients
title_short Clinical relevance of the somatic mutational landscaping in predicting outcome of bladder cancer patients
title_sort clinical relevance of the somatic mutational landscaping in predicting outcome of bladder cancer patients
topic Bladder cancer
Genes
Mutation
Prognosis
Sequencing
url https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-04363-z
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