US 11,725,247 B2
Methods of treating cancer
Garrett Michael Frampton, Somerville, MA (US); Roman Yelensky, Newton, MA (US); James Xin Sun, Newton, MA (US); Douglas Buckner Johnson, Nashville, TN (US); Christine Marie Lovly, Nashville, TN (US); Jeffrey Alan Sosman, Brentwood, TN (US); David Fabrizio, Cambridge, MA (US); Philip James Stephens, Lexington, MA (US); and Vincent A. Miller, West Orange, NJ (US)
Assigned to FOUNDATION MEDICINE, INC., Cambridge, MA (US); and VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, Nashville, TN (US)
Appl. No. 16/80,421
Filed by FOUNDATION MEDICINE, INC., Cambridge, MA (US); and VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, Nashville, TN (US)
PCT Filed Feb. 27, 2017, PCT No. PCT/US2017/019733
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 28, 2018,
PCT Pub. No. WO2017/151517, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 8, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/301,510, filed on Feb. 29, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2019/0085403 A1, Mar. 21, 2019
Int. Cl. C12Q 1/6886 (2018.01); C07K 16/28 (2006.01); G16H 50/30 (2018.01); G16H 50/20 (2018.01); A61P 35/00 (2006.01); G16B 20/00 (2019.01); G06F 17/15 (2006.01); A61K 39/00 (2006.01)
CPC C12Q 1/6886 (2013.01) [A61P 35/00 (2018.01); C07K 16/2818 (2013.01); G06F 17/15 (2013.01); G16B 20/00 (2019.02); G16H 50/20 (2018.01); G16H 50/30 (2018.01); A61K 2039/505 (2013.01); C12Q 2600/106 (2013.01); C12Q 2600/156 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
 
1. A method of treating a subject having a melanoma, the method comprising:
(a) acquiring a value of responder status to a therapy comprising an inhibitor of PD-1 or PD-L1 for the subject, wherein said value of responder status comprises a measure of the tumor mutational burden (TMB) in a melanoma sample, or in a sample derived from the melanoma, from the subject, wherein the measure of the TMB comprises a determination of the number of one or more somatic alterations in a predetermined set of genes including ABL1, ABL2, ACVR1B, AKT1, AKT2, AKT3, ALK, AMER1, APC, AR, ARAF, ARFRP1, ARID1A, ARID1B, ARID2, ASXL1, ATM, ATR, ATRX, AURKA, AURKB, AXIN1, ALX, BAP1, BARD1, BCL2, BCL2L1, BCL2L2, BCL6, BCOR, BCORL1, BLM, BRAF, BRCA1, BRCA2, BRD4, BRIP1, BTG1, BTK, C11orf30, CARD11, CBFB, CBL, CCND1, CCND2, CCND3, CCNE1, CD274, CD79A, CD79B, CDC73, CDH1, CDK12, CDK4, CDK6, CDK8, CDKN1A, CDKN1B, CDKN2A, CDKN2B, CDKN2C, CEBPA, CHD2, CHD4, CHEK1, CHEK2, CIC, CREBBP, CRKL, CRLF2, CSF1R, CTCF, CTNNA1, CTNNB1, CUL3, CYLD, DAXX, DDR2, DICER1, DNMT3A, DOT1L, EGFR, EP300, EPHA3, EPHA5, EPHA7, EPHB1, ERBB2, ERBB3, ERBB4, ERG, ERRFI1, ESR1, EZH2, FAM46C, FANCA, FANCC, FANCD2, FANCE, FANCF, FANCG, FANCL, FAS, FAT1, FBXW7, FGF10, FGF14, FGF19, FGF23, FGF3, FGF4, FGF6, FGFR1, FGFR2, FGFR3, FGFR4, FH, FLCN, FLT1, FLT3, FLT4, FOXL2, FOXP1, FRS2, FUBP1, GABRA6, GATA1, GATA2, GATA3, GATA4, GATA6, GID4, GLI1, GNA11, GNA13, GNAQ, GNAS, GPR124, GRIN2A, GRM3, GSK3B, H3F3A, HGF, HNF1A, HRAS, HSD3B1, HSP9OAA1, IDH1, IDH2, IGF1R, IGF2, IKBKE, IKZF1, IL7R, INHBA, IRF2, IRF4, IRS2, JAK1, JAK2, JAK3, JUN, KAT6A, KDM5A, KDM5C, KDM6A, KDR, KEAP1, KEL, KIT, KLHL6, KMT2A, KMT2C, KMT2D, KRAS, LMO1, LRP1B, LYN, LZTR1, MAGI2, MAP2K1, MAP2K2, MAP2K4, MAP3K1, MCL1, MDM2, MDM4, MED12, MEF2B, MEN1, MET, MITF, MLH1, MPL, MRE11A, MSH2, MSH6, MTOR, MUTYH, MYC, MYCL, MYCN, MYD88, NF1, NF2, NFE2L2, NFKB1A, NKX2-1, NOTCH1, NOTCH2, NOTCH3, NPM1, NRAS, NSD1, NTRK1, NTRK2, NTRK3, NUP93, PAK3, PALB2, PARK2, PAX5, PBRM1, PDCD1LG2, PDGFRA, PDGFRB, PDK1, PIK3C2B, PIK3CA, PIK3CB, PIK3CG, PIK3R1, PLCG2, PMS2, POLD1, POLE, PPP2R1A, PRDM1, PREX2, PRKAR1A, PRKCI, PRKDC, PRSS8, PTCH1, PTEN, PTPN11, QKI, RAC1, RAD50, RAD51, RAF1, RANBP2, RARA, RB1, RBM10, RET, RICTOR, RNF43, ROS1, RPTOR, RUNX1, RUNX1T1, SDHA, SDHB, SDHC, SDHD, SETD2, SF3B1, SLIT2, SMAD2, SMAD3, SMAD4, SMARCA4, SMARCB1, SMO, SNCAIP, SOCS1, SOX10, SOX2, SOX9, SPEN, SPOP, SPTA1, SRC, STAG2, STAT3, STAT4, STK11, SUFU, SYK, TAF1, TBX3, TERC, TERT (promoter only), TET2, TGFBR2, TNFAIP3, TNFRSF14, TOP1, TOP2A, TP53, TSC1, TSC2, TSHR, U2AF1, VEGFA, VHL, WISP3, WT1, XPO1, ZBTB2, ZNF217, or ZNF703; wherein the one or more somatic alterations do not comprise one or more of the following: a rearrangement, a translocation, a functional alteration, or a germline mutation, and wherein the one or more somatic alterations are detected in the sample by hybrid capture followed by sequencing; and
(b) responsive to an increased value of responder status, compared to a reference value of responder status, administering to the subject the therapy,
thereby treating the subject.