Every genomic series of intimal sarcoma we could find, in one structured, sourced view. For a cancer this rare, the entire sequenced literature is roughly 120 cases — small enough to hold on one screen. Read the columns that are filled. Then read the one that is empty.
We opened Park et al.'s own supplementary tables — the per-patient AACR GENIE and MSKCC data behind that study — and found YAP1 amplified in 3 intimal-sarcoma samples (roughly 1 in 6 of that combined ~18-patient cohort). In every case it sits alongside the canonical MDM2 / CDK4 / TERT amplicon, and in one case the tumour has also deleted LATS2 — the direct Hippo-pathway brake on YAP1, so both events push in the same direction. None of this appears anywhere in the paper's text. Our IS-001, at 27.53 copies, is the highest-magnitude example of the same recurrent, unreported event. One caveat keeps this honest: in other sarcomas YAP1 is a proven driver through translocation (for example YAP1–TFE3 in epithelioid haemangioendothelioma), and it is not established that amplification drives the tumour the same way. So the open question is whether this amplified YAP1 is transcriptionally active — switching on its TEAD target genes — or a passenger on a chaotic genome. That is testable, not settled: a signal worth chasing, not a proven driver, and exactly the kind of thing that stays invisible until someone opens the file.
This synthesis is only as strong as its next entry. If you or a relative has an NGS or FISH report for an intimal sarcoma, the amplifications and copy numbers are the single most useful thing you can share — no names, just the values. We add it, and send you back how it compares against every case here.
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