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A small, pre-aggregated example containing recurrent protein-altering PIK3CA mutations in the TCGA breast invasive carcinoma cohort. Counts are distinct tumor samples, after reducing TCGA aliquot barcodes to their 16-character sample identifiers.

Usage

data(pik3ca_tcga_brca)

Format

A data frame with 26 rows and 6 columns:

gene

HGNC gene symbol; always PIK3CA.

position

First affected residue in canonical PIK3CA.

mutation

Short protein-change label.

count

Number of distinct TCGA tumor samples.

variant_class

GDC/MAF variant classification.

source_protein_position

Original GDC Protein_position.

Source

Mutation calls: NCI Genomic Data Commons TCGA-BRCA. Protein coordinates refer to canonical PIK3CA transcript ENST00000263967 and UniProt accession P42336, length 1,068 amino acids. Prepared on 2026-08-13; the R preparation workflow and exact GDC manifest are kept under data-raw/ in the source repository.

Details

The source is the open-access GDC TCGA-BRCA masked somatic mutation MAF collection produced by the Aliquot Ensemble Somatic Variant Merging and Masking workflow. Only canonical transcript ENST00000263967, directly protein-altering variants are included. The coordinate is the first affected residue parsed from HGVSp_Short, and only mutations observed in at least two distinct samples are retained.

The results shown here are in whole or part based upon data generated by the TCGA Research Network: https://www.cancer.gov/tcga.

Examples

data(pik3ca_tcga_brca)
head(pik3ca_tcga_brca)
#>     gene position mutation count     variant_class source_protein_position
#> 1 PIK3CA       81     E81K     2 Missense_Mutation                 81/1068
#> 2 PIK3CA       88     R88Q     2 Missense_Mutation                 88/1068
#> 3 PIK3CA      108    R108H     2 Missense_Mutation                108/1068
#> 4 PIK3CA      110  E110del     2      In_Frame_Del                109/1068
#> 5 PIK3CA      111  K111del     2      In_Frame_Del                111/1068
#> 6 PIK3CA      118    G118D     5 Missense_Mutation                118/1068