Supplementary Figure 1
Supplementary Figure 1: Flow chart of the data collection from the Dutch Pathology Register
Pathology reports were collected from the Dutch Pathology Register (PALGA) from January 2017 till June 2019. Reports were retrieved matching the following search criteria: gastrointestinal stromal tumor AND KIT OR PDGFRA OR molecular biology OR therapy decision test. Reports that were collected based on the search criteria were manually curated based on the presence of mutation analysis.
Dutch Pathology Database
From January 2017 to June 2019
1977 pathology reports of 986 cases
Present in report:
Gastrointestinal stromal tumor AND
KIT OR PDGFRA OR molecular biology OR therapy decision test
Molecular analysis:
545 cases
No molecular analysis:
396 cases 941 GIST cases
No gastrointestinal stromal tumor:
45 cases
Uncoupled pathology reports Initial diagnosis not in 2017 or 2018
171 cases Linked with NCR
Initial diagnosis in 2017 or 2018 374 cases
Supplementary Figure 2
0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0
0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0
Time from initial diagnosis (years)
Overall survival (%)
KIT mutation, n= 58 , events= 13 No mutation, n= 3 , events= 2 PDGFRA mutation, n= 5 , events= 5 Unknown mutation status, n= 15 , events= 7
Metastatic disease
0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0
0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0
Time from initial diagnosis (years)
Overall survival (%)
KIT mutation, n= 62 , events= 7 No mutation, n= 6 , events= 0 PDGFRA mutation, n= 5 , events= 0 Unknown mutation status, n= 5 , events= 1
High risk
P < 0.001
P = 0.001
Supplementary Figure 2: Overall survival of GIST cases based on mutation status
Overall survival (OS) of GIST cases based on the mutation status. Analyses were performed per disease stage. OS rates were determined using Cox regression and compared using the Wald test. Overal p-values are reported within each graph.
In case of significance, each individual group was compared to the remaing patients. Imatinib therapy (yes/no) was included as covariate in these models. Signficant p-values for these individual groups are shown.
0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0
0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0
Time from initial diagnosis (years)
Overall survival (%)
KIT mutation, n= 95 , events= 4 No mutation, n= 18 , events= 0 PDGFRA mutation, n= 36 , events= 0 Unknown mutation status, n= 312 , events= 25
Low risk
0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0
0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0
Time from initial diagnosis (years)
Overall survival (%)
KIT mutation, n= 34 , events= 2 No mutation, n= 7 , events= 0 PDGFRA mutation, n= 9 , events= 0 Unknown mutation status, n= 24 , events= 0
Intermediate risk
P < 0.001 P = 0.920
P = 1.000 P = 0.621
Supplementary Figure 3
Supplementary Figure 3: Molecular diagnostic analyses of GIST cases.
(a) Mutational landscape of GIST cases. Each column represents a tumor sample. Each row represents a gene. Tumor samples were sorted on the type of KIT/PDGFRA mutation. Reported (likely) pathogenic mutations, variants of unknown significance and (likely) benign variants are depicted in the figure. A colored bar represents a variant (see legend), a white bar represents no alteration, and a grey bar represents not analyzed (i.e. not present in NGS panel or single gene analysis of KIT/PDGFRA). (b) Reported frequencies of KIT and PDGFRA mutations per pathology department. The number of tests per bar are displayed behind each bar. Frequencies per pathology departments were compared the respective frequencies of the remaining pathology departments using the Fisher’s Exact test. * p<0.05
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KIT exon 9 KIT exon 11 KIT exon 13-17 KIT unspecified KIT VUS
PDGFRA p.D842V PDGFRA other mutation PDGFRA VUS
No mutation
Insufficient quantity/quality
0 20 40 60 80 100
O N M L K J I H G F E D C B A Total
Frequency (%)
Pathology departments
3 4 9 10 10 14 36 26 46 59 62 64 78 79 87 587
O N M L K J
3 4 9 10 10 14
* *
Insufficient quality Insufficient quantity Not analyzed No mutation
KIT exon 11 + additional mutation KIT exon 9
KIT exon 11 KIT exon 13-17
PDGFRA p.D842V PDGFRA exon 18 other PDGFRA exon 14 PDGFRA exon 12
Unspecified mutation Variant of unknown significance (Likely) pathogenic mutation(s) (Likely) benign variant
TP53 TERT SMO SMAD4 RB1 RNF43 PTEN PIK3CA MUTYH MPL MDM2 KDR GNAQ FGFR1 EZH2 CDKN2A ATM APC SDHA NF1 BRAF PDGFRA KIT