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Patients with a somatic <jats:italic>BAP1</jats:italic> mutation (n = 24) had a significantly worse prognosis compared to wildtype (n = 58). All patients with stage III tumors and a somatic <jats:italic>BAP1</jats:italic> mutation (n = 7) developed metastasis, however four of 28 stage I-II tumors without metastasis had somatic <jats:italic>BAP1</jats:italic> mutations, with observation time &gt;5 years. The tumor from one germline <jats:italic>BAP1</jats:italic> carrier (stage IIIC) with a somatic <jats:italic>EIF1AX</jats:italic> splice variant, has not developed metastasis within a 22-year observation time.</jats:p>","journal":"PLOS ONE","year":2024,"id":19706,"datarank":0.16622677344185136,"base_score":0.6931471805599453,"endowment":0.6931471805599453,"self_citation_contribution":0.10397207708399181,"citation_network_contribution":0.06225469635785954,"self_endowment_contribution":0.10397207708399181,"citer_contribution":0.06225469635785954,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":1,"citer_count":1,"citers_with_citation_signal":1,"citers_with_endowment":1,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":132610,"name":"Katja Harbst","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":132611,"name":"Mette M. 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