Q (sonnet-5.5): What are the frequencies of different KRAS mutations in TCGA PanCan Lung Adenocarcinoma?

▶ read_guide
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 "uri": "cbioportal://mutation-frequency-guide"
}

▶ list_studies
{
 "search": "lung adenocarcinoma TCGA"
}

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# Mutation Frequency Analysis Guide

## IMPORTANT: Reporting Mutation Frequencies
- **ALWAYS report frequencies as percentages**, not raw counts: `frequency = (altered_samples / total_profiled_samples) × 100`
- For quick frequency lookups, **prefer the TCGA Pan-Cancer Atlas study first**, then offer to expand to other studies
- When reporting across multiple studies, show **ranges** (e.g., "TP53 is mutated in 30–60% of samples") rather than a single average
- **NEVER** sum mutation events across studies to compute an aggregate frequency — this can exceed 100% due to double-counting
- Warn users that samples may overlap across cohorts (e.g., MSK studies may share patients)
- **Choose and state the counting unit**: use patient-level frequencies for prevalence/rate questions unless the user explicitly asks for samples; use sample-level frequencies when the user asks about samples.
- **For "across cancer types" questions**, jump to the [Cross-Cancer-Type Mutation Frequency](#cross-cancer-type-mutation-frequency) section below — there is one correct recipe and several common wrong ones.

## Counting Unit: Samples vs Patients

Before answering any mutation count or frequency question, decide whether the unit is samples or patients and state that choice in the answer.

| User wording | Counting unit |
|--------------|---------------|
| "prevalence", "rate", "fraction of patients", "patients with", "how common is" | Patient-level: `COUNT(DISTINCT patient_unique_id)` |
| "samples", "specimens", "biopsies", sample-level cohort composition | Sample-level: `COUNT(DISTINCT sample_unique_id)` |
| Ambiguous | Ask, or default to patient-level for prevalence/rate language and say so |

### Cross-study sample-count caveat

When an answer touches more than one study and reports a sample count, prepend a one-line caveat:

> Sample IDs are unique within cBioPortal study prefixes, not guaranteed biological-sample identifiers across studies; overlapping cohorts can count the same patient/sample more than once.

Prefer one of these safer approaches:

- Use a shipped `cancer_study_query_preferences` cohort such as `pan_cancer_tcga` or `all_studies_non_redundant`.
- Restrict to one named study.
- Aggregate by `patient_unique_id` when the biological question is patient prevalence.

## STOP rule: a frequency above 100% means your query is wrong

If your query returns a frequency over 100%, **do not try to debug or explain the data inconsistency to the user**. The cause is always one of these query bugs:

- Summing mutation events instead of `COUNT(DISTINCT sample_unique_id)` for the numerator
- Using a study-wide sample count as the denominator instead of the gene-specific profiled count
- Cross-study aggregation where the same biological sample appears under multiple `sample_unique_id` values (e.g., MSK-IMPACT and MSK-CHORD share patients)
- **Joining the profiled CTE through `gene_panel` / `gene_panel_list` without a WES branch.** `gene_panel_id = 'WES'` is *not* a row in … (36467 more chars)

◀ result
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▶ clickhouse_run_select_query
{
 "query": "SELECT * FROM gene_mutation_variants_in_study(study = 'luad_tcga_pan_can_atlas_2018', gene = 'KRAS') ORDER BY altered_samples DESC"
}

▶ resolve_and_route
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 ]
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▶ navigate_to_results_view
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═ answer (success)
**KRAS mutations in Lung Adenocarcinoma (TCGA, PanCancer Atlas)**

The counts are samples, out of 566 samples profiled for KRAS. Each sample carries at most one of these variants, so the counts add up cleanly.

| Protein change | Type | Samples | Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| G12C | Missense | 70 | 12.4% |
| G12V | Missense | 40 | 7.1% |
| G12D | Missense | 20 | 3.5% |
| G12A | Missense | 17 | 3.0% |
| G13C | Missense | 7 | 1.2% |
| G12S | Missense | 5 | 0.9% |
| L19F | Missense | 3 | 0.5% |
| G13D | Missense | 3 | 0.5% |
| Q61L | Missense | 3 | 0.5% |
| Q61H | Missense | 1 | 0.2% |
| A146P | Missense | 1 | 0.2% |
| D33E | Missense | 1 | 0.2% |
| K88* | Nonsense | 1 | 0.2% |

Codon 12 substitutions (G12C, G12V, G12D, G12A and G12S) account for 152 samples, or about 26.9% of the cohort. These are mutation counts only. The database has no driver annotation for this study, so I can't say which variants are oncogenic. To apply OncoKB and hotspot annotations, use the OQL `KRAS: DRIVER` in the portal.

Other TCGA lung adenocarcinoma studies are available (Firehose Legacy, GDC 2025, Nature 2014). I used the PanCancer Atlas study, and the counts may differ slightly in the others.

[View KRAS mutations in the Mutations tab (lollipop plot and mutation table)](https://www.cbioportal.org/results/mutations?cancer_study_list=luad_tcga_pan_can_atlas_2018&gene_list=KRAS%3A+MUT&case_set_id=luad_tcga_pan_can_atlas_2018_all&profileFilter=mutations)

This page shows the mutation positions, types and frequencies along the KRAS protein.

[Study overview](https://www.cbioportal.org/study?id=luad_tcga_pan_can_atlas_2018)