Detection of Germline Variants in 450 Breast/Ovarian Cancer Families with a Multi-Gene Panel Including Coding and Regulatory Regions

Autor: Cinzia Cosini, Francesca Spina, Caterina Congregati, Stefania Tommasi, Mariella Tancredi, Rosa Scarpitta, Enrico Tagliafico, Francesca Bellè, Tiziana Cervelli, Luisa Balestrino, Elisabetta Falaschi, Maria Grazia Tibiletti, Gaetana Gambino, Alvaro Galli, Eleonora Conti, Elena Tenedini, Marco Marino, Paolo Aretini, Ileana Carnevali, Matteo Ghilli, Caterina Vivanet, Chiara Guglielmi, Laura Cortesi, Brunella Pilato, Margherita Patruno, Maria A. Caligo
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
0301 basic medicine
Proband
Gene panel
Genes
BRCA2

Genes
BRCA1

Penetrance
Regulatory Sequences
Nucleic Acid

Coding variants
Cohort Studies
0302 clinical medicine
BRCA1/2
Breast cancer predisposition genes
Hereditary breast and ovarian cancer
NGS
Non‐coding variants
Regulatory regions
Adult
Age of Onset
Female
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Genetic Variation
Germ-Line Mutation
Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome
Humans
Italy
Middle Aged
PTEN Phosphohydrolase
Biology (General)
Spectroscopy
Genetics
General Medicine
Computer Science Applications
Chemistry
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
QH301-705.5
PALB2
Biology
Article
Catalysis
Inorganic Chemistry
03 medical and health sciences
Breast cancer
Germline mutation
medicine
PTEN
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
QD1-999
Molecular Biology
CHEK2
Nucleic Acid
Organic Chemistry
BRCA1
medicine.disease
BRCA2
030104 developmental biology
Genes
non-coding variants
biology.protein
Age of onset
Regulatory Sequences
Zdroj: International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Vol 22, Iss 7693, p 7693 (2021)
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Volume 22
Issue 14
ISSN: 1422-0067
Popis: With the progress of sequencing technologies, an ever-increasing number of variants of unknown functional and clinical significance (VUS) have been identified in both coding and non-coding regions of the main Breast Cancer (BC) predisposition genes. The aim of this study is to identify a mutational profile of coding and intron-exon junction regions of 12 moderate penetrance genes (ATM, BRIP1, CDH1, CHEK2, NBN, PALB2, PTEN, RAD50, RAD51C, RAD51D, STK11, TP53) in a cohort of 450 Italian patients with Hereditary Breast/Ovarian Cancer Syndrome, wild type for germline mutation in BRCA1/2 genes. The analysis was extended to 5′UTR and 3′UTR of all the genes listed above and to the BRCA1 and BRCA2 known regulatory regions in a subset of 120 patients. The screening was performed through NGS target resequencing on the Illumina platform MiSeq. 8.7% of the patients analyzed is carriers of class 5/4 coding variants in the ATM (3.6%), BRIP1 (1.6%), CHEK2 (1.8%), PALB2 (0.7%), RAD51C (0.4%), RAD51D (0.4%), and TP53 (0.2%) genes, while variants of uncertain pathological significance (VUSs)/class 3 were identified in 9.1% of the samples. In intron-exon junctions and in regulatory regions, variants were detected respectively in 5.1% and in 32.5% of the cases analyzed. The average age of disease onset of 44.4 in non-coding variant carriers is absolutely similar to the average age of disease onset in coding variant carriers for each proband’s group with the same cancer type. Furthermore, there is not a statistically significant difference in the proportion of cases with a tumor onset under age of 40 between the two groups, but the presence of multiple non-coding variants in the same patient may affect the aggressiveness of the tumor and it is worth underlining that 25% of patients with an aggressive tumor are carriers of a PTEN 3′UTR-variant. This data provides initial information on how important it might be to extend mutational screening to the regulatory regions in clinical practice.
Databáze: OpenAIRE