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Molecular and clinical characterization of an in frame deletion of uncertain clinical significance in the BRCA2 gene

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, ISSN: 0167-6806, Vol: 133, Issue: 2, Page: 725-734
2012
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Article Description

In this study, we analyzed a"variant of uncertain significance" (VUS) located in exon 23 of the BRCA2 gene exhibited by six members of five distinct families with hereditary breast cancer (BC). The variant was identified by DNA sequencing, and cDNA analysis revealed its co-expression with wild-type mRNA. We analyzed co-occurrence with other pathological mutations in BRCA1/2, performed a case-control study, looked for evolutionary data and used in-silico analyses to predict its potential clinical significance. Sequencing revealed an in frame deletion of 126 nucleotides in exon 23, leading to a deletion of 42 amino acids (c.9203-9328del126, p.Pro2992-Thr3033del). All of the VUS-carriers suffered from either BC or ovarian/pancreatic cancer. No other definite pathologic mutation of BRCA genes was found in the five families. The identified deletion could not be observed in a control cohort of 2,652 healthy individuals, but in 5 out of 916 (0.5%) tested BC families without a bona fide pathogenic BRCA1/2 mutation (P = 0.0011). According to these results, the in frame deletion c.9203-9328del126 is a rare mutation strongly associated with familial BC. In summary, our investigations indicate that this BRCA2 deletion is pathogenic. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

Bibliographic Details

Rath, Michelle G; Fathali-Zadeh, Farnoosh; Langheinz, Anne; Tchatchou, Sandrine; Voigtländer, Theda; Heil, Jörg; Golatta, Michael; Schott, Sarah; Drasseck, Teresa; Behnecke, Anne; Burgemeister, Anna-Lena; Evers, Christina; Bugert, Peter; Junkermann, Hans; Schneeweiss, Andreas; Bartram, Claus R; Sohn, Christof; Sutter, Christian; Burwinkel, Barbara

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Medicine; Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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