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1. Copy number variants as modifiers of breast cancer risk for BRCA1/BRCA2 pathogenic variant carriers

Author: Hakkaart, Christopher, Pearson, John F., Marquart, Louise, Dennis, Joe, Wiggins, George A. R., Barnes, Daniel R., Robinson, Bridget A., Mace, Peter D., Aittomäki, Kristiina, Andrulis, Irene L., Arun, Banu K., Azzollini, Jacopo, Balmaña, Judith, Barkardottir, Rosa B., Belhadj, Sami, Berger, Lieke, Blok, Marinus J., Boonen, Susanne E., Borde, Julika, Bradbury, Angela R., Brunet, Joan, Buys, Saundra S., Caligo, Maria A., Campbell, Ian, Chung, Wendy K., Claes, Kathleen, Collonge-Rame, Marie-Agnès, Cook, Jackie, Cosgrove, Casey, Couch, Fergus J., Daly, Mary B., Dandiker, Sita, Davidson, Rosemarie, de la Hoya, Miguel, de Putter, Robin, Delnatte, Capucine, Dhawan, Mallika, Diez, Orland, Ding, Yuan Chun, Domchek, Susan M., Donaldson, Alan, Eason, Jacqueline, Easton, Douglas F., Ehrencrona, Hans, Engel, Christoph, Evans, D. Gareth, Faust, Ulrike, Feliubadaló, Lidia, Fostira, Florentia, Friedman, Eitan, Frone, Megan, Frost, Debra, Garber, Judy, Gayther, Simon A., Gehrig, Andrea, Gesta, Paul, Godwin, Andrew K., Goldgar, David E., Greene, Mark H., Hahnen, Eric, Hake, Christopher R., Hamann, Ute, Hansen, Thomas V. O., Hauke, Jan, Hentschel, Julia, Herold, Natalie, Honisch, Ellen, Hulick, Peter J., Imyanitov, Evgeny N., van Engelen, Klaartje, Wevers, Marijke R., Isaacs, Claudine, Izatt, Louise, Izquierdo, Angel, Jakubowska, Anna, James, Paul A., Janavicius, Ramunas, John, Esther M., Joseph, Vijai, Karlan, Beth Y., Kemp, Zoe, Kirk, Judy, Konstantopoulou, Irene, Koudijs, Marco, Kwong, Ava, Laitman, Yael, Lalloo, Fiona, Lasset, Christine, Lautrup, Charlotte, Lazaro, Conxi, Legrand, Clémentine, Leslie, Goska, Lesueur, Fabienne, Mai, Phuong L., Manoukian, Siranoush, Mari, Véronique, Martens, John W. M., McGuffog, Lesley, Mebirouk, Noura, Meindl, Alfons, Miller, Austin, Montagna, Marco, Moserle, Lidia, Mouret-Fourme, Emmanuelle, Musgrave, Hannah, Nambot, Sophie, Nathanson, Katherine L., Neuhausen, Susan L., Nevanlinna, Heli, Yie, Joanne Ngeow Yuen, Nguyen-Dumont, Tu, Nikitina-Zake, Liene, Offit, Kenneth, Olah, Edith, Olopade, Olufunmilayo I., Osorio, Ana, Ott, Claus-Eric, Park, Sue K., Parsons, Michael T., Pedersen, Inge Sokilde, Peixoto, Ana, Perez-Segura, Pedro, Peterlongo, Paolo, Pocza, Timea, Radice, Paolo, Ramser, Juliane, Rantala, Johanna, Rodriguez, Gustavo C., Rønlund, Karina, Rosenberg, Efraim H., Rossing, Maria, Schmutzler, Rita K., Shah, Payal D., Sharif, Saba, Sharma, Priyanka, Side, Lucy E., Simard, Jacques, Singer, Christian F., Snape, Katie, Steinemann, Doris, Stoppa-Lyonnet, Dominique, Sutter, Christian, Tan, Yen Yen, Teixeira, Manuel R., Teo, Soo Hwang, Thomassen, Mads, Thull, Darcy L., Tischkowitz, Marc, Toland, Amanda E., Trainer, Alison H., Tripathi, Vishakha, Tung, Nadine, van Rensburg, Elizabeth J., Vega, Ana, Viel, Alessandra, Walker, Lisa, Weitzel, Jeffrey N., Wevers, Marike R., Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Spurdle, Amanda B., Antoniou, Antonis C., Walker, Logan C., MUMC+: DA KG Lab Specialisten (9), RS: GROW - R4 - Reproductive and Perinatal Medicine, Institut Català de la Salut, [Hakkaart C, Pearson JF, Wiggins GAR] Department of Pathology and Biomedical Science, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand. [Marquart L] QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. [Dennis J, Barnes DR] Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. [Balmaña J] Hereditary cancer Genetics Group, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Barcelona, Spain. Servei d’Oncologia Mèdica, Vall d’Hebron Hospital Universitari, Barcelona, Spain. [Diez O] Hereditary cancer Genetics Group, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Barcelona, Spain. Vall d’Hebron Hospital Universitari, Barcelona, Spain. Àrea de Genètica Clínica i Molecular, Vall d’Hebron Hospital Universitari, Barcelona, Spain, Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Medicum, Research Programs Unit, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, HUSLAB, Clinicum, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Human genetics, Cancer Center Amsterdam, Faculteit Medische Wetenschappen/UMCG, and Medical Oncology
Subjects: Estrogen-metabolizing enzymes, Heterozygote, DNA Copy Number Variations, Neoplasms::Neoplasms by Site::Breast Neoplasms [DISEASES], Messenger, Genetic Phenomena::Genotype::Genetic Predisposition to Disease [PHENOMENA AND PROCESSES], Medicine (miscellaneous), Expression, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Breast Neoplasms, Breast Neoplasms/genetics, Genetic polymorphisms, Genetic Phenomena::Genetic Variation::Polymorphism, Genetic::Genomic Structural Variation::DNA Copy Number Variations [PHENOMENA AND PROCESSES], General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Dna-adducts, Association, Mama - Càncer - Propensió, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Other subheadings::Other subheadings::/genetics [Other subheadings], Medicine and Health Sciences, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Familial breast, RNA, Messenger, fenómenos genéticos::variación genética::polimorfismo genético::variación estructural genómica::variaciones del número de copias de ADN [FENÓMENOS Y PROCESOS], fenómenos genéticos::genotipo::predisposición genética a la enfermedad [FENÓMENOS Y PROCESOS], BRCA2 Protein, neoplasias::neoplasias por localización::neoplasias de la mama [ENFERMEDADES], Otros calificadores::Otros calificadores::/genética [Otros calificadores], BRCA1 Protein, Isoform 1a1 sult1a1, Sulfotransferase, BRCA2 Protein/genetics, Genòmica, Ovarian, General Biochemistry, Mama - Càncer - Aspectes genètics, RNA, BRCA1 Protein/genetics, Female, 3111 Biomedicine, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Brca1
Abstract: The contribution of germline copy number variants (CNVs) to risk of developing cancer in individuals with pathogenic BRCA1 or BRCA2 variants remains relatively unknown. We conducted the largest genome-wide analysis of CNVs in 15,342 BRCA1 and 10,740 BRCA2 pathogenic variant carriers. We used these results to prioritise a candidate breast cancer risk-modifier gene for laboratory analysis and biological validation. Notably, the HR for deletions in BRCA1 suggested an elevated breast cancer risk estimate (hazard ratio (HR) = 1.21), 95% confidence interval (95% CI = 1.09–1.35) compared with non-CNV pathogenic variants. In contrast, deletions overlapping SULT1A1 suggested a decreased breast cancer risk (HR = 0.73, 95% CI 0.59-0.91) in BRCA1 pathogenic variant carriers. Functional analyses of SULT1A1 showed that reduced mRNA expression in pathogenic BRCA1 variant cells was associated with reduced cellular proliferation and reduced DNA damage after treatment with DNA damaging agents. These data provide evidence that deleterious variants in BRCA1 plus SULT1A1 deletions contribute to variable breast cancer risk in BRCA1 carriers.
Published: 2022

2. Genetic landscape of a large cohort of Primary Ovarian Insufficiency: New genes and pathways and implications for personalized medicine

Author: Abdelkader Heddar, Cagri Ogur, Sabrina Da Costa, Inès Braham, Line Billaud-Rist, Necati Findikli, Claire Beneteau, Rachel Reynaud, Khaled Mahmoud, Stéphanie Legrand, Maud Marchand, Isabelle Cedrin-Durnerin, Adèle Cantalloube, Maeliss Peigne, Marion Bretault, Benedicte Dagher-Hayeck, Sandrine Perol, Celine Droumaguet, Sabri Cavkaytar, Carole Nicolas-Bonne, Hanen Elloumi, Mohamed Khrouf, Charlotte Rougier-LeMasle, Melanie Fradin, Elsa Le Boette, Perrine Luigi, Anne-Marie Guerrot, Emmanuelle Ginglinger, Amandine Zampa, Anais Fauconnier, Nathalie Auger, Françoise Paris, Elise Brischoux-Boucher, Christelle Cabrol, Aurore Brun, Laura Guyon, Melanie Berard, Axelle Riviere, Nicolas Gruchy, Sylvie Odent, Brigitte Gilbert-Dussardier, Bertrand Isidor, Juliette Piard, Laetitia Lambert, Samir Hamamah, Anne Marie Guedj, Aude Brac de la Perriere, Hervé Fernandez, Marie-Laure Raffin-Sanson, Michel Polak, Hélène Letur, Sylvie Epelboin, Genevieve Plu-Bureau, Sławomir Wołczyński, Sylvie Hieronimus, Kristiina Aittomaki, Sophie Catteau-Jonard, Micheline Misrahi, Medicum, Research Programs Unit, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, HUSLAB, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Physiopathologie et traitement des maladies du foie, Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris-Saclay, CHU Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice (CHU Nice), Hôpital Cochin [AP-HP], Centre hospitalier universitaire de Nantes (CHU Nantes), Hôpital de la Timone [CHU - APHM] (TIMONE), Hôpital Jean Verdier [AP-HP], Service d’endocrinologie et nutrition [AP-HP Ambroise-Paré], Hôpital Ambroise Paré [AP-HP], Unité de Gynécologie Médicale, AP-HP, Hôpital Port-Royal, Université de Paris, Service de médecine interne [Mondor], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Henri Mondor-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12), Service d'endocrinologie [CHU Nice], CHU Pontchaillou [Rennes], Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes (IGDR), Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique ), CHU de Saint-Brieuc, Centre Hospitalier Antibes - Juan-les-Pins, Cancer and Brain Genomics (CBG), Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institute for Research and Innovation in Biomedicine (IRIB), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), CHU Rouen, Normandie Université (NU), Centre Hospitalier de Mulhouse, site du Hasenrain (Mulhouse), CIC Saint Etienne, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint-Etienne (CHU de Saint-Etienne)-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Hôpital Nord (Saint Etienne), Institut Gustave Roussy (IGR), Génétique (Biologie pathologie), Département de biologie et pathologie médicales [Gustave Roussy], Institut Gustave Roussy (IGR)-Institut Gustave Roussy (IGR), CHU Montpellier, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier), Développement Embryonnaire, Fertilité et Environnement (DEFE), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Montpellier (UM), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Besançon (CHRU Besançon), Service de génétique clinique [Poitiers], Centre hospitalier universitaire de Poitiers (CHU Poitiers), Service de Génétique Clinique [CHRU Nancy], Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Nancy (CHRU Nancy), Biologie, génétique et thérapies ostéoarticulaires et respiratoires (BIOTARGEN), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU), Centre de génétique humaine [CHRU Besançon], Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nîmes (CHU Nîmes), Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris-Saclay, Hôpital Foch [Suresnes], Centre hospitalier de Pau, CHU Lille, This study was supported by Université Paris Sud-Paris Saclay, Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris Saclay (AH, MM), the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale-INSERM (AH, MM), and by the Agence Nationale de Biomédecine (AH, MM)., Hôpital Bicêtre, Hôpital Paul Brousse, Yildiz Technical University (YTU), Aix Marseille Université (AMU), CHU Tenon [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Sorbonne Université (SU), Üsküdar university, Centre Hospitalier Alpes Léman (CHAL), Université de Rennes (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique ), Génomique et Médecine Personnalisée du Cancer et des Maladies Neuropsychiatriques (GPMCND), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint-Etienne [CHU Saint-Etienne] (CHU ST-E), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Montpellier (UM), Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve [CHRU Montpellier], Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Université de Poitiers, CHU Caen, Normandie Université (NU)-Tumorothèque de Caen Basse-Normandie (TCBN), Université de Montpellier (UM), Hôpital Louis Pradel [CHU - HCL], Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), Polyclinique de Navarre, Partenaires INRAE, Medical University of Białystok (MUB), Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki, and Université de Lille
Subjects: [SDV.GEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics, Post-translational regulation, DNA repair genes, Mitophagy, 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, NF-kappa B, General Medicine, Nf-kb, Primary Ovarian Insufficiency, Personalized medicine, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Mitomycins, Meiosis, Molecular pathophysiology, Genetic, Infertility, Humans, Female, 3111 Biomedicine, Precision Medicine
Abstract: Background Primary Ovarian Insufficiency (POI), a public health problem, affects 1-3.7% of women under 40 yield-ing infertility and a shorter lifespan. Most causes are unknown. Recently, genetic causes were identified, mostly in single families. We studied an unprecedented large cohort of POI to unravel its molecular pathophysiology.Methods 375 patients with 70 families were studied using targeted (88 genes) or whole exome sequencing with pathogenic/likely-pathogenic variant selection. Mitomycin-induced chromosome breakages were studied in patients' lymphocytes if necessary. Findings A high-yield of 29.3% supports a clinical genetic diagnosis of POI. In addition, we found strong evidence of pathogenicity for nine genes not previously related to a Mendelian phenotype or POI: ELAVL2, NLRP11, CENPE, SPATA33, CCDC150, CCDC185, including DNA repair genes: C17orf53(HROB), HELQ, SWI5 yielding high chromo-somal fragility. We confirmed the causal role of BRCA2, FANCM, BNC1, ERCC6, MSH4, BMPR1A, BMPR1B, BMPR2, ESR2, CAV1, SPIDR, RCBTB1 and ATG7 previously reported in isolated patients/families. In 8.5% of cases, POI is the only symptom of a multi-organ genetic disease. New pathways were identified: NF-kB, post-translational regulation, and mitophagy (mitochondrial autophagy), providing future therapeutic targets. Three new genes have been shown to affect the age of natural menopause supporting a genetic link.Interpretation We have developed high-performance genetic diagnostic of POI, dissecting the molecular pathogene-sis of POI and enabling personalized medicine to i) prevent/cure comorbidities for tumour/cancer susceptibility genes that could affect life-expectancy (37.4% of cases), or for genetically-revealed syndromic POI (8.5% of cases), ii) predict residual ovarian reserve (60.5% of cases). Genetic diagnosis could help to identify patients who may benefit from the promising in vitro activation-IVA technique in the near future, greatly improving its success in treating infertility.Funding Universite? Paris Saclay, Agence Nationale de Biome?decine.Copyright (c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
Published: 2022

3. Breast and Prostate Cancer Risks for Male BRCA1 and BRCA2 Pathogenic Variant Carriers Using Polygenic Risk Scores

Author: Marco Montagna, Mark E. Robson, Daniel Barrowdale, Mark H. Greene, Adrià López-Fernández, Miquel Angel Pujana, Paul Brennan, Lucy Side, Jackie Cook, Munaza Ahmed, Christi J. van Asperen, Katherine L. Nathanson, Ian G. Campbell, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Gero Kramer, Debra Frost, Noura Mebirouk, Angel Izquierdo, Conxi Lázaro, Douglas F. Easton, Joe Dennis, Kenneth Offit, Esther Darder, Stefania Tommasi, Angela Toss, Brca, Virginia Valentini, Tu Nguyen-Dumont, Charlotte Kvist Lautrup, Manuel R. Teixeira, Mads Thomassen, Xin Yang, Susan M. Domchek, Valentina Silvestri, Paolo Radice, Marta Venturelli, Joseph Vijai, Pedro Pinto, Caroline Pottinger, Karina Rønlund, Lone Kroeldrup, Paul A. James, Alan Donaldson, Rita K. Schmutzler, Muriel Belotti, Kim De Leeneer, Lesley McGuffog, Susan L. Neuhausen, Amanda E. Toland, Siranoush Manoukian, Vishakha Tripathi, Adalgeir Arason, Pascaline Berthet, Linda Steele, Judit Horvath, Gord Glendon, Goska Leslie, Eva Gross, Anna Coppa, D. J. Gallagher, Payal D. Shah, Hebon Investigators, Alfons Meindl, Orland Diez, Irene L. Andrulis, Angela F. Brady, Giuseppe Damante, Paolo Peterlongo, Ana Sánchez de Abajo, Maria A. Caligo, Alison H. Trainer, Sophie Giraud, Saba Sharif, Christian Sutter, Johanna Rantala, Javier Benitez, Mark T. Rogers, kConFab Investigators, Lídia Feliubadaló, Inge Søkilde Pedersen, Annabeth Høgh Petersen, Jesús del Valle, Agostino Bucalo, Andrea Gehrig, Megan N. Frone, Judith Balmaña, Marc Tischkowitz, Thomas Hansen, Joan Brunet, Ines Zanna, Torben A Kruse, Carole Brewer, Bernard Peissel, Helen Gregory, Mary Porteous, Rosa B. Barkardottir, Andreas Rump, Ros Eeles, Anna Whaite, Saundra S. Buys, Fabienne Lesueur, Lisa Walker, Laura Ottini, Louise Izatt, Antonis C. Antoniou, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Susanne E. Boonen, Hayley Cassingham, Jacques Simard, Christoph Engel, Patrick J. Morrison, Lise Lotte Christensen, Giulia Cini, Alvaro N.A. Monteiro, Kathleen Claes, Jacqueline Eason, Zoltan Matrai, Uffe Birk Jensen, Kristiina Aittomäki, Ramunas Janavicius, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Bjarni A. Agnarsson, Kara N. Maxwell, Julian Barwell, Bernd Auber, Julian Adlard, Esther M. John, Alex Teulé, Miguel de la Hoya, Darcy L. Thull, David E. Goldgar, Alessandra Viel, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Barbara Wappenschmidt, Phuong L. Mai, Taru A. Muranen, Eric Hahnen, Fergus J. Couch, Laura Matricardi, Domenico Palli, Yen Y. Tan, Julia Hentschel, Florentia Fostira, Ute Hamann, Trinidad Caldés, Rosemarie Davidson, Daniel R. Barnes, Åke Borg, Pedro Pérez-Segura, Aniko Bozsik, Yuan Chun Ding, Dieter Niederacher, Heli Nevanlinna, Helen Hanson, Norbert Arnold, Robin de Putter, Juliane Ramser, Alex Murray, Laura Cortesi, Christian F. Singer, Jacopo Azzollini, Zsofia K. Stadler, Oskar T. Johannsson, Andrew K. Godwin, D. Gareth Evans, Edith Olah, Michael T. Parsons, Medicum, Research Programs Unit, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, HUSLAB, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki University Hospital Area, Research Program in Systems Oncology, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinicum, Institut Català de la Salut, [Barnes DR, Leslie G, McGuffog L, Dennis J, Yang X] Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. [Silvestri V] Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. [Balmaña J] Hereditary Cancer Genetics Group, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Barcelona, Spain. Servei d’Oncologia Mèdica, Vall d’Hebron Hospital Universitari, Barcelona, Spain. [Diez O] Hereditary Cancer Genetics Group, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Barcelona, Spain. Àrea de Genètica Clínica i Molecular, Vall d’Hebron Hospital Universitari, Barcelona, Spain, and Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus
Subjects: Oncology, Male, Cancer Research, Neoplasms::Neoplasms by Site::Breast Neoplasms [DISEASES], Genetic Phenomena::Genotype::Genetic Predisposition to Disease [PHENOMENA AND PROCESSES], Diàtesi, polygenic, male breast cancer, PRS, Medical Oncology, Prostate cancer, Breast cancer, 0302 clinical medicine, Prostate, Risk Factors, Medicine and Health Sciences, 80 and over, genetics, skin and connective tissue diseases, Aged, 80 and over, neoplasias::neoplasias por localización::neoplasias de la mama [ENFERMEDADES], 0303 health sciences, education.field_of_study, BRCA1 Protein, Men, Articles, ASSOCIATION, Single Nucleotide, prostate cancer, OVARIAN, BRCA1, BRCA2, 3. Good health, Mutation carriers, medicine.anatomical_structure, Ovarian, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Male breast cancer, Pròstata - Càncer - Aspectes genètics, BRCA2 Protein, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Heterozygote, Humans, Mutation, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk Assessment, Breast Neoplasms, Prostatic Neoplasms, AcademicSubjects/MED00010, medicine.medical_specialty, Neoplasms::Neoplasms by Site::Urogenital Neoplasms::Genital Neoplasms, Male::Prostatic Neoplasms [DISEASES], Urology, 3122 Cancers, Population, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, MUTATION CARRIERS, Càncer de mama, Association, 03 medical and health sciences, Internal medicine, medicine, Polymorphism, education, fenómenos genéticos::genotipo::predisposición genética a la enfermedad [FENÓMENOS Y PROCESOS], 030304 developmental biology, Aged, Càncer de pròstata, business.industry, Cancer, Odds ratio, medicine.disease, neoplasias::neoplasias por localización::neoplasias urogenitales::neoplasias de los genitales masculinos::neoplasias de la próstata [ENFERMEDADES], Homes, Mama - Càncer - Aspectes genètics, business
Abstract: Breast and prostate cancer risks; Pathogenic variant Riscos de càncer de mama i pròstata; Variants patogèniques Riesgos de cáncer de mama y próstata; Variantes patogénicas Background Recent population-based female breast cancer and prostate cancer polygenic risk scores (PRS) have been developed. We assessed the associations of these PRS with breast and prostate cancer risks for male BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variant carriers. Methods 483 BRCA1 and 1318 BRCA2 European ancestry male carriers were available from the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA). A 147-single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) prostate cancer PRS (PRSPC) and a 313-SNP breast cancer PRS were evaluated. There were 3 versions of the breast cancer PRS, optimized to predict overall (PRSBC), estrogen receptor (ER)–negative (PRSER-), or ER-positive (PRSER+) breast cancer risk. Results PRSER+ yielded the strongest association with breast cancer risk. The odds ratios (ORs) per PRSER+ standard deviation estimates were 1.40 (95% confidence interval [CI] =1.07 to 1.83) for BRCA1 and 1.33 (95% CI = 1.16 to 1.52) for BRCA2 carriers. PRSPC was associated with prostate cancer risk for BRCA1 (OR = 1.73, 95% CI = 1.28 to 2.33) and BRCA2 (OR = 1.60, 95% CI = 1.34 to 1.91) carriers. The estimated breast cancer odds ratios were larger after adjusting for female relative breast cancer family history. By age 85 years, for BRCA2 carriers, the breast cancer risk varied from 7.7% to 18.4% and prostate cancer risk from 34.1% to 87.6% between the 5th and 95th percentiles of the PRS distributions. Conclusions Population-based prostate and female breast cancer PRS are associated with a wide range of absolute breast and prostate cancer risks for male BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers. These findings warrant further investigation aimed at providing personalized cancer risks for male carriers and informing clinical management. The CIMBA data management and data analysis were supported by Cancer Research UK grants C12292/A20861 and PPRPGM-Nov20\100002. The research leading to these results has received funding from the Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC) under IG 2018 - ID. 21389 and the Italian League for the Fight Against Cancer (LILT) under IG 2019 projects, P.I. Ottini Laura and Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research-Dipartimenti di Eccellenza-L. 232/2016. CIMBA: GCT is a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Research Fellow. iCOGS and OncoArray data: the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement No. 223175 (HEALTH-F2-2009-223175) (COGS), Cancer Research UK (C1287/A10118, C1287/A 10710, C12292/A11174, C1281/A12014, C5047/A8384, C5047/A15007, C5047/A10692, C8197/A16565), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (CA128978) and Post-Cancer GWAS initiative (1U19 CA148537, 1U19 CA148065 and 1U19 CA148112 - the GAME-ON initiative), the Department of Defence (W81XWH-10-1-0341), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) for the CIHR Team in Familial Risks of Breast Cancer (CRN-87521), and the Ministry of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade (PSR-SIIRI-701), Komen Foundation for the Cure, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund. The Personalized Risk Stratification for Prevention and Early Detection of Breast Cancer (PERSPECTIVE) and PERSPECTIVE I&I projects were supported by the Government of Canada through Genome Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Ministry of Economy and Innovation through Genome Québec, and The Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation and the Ontario Research Fund. Breast Cancer Family Registry (BCFR): UM1 CA164920 from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Baltic Familial Breast Ovarian Cancer Consortium (BFBOCC): Lithuania (BFBOCC-LT): Research Council of Lithuania grant SEN-18/2015. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC): Breast Cancer Research Foundation. BRCA-gene mutations and breast cancer in South African women (BMBSA): Cancer Association of South Africa (PI Elizabeth J. van Rensburg). Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO): Spanish Ministry of Health PI16/00440 supported by Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) funds, the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) SAF2014-57680-R and the Spanish Research Network on Rare diseases (CIBERER). City of Hope - Clinical Cancer Genomics Community Research Network (COH-CCGCRN): Research reported in this publication was supported by the NCI of the NIH under grant No. R25CA112486, and RC4CA153828 (PI: J. Weitzel) from the NCI and the Office of the Director, NIH. CONsorzio Studi ITaliani sui Tumori Ereditari Alla Mammella (CONSIT TEAM): Associazione Italiana Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC; IG2014 No.15547) to P. Radice. Funds from Italian citizens who allocated the 5x1000 share of their tax payment in support of the Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, according to Italian laws (INT-Institutional strategic projects ‘5x1000’) to S. Manoukian. Associazione CAOS Varese to M.G. Tibiletti. AIRC (IG2015 No.16732) to P. Peterlongo. National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos (DEMOKRITOS): European Union (European Social Fund—ESF) and Greek national funds through the Operational Program “Education and Lifelong Learning” of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) - Research Funding Program of the General Secretariat for Research & Technology: SYN11_10_19 NBCA. Investing in knowledge society through the European Social Fund. German Cancer Research Center (DFKZ): German Cancer Research Center. Epidemiological Study of Familial Breast Cancer (EMBRACE): Cancer Research UK Grants C1287/A10118 and C1287/A11990. D. Gareth Evans and Fiona Lalloo are supported by an National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) grant to the Biomedical Research Centre, Manchester. The Investigators at The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust are supported by an NIHR grant to the Biomedical Research Centre at The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. Ros Eeles and Elizabeth Bancroft are supported by Cancer Research UK Grant C5047/A8385. Ros Eeles is also supported by NIHR support to the Biomedical Research Centre at The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. Fox Chase Cancer Center (FCCC): The University of Kansas Cancer Center (P30 CA168524) and the Kansas Bioscience Authority Eminent Scholar Program. AKG was in part funded by the NCI (R01 CA214545 and R01 CA140323), The Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine (P20 GM130423), and the Kansas Bioscience Authority Eminent Scholar Program. A.K.G. is the Chancellors Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Sciences Professor. Fundación Pública Galega de Medicina Xenómica (FPGMX): FISPI05/2275 and Mutua Madrileña Foundation (FMMA). German Familial Breast Group (GC-HBOC): German Cancer Aid (grant No. 110837, Rita K. Schmutzler) and the European Regional Development Fund and Free State of Saxony, Germany (LIFE—Leipzig Research Centre for Civilization Diseases, project No. 713-241202, No. 713-241202, No. 14505/2470, and No. 14575/2470). Genetic Modifiers of cancer risk in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers (GEMO): Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer; the Association “Le cancer du sein, parlons-en!” Award, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for the “CIHR Team in Familial Risks of Breast Cancer” program and the French National Institute of Cancer (INCa grants 2013-1-BCB-01-ICH-1 and SHS-E-SP 18-015). Georgetown University (GEORGETOWN): the Non-Therapeutic Subject Registry Shared Resource at Georgetown University (NIH/NCI grant P30-CA051008), the Fisher Center for Hereditary Cancer and Clinical Genomics Research, and Swing Fore the Cure. Ghent University Hospital (G-FAST): Bruce Poppe is a senior clinical investigator of FWO. Mattias Van Heetvelde obtained funding from IWT. Hospital Clinico San Carlos (HCSC): Spanish Ministry of Health PI15/00059, PI16/01292, and CB-161200301 CIBERONC from ISCIII (Spain), partially supported by European Regional Development FEDER funds. Helsinki Breast Cancer Study (HEBCS): Helsinki University Hospital Research Fund, the Finnish Cancer Society and the Sigrid Juselius Foundation. Hereditary Breast and Ovarian cancer study the Netherlands (HEBON): the Dutch Cancer Society grants NKI1998-1854, NKI2004-3088, NKI2007-3756, the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research grant NWO 91109024, the Pink Ribbon grants 110005 and 2014-187.WO76, the Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure (BBMRI) grant NWO 184.021.007/CP46 and the Transcan grant JTC 2012 Cancer 12-054. HEBON thanks the registration teams of Dutch Cancer Registry (IKNL; S. Siesling, J. Verloop) and the Dutch Pathology database (PALGA; L. Overbeek) for part of the data collection. Study of Genetic Mutations in Breast and Ovarian Cancer patients in Hong Kong and Asia (HRBCP): Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, Dr Ellen Li Charitable Foundation, The Kerry Group Kuok Foundation, National Institute of Health1R 03CA130065, and North California Cancer Center. Molecular Genetic Studies of Breast- and Ovarian Cancer in Hungary (HUNBOCS): Hungarian Research Grants KTIA-OTKA CK-80745 and NKFI_OTKA K-112228. Institut Català d’Oncologia (ICO): The authors would like to particularly acknowledge the support of the Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer (AECC), the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (organismo adscrito al Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad) and “FEDER, una manera de hacer Europa” (PI10/01422, PI13/00285, PIE13/00022, PI15/00854, PI16/00563 and CIBERONC) and the Institut Català de la Salut and Autonomous Government of Catalonia (2009SGR290, 2014SGR338 and PERIS Project MedPerCan). International Hereditary Cancer Centre (IHCC): PBZ_KBN_122/P05/2004. Iceland Landspitali – University Hospital (ILUH): Icelandic Association “Walking for Breast Cancer Research” and by the Landspitali University Hospital Research Fund. INterdisciplinary HEalth Research Internal Team BReast CAncer susceptibility (INHERIT): Canadian Institutes of Health Research for the “CIHR Team in Familial Risks of Breast Cancer” program—grant No. CRN-87521 and the Ministry of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade—grant No. PSR-SIIRI-701. Istituto Oncologico Veneto (IOVHBOCS): Ministero della Salute and “5x1000” Istituto Oncologico Veneto grant. Portuguese Oncology Institute-Porto Breast Cancer Study (IPOBCS): Liga Portuguesa Contra o Cancro. Kathleen Cuningham Consortium for Research into Familial Breast Cancer (kConFab): The National Breast Cancer Foundation, and previously by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), the Queensland Cancer Fund, the Cancer Councils of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia, and the Cancer Foundation of Western Australia. Korean Hereditary Breast Cancer Study (KOHBRA): the Korea Health Technology R&D Project through the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI), and the National R&D Program for Cancer Control, Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea (HI16C1127; 1020350; 1420190). Mayo Clinic (MAYO): NIH grants CA116167, CA192393 and CA176785, an NCI Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Breast Cancer (CA116201), and a grant from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. McGill University (MCGILL): Jewish General Hospital Weekend to End Breast Cancer, Quebec Ministry of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade. Marc Tischkowitz is supported by the funded by the European Union Seventh Framework Program (2007Y2013)/European Research Council (Grant No. 310018). Modifier Study of Quantitative Effects on Disease (MODSQUAD): MH CZ—DRO (MMCI, 00209805), MEYS—NPS I—LO1413 to LF, and by Charles University in Prague project UNCE204024 (MZ). Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC): the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, the Robert and Kate Niehaus Clinical Cancer Genetics Initiative, the Andrew Sabin Research Fund and a Cancer Center Support Grant/Core Grant (P30 CA008748). Women’s College Research Institute Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Study (NAROD): 1R01 CA149429-01. National Cancer Institute (NCI): the Intramural Research Program of the US NCI, NIH, and by support services contracts NO2-CP-11019-50, N02-CP-21013-63 and N02-CP-65504 with Westat, Inc, Rockville, MD. National Israeli Cancer Control Center (NICCC): Clalit Health Services in Israel, the Israel Cancer Association and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF), NY. N.N. Petrov Institute of Oncology (NNPIO): the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grants 17-54-12007, 17-00-00171 and 18-515-12007). NRG Oncology: U10 CA180868, NRG SDMC grant U10 CA180822, NRG Administrative Office and the NRG Tissue Bank (CA 27469), the NRG Statistical and Data Center (CA 37517) and the Intramural Research Program, NCI. The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center (OSUCCG): Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center. Università di Pisa (PBCS): AIRC [IG 2013 N.14477] and Tuscany Institute for Tumors (ITT) grant 2014-2015-2016. South East Asian Breast Cancer Association Study (SEABASS): Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Ministry of Higher Education (UM.C/HlR/MOHE/06) and Cancer Research Initiatives Foundation. Sheba Medical Centre (SMC): the Israeli Cancer Association. Swedish Breast Cancer Study (SWE-BRCA): the Swedish Cancer Society. University of Chicago (UCHICAGO): NCI Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Breast Cancer (CA125183), R01 CA142996, 1U01CA161032 and by the Ralph and Marion Falk Medical Research Trust, the Entertainment Industry Fund National Women’s Cancer Research Alliance and the Breast Cancer research Foundation. OIO is an American Cancer Society (ACS) Clinical Research Professor. University of California Los Angeles (UCLA): Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Foundation; Breast Cancer Research Foundation. University of California San Francisco (UCSF): UCSF Cancer Risk Program and Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. UK Familial Ovarian Cancer Registry (UKFOCR): Cancer Research UK. University of Pennsylvania (UPENN): NIH (R01-CA102776 and R01-CA083855); Breast Cancer Research Foundation; Susan G. Komen Foundation for the cure, Basser Research Center for BRCA. Cancer Family Registry University of Pittsburg (UPITT/MWH): Hackers for Hope Pittsburgh. Victorian Familial Cancer Trials Group (VFCTG): Victorian Cancer Agency, Cancer Australia, National Breast Cancer Foundation. Women’s Cancer Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (WCP): Dr Karlan is funded by the ACS Early Detection Professorship (SIOP-06-258-01-COUN) and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), Grant UL1TR000124. TN-D is a recipient of a Career Development Fellow from the National Breast Cancer Foundation (Australia, ECF-17-001).
Published: 2022

4. Cancer Risks Associated With Germline PALB2 Pathogenic Variants: An International Study of 524 Families

Author: Judith Balmaña, Douglas F. Easton, Adeline Cuggia, Kenneth Offit, Heli Nevanlinna, Judy Garber, Florentia Fostira, Kelly A. Metcalfe, Jana Soukupova, Carlo Tondini, Orland Diez, George Zogopoulos, James Scarth, Marketa Janatova, Tuya Pal, Mark E. Robson, James E. Redman, Laura Ottini, Patrick Concannon, Ann S.G. Lee, Åke Borg, Anders Kvist, Sandra Schneider, Valentina Silvestri, Christoph Engel, Rachel Silva-Smith, Antoine De Pauw, Tu Nguyen-Dumont, Inga Plaskocinska, Katherine L. Nathanson, Hans Ehrencrona, Susan J. Ramus, Rita K. Schmutzler, Craig Luccarini, Mitul Shah, Sophia George, Goska Leslie, Jeffrey N. Weitzel, Irene Konstantopoulou, Carl Blomqvist, William D. Foulkes, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Marc Tischkowitz, Thomas van Overeem Hansen, Pei Sze Ng, Kathleen Claes, Ellen L. Goode, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Sarah M. Nielsen, Andy C. H. Lee, Melissa C. Southey, Ramunas Janavicius, Jill S. Dolinsky, Alfons Meindl, Paolo Peterlongo, Julie O. Culver, Kristiina Aittomäki, Robert Winqvist, Alison H. Trainer, Tuomas Heikkinen, Paolo Radice, David E. Goldgar, Florian Obermair, Marie E. Wood, Jonine L. Bernstein, Sook-Yee Yoon, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Christopher R. Hake, Claude Houdayer, Irene L. Andrulis, Aaron Elliott, Zaki El-Haffaf, Petra Kleiblova, Jukka S. Moilanen, Judith Hurley, Antonis C. Antoniou, Siranoush Manoukian, Fergus J. Couch, Anne-Bine Skytte, Susan L. Neuhausen, Gary Unzeitig, D. Gareth Evans, Eamonn R. Maher, John L. Hopper, Rachel McFarland, James A. G. Whitworth, Judith Penkert, Julian Barwell, Susan M. Domchek, Zdenek Kleibl, Leila Dorling, Lisa Golmard, Peter Ang, Brennan Decker, Cheng Har Yip, Nur Aishah Taib, Vilius Rudaitis, Julian Adlard, Xin Yang, Jamie Allen, Lydia Usha, Francesca Damiola, Amal Yussuf, Katri Pylkäs, Alicja Doroszuk, Eric Hahnen, Muriel A. Adank, Karen A. Pooley, Soo Hwang Teo, Kristie Bobolis, Paul A. James, Alison M. Dunning, Holly LaDuca, Stephen B. Gruber, Wendy McKinnon, Fabienne Lesueur, Lucy Side, Arto Mannermaa, Thomas P. Slavin, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, HUSLAB, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, University of Helsinki, HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Oncology, Clinicum, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Oncology, PENETRANCE, Cancer Research, medicine.medical_specialty, PALB2, 3122 Cancers, ASCERTAINMENT SAMPLING PROBLEM, Germline, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Germline mutation, Breast cancer, Prostate, Internal medicine, Pancreatic cancer, HISTORY, medicine, BREAST-CANCER, business.industry, BRCA2-INTERACTING PROTEIN PALB2, Cancer, OVARIAN, medicine.disease, BRCA2, PANCREATIC-CANCER, 3. Good health, SUSCEPTIBILITY GENE-MUTATIONS, 030104 developmental biology, medicine.anatomical_structure, RESOLUTION, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Palb2, pathogenic variants, cancer risk, business, Ovarian cancer
Abstract: PURPOSE To estimate age-specific relative and absolute cancer risks of breast cancer and to estimate risks of ovarian, pancreatic, male breast, prostate, and colorectal cancers associated with germline PALB2 pathogenic variants (PVs) because these risks have not been extensively characterized. METHODS We analyzed data from 524 families with PALB2 PVs from 21 countries. Complex segregation analysis was used to estimate relative risks (RRs; relative to country-specific population incidences) and absolute risks of cancers. The models allowed for residual familial aggregation of breast and ovarian cancer and were adjusted for the family-specific ascertainment schemes. RESULTS We found associations between PALB2 PVs and risk of female breast cancer (RR, 7.18; 95% CI, 5.82 to 8.85; P = 6.5 × 10−76), ovarian cancer (RR, 2.91; 95% CI, 1.40 to 6.04; P = 4.1 × 10−3), pancreatic cancer (RR, 2.37; 95% CI, 1.24 to 4.50; P = 8.7 × 10−3), and male breast cancer (RR, 7.34; 95% CI, 1.28 to 42.18; P = 2.6 × 10−2). There was no evidence for increased risks of prostate or colorectal cancer. The breast cancer RRs declined with age ( P for trend = 2.0 × 10−3). After adjusting for family ascertainment, breast cancer risk estimates on the basis of multiple case families were similar to the estimates from families ascertained through population-based studies ( P for difference = .41). On the basis of the combined data, the estimated risks to age 80 years were 53% (95% CI, 44% to 63%) for female breast cancer, 5% (95% CI, 2% to 10%) for ovarian cancer, 2%-3% (95% CI females, 1% to 4%; 95% CI males, 2% to 5%) for pancreatic cancer, and 1% (95% CI, 0.2% to 5%) for male breast cancer. CONCLUSION These results confirm PALB2 as a major breast cancer susceptibility gene and establish substantial associations between germline PALB2 PVs and ovarian, pancreatic, and male breast cancers. These findings will facilitate incorporation of PALB2 into risk prediction models and optimize the clinical cancer risk management of PALB2 PV carriers.
Published: 2020

5. Long-term health of women with genetic POI due to FSH-resistant ovaries

Author: Juha S. Tapanainen, Pekka Jousilahti, Kaisu Luiro, Kristiina Aittomäki, Clinicum, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Helsinki, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, HUSLAB, University Management, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, and Reproductive Disease Modeling
Subjects: Infertility, medicine.medical_specialty, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, medicine.medical_treatment, Population, Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7, lcsh:Diseases of the endocrine glands. Clinical endocrinology, HORMONE, Endocrinology, INSUFFICIENCY, FRACTURES, Internal medicine, SEXUAL FUNCTION, Internal Medicine, Medicine, EARLY MENOPAUSE, education, POPULATION, education.field_of_study, lcsh:RC648-665, business.industry, Research, POI, Beck Depression Inventory, CAUSE-SPECIFIC MORTALITY, YOUNG-WOMEN, medicine.disease, primary ovarian insufficiency, 3. Good health, Osteopenia, osteopenia, primary amenorrhea, 3121 General medicine, internal medicine and other clinical medicine, RISK-FACTORS, FSH receptor, Hormone therapy, BONE-MINERAL DENSITY, Metabolic syndrome, business, Sexual function
Abstract: Objective To study the use of hormone therapy (HT), morbidity and reproductive outcomes of women with primary ovarian insufficiency (POI) due to FSH-resistant ovaries (FSHRO). Design A prospective follow-up study in a university-based tertiary clinic setting. Methods Twenty-six women with an inactivating A189V FSH receptor mutation were investigated by means of a health questionnaire and clinical examination. Twenty-two returned the health questionnaire and 14 were clinically examined. Main outcome measures in the health questionnaire were reported as HT, morbidity, medication and infertility treatment outcomes. In the clinical study, risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and metabolic syndrome (MetS) were compared to age-matched controls from a national population survey (FINRISK). Average number of controls was 326 per FSHRO subject (range 178–430). Bone mineral density and whole-body composition were analyzed with DXA. Psychological and sexual well-being was assessed with Beck Depression Inventory (BDI21), Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 (GAD-7) and Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) questionnaires. Results HT was initiated late (median 18 years of age) compared with normal puberty and the median time of use was shorter (20–22 years) than the normal fertile period. Osteopenia was detected in 9/14 of the FSHRO women despite HT. No major risk factors for CVD or diabetes were found. Conclusions HT of 20 years seems to be associated with a similar cardiovascular and metabolic risk factor profile as in the population control group. However, optimal bone health may require an early-onset and longer period of HT, which would better correspond to the natural fertile period.
Published: 2019

6. OBITUARY Albert de la Chapelle (1933-2020)

Author: Kääriäinen, Helena, Aittomaki, Kristiina, University of Helsinki, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, and HUSLAB
Subjects: education, 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, 3111 Biomedicine
Abstract: Non
Published: 2021

7. A search for modifying genetic factors in CHEK2:c.1100delC breast cancer patients

Author: Wendt, Camilla, Muranen, Taru A., Mielikainen, Lotta, Thutkawkorapin, Jessada, Blomqvist, Carl, Jiao, Xiang, Ehrencrona, Hans, Tham, Emma, Arver, Brita, Melin, Beatrice, Kuchinskaya, Ekaterina, Stenmark Askmalm, Marie, Paulsson-Karlsson, Ylva, Einbeigi, Zakaria, Vappling, Anna von Wachenfeldt, Kalso, Eija, Tasmuth, Tiina, Kallioniemi, Anne, Aittomaki, Kristiina, Nevanlinna, Heli, Borg, Åke, Lindblom, Annika, Tampere University, BioMediTech, Department of Clinical Microbiology, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Oncology, Clinicum, HUS Perioperative, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, Eija Kalso / Principal Investigator, Department of Diagnostics and Therapeutics, University of Helsinki, Anestesiologian yksikkö, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, HUSLAB, and Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics
Subjects: Multifactorial Inheritance, Science, SUSCEPTIBILITY ALLELES, Breast Neoplasms, VARIANTS, CHEK2-ASTERISK-1100DELC, Article, Exome Sequencing, LOCUS, Genetics, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, skin and connective tissue diseases, Germ-Line Mutation, ASSOCIATIONS, Cancer, Sequence Deletion, RISK, Cancer och onkologi, BRCA2 MUTATION, 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, CARRIERS, Checkpoint Kinase 2, EXCESS, Risk factors, Case-Control Studies, Cancer and Oncology, Medicine, Female, 3111 Biomedicine
Abstract: The risk of breast cancer associated with CHEK2:c.1100delC is 2-threefold but higher in carriers with a family history of breast cancer than without, suggesting that other genetic loci in combination with CHEK2:c.1100delC confer an increased risk in a polygenic model. Part of the excess familial risk has been associated with common low-penetrance variants. This study aimed to identify genetic loci that modify CHEK2:c.1100delC-associated breast cancer risk by searching for candidate risk alleles that are overrepresented in CHEK2:c.1100delC carriers with breast cancer compared with controls. We performed whole-exome sequencing in 28 breast cancer cases with germline CHEK2:c.1100delC, 28 familial breast cancer cases and 70 controls. Candidate alleles were selected for validation in larger cohorts. One recessive synonymous variant, rs16897117, was suggested, but no overrepresentation of homozygous CHEK2:c.1100delC carriers was found in the following validation. Furthermore, 11 non-synonymous candidate alleles were suggested for further testing, but no significant difference in allele frequency could be detected in the validation in CHEK2:c.1100delC cases compared with familial breast cancer, sporadic breast cancer and controls. With this method, we found no support for a CHEK2:c.1100delC-specific genetic modifier. Further studies of CHEK2:c.1100delC genetic modifiers are warranted to improve risk assessment in clinical practice. Funding Agencies|Stockholm County CouncilStockholm County Council; Karolinska InstitutetKarolinska Institutet; Cancer Foundation Finland; Sigrid Juselius FoundationSigrid Juselius Foundation; Helsinki University Hospital Research Fund
Published: 2021

8. High miR-30 Expression Associates with Improved Breast Cancer Patient Survival and Treatment Outcome

Author: Maral Jamshidi, Rainer Fagerholm, Taru A. Muranen, Sippy Kaur, Swapnil Potdar, Sofia Khan, Eliisa Netti, John-Patrick Mpindi, Bhagwan Yadav, Johanna I. Kiiski, Kristiina Aittomäki, Päivi Heikkilä, Jani Saarela, Ralf Bützow, Carl Blomqvist, Heli Nevanlinna, University of Helsinki, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, University of Helsinki, Faculty Common Matters, University of Helsinki, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki Institute of Life Science HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, INDIVIDRUG - Individualized Drug Therapy, University of Helsinki, Medicum, University of Helsinki, HUSLAB, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Hospital Area, Faculty Common Matters (Faculty of Biology and Environmental Sciences), Clinicum, Medicum, Department of Pathology, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Helsinki Institute of Life Science HiLIFE, INDIVIDRUG - Individualized Drug Therapy, Research Programs Unit, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, HUSLAB, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, HUS Diagnostic Center, HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Department of Oncology
Subjects: p53, PROTEIN EXPRESSION, MICRORNAS, education, INVASION, 3122 Cancers, SUPPRESS, chemotherapy, anthracycline, survival, doxorubicin, Article, PROGNOSTIC-FACTORS, breast cancer, 3123 Gynaecology and paediatrics, metastasis, miR-30, BRCA2 MUTATIONS, lapatinib, skin and connective tissue diseases, RC254-282, Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION, HER-2, HYBRIDIZATION, RESISTANCE
Abstract: Deregulated miRNA expression has been suggested in several stages of breast cancer pathogenesis. We have studied the miR-30 family, in particular miR-30d, in relation to breast cancer patient survival and treatment outcomes. With tumor specimens from 1238 breast cancer patients, we analyzed the association of miR-30d expression with tumor characteristics with the 5-year occurrence of breast cancer-specific death or distant metastasis (BDDM), and with 10-year breast cancer survival (BCS). We conducted a two-stage drug-screen to investigate the impact of miR-30 family members (miR-30a-30e) on sensitivity to doxorubicin and lapatinib in six breast cancer cell lines HCC1937, HCC1954, MDA-MB-361, MCF7, MDA-MB-436 and CAL-120, using drug sensitivity scores (DSS) to compare the miR-30 family mimics to their specific inhibitors. The study was complemented with Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) with the METABRIC data. We found that while high miR-30d expression is typical for aggressive tumors, it predicts better metastasis-free (pBDDM = 0.035, HR = 0.63, 95% CI = 0.4–0.9) and breast cancer-specific survival (pBCS = 0.018, HR = 0.61, 95% CI = 0.4–0.9), especially in HER2-positive (pBDDM = 0.0009), ER-negative (pBDDM = 0.003), p53-positive (pBDDM = 0.011), and highly proliferating (pBDDM = 0.0004) subgroups, and after adjuvant chemotherapy (pBDDM = 0.035). MiR-30d predicted survival independently of standard prognostic markers (pBDDM = 0.0004). In the drug-screening test, the miR-30 family sensitized the HER2-positive HCC1954 cell line to lapatinib (p &lt, 10−2) and HCC1937, MDA-MB-361, MDA-MB-436 and CAL120 to doxorubicin (p &lt, 10−4) with an opposite impact on MCF7. According to the pathway analysis, the miR-30 family has a suppressive effect on cell motility and metastasis in breast cancer. Our results suggest prognostic and predictive potential for the miR-30 family, which warrants further investigation.
Published: 2021

9. Recurrent moderate‐risk mutations in Finnish breast and ovarian cancer patients

Author: Anne Kallioniemi, Johanna Schleutker, Liisa M. Pelttari, Kristiina Aittomäki, Carl Blomqvist, Sini Lehto, Heli Nevanlinna, Ralf Bützow, Tuomas Heikkinen, Anna Nurmi, Taru A. Muranen, Johanna I. Kiiski, Lääketieteen ja terveysteknologian tiedekunta - Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Department of Clinical Chemistry, BioMediTech, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Helsinki, Genome-Scale Biology (GSB) Research Program, University Management, Department of Pathology, Department of Oncology, Clinicum, HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center, Research Programs Unit, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, HUSLAB, and Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics
Subjects: Cancer Research, Datasets as Topic, Gene mutation, Gastroenterology, FAMILY-HISTORY, Cohort Studies, 0302 clinical medicine, FANCM, Prevalence, CONFER SUSCEPTIBILITY, Family history, Medical History Taking, skin and connective tissue diseases, Finland, Aged, 80 and over, Ovarian Neoplasms, double heterozygote, RAD51C, moderate-risk gene, Middle Aged, 3. Good health, ovarian cancer, Oncology, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Female, Adult, Heterozygote, medicine.medical_specialty, PALB2, 3122 Cancers, Breast Neoplasms, Risk Assessment, Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, breast cancer, Breast cancer, Genetiikka, kehitysbiologia, fysiologia - Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, Internal medicine, Biomarkers, Tumor, medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, BRCA2 MUTATIONS, Genetic Testing, CHEK2, Genotyping, Aged, business.industry, 217 Medical engineering, medicine.disease, GENE, PREDISPOSITION, moderate‐risk gene, Case-Control Studies, ATM, Mutation, C.5791C-GREATER-THAN-T, Ovarian cancer, business
Abstract: Mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes predispose to breast and ovarian cancer (BC/OC) with a high lifetime risk, whereas mutations in PALB2, CHEK2, ATM, FANCM, RAD51C and RAD51D genes cause a moderately elevated risk. In the Finnish population, recurrent mutations have been identified in all of these genes, the latest being CHEK2 c.319+2T>A and c.444+1G>A. By genotyping 3,156 cases and 2,089 controls, we estimated the frequencies of CHEK2 c.319+2T>A and c.444+1G>A in Finnish BC patients. CHEK2 c.319+2T>A was detected in 0.7% of the patients, and it was associated with a high risk of BC in the unselected patient group (OR = 5.40 [95% CI 1.58–18.45], p = 0.007) and similarly in the familial patient group. CHEK2 c.444+1G>A was identified in 0.1% of all patients. Additionally, we evaluated the combined prevalence of recurrent moderate‐risk gene mutations in 2,487 BC patients, 556 OC patients and 261 BRCA1/2 carriers from 109 families. The overall frequency of the mutations was 13.3% in 1,141 BRCA1/2‐negative familial BC patients, 7.5% in 1,727 unselected BC patients and 7.2% in 556 unselected OC patients. At least one moderate‐risk gene mutation was found in 12.5% of BRCA1 families and 7.1% of BRCA1 index patients, as well as in 17.0% of BRCA2 families and 11.3% of BRCA2 index patients, and the mutations were associated with an additional risk in the BRCA1/2 index patients (OR = 2.63 [1.15–5.48], p = 0.011). These results support gene panel testing of even multiple members of BC families where several mutations may segregate in different individuals., What's new? In the Finnish population, a small number of recurrent mutations account for the majority of deleterious variations in breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility genes. The authors investigated 12 recurrent moderate‐risk mutations in Finnish breast and ovarian cancer patients. These mutations were found with similar frequency in unselected patients and BRCA1/2‐positive familial index patients, twice as often as in population controls. In addition, a novel association was identified between breast cancer risk and CHEK2 variant c.319+2T>A. The findings highlight the relevance of gene panel testing for breast and ovarian cancer risk assessment and its potential use for assessing breast cancer families with members who may carry different mutations.
Published: 2019

10. Association of germline variation with the survival of women with BRCA1/2 pathogenic variants and breast cancer

Author: Douglas F. Easton, Mads Thomassen, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Kristiina Aittomäki, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Hebon Investigators, Esther M. John, Irene L. Andrulis, Maartje J. Hooning, Antonis C. Antoniou, Swe-Brca Investigators, Caroline Maria Rossing, Penny Soucy, Jacques Simard, Michael T. Parsons, Julie M. Cunningham, Paul A. James, Joe Dennis, Gabriel Wagner, Melissa C. Southey, Susan M. Domchek, Eric Hahnen, kConFab Investigators, Goska Leslie, Sofia Khan, Katherine L. Nathanson, Rita K. Schmutzler, Anna Jakubowska, Jeffrey N. Weitzel, Taru A. Muranen, Heli Nevanlinna, Barbara Wappenschmidt, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Judy Garber, Marc Tischkowitz, Conxi Lázaro, Inge Søkilde Pedersen, Carl Blomqvist, Amanda B. Spurdle, Christian F. Singer, Susan L. Slager, Lesley McGuffog, Rainer Fagerholm, Manuel R. Teixeira, Medical Oncology, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki University Hospital Area, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, HUSLAB, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Oncology, Clinicum, Muranen, Taru A. [0000-0002-5895-1808], Cunningham, Julie M. [0000-0002-8159-3025], Dennis, Joe [0000-0003-4591-1214], Leslie, Goska [0000-0001-5756-6222], Parsons, Michael T. [0000-0003-3242-8477], Simard, Jacques [0000-0001-6906-3390], Easton, Douglas F. [0000-0003-2444-3247], Spurdle, Amanda B. [0000-0003-1337-7897], Pedersen, Inge Sokilde [0000-0002-9902-8040], Nathanson, Katherine L. [0000-0002-6740-0901], Lazaro, Conxi [0000-0002-7198-5906], Andrulis, Irene L. [0000-0002-4226-6435], Teixeira, Manuel R. [0000-0002-4896-5982], James, Paul [0000-0002-4361-4657], Weitzel, Jeffrey N. [0000-0001-6714-092X], Jakubowska, Anna [0000-0002-5650-0501], Yannoukakos, Drakoulis [0000-0001-7509-3510], Schmidt, Marjanka K. [0000-0002-2228-429X], Nevanlinna, Heli [0000-0002-0916-2976], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Muranen, Taru A [0000-0002-5895-1808], Cunningham, Julie M [0000-0002-8159-3025], Parsons, Michael T [0000-0003-3242-8477], Easton, Douglas F [0000-0003-2444-3247], Spurdle, Amanda B [0000-0003-1337-7897], Nathanson, Katherine L [0000-0002-6740-0901], Andrulis, Irene L [0000-0002-4226-6435], Teixeira, Manuel R [0000-0002-4896-5982], Weitzel, Jeffrey N [0000-0001-6714-092X], and Schmidt, Marjanka K [0000-0002-2228-429X]
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Oncology, Etiology, Genome-wide association study, Genome-wide association studies, Germline, 0302 clinical medicine, Breast cancer, PRIMARY THERAPY, Pharmacology (medical), skin and connective tissue diseases, Cancer genetics, RISK, medicine.diagnostic_test, Hazard ratio, article, INTERNATIONAL EXPERT CONSENSUS, Tumor Pathology, OVARIAN, lcsh:Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, 3. Good health, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Etiologia, EXPRESSION, medicine.medical_specialty, GENES, 3122 Cancers, 631/208/205/2138, lcsh:RC254-282, Càncer de mama, 03 medical and health sciences, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Internal medicine, 631/67/68, Genetic variation, REVEALS, medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, Genetic testing, IDENTIFICATION, business.industry, FALSE DISCOVERY, Cancer, medicine.disease, 030104 developmental biology, CELLS, 692/4028/67/1347, business
Abstract: Germline genetic variation has been suggested to influence the survival of breast cancer patients independently of tumor pathology. We have studied survival associations of genetic variants in two etiologically unique groups of breast cancer patients, the carriers of germline pathogenic variants in BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes. We found that rs57025206 was significantly associated with the overall survival, predicting higher mortality of BRCA1 carrier patients with estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer, with a hazard ratio 4.37 (95% confidence interval 3.03–6.30, P = 3.1 × 10−9). Multivariable analysis adjusted for tumor characteristics suggested that rs57025206 was an independent survival marker. In addition, our exploratory analyses suggest that the associations between genetic variants and breast cancer patient survival may depend on tumor biological subgroup and clinical patient characteristics.
Published: 2020

11. Constitutional mosaicism for aBRCA2mutation as a cause of early-onset breast cancer

Author: Reetta Vainionpää, Heli Nevanlinna, Pia Alhopuro, Kristiina Aittomäki, Anna-Kaisa Anttonen, Minna Pöyhönen, HUSLAB, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Helsinki University Hospital Area, Medicum, Anna-Elina Lehesjoki / Principal Investigator, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, Biosciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Minna Pöyhönen / Principal Investigator
Subjects: Cancer Research, endocrine system diseases, Genes, BRCA2, Genes, BRCA1, Adipose tissue, 0302 clinical medicine, Breast cancer, Age of Onset, Family history, skin and connective tissue diseases, Genetics (clinical), 0303 health sciences, Mosaicism, Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast, 030305 genetics & heredity, 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Middle Aged, 3. Good health, Oncology, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Mutation (genetic algorithm), Female, De novo, Adult, Short Communication, 3122 Cancers, Mutation, Missense, Breast Neoplasms, 03 medical and health sciences, Germline mutation, Genetics, medicine, Genetic predisposition, Humans, Codon, Germ-Line Mutation, business.industry, MUTATIONS, medicine.disease, BRCA1, BRCA2, Carcinoma, Papillary, Human genetics, Nonsense Mediated mRNA Decay, Cancer research, Next-generation sequencing, 3111 Biomedicine, business, Ovarian cancer
Abstract: Germline mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes cause hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome (HBOC). Mutations in these genes are usually inherited, and reports of de novo BRCA1/2 mutations are rare. To date, only one patient with low-level BRCA1 mutation mosaicism has been published. We report on a breast cancer patient with constitutional somatic mosaicism of a BRCA2 mutation. BRCA2 mutation c.9294C>G, p.(Tyr3098Ter) was detected in 20% of reads in DNA extracted from peripheral blood using next-generation sequencing (NGS). The BRCA2 mutation was subsequently observed at similar levels in normal breast tissue, adipose tissue, normal right fallopian tube tissue and ovaries of the patient, suggesting that this mutation occurred early in embryonic development. This is the first case to report constitutional mosaicism for a BRCA2 mutation and shows that BRCA2 mosaicism can underlie early-onset breast cancer. NGS for BRCA1/2 should be considered for patients whose tumors harbor a BRCA1/2 mutation and for individuals suggestive of genetic predisposition but without a family history of HBO.
Published: 2020

12. Polygenic risk scores and breast and epithelial ovarian cancer risks for carriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variants

Author: Daniel R. Barnes, Matti A. Rookus, Lesley McGuffog, Goska Leslie, Thea M. Mooij, Joe Dennis, Nasim Mavaddat, Julian Adlard, Munaza Ahmed, Kristiina Aittomäki, Nadine Andrieu, Irene L. Andrulis, Norbert Arnold, Banu K. Arun, Jacopo Azzollini, Judith Balmaña, Rosa B. Barkardottir, Daniel Barrowdale, Javier Benitez, Pascaline Berthet, Katarzyna Białkowska, Amie M. Blanco, Marinus J. Blok, Bernardo Bonanni, Susanne E. Boonen, Åke Borg, Aniko Bozsik, Angela R. Bradbury, Paul Brennan, Carole Brewer, Joan Brunet, Saundra S. Buys, Trinidad Caldés, Maria A. Caligo, Ian Campbell, Lise Lotte Christensen, Wendy K. Chung, Kathleen B.M. Claes, Chrystelle Colas, Marie-Agnès Collonge-Rame, Capucine Delnatte, Laurence Faivre, Sophie Giraud, Christine Lasset, Véronique Mari, Noura Mebirouk, Emmanuelle Mouret-Fourme, Hélène Schuster, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Antonis Antoniou, Jackie Cook, Rosemarie Davidson, Douglas Easton, Ros Eeles, D. Gareth Evans, Debra Frost, Helen Hanson, Louise Izatt, Kai-ren Ong, Lucy Side, Aoife O’Shaughnessy-Kirwan, Marc Tischkowitz, Lisa Walker, Mary B. Daly, Miguel de la Hoya, Robin de Putter, Peter Devilee, Orland Diez, Yuan Chun Ding, Susan M. Domchek, Cecilia M. Dorfling, Martine Dumont, Bent Ejlertsen, Christoph Engel, Lenka Foretova, Florentia Fostira, Michael Friedlander, Eitan Friedman, Patricia A. Ganz, Judy Garber, Andrea Gehrig, Anne-Marie Gerdes, Paul Gesta, Gord Glendon, Andrew K. Godwin, David E. Goldgar, Anna González-Neira, Mark H. Greene, Daphne Gschwantler-Kaulich, Eric Hahnen, Ute Hamann, Julia Hentschel, Frans B.L. Hogervorst, Maartje J. Hooning, Judit Horvath, Chunling Hu, Peter J. Hulick, Evgeny N. Imyanitov, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Kelly-Anne Phillips, Amanda Spurdle, Marinus Blok, Frans Hogervorst, Maartje Hooning, Marco Koudijs, Arjen Mensenkamp, Hanne Meijers-Heijboer, Matti Rookus, Klaartje van Engelen, Catherine Noguès, Claudine Isaacs, Angel Izquierdo, Anna Jakubowska, Paul A. James, Ramunas Janavicius, Esther M. John, Vijai Joseph, Beth Y. Karlan, Karin Kast, Torben A. Kruse, Ava Kwong, Yael Laitman, Conxi Lazaro, Jenny Lester, Fabienne Lesueur, Annelie Liljegren, Jennifer T. Loud, Jan Lubiński, Phuong L. Mai, Siranoush Manoukian, Hanne E.J. Meijers-Heijboer, Alfons Meindl, Arjen R. Mensenkamp, Austin Miller, Marco Montagna, Semanti Mukherjee, Anna Marie Mulligan, Katherine L. Nathanson, Susan L. Neuhausen, Heli Nevanlinna, Dieter Niederacher, Finn Cilius Nielsen, Liene Nikitina-Zake, Edith Olah, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Ana Osorio, Claus-Eric Ott, Laura Papi, Sue K. Park, Michael T. Parsons, Inge Sokilde Pedersen, Bernard Peissel, Ana Peixoto, Paolo Peterlongo, Georg Pfeiler, Karolina Prajzendanc, Miquel Angel Pujana, Paolo Radice, Juliane Ramser, Susan J. Ramus, Johanna Rantala, Gad Rennert, Harvey A. Risch, Mark Robson, Karina Rønlund, Ritu Salani, Leigha Senter, Payal D. Shah, Priyanka Sharma, Lucy E. Side, Christian F. Singer, Thomas P. Slavin, Penny Soucy, Melissa C. Southey, Amanda B. Spurdle, Doris Steinemann, Zoe Steinsnyder, Christian Sutter, Yen Yen Tan, Manuel R. Teixeira, Soo Hwang Teo, Darcy L. Thull, Silvia Tognazzo, Amanda E. Toland, Alison H. Trainer, Nadine Tung, Elizabeth J. van Rensburg, Ana Vega, Jeroen Vierstraete, Gabriel Wagner, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Barbara Wappenschmidt, Jeffrey N. Weitzel, Siddhartha Yadav, Xin Yang, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Dario Zimbalatti, Kenneth Offit, Mads Thomassen, Fergus J. Couch, Rita K. Schmutzler, Jacques Simard, Douglas F. Easton, Antonis C. Antoniou, Pediatric surgery, Human genetics, CCA - Cancer biology and immunology, CCA - Cancer Treatment and quality of life, Amsterdam Reproduction & Development (AR&D), Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Chapel Allerton Hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children [London] (GOSH), Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki, Cancer et génome: Bioinformatique, biostatistiques et épidémiologie d'un système complexe, Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut Curie [Paris]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Institut Curie [Paris], Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Mount Sinai Hospital [Toronto, Canada] (MSH), University of Toronto (University of Toronto), Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center [Houston], Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori - National Cancer Institute [Milan], Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology [Barcelone] (VHIO), Vall d'Hebron University Hospital [Barcelona], Landspitali National University Hospital of Iceland, University of Iceland [Reykjavik], CIBER de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO), Centre Régional de Lutte contre le Cancer François Baclesse [Caen] (UNICANCER/CRLC), Normandie Université (NU)-UNICANCER-Tumorothèque de Caen Basse-Normandie (TCBN), Pomeranian Medical University [Szczecin] (PUM), University of California (UC), Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC), Maastricht University [Maastricht], European Institute of Oncology IRCCS [Milan, Italy] (EIO), Zealand University Hospital [Roskilde, Denmark], Lund University [Lund], National Institute of Oncology [Budapest, Hungary], Abramson Cancer Center [philadelphia], University of Pennsylvania-Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Genetic Medicine [Newcastle], Newcastle University [Newcastle], Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK, Catalan Institute of Oncology [Barcelone, Espagne], Huntsman Cancer Institute [Salt Lake City], University of Utah, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Clínico San Carlos [Madrid, Spain] (IdISSC), Pisa University Hospital, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre [Melbourne, Australie], University of Melbourne, Aarhus University Hospital, Columbia University [New York], Ghent University Hospital, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Besançon (CHRU Besançon), Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (Glasgow), Centre hospitalier universitaire de Nantes (CHU Nantes), Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pretoria [South Africa], Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec Research Center [Canada], Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Copenhagen University Hospital, Leipzig University, University of Manchester [Manchester], Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (MAHSC), Centre Régional de Lutte contre le cancer Georges-François Leclerc [Dijon] (UNICANCER/CRLCC-CGFL), UNICANCER, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute (MMCI), Institute of Nuclear and Radiological Sciences and Technology, Energy and Safety (INRASTES), National Center for Scientific Research 'Demokritos' (NCSR), NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre [Camperdown NSW 2050, Australie], Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv University (TAU), Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California [Los Angeles] (UCLA), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute [Boston], University of Würzburg, Rigshospitalet [Copenhagen], Centre Hospitalier Georges Renon [Niort] (CH Georges Renon Niort), Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), University of Kansas [Kansas City], National Cancer Institute [Bethesda] (NCI-NIH), National Institutes of Health [Bethesda] (NIH), Medizinische Universität Wien = Medical University of Vienna, University of Cologne, German Cancer Research Center - Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum [Heidelberg] (DKFZ), Lancashire NHS Foundation Trust, University Hospital Leipzig, Department of Medical Oncology, Family Cancer Clinic, Erasmus University Medical Center [Rotterdam] (Erasmus MC), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster = University of Münster (WWU), Mayo Clinic, NorthShore University HealthSystem [Evanston, IL, USA], The University of Chicago Medicine [Chicago], N. N. Petrov Institute of Oncology, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust [London, UK], Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, East Melbourne, Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, Vilnius University [Vilnius], The State Scientific Research Institute Nature Research Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania, Stanford University School of Medicine [CA, USA], Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center [New York], Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Technische Universität Dresden = Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), University Medical Center [Utrecht], Odense University Hospital [Odense, Denmark], The Hong Kong Hereditary Breast Cancer Family Registry, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital [Hong Kong] (HKSH), Equipe de prévention et épidémiologie génétique, Centre Léon Bérard [Lyon], Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive - UMR 5558 (LBBE), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), David Geffen School of Medicine [Los Angeles], Fondation MINES ParisTech, Karolinska Institutet [Stockholm], University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE), Centre de Lutte contre le Cancer Antoine Lacassagne [Nice] (UNICANCER/CAL), UNICANCER-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA), Amsterdam UMC - Amsterdam University Medical Center, Technische Universität Munchen - Université Technique de Munich [Munich, Allemagne] (TUM), Radboud University Medical Center [Nijmegen], Roswell Park Cancer Institute [Buffalo], Veneto Institute of Oncology IOV-IRCCS [Padua, Italy], University of Toronto, University Health Network, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre [Rīga], Sciences Economiques et Sociales de la Santé & Traitement de l'Information Médicale (SESSTIM - U1252 INSERM - Aix Marseille Univ - UMR 259 IRD), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Fédération nationale des Centres de lutte contre le Cancer (FNCLCC), University of Chicago, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge University Hospitals - NHS (CUH), Charité Campus Virchow-Klinikum (CVK), Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence (UniFI), Seoul National University College of Medicine [Séoul, Corée du Sud] (SNUCM), Seoul National University [Seoul] (SNU), QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Aalborg University [Denmark] (AAU), IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori [Milano], Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto / Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO Porto), IFOM, Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare (IFOM), Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge [Barcelone] (IDIBELL), Klinikum rechts der Isar [Munich, Germany], University of New South Wales [Sydney] (UNSW), Garvan Institute of medical research, Technion Faculty of Medicine [Haifa, Israel], Yale School of Medicine [New Haven, Connecticut] (YSM), Vejle Hospital [Danemark], Ohio State University [Columbus] (OSU), Centre de lutte contre le cancer Paul-Strauss, Institut de Cancérologie de Strasbourg Europe (ICANS), Immuno-Rhumatologie Moléculaire, Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), University of Kansas Medical Center [Kansas City, KS, USA], Princess Anne Hospital, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center [Duarte], Monash University [Clayton], Cancer Council Victoria [Melbourne, VIC, Australia], Hannover Medical School [Hannover] (MHH), Unité de génétique et biologie des cancers (U830), Institut Curie [Paris]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5), Heidelberg University Hospital [Heidelberg], Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar - ICBAS [Porto, Portugal], Malaysia and University Malaya Cancer Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya [Kuala Lumpur, Malaisie], University of Malaya = Universiti Malaya [Kuala Lumpur, Malaisie] (UM), McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada], Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center [Boston] (BIDMC), Harvard Medical School [Boston] (HMS), Fundación Pública Galega Medicina Xenómica - SERGAS [Santiago de Compostela, Spain] (Grupo de Medicina Xenómica), CIBER de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER)-Universidade de Santiago de Compostela [Spain] (USC ), Instituto de Investigaciones Sanitarias, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela [Spain] (USC ), Universiteit Gent = Ghent University (UGENT), Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, University of Oxford, Universitätsklinikum Ulm - University Hospital of Ulm, University Hospital of Cologne [Cologne], Mayo Clinic [Rochester], Collaborators : Pascaline Berthet, Chrystelle Colas, Marie-Agnès Collonge-Rame, Capucine Delnatte, Laurence Faivre, Sophie Giraud, Christine Lasset, Véronique Mari, Noura Mebirouk, Emmanuelle Mouret-Fourme, Hélène Schuster, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Julian Adlard, Munaza Ahmed, Antonis Antoniou, Daniel Barrowdale, Paul Brennan, Carole Brewer, Jackie Cook, Rosemarie Davidson, Douglas Easton, Ros Eeles, D Gareth Evans, Debra Frost, Helen Hanson, Louise Izatt, Kai-Ren Ong, Lucy Side, Aoife O'Shaughnessy-Kirwan, Marc Tischkowitz, Lisa Walker, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Kelly-Anne Phillips, Amanda Spurdle, Marinus Blok, Peter Devilee, Frans Hogervorst, Maartje Hooning, Marco Koudijs, Arjen Mensenkamp, Hanne Meijers-Heijboer, Matti Rookus, Klaartje van Engelen, Nadine Andrieu, Catherine Noguès, Dupuis, Christine, Institut Català de la Salut, [Barnes DR, McGuffog L, Leslie G, Dennis J] Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. [Rookus MA, Mooij TM] The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Department of Epidemiology (PSOE), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [Balmaña J] High Risk and Cancer Prevention Group, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Barcelona, Spain. Servei d’Oncologia Mèdica, Vall d’Hebron Hospital Universitari, Barcelona, Spain. [Diez O] Oncogenetics Group, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Barcelona, Spain. Àrea de Genètica Clínica i Molecular, Vall d’Hebron Hospital Universitari, Barcelona, Spain, Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barnes, Daniel [0000-0002-3781-7570], Leslie, Goska [0000-0001-5756-6222], Dennis, Joe [0000-0003-4591-1214], Mavaddat, Nasim [0000-0003-0307-055X], RS: GROW - R4 - Reproductive and Perinatal Medicine, MUMC+: DA KG Lab Centraal Lab (9), Universiteit Leiden, Roswell Park Cancer Institute [Buffalo] (RPCI), Medical Oncology, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, HUSLAB, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Helsinki University Hospital Area, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Biosciences, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, University of Helsinki, Institut Curie [Paris]-MINES ParisTech - École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), MINES ParisTech - École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris, UNICANCER-Tumorothèque de Caen Basse-Normandie (TCBN)-Normandie Université (NU), Pomeranian Medical University, University of California, University of Pennsylvania [Philadelphia]-Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania [Philadelphia], University of Leipzig [Leipzig, Allemagne], Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute (RECAMO), Tel Aviv University [Tel Aviv], University of California-University of California, University of Münster, Amsterdam UMC, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence [Firenze] (UNIFI), Garvan Institute of Medical Research [Sydney, Australia], Yale University School of Medicine, Vejle Hospital, University of Kansas Medical Center [Lawrence], Université Paris Descartes (Paris 5), University of Malaya [Kuala Lumpur, Malaisie], Universiteit Gent = Ghent University [Belgium] (UGENT), and University of Oxford [Oxford]
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Oncology, endocrine system diseases, Neoplasms::Neoplasms by Site::Breast Neoplasms [DISEASES], [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Càncer d'ovari, Genetic Phenomena::Genotype::Genetic Predisposition to Disease [PHENOMENA AND PROCESSES], MODIFIERS, Diàtesi, SUSCEPTIBILITY, Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial, PRS, 0302 clinical medicine, Breast cancer, 3123 Gynaecology and paediatrics, Risk Factors, Medicine and Health Sciences, Medicine, Genetics(clinical), genetics, Prospective Studies, Prospective cohort study, skin and connective tissue diseases, Genetics (clinical), Ovarian Neoplasms, education.field_of_study, neoplasias::neoplasias por localización::neoplasias de la mama [ENFERMEDADES], Women's cancers Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences [Radboudumc 17], BRCA1 Protein, Hazard ratio, Absolute risk reduction, 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, article, ASSOCIATION, neoplasias::neoplasias::neoplasias por localización::neoplasias de las glándulas endocrinas::neoplasias ováricas::carcinoma epitelial de ovario [ENFERMEDADES], ddc, 3. Good health, [SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio], ovarian cancer, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Female, Cohort study, medicine.medical_specialty, Heterozygote, Population, 3122 Cancers, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Breast Neoplasms, MUTATION CARRIERS, Ovaris - Càncer - Aspectes genètics, Càncer de mama, 03 medical and health sciences, breast cancer, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Ovarian cancer, BRCA1/2, Internal medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, education, Retrospective Studies, fenómenos genéticos::genotipo::predisposición genética a la enfermedad [FENÓMENOS Y PROCESOS], BRCA2 Protein, IDENTIFICATION, business.industry, Neoplasms::Neoplasms::Neoplasms by Site::Endocrine Gland Neoplasms::Ovarian Neoplasms::Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial [DISEASES], Retrospective cohort study, ALLELES, medicine.disease, BRCA1, BRCA2, MODEL, PATHOLOGY, 030104 developmental biology, Mutation, Mama - Càncer - Aspectes genètics, 3111 Biomedicine, business
Abstract: Contains fulltext : 229292.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) PURPOSE: We assessed the associations between population-based polygenic risk scores (PRS) for breast (BC) or epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) with cancer risks for BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variant carriers. METHODS: Retrospective cohort data on 18,935 BRCA1 and 12,339 BRCA2 female pathogenic variant carriers of European ancestry were available. Three versions of a 313 single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) BC PRS were evaluated based on whether they predict overall, estrogen receptor (ER)-negative, or ER-positive BC, and two PRS for overall or high-grade serous EOC. Associations were validated in a prospective cohort. RESULTS: The ER-negative PRS showed the strongest association with BC risk for BRCA1 carriers (hazard ratio [HR] per standard deviation = 1.29 [95% CI 1.25-1.33], P = 3×10(-72)). For BRCA2, the strongest association was with overall BC PRS (HR = 1.31 [95% CI 1.27-1.36], P = 7×10(-50)). HR estimates decreased significantly with age and there was evidence for differences in associations by predicted variant effects on protein expression. The HR estimates were smaller than general population estimates. The high-grade serous PRS yielded the strongest associations with EOC risk for BRCA1 (HR = 1.32 [95% CI 1.25-1.40], P = 3×10(-22)) and BRCA2 (HR = 1.44 [95% CI 1.30-1.60], P = 4×10(-12)) carriers. The associations in the prospective cohort were similar. CONCLUSION: Population-based PRS are strongly associated with BC and EOC risks for BRCA1/2 carriers and predict substantial absolute risk differences for women at PRS distribution extremes.
Published: 2020

13. Characterization of the Cancer Spectrum in Men with Germline BRCA1 and BRCA2 Pathogenic Variants:Results from the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA)

Author: Christi J. van Asperen, Leigha Senter, Javier Benitez, Kenneth Offit, Marco Montagna, Irene L. Andrulis, Phuong L. Mai, Yen Y. Tan, Lidia Moserle, Sara Torres-Esquius, Trinidad Caldés, Orland Diez, Daniel R. Barnes, Åke Borg, Daniel Barrowdale, Joanne Ngeow, Siranoush Manoukian, Soo Hwang Teo, Maria A. Caligo, Inge Søkilde Pedersen, Jennifer T. Loud, Marta Santamariña, Amanda E. Toland, Anna Marie Mulligan, Irene Konstantopoulou, Antonis C. Antoniou, Paul A. James, Eitan Friedman, Barbara Wappenschmidt, Marc Tischkowitz, Laura Papi, Ana Osorio, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Eva Machackova, Pedro Pinto, Keivan Majidzadeh-A, Bernardo Bonanni, Kristiina Aittomäki, Berardino Porfirio, Johanna Rantala, Valentina Silvestri, Bent Ejlertsen, Melissa C. Southey, Ramunas Janavicius, Elisabetta Landucci, Liene Nikitina-Zake, Lajos Géczi, Saundra S. Buys, Angela R. Solano, Sarah Colonna, Ana Vega, Fabienne Lesueur, Frans B. L. Hogervorst, Goska Leslie, David E. Goldgar, Peter J. Hulick, Rosa B. Barkardottir, Kristin K. Zorn, Elisa Alducci, Miguel de la Hoya, Fergus J. Couch, Laura Ottini, Anne-Marie Gerdes, Uffe Birk Jensen, Ute Hamann, Christoph Engel, Allison W. Kurian, Douglas F. Easton, Annabeth Høgh Petersen, Alessandra Viel, Linda Steele, Zoe Steinsnyder, Ava Kwong, Alicia Barroso, Eric Hahnen, Mads Thomassen, Maria Rossing, Rita K. Schmutzler, Wendy K. Chung, Angel Izquierdo, Barak Rosenzweig, Jeroen Vierstraete, Mark H. Greene, Lenka Foretova, Jeffrey N. Weitzel, Paolo Radice, Muhammad Usman Rashid, Katherine L. Nathanson, Lesley McGuffog, Ian G. Campbell, John L. Hopper, Laura Cortesi, Christian F. Singer, Sook-Yee Yoon, Lídia Feliubadaló, Bjarni A. Agnarsson, Susan M. Domchek, Vijai Joseph, Manuel R. Teixeira, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Nadine Tung, Andrew K. Godwin, Jacques Simard, Yuan Chun Ding, Carlo Capalbo, Florentia Fostira, Greet Wieme, Mary Beth Terry, Kathleen Claes, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Pedro Pérez-Segura, Heli Nevanlinna, D. Gareth Evans, Edith Olah, Michael T. Parsons, Claudine Isaacs, Miquel Angel Pujana, Timothy R. Rebbeck, Gord Glendon, Susan L. Neuhausen, Judy Kirk, Sue K. Park, Esther M. John, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, HUSLAB, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Helsinki University Hospital Area, University of Helsinki, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, Biosciences, and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Subjects: Male, Cancer Research, endocrine system diseases, GUIDELINES, 0302 clinical medicine, Neoplasms, Medicine, 030212 general & internal medicine, Prospective cohort study, skin and connective tissue diseases, GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION, Original Investigation, RISK, Aged, 80 and over, education.field_of_study, BRCA1 Protein, Middle Aged, BRCA2 Protein/genetics, 3. Good health, PROSTATE-CANCER, Phenotype, Oncology, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Male breast cancer, Cohort study, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Population, 3122 Cancers, MUTATION CARRIERS, 03 medical and health sciences, Young Adult, Breast cancer, Internal medicine, BREAST-CANCER, Humans, education, Germ-Line Mutation, Aged, Retrospective Studies, BRCA2 Protein, business.industry, Cancer, Correction, Retrospective cohort study, Odds ratio, medicine.disease, BRCA1 Protein/genetics, business, Neoplasms/diagnosis
Abstract: Importance The limited data on cancer phenotypes in men with germline BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variants (PVs) have hampered the development of evidence-based recommendations for early cancer detection and risk reduction in this population. Objective To compare the cancer spectrum and frequencies between male BRCA1 and BRCA2 PV carriers. Design, Setting, and Participants Retrospective cohort study of 6902 men, including 3651 BRCA1 and 3251 BRCA2 PV carriers, older than 18 years recruited from cancer genetics clinics from 1966 to 2017 by 53 study groups in 33 countries worldwide collaborating through the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA). Clinical data and pathologic characteristics were collected. Main Outcomes and Measures BRCA1/2 status was the outcome in a logistic regression, and cancer diagnoses were the independent predictors. All odds ratios (ORs) were adjusted for age, country of origin, and calendar year of the first interview. Results Among the 6902 men in the study (median [range] age, 51.6 [18-100] years), 1634 cancers were diagnosed in 1376 men (19.9%), the majority (922 of 1,376 [67%]) being BRCA2 PV carriers. Being affected by any cancer was associated with a higher probability of being a BRCA2, rather than a BRCA1, PV carrier (OR, 3.23; 95% CI, 2.81-3.70; P
Published: 2020

14. Association of genomic domains in BRCA1 and BRCA2 with prostate cancer risk and aggressiveness

Author: Henriette Roed Nielsen, Judith Balmaña, Anne-Marie Gerdes, Ellen Honisch, Melissa C. Southey, Ramunas Janavicius, Finn Cilius Nielsen, Douglas F. Easton, Linda Steele, Ava Kwong, Sung Won Kim, Bjarni A. Agnarsson, Piera Rizzolo, Angela R. Solano, Mads Thomassen, Johannes Lemke, Grazia Artioli, Heli Nevanlinna, Johanna I. Kiiski, Frans B. L. Hogervorst, Jong Won Lee, Diana Eccles, Mark H. Greene, Marc Tischkowitz, David E. Goldgar, Angela R. Bradbury, Javier Benitez, Marie Navratilova, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Arjen R. Mensenkamp, Alfons Meindl, Zisun Kim, Nadine Tung, Agnes Jager, Matthew L. Freedman, Ana Osorio, Norbert Arnold, Doris Steinemann, Inge Søkilde Pedersen, Patricia Llovet, Rob B. van der Luijt, Vivek L Patel, Munaza Ahmed, Lidia Moserle, Irene Konstantopoulou, Jackie Cook, Jacques Simard, Joan Brunet, Johanna Rantala, Kai-ren Ong, Carole Brewer, Joe Dennis, Sook-Yee Yoon, Hanne Meijers-Heijboer, Roberta Villa, Katie Snape, Louise Izatt, Ana Peixoto, Susan M. Domchek, Nina Ditsch, D. Gareth Evans, Tara M. Friebel, Sue K. Park, Katherine L. Nathanson, Lenka Foretova, Miguel Angel Pujana, Edith Olah, Hélène Schuster, Raymonda Varon-Mateeva, Silvia Tognazzo, Payal D. Shah, Oskar T. Johannsson, Hans Ehrencrona, Paul Gesta, Ian G. Campbell, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Mirjam Larsen, Anthony V. D'Amico, Liene Nikitina-Zake, Davide Bondavalli, Valérie Bonadona, Paul A. James, Alan Donaldson, Antonis C. Antoniou, Bernd Auber, Andrew K. Godwin, Denise Molina Gomes, Jihyoun Lee, Laurence Faivre, Almuth Caliebe, Pilar Garre, Siddhartha Yadav, Julika Borde, Pedro Pérez-Segura, Birgitte Bertelsen, Paolo Peterlongo, Michael T. Parsons, John L. Hopper, Bruno Buecher, Goska Leslie, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Amanda B. Spurdle, T.M. Mooij, Juliane Ramser, kConFab Investigators, Lídia Feliubadaló, Susanne E. Boonen, Bernard Peissel, Anna von Wachenfeldt, Timothy R. Rebbeck, Christi J. van Asperen, Víctor Lorca, Estela Carrasco, Elisa Alducci, Ulrike Faust, Karin Kast, Gord Glendon, Saundra S. Buys, Fergus J. Couch, Mariarosaria Calvello, Istvan Bodrogi, Kathryn J. Ruddy, Philipp Wagner, Fabienne Lesueur, Evan L. Busch, Hebon Investigators, Laura Cortesi, Christian F. Singer, Ute Hamann, Giuseppe Damante, Stefania Tommasi, Esther M. John, Jacopo Azzollini, Cristina Zanzottera, Angelica M. Gutierrez-Barrera, Emmanuelle Mouret-Fourme, Claire Saule, Rosa B. Barkardottir, Kristin K. Zorn, Kerstin Rhiem, Uffe Birk Jensen, Mark Pomerantz, Yuan Chun Ding, Alison H. Trainer, Marco Montagna, Vijai Joseph, Domenico Palli, Kwang-Pil Ko, Angel M. Cronin, Susan L. Neuhausen, Dieter Niederacher, Laura Ottini, Angela Toss, Rita K. Schmutzler, Muriel Belotti, Jeffrey N. Weitzel, Caroline M. Seynaeve, Ileana Carnevali, Adalgeir Arason, Rosalind A. Eeles, Annie T W Chu, Florentia Fostira, Greet Wieme, Brita Arver, Charlotte Kvist Lautrup, Christoph Engel, Marion Gauthier-Villars, Daniel Barrowdale, Caroline Maria Rossing, Kenneth Offit, Kathleen Claes, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Penny Soucy, Alicia Barroso, Manuel R. Teixeira, Wendy K. Chung, Gero Kramer, Tsun Leung Chan, Agostina Stradella, Debra Frost, Noura Mebirouk, Liselotte P. van Hest, Esther Darder, Valentina Silvestri, Annabeth Høgh Petersen, Lesley McGuffog, Andrea Gehrig, Mary Porteous, Matti A. Rookus, Lizet E. van der Kolk, Siranoush Manoukian, Lone Sunde, Conxi Lázaro, Maria A. Caligo, Priyanka Sharma, Anne-Bine Skytte, Claus-Eric Ott, Christian Sutter, Paolo Radice, Veronica Medici, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Vanesa García-Barberán, Kristiina Aittomäki, Amanda E. Toland, Anna Marie Mulligan, Véronique Mari, Bernd Dworniczak, Lynn Martin, Lara Della Puppa, Phuong L. Mai, George Fountzilas, Yen Y. Tan, Simona Agata, Torben A Kruse, Trinidad Caldés, Rosemarie Davidson, Daniel R. Barnes, Thomas Dyrso Jensen, Åke Borg, Mark E. Robson, Jennifer T. Loud, Vivian Y. Shin, Irene López-Perolio, Leigha Senter, Irene L. Andrulis, Rosa Scarpitta, Angela F. Brady, Annika Lindblom, Diana Torres, Lotte Nylandsted Krogh, Barbara Wappenschmidt, Muhammad Rashid, Jeroen Vierstraete, Mary B. Daly, Annelie Liljegren, Frederieke H. van der Baan, Eunyoung Kang, Alessandra Viel, Santiago Cabezas-Camarero, Eric Hahnen, Laura Matricardi, Marinus J. Blok, Edmond S. K. Ma, Maria Grazia Tibiletti, Catarina Santos, Julian Adlard, Soo Hwang Teo, Giuseppe Giannini, Jan Hauke, Peter J. Hulick, Miguel de la Hoya, Clare Miller, Bernardo Bonanni, Bent Ejlertsen, Lajos Géczi, Liliana Varesco, Orland Diez, N Herold, Christine Lasset, Adrià López-Fernández, Min Hyuk Lee, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, HUSLAB, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, University of Helsinki, INDIVIDRUG - Individualized Drug Therapy, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, Clinicum, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, RS: GROW - R4 - Reproductive and Perinatal Medicine, MUMC+: DA KG Lab Centraal Lab (9), Medical Oncology, Academic Medical Center, ARD - Amsterdam Reproduction and Development, Leslie, Goska [0000-0001-5756-6222], Adlard, Julian [0000-0002-1693-0435], Arnold, Norbert [0000-0003-4523-8808], Auber, Bernd [0000-0003-1880-291X], Azzollini, Jacopo [0000-0002-9364-9778], Barnes, Daniel R [0000-0002-3781-7570], Brunet, Joan [0000-0003-1945-3512], Caligo, Maria A [0000-0003-0589-1829], Campbell, Ian G [0000-0002-7773-4155], Claes, Kathleen BM [0000-0003-0841-7372], Darder, Esther [0000-0002-7764-1397], Dennis, Joe [0000-0003-4591-1214], Dworniczak, Bernd [0000-0003-4981-7903], Eeles, Rosalind A [0000-0002-3698-6241], Ehrencrona, Hans [0000-0002-5589-3622], Ejlertsen, Bent [0000-0001-8761-714X], Evans, D Gareth [0000-0002-8482-5784], Garre, Pilar [0000-0001-8285-4138], Greene, Mark H [0000-0003-1852-9239], Hulick, Peter J [0000-0001-8397-4078], Jager, Agnes [0000-0002-7713-1450], James, Paul [0000-0002-4361-4657], John, Esther M [0000-0003-3259-8003], Joseph, Vijai [0000-0002-7933-151X], Kim, Sung-Won [0000-0002-1413-2800], Kim, Zisun [0000-0002-1413-2800], Konstantopoulou, Irene [0000-0002-0470-0309], Lesueur, Fabienne [0000-0001-7404-4549], Matricardi, Laura [0000-0002-0241-1810], Gomes, Denise Molina [0000-0002-2836-9008], Nevanlinna, Heli [0000-0002-0916-2976], Olopade, Olufunmilayo I [0000-0002-9936-1599], Palli, Domenico [0000-0002-5558-2437], Park, Sue K [0000-0001-5002-9707], Parsons, Michael T [0000-0003-3242-8477], Peterlongo, Paolo [0000-0001-6951-6855], Petersen, Annabeth Høgh [0000-0002-4503-6942], Pujana, Miguel Angel [0000-0003-3222-4044], Ruddy, Kathryn J [0000-0001-6298-332X], Scarpitta, Rosa [0000-0001-7590-3827], Shah, Payal D [0000-0001-5874-3390], Silvestri, Valentina [0000-0003-0712-9379], Southey, Melissa C [0000-0002-6313-9005], Spurdle, Amanda B [0000-0003-1337-7897], Stoppa-Lyonnet, Dominique [0000-0002-5438-8309], Sunde, Lone [0000-0002-8479-165X], Teixeira, Manuel R [0000-0002-4896-5982], Teo, Soo Hwang [0000-0002-0444-590X], Tommasi, Stefania [0000-0002-2157-2978], Toss, Angela [0000-0002-1854-6701], van der Luijt, Rob B [0000-0002-0018-1089], Vierstraete, Jeroen [0000-0001-7909-6620], Wieme, Greet [0000-0003-2718-5300], Yadav, Siddhartha [0000-0003-4630-9903], Antoniou, Antonis C [0000-0001-9223-3116], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Human genetics, and CCA - Cancer biology and immunology
Subjects: Male, 0301 basic medicine, Oncology, Cancer Research, endocrine system diseases, PHENOTYPE, INCREASE, Prostate cancer, 0302 clinical medicine, Risk Factors, Young adult, skin and connective tissue diseases, Aged, 80 and over, Prostate cancer risk, Women's cancers Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences [Radboudumc 17], MESSENGER-RNA DECAY, BRCA1 Protein, Genomics, GERMLINE MUTATIONS, Middle Aged, Prognosis, OVARIAN, CARRIERS, 3. Good health, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Adult, Heterozygote, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Tumor suppressor gene, Urology, Association (object-oriented programming), 3122 Cancers, MEDLINE, Article, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, Breast cancer, Germline mutation, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Internal medicine, BRCA1, BRCA2, Prostate Cancer, Pathogenic sequence variant location, Risk estimation, Journal Article, Genetic predisposition, medicine, Humans, BREAST-CANCER, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Risk factor, Genetic Association Studies, Aged, BRCA2 Protein, IDENTIFICATION, business.industry, Prostatic Neoplasms, medicine.disease, GENE, Confidence interval, APC, 030104 developmental biology, Mutation, 3111 Biomedicine, business
Abstract: Pathogenic sequence variants (PSV) in BRCA1 or BRCA2 (BRCA1/2) are associated with increased risk and severity of prostate cancer. We evaluated whether PSVs in BRCA1/2 were associated with risk of overall prostate cancer or high grade (Gleason 8+) prostate cancer using an international sample of 65 BRCA1 and 171 BRCA2 male PSV carriers with prostate cancer, and 3,388 BRCA1 and 2,880 BRCA2 male PSV carriers without prostate cancer. PSVs in the 3′ region of BRCA2 (c.7914+) were significantly associated with elevated risk of prostate cancer compared with reference bin c.1001-c.7913 [HR = 1.78; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.25–2.52; P = 0.001], as well as elevated risk of Gleason 8+ prostate cancer (HR = 3.11; 95% CI, 1.63–5.95; P = 0.001). c.756-c.1000 was also associated with elevated prostate cancer risk (HR = 2.83; 95% CI, 1.71–4.68; P = 0.00004) and elevated risk of Gleason 8+ prostate cancer (HR = 4.95; 95% CI, 2.12–11.54; P = 0.0002). No genotype–phenotype associations were detected for PSVs in BRCA1. These results demonstrate that specific BRCA2 PSVs may be associated with elevated risk of developing aggressive prostate cancer. Significance: Aggressive prostate cancer risk in BRCA2 mutation carriers may vary according to the specific BRCA2 mutation inherited by the at-risk individual.
Published: 2020

15. Fine-mapping of 150 breast cancer risk regions identifies 191 likely target genes

Author: Fachal, L., Aschard, H., Beesley, J., Barnes, D.R., Allen, J., Kar, S., Pooley, K.A., Dennis, J., Michailidou, K., Turman, C., Soucy, P., Lemaçon, A., Lush, M., Tyrer, J.P., Ghoussaini, M., Marjaneh, M.M., Jiang, X., Agata, S., Aittomäki, K., Alonso, M.R., Andrulis, I.L., Anton-Culver, H., Antonenkova, N.N., Arason, A., Arndt, V., Aronson, K.J., Arun, B.K., Auber, B., Auer, P.L., Azzollini, J., Balmaña, J., Barkardottir, R.B., Barrowdale, D., Beeghly-Fadiel, A., Benitez, J., Bermisheva, M., Białkowska, K., Blanco, A.M., Blomqvist, C., Blot, W., Bogdanova, N.V., Bojesen, S.E., Bolla, M.K., Bonanni, B., Borg, A., Bosse, K., Brauch, H., Brenner, H., Briceno, I., Brock, I.W., Brooks-Wilson, A., Brüning, T., Burwinkel, B., Buys, S.S., Cai, Q., Caldés, T., Caligo, M.A., Camp, N.J., Campbell, I., Canzian, F., Carroll, J.S., Carter, B.D., Castelao, J.E., Chiquette, J., Christiansen, H., Chung, W.K., Claes, K.B.M., Clarke, C.L., Mari, V., Berthet, P., Castera, L., Vaur, D., Lallaoui, H., Bignon, Y.-J., Uhrhammer, N., Bonadona, V., Lasset, C., Révillion, F., Vennin, P., Muller, D., Gomes, D.M., Ingster, O., Coupier, I., Pujol, P., Collonge-Rame, M.-A., Mortemousque, I., Bera, O., Rose, M., Baurand, A., Bertolone, G., Faivre, L., Dreyfus, H., Leroux, D., Venat-Bouvet, L., Bézieau, S., Delnatte, C., Chiesa, J., Gilbert-Dussardier, B., Gesta, P., Prieur, F.P., Bronner, M., Sokolowska, J., Coulet, F., Boutry-Kryza, N., Calender, A., Giraud, S., Leone, M., Fert-Ferrer, S., Stoppa-Lyonnet, D., Jiao, Y., Lesueur, F.L., Mebirouk, N., Barouk-Simonet, E., Bubien, V., Longy, M., Sevenet, N., Gladieff, L., Toulas, C., Reimineras, A., Sobol, H., Paillerets, B.B.-D., Cabaret, O., Caron, O., Guillaud-Bataille, M., Rouleau, E., Belotti, M., Buecher, B., Caputo, S., Colas, C., Pauw, A.D., Fourme, E., Gauthier-Villars, M., Golmard, L., Moncoutier, V., Saule, C., Donaldson, A., Murray, A., Brady, A., Brewer, C., Pottinger, C., Miller, C., Gallagher, D., Gregory, H., Cook, J., Eason, J., Adlard, J., Barwell, J., Ong, K.-R., Snape, K., Walker, L., Izatt, L., Side, L., Tischkowitz, M., Rogers, M.T., Porteous, M.E., Ahmed, M., Morrison, P.J., Brennan, P., Eeles, R., Davidson, R., Collée, M., Cornelissen, S., Couch, F.J., Cox, A., Cross, S.S., Cybulski, C., Czene, K., Daly, M.B., de la Hoya, M., Devilee, P., Diez, O., Ding, Y.C., Dite, G.S., Domchek, S.M., Dörk, T., dos-Santos-Silva, I., Droit, A., Dubois, S., Dumont, M., Duran, M., Durcan, L., Dwek, M., Eccles, D.M., Engel, C., Eriksson, M., Evans, D.G., Fasching, P.A., Fletcher, O., Floris, G., Flyger, H., Foretova, L., Foulkes, W.D., Friedman, E., Fritschi, L., Frost, D., Gabrielson, M., Gago-Dominguez, M., Gambino, G., Ganz, P.A., Gapstur, S.M., Garber, J., García-Sáenz, J.A., Gaudet, M.M., Georgoulias, V., Giles, G., Glendon, G., Godwin, A.K., Goldberg, M.S., Goldgar, D.E., González-Neira, A., Tibiletti, M.G., Greene, M.H., Grip, M., Gronwald, J., Grundy, A., Guénel, P., Hahnen, E., Haiman, C.A., Håkansson, N., 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Tomlinson, I., Torres, D., Torres-Mejía, G., Troester, M.A., Truong, T., Tung, N., Tzardi, M., Ulmer, H.-U., Vachon, C.M., van der Kolk, L.E., van Rensburg, E.J., Vega, A., Viel, A., Vijai, J., Vogel, M.J., Wang, Q., Wappenschmidt, B., Weinberg, C.R., Weitzel, J.N., Wendt, C., Wildiers, H., Winqvist, R., Wolk, A., Wu, A.H., Yannoukakos, D., Zhang, Y., Zheng, W., Hunter, D., Pharoah, P.D.P., Chang-Claude, J., García-Closas, M., Schmidt, M.K., Kristensen, V.N., French, J.D., Edwards, S.L., Antoniou, A.C., Simard, J., Easton, D.F., Kraft, P., Dunning, A.M., Collaborators, GEMO Study, Collaborators, EMBRACE, Investigators, KConFab, Investigators, HEBON, Investigators, ABCTB, Fachal, Laura, Aschard, Hugues, Beesley, Jonathan, Barnes, Daniel R, Duijf, Pascal, Dunning, Alison M, GEMO Study Collaborators, EMBRACE Collaborators, KConFab Investigators, HEBON Investigators, ABCTB Investigators, MUMC+: MA Medische Oncologie (9), RS: GROW - R3 - Innovative Cancer Diagnostics & Therapy, Klinische Genetica, MUMC+: DA KG Polikliniek (9), RS: GROW - R4 - Reproductive and Perinatal Medicine, MUMC+: DA KG Lab Centraal Lab (9), European Commission, Government of Canada, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, National Institutes of Health (US), Cancer Research UK, Département de Biologie Computationnelle - Department of Computational Biology, Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), NSCAD, University of Cyprus [Nicosia], Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, This work was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement number 656144. Genotyping of the OncoArray was principally funded from three sources: the PERSPECTIVE project (funded by the Government of Canada through Genome Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the ‘Ministère de l’Économie de la Science et de l’Innovation du Québec’ (through Genome Québec) and the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation), the NCI Genetic Associations and Mechanisms in Oncology (GAME-ON) initiative and the Discovery, Biology and Risk of Inherited Variants in Breast Cancer (DRIVE) project (NIH grants U19 CA148065 and X01HG007492), and Cancer Research UK (C1287/A10118, C8197/A16565 and C1287/A16563). BCAC is funded by Cancer Research UK (C1287/A16563), by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement 223175 (HEALTH-F2-2009-223175) (COGS) and by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreements 633784 (B-CAST) and 634935 (BRIDGES). Genotyping of the iCOGS array was funded by the European Union (HEALTH-F2-2009-223175), Cancer Research UK (C1287/A10710), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for the ‘CIHR Team in Familial Risks of Breast Cancer’ program, and the Ministry of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade of Quebec (grant PSR-SIIRI-701). Combining of the GWAS data was supported in part by NIH Cancer Post-Cancer GWAS initiative grant U19 CA 148065 (DRIVE, part of the GAME-ON initiative). 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University of Cambridge Repository, Academic Medical Center, ARD - Amsterdam Reproduction and Development, Human genetics, CCA - Cancer biology and immunology, Molecular cell biology and Immunology, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, HUSLAB, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, University of Helsinki, HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Oncology, Clinicum, Doctoral Programme in Clinical Research, Staff Services, INDIVIDRUG - Individualized Drug Therapy, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Subjects: CHROMATIN, Linkage disequilibrium, Genome-wide association study, Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid, Genome-wide association studies, Linkage Disequilibrium, Basic medicine, 0302 clinical medicine, Breast cancer, MESH: Risk Factors, Risk Factors, COMPREHENSIVE MOLECULAR PORTRAITS, 11 Medical and Health Sciences, HEBON Investigators, Genetics & Heredity, 0303 health sciences, [STAT.AP]Statistics [stat]/Applications [stat.AP], PROTEIN FUNCTION, Tumor, breast tumor, MESH: Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, MESH: Genetic Predisposition to Disease, apoptosis, Chromosome Mapping, Single Nucleotide, 3. Good health, MESH: Linkage Disequilibrium, Female, MESH: Biomarkers, Tumor, Biomarkers, Tumor/genetics, [STAT.ME]Statistics [stat]/Methodology [stat.ME], Life Sciences & Biomedicine, SUSCEPTIBILITY LOCI, MESH: Bayes Theorem, Quantitative Trait Loci, ABCTB Investigators, INTEGRATIVE ANALYSIS, Breast Neoplasms, Computational biology, Biology, Quantitative trait locus, Breast Neoplasms/genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, ENHANCER, GEMO Study Collaborators, 03 medical and health sciences, breast cancer, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, REVEALS, Genetics, Biomarkers, Tumor, MESH: Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Polymorphism, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, FUNCTIONAL VARIANTS, EMBRACE Collaborators, Gene, 030304 developmental biology, Genetic association, Bayes Theorem, Genome-Wide Association Study, MESH: Humans, Science & Technology, Nucleic Acid, gene mapping, 06 Biological Sciences, MESH: Quantitative Trait Loci, DNA binding site, ESTROGEN-RECEPTOR, [SDV.GEN.GH]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics, Clinical medicine, Expression quantitative trait loci, MESH: Genome-Wide Association Study, Human genome, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, KConFab Investigators, [INFO.INFO-BI]Computer Science [cs]/Bioinformatics [q-bio.QM], MESH: Chromosome Mapping, Chromosome Mapping/methods, Regulatory Sequences, MESH: Female, Biomarkers, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, MESH: Breast Neoplasms, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies have identified breast cancer risk variants in over 150 genomic regions, but the mechanisms underlying risk remain largely unknown. These regions were explored by combining association analysis with in silico genomic feature annotations. We defined 205 independent risk-associated signals with the set of credible causal variants in each one. In parallel, we used a Bayesian approach (PAINTOR) that combines genetic association, linkage disequilibrium and enriched genomic features to determine variants with high posterior probabilities of being causal. Potentially causal variants were significantly over-represented in active gene regulatory regions and transcription factor binding sites. We applied our INQUSIT pipeline for prioritizing genes as targets of those potentially causal variants, using gene expression (expression quantitative trait loci), chromatin interaction and functional annotations. Known cancer drivers, transcription factors and genes in the developmental, apoptosis, immune system and DNA integrity checkpoint gene ontology pathways were over-represented among the highest-confidence target genes., This work was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement number 656144. Genotyping of the OncoArray was principally funded from three sources: the PERSPECTIVE project (funded by the Government of Canada through Genome Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the ‘Ministère de l’Économie de la Science et de l’Innovation du Québec’ (through Genome Québec) and the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation); the NCI Genetic Associations and Mechanisms in Oncology (GAME-ON) initiative and the Discovery, Biology and Risk of Inherited Variants in Breast Cancer (DRIVE) project (NIH grants U19 CA148065 and X01HG007492); and Cancer Research UK (C1287/A10118, C8197/A16565 and C1287/A16563). BCAC is funded by Cancer Research UK (C1287/A16563), by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement 223175 (HEALTH-F2-2009-223175) (COGS) and by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreements 633784 (B-CAST) and 634935 (BRIDGES). Genotyping of the iCOGS array was funded by the European Union (HEALTH-F2-2009-223175), Cancer Research UK (C1287/A10710), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for the ‘CIHR Team in Familial Risks of Breast Cancer’ program, and the Ministry of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade of Quebec (grant PSR-SIIRI-701). Combining of the GWAS data was supported in part by NIH Cancer Post-Cancer GWAS initiative grant U19 CA 148065 (DRIVE; part of the GAME-ON initiative).
Published: 2020

16. Detection of KRAS mutations in liquid biopsies from metastatic colorectal cancer patients using droplet digital PCR, Idylla, and next generation sequencing

Author: Emerik Osterlund, Anna-Kaisa Anttonen, Leena-Maija Soveri, Pia Österlund, Matilda Holm, Soili Kytölä, Ari Ristimäki, Emma I. Andersson, Kristiina Aittomäki, Ali Ovissi, Medicum, Faculty of Medicine, HUSLAB, Department of Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Helsinki University Hospital Area, Research Programs Unit, ATG - Applied Tumor Genomics, Department of Surgery, CAN-PRO - Translational Cancer Medicine Program, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, HUS Medical Imaging Center, HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Oncology, Clinicum, Hyvinkää Hospital Area, Anna-Elina Lehesjoki / Principal Investigator, Neuroscience Center, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, HUS Abdominal Center, Department of Pathology, Tampere University, and Clinical Medicine
Subjects: Male, Oncology, Molecular biology, Colorectal cancer, Biopsy, DNA Mutational Analysis, Gene Identification and Analysis, Cancer Treatment, medicine.disease_cause, Biochemistry, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Metastasis, Circulating Tumor DNA, Sequencing techniques, 0302 clinical medicine, Gene Frequency, Basic Cancer Research, Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols, Medicine and Health Sciences, Digital polymerase chain reaction, DNA sequencing, 0303 health sciences, Multidisciplinary, 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Genomics, Middle Aged, Primary tumor, 3. Good health, Bevacizumab, Oxaliplatin, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Colonic Neoplasms, Medicine, Female, KRAS, Transcriptome Analysis, Research Article, medicine.drug, Next-Generation Sequencing, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Science, 3122 Cancers, Surgical and Invasive Medical Procedures, Irinotecan, Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras), 03 medical and health sciences, Cancer detection and diagnosis, Internal medicine, Genetics, Biomarkers, Tumor, medicine, Humans, Mutation Detection, Capecitabine, Aged, 030304 developmental biology, Colorectal Cancer, Cancer och onkologi, business.industry, Liquid Biopsy, Biology and Life Sciences, Cancers and Neoplasms, Computational Biology, DNA, Genome Analysis, medicine.disease, Diagnostic medicine, digestive system diseases, Research and analysis methods, Molecular biology techniques, Cancer and Oncology, Mutation, 3111 Biomedicine, business, Biomarkers
Abstract: Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) is released from cancer cells and oncogenic mutations in ctDNA can be measured from plasma samples. Droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) is a sensitive and specific method for the detection of mutations in ctDNA. We analyzed serial plasma samples (n = 80) from ten metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients with a known KRAS mutation in their primary tumor. The patients were undergoing oncological treatment with bevacizumab in combination with alternating capecitabine and oxaliplatin or irinotecan. Baseline ddPCR KRAS mutation allele frequency (MAF) values ranged from 0% to 63%. The first radiologic response evaluation criteria in solid tumors (RECIST) evaluation was performed 45–63 days after the initiation of treatment, and by this time three patients had an undetectable level of KRAS mutation, one had a MAF value of 0.5%, and one had a MAF value of 3% that had been reduced by 95% from the baseline value. In three of these patients the RECIST assessment was stable disease and in two partial response. In seven patients, ddPCR MAF values increased before radiological disease progression or death, while one patient remained disease-free with an undetectable KRAS mutation level. Next, we analyzed all available plasma samples with the Idylla ctKRAS system (n = 60), and found that the overall degree of agreement between ddPCR and Idylla was almost perfect (kappa value = 0.860). We used next-generation sequencing (NGS) to detect treatment-induced mutations in the last serial plasma sample of each patient, but were unable to find any new mutations when compared to the primary tumor. This study shows that ddPCR and Idylla are equally efficient for the detection of KRAS mutations in the liquid biopsies from mCRC patients and that ctDNA may indicate the disappearance of treatment responsive KRAS positive mCRC clones and serve as an early sign of disease progression.
Published: 2020

17. Ovarian and Breast Cancer Risks Associated with Pathogenic Variants in RAD51C and RAD51D

Author: Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Bernd Auber, Douglas F. Easton, Kristiina Aittomäki, Andy C. H. Lee, Ramunas Janavicius, Ana Vega, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Xin Yang, Liisa M. Pelttari, Malene Djursby, Eric Hahnen, Åke Borg, Mark E. Robson, Stephen B. Gruber, Susan J. Ramus, kConFab Investigators, Lisa Golmard, Ian Jacobs, Jill S. Dolinsky, Holly LaDuca, Karin Kast, Clare Turnbull, Fergus J. Couch, W. D. Foulkes, Thomas Hansen, Simon A. Gayther, Allan Jensen, Christoph Engel, Heli Nevanlinna, Ana Osorio, Jacek Gronwald, Judy Garber, Helen Hanson, Susanne K. Kjaer, Julie O. Culver, Goska Leslie, Ed Dicks, Honglin Song, Barbara Rivera, Richard S. Houlston, Anders Kvist, Estrid Høgdall, Antonis C. Antoniou, Dieter Niederacher, Nadia Traficante, Miguel de la Hoya, Rita K. Schmutzler, Alfons Meindl, Judit Horvath, Orland Diez, Adam N. Rosenthal, Laurent Castera, Chey Loveday, David D.L. Bowtell, Joe Dennis, Marc Tischkowitz, Susan M. Domchek, Judith Balmaña, Hans Ehrencrona, Usha Menon, Leslie, Goska [0000-0001-5756-6222], Dicks, Ed [0000-0002-0617-0401], Lee, Andrew [0000-0003-0677-0252], Dennis, Joe [0000-0003-4591-1214], Easton, Douglas [0000-0003-2444-3247], Tischkowitz, Marc [0000-0002-7880-0628], Pharoah, Paul [0000-0001-8494-732X], Antoniou, Antonis [0000-0001-9223-3116], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Biosciences, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, Medicum, Research Programs Unit, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, HUSLAB, and Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics
Subjects: Oncology, Cancer Research, ASCERTAINMENT SAMPLING PROBLEM, 0302 clinical medicine, 3123 Gynaecology and paediatrics, Risk Factors, CONFER SUSCEPTIBILITY, Young adult, Aged, 80 and over, Ovarian Neoplasms, 0303 health sciences, medicine.diagnostic_test, Articles, GERMLINE MUTATIONS, Middle Aged, 3. Good health, DNA-Binding Proteins, SUSCEPTIBILITY GENES, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Female, AcademicSubjects/MED00010, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Heterozygote, Adolescent, Genetic counseling, 3122 Cancers, Breast Neoplasms, 03 medical and health sciences, Young Adult, Breast cancer, Internal medicine, medicine, Cancer Family, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetic Testing, First-degree relatives, Genetic Association Studies, Germ-Line Mutation, 030304 developmental biology, Genetic testing, Aged, business.industry, Cancer, Complex segregation analysis, medicine.disease, BRCA2, MODEL, RESOLUTION, business
Abstract: Background The purpose of this study was to estimate precise age-specific tubo-ovarian carcinoma (TOC) and breast cancer (BC) risks for carriers of pathogenic variants in RAD51C and RAD51D. Methods We analyzed data from 6178 families, 125 with pathogenic variants in RAD51C, and 6690 families, 60 with pathogenic variants in RAD51D. TOC and BC relative and cumulative risks were estimated using complex segregation analysis to model the cancer inheritance patterns in families while adjusting for the mode of ascertainment of each family. All statistical tests were two-sided. Results Pathogenic variants in both RAD51C and RAD51D were associated with TOC (RAD51C: relative risk [RR] = 7.55, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 5.60 to 10.19; P = 5 × 10-40; RAD51D: RR = 7.60, 95% CI = 5.61 to 10.30; P = 5 × 10-39) and BC (RAD51C: RR = 1.99, 95% CI = 1.39 to 2.85; P = 1.55 × 10-4; RAD51D: RR = 1.83, 95% CI = 1.24 to 2.72; P = .002). For both RAD51C and RAD51D, there was a suggestion that the TOC relative risks increased with age until around age 60 years and decreased thereafter. The estimated cumulative risks of developing TOC to age 80 years were 11% (95% CI = 6% to 21%) for RAD51C and 13% (95% CI = 7% to 23%) for RAD51D pathogenic variant carriers. The estimated cumulative risks of developing BC to 80 years were 21% (95% CI = 15% to 29%) for RAD51C and 20% (95% CI = 14% to 28%) for RAD51D pathogenic variant carriers. Both TOC and BC risks for RAD51C and RAD51D pathogenic variant carriers varied by cancer family history and could be as high as 32–36% for TOC, for carriers with two first-degree relatives diagnosed with TOC, or 44–46% for BC, for carriers with two first-degree relatives diagnosed with BC. Conclusions These estimates will facilitate the genetic counseling of RAD51C and RAD51D pathogenic variant carriers and justify the incorporation of RAD51C and RAD51D into cancer risk prediction models.
Published: 2020

18. FANCM mutation c.5791C>T is a risk factor for triple-negative breast cancer in the Finnish population

Author: Anna Tervasmäki, Heli Nevanlinna, Katri Pylkäs, Veli-Matti Kosma, Sofia Khan, Johanna Schleutker, Ralf Bützow, Liisa M. Pelttari, Robert Winqvist, Carl Blomqvist, Anne Kallioniemi, Maria Tengström, Anders Kvist, Kristiina Aittomäki, Åke Borg, Johanna I. Kiiski, Tuomo Mantere, Arto Mannermaa, Lääketieteen ja biotieteiden tiedekunta - Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Tampere, Clinicum, University of Helsinki, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Pathology, Medicum, Department of Oncology, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, and HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Oncology, Cancer Research, PROTEIN EXPRESSION, DNA Repair, Epidemiology, FEATURES, VARIANT, Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms, FAMILIES, COMPLEMENTATION GROUP M, Breast cancer, 0302 clinical medicine, Gene Frequency, FANCM, 3123 Gynaecology and paediatrics, Risk Factors, Gene Duplication, Genotype, Odds Ratio, Medicine, Finland, Triple-negative breast cancer, Sequence Deletion, OVARIAN-CARCINOMA, 3. Good health, SUSCEPTIBILITY GENE, Population Surveillance, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Female, Familial breast cancer, medicine.medical_specialty, 3122 Cancers, Nonsense mutation, Risk Assessment, 03 medical and health sciences, Genetiikka, kehitysbiologia, fysiologia - Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, Syöpätaudit - Cancers, Internal medicine, Humans, BRCA2 MUTATIONS, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, ANEMIA, Risk factor, Alleles, Gynecology, business.industry, DNA Helicases, Cancer, medicine.disease, 030104 developmental biology, Case-Control Studies, Mutation, business
Abstract: Purpose: The FANCM c.5101C>T nonsense mutation was previously found to associate with breast cancer in the Finnish population, especially among triple-negative cases. Here, we studied the prevalence of three other FANCM variants: c.5791C>T, which has been reported to predispose to familial breast cancer, and the c.4025_4026delCT and c.5293dupA variants recently identified in Finnish cancer patients. Methods: We genotyped the FANCM c.5791C>mutation in 4806 invasive breast cancer patients, including BRCA1/2 mutation negative familial cases and unselected cases, and in 2734 healthy population controls from four different geographical areas of Finland. The association of the mutation with breast cancer risk among patient subgroups was statistically evaluated. We further analyzed the combined risk associated with c.5101C>T and c.5791C>T mutations. We also genotyped 526 unselected ovarian cancer patients for the c.5791C>T mutation and 862 familial breast cancer patients for the c.4025_4026delCT and c.5293dupA variants. Results: The frequency of the FANCM c.5791C>T mutation was higher among breast cancer cases than in controls (OR 1.94, 95% CI 0.87–4.32, P = 0.11), with a statistically significant association with triple-negative breast cancer (OR 5.14, 95% CI 1.65–16.0, P = 0.005). The combined analysis for c.5101C>T and c.5791C>T carriers confirmed a strong association with breast cancer (OR 1.86, 95% CI 1.32–2.49, P = 0.0002), especially among the triple-negative patients (OR 3.08, 95% CI 1.77–5.35, P = 0.00007). For the other variants, only one additional c.4025_4026delCT carrier and no c.5293dupA carriers were observed. Conclusions: These results support the role of FANCM as a breast cancer susceptibility gene, particularly for triple-negative breast cancer.
Published: 2017

19. Large scale multifactorial likelihood quantitative analysis of BRCA1 and BRCA2 variants: An ENIGMA resource to support clinical variant classification

Author: Luigi Mori, Sara González, Elia Grau, Dieter Niederacher, Alexandra C. Kölbl, Ares Solanes, Cassandra B. Nichols, Marine Guillaud-Bataille, Ulrike Schoenwiese, Katherine L. Nathanson, Alfons Meindl, Ellen Honisch, Hans Ehrencrona, Ute Enders, Anke Waha, Trinidad Caldés, Inge Søkilde Pedersen, Ana Blanco, Emma Tudini, Conxi Lázaro, Paolo Radice, Torben A Kruse, María Concepción Alonso-Cerezo, Chantal Farra, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Wilko Weichert, Heli Nevanlinna, Setareh Moghadasi, Bernd Auber, Carla Bruzzone, Aliana Guerrieri-Gonzaga, Sabine Grill, Raymonda Varon, Nicolas Derive, Ana Vega, Nicolai Maass, Åke Borg, Cora M. Aalfs, Nadia Naldi, Silvia Iglesias, Kai Ren Ong, Encarna B. Gomez Garcia, Karl Hackmann, Emma R. Woodward, Norbert Arnold, David E. Goldgar, Bernard Peissel, Karolin Bucksch, Berardino Porfirio, Françoise Révillion, Angel Izquierdo, Isabell Witzel, Sebastian Wagner, Silke Zachariae, Elisa Alducci, Mads Thomassen, Jesús del Valle, Valentina Zampiga, Kerstin Rhiem, Lidia Moserle, Edenir Inêz Palmero, Maaike P.G. Vreeswijk, Christoph Mundhenke, Laura Papi, Alejandro Moles-Fernández, Paula Rofes, Ulrike Faust, Andrea Gehrig, Sandrine M. Caputo, Logan C. Walker, Fiona Lalloo, Ute Felbor, Joan Brunet, Henriette Roed Nielsen, Sean V. Tavtigian, Beatrice Bortesi, Thomas Hansen, Maria Grazia Tibiletti, Estela Carrasco, Lisa Wiesmüller, Viviana Gismondi, Sophie Krieger, Pedro Pérez-Segura, Esther Pohl-Rescigno, Emanuela Lucci-Cordisco, Barbara Wappenschmidt, Rui Manuel Reis, Gabriele Lorenzo Capone, Ileana Carnevali, Christi J. van Asperen, KCon Fab Investigators, Jochen Seggewiß, Rhiannon J. Walters, Irmgard Debatin, Susan M. Domchek, Marco Montagna, Francesca Gensini, Kristiina Aittomäki, Véronique Dutrannoy, Arcangela De Nicolo, Giulia Cagnoli, Elisa J. Cops, Henrique de Campos Reis Galvão, Giulia Cini, Barbara Riboli, Eva Tornero, Paul A. James, Judith Balmaña, Anne-Marie Gerdes, Heide Hellebrand, Miriam Fine, Mathias Stiller, Aldo Germani, Diana Eccles, Britta Blümcke, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Elena Leinert, Alexandra Lewis, Daniela Rivera, Verena Hübbel, Fergus J. Couch, Gunnar Schmidt, Katharina Keupp, Bernhard H. F. Weber, Tilman Heinrich, Mariarosaria Calvello, Michael Dean, Udo Jeschke, Vanessa Lattimore, Linda A.M. Janssen, Siranoush Manoukian, Eva Gross, Kelly J. Sullivan, Doris Steinemann, Susanne Ledig, Alessandra Viel, Christoph Engel, Ana Sánchez de Abajo, Nina Ditsch, Sandra Bonache, Maria A. Caligo, Katharina Pfeifer, Thomas Haaf, Christian Sutter, Eric Hahnen, Laura Matricardi, Marc Tischkowitz, Alex Teulé, Katherine M. Tucker, Jutta Giesecke, Silvia Tognazzo, Gemma Montalban, Carolina Gómez, Anders Kvist, Joanna Lim, Alison H. Trainer, Rachel Susman, Judit Horvath, Amanda B. Spurdle, Mirjam Larsen, Therese Törngren, Mónica Salinas, Nicholas Pachter, Rachel Austin, Nicola K. Poplawski, C Zeder-Göß, Juliane Ramser, Julia Ritter, Anne Sophie Vesper, Paola Concolino, D. Gareth Evans, Clemens R. Müller, Matilde Navarro, Sara Torres-Esquius, Claus R. Bartram, Laura Cortesi, Jacopo Azzollini, Marion Harris, Edward M. Clarke, Marion Kiechle, Lídia Feliubadaló, Almuth Caliebe, Karen N. Herold, Charlotte Kvist Lautrup, Anne S. Quante, Gardenia Vargas-Parra, Michael T. Parsons, Pietro Cavalli, Hongyan Li, Rodrigo Augusto Depieri Michelli, Irene Feroce, Achim Wöckel, Kerstin Wieland, Silke Kaulfuß, Soo Hwang Teo, Angela Velasco, Capucine Delnatte, Marta Pineda, Marion van Mackelenbergh, Eva Montes, Angela Toss, Rita K. Schmutzler, William D. Foulkes, Alvaro N.A. Monteiro, Jan Hauke, Monica Marabelli, Miguel de la Hoya, Sara Gutiérrez-Enríquez, Esther Darder, Simona Agata, Amanda E. Toland, Bernardo Bonanni, Liliana Varesco, Orland Diez, Andreas Rump, Virginie Caux-Moncoutier, Gaetana Gambino, Markus Loeffler, Claude Houdayer, Elena Barbieri, Adrià López-Fernández, et. al., Universidade do Minho, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences [Beijing] (CAGS), Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR), Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital of Cologne [Cologne]-Centre of Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer-Centre for Integrated Oncology (CIO), Programa de Càncer Hereditari, Unitat de Diagnòstic Molecular, Laboratori de Recerca Translacional, Institut Català d'Oncologia-IDIBELL, Department of Clinical Genetics, Academic Medical Center - Academisch Medisch Centrum [Amsterdam] (AMC), University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (UvA)-University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (UvA), Helsinki University Central Hospital, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein-Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU), Università degli Studi di Milano [Milano] (UNIMI), Medical Oncology Department, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital [Barcelona], Institute of Human Genetics, Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg], Fundación Pública Galega de Medicina Xenómica-SERGAS & Grupo de Medicina Xenómica-USC, CIBER-ER, Division of Cancer Prevention and Genetics, Department of Oncology, Clinical Sciences, Lund University [Lund]-Skåne University Hospital, Genetic Counseling and Hereditary Cancer Programme, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Institut Curie [Paris], Programa de Consell Genètic en Càncer, Institut Català d'Oncologia, Girona-IdIBGi, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Clínico San Carlos [Madrid, Spain] (IdISSC), Centre René Gauducheau, CRLCC René Gauducheau, Institut de biochimie et génétique cellulaires (IBGC), Université Bordeaux Segalen - Bordeaux 2-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Oncogenetics Laboratory, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Charité - UniversitätsMedizin = Charité - University Hospital [Berlin], Genetics, University of Southampton, Departament of Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University-Rudbeck Laboratory, Department of Genomic Medicine, University of Manchester [Manchester], Department of Medical Genetics, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg [Wurtzbourg, Allemagne] (JMU)-Centre of Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Technische Universität Munchen - Université Technique de Munich [Munich, Allemagne] (TUM), Institüt für Humangenetik [Würzburg], Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg [Wurtzbourg, Allemagne] (JMU), Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf = Heinrich Heine University [Düsseldorf], Institute of Chemistry [Budapest], Faculty of Sciences [Budapest], Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)-Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Service de Biochimie et de Biologie Moléculaire [CHU Trousseau], CHU Trousseau [APHP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), I. Frauenklinik, Klinikum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Centre Régional de Lutte contre le Cancer François Baclesse [Caen] (UNICANCER/CRLC), Normandie Université (NU)-UNICANCER-Tumorothèque de Caen Basse-Normandie (TCBN), Génomique et Médecine Personnalisée du Cancer et des Maladies Neuropsychiatriques (GPMCND), Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Department of Biochemistry, Pharmacology and Genetics, Odense University Hospital, Department of Oncology, Lund University [Lund]-Clinical Sciences, Genetic Medicine, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre-Central Manchester University Hospitals, Institute for Medical Informatics, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Unit of Medical Genetics, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumouri (INT), Immunology and Molecular Oncology Unit, Istituto Oncologico Veneto IOV - IRCCS, University Medical Center Kiel, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital Düsseldorf-Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf = Heinrich Heine University [Düsseldorf], Medical Genetics Unit, Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence [Firenze] (UNIFI), Department of Biochemistry, Section of Molecular Diagnostics, Laboratoire d'Oncologie Moléculaire Humaine, Centre Régional de Lutte contre le Cancer Oscar Lambret [Lille] (UNICANCER/Lille), Université Lille Nord de France (COMUE)-UNICANCER-Université Lille Nord de France (COMUE)-UNICANCER, Institute of Cell and Molecular Pathology, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH), University of California [Santa Cruz] (UCSC), University of California, Heidelberg University Hospital [Heidelberg], International Agency for Cancer Research (IACR), Programa de Consejo Genético en Cáncer, Instituto Catalán de Oncología-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet, Programa de Diagnòstic Molecular de Càncer Hereditari, Laboratori de Recerca Translacional, Institut Català d'Oncologia-IDIBELL, Hospital Duran i Reynals, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Unit of Hereditary Cancers, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, CIBER de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Unit of Experimental Oncology 1, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, University of Otago [Dunedin, Nouvelle-Zélande], Institute of Pathology, Department of Gynecology, Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf = University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf [Hamburg] (UKE), King‘s College London, Molecular Diagnostic Unit, IDIBELL-Catalan Institute of Oncology, Unit of Molecular Bases of Genetic Risk and Genetic Testing, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumouri (INT)-Fondazione Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology [Leipzig] (IMISE), Universität Leipzig [Leipzig], Division of Molecular Gynaeco-Oncology, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Clinical Center University of Cologne, Medicum, Research Programs Unit, Genome-Scale Biology (GSB) Research Program, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, HUSLAB, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Management, University of Helsinki, Università degli Studi di Milano = University of Milan (UNIMI), Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg] = Heidelberg University, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU)-Centre of Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence (UniFI), Université de Lille-UNICANCER-Université de Lille-UNICANCER, University of California [Santa Cruz] (UC Santa Cruz), University of California (UC), Universität Leipzig, University of Cologne, RS: GROW - R4 - Reproductive and Perinatal Medicine, MUMC+: DA KG Polikliniek (9), and Klinische Genetica
Subjects: Male, Multifactorial Inheritance, BRCA1, BRCA2, classification, clinical, multifactorial, quantitative, uncertain significance, variant, Alternative Splicing, BRCA1 Protein, BRCA2 Protein, Computational Biology, Early Detection of Cancer, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Humans, Likelihood Functions, Neoplasms, Mutation, Missense, Medicina Básica [Ciências Médicas], Settore MED/03 - GENETICA MEDICA, GUIDELINES, Genetic analysis, CLINGEN, SEQUENCE VARIANTS, Missense mutation, FUNCTIONAL ASSAYS, Genetics (clinical), BRCA1, BRCA2, quantitative, clinical, classification, multifactorial, variant, uncertain significance, 0303 health sciences, education.field_of_study, 030305 genetics & heredity, 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, SPLICING ANALYSIS, OVARIAN, BRCA2 Protein/genetics, 3. Good health, ddc, Mutation (genetic algorithm), Ciências Médicas::Medicina Básica, Medical genetics, Special Articles, medicine.medical_specialty, Posterior probability, Population, Computational biology, Biology, INTEGRATED EVALUATION, 03 medical and health sciences, Special Article, medicine, Genetics, BREAST-CANCER, Genetic variability, ddc:610, education, 030304 developmental biology, Tumors, Science & Technology, Proteins, Computational Biology/methods, RISKS, Mutation, BRCA1 Protein/genetics, 3111 Biomedicine, Missense, Proteïnes, [SDV.MHEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology, Genètica, Neoplasms/diagnosis
Abstract: The multifactorial likelihood analysis method has demonstrated utility for quantitative assessment of variant pathogenicity for multiple cancer syndrome genes. Independent data types currently incorporated in the model for assessing BRCA1 and BRCA2 variants include clinically calibrated prior probability of pathogenicity based on variant location and bioinformatic prediction of variant effect, co-segregation, family cancer history profile, co-occurrence with a pathogenic variant in the same gene, breast tumor pathology, and case-control information. Research and clinical data for multifactorial likelihood analysis were collated for 1,395 BRCA1/2 predominantly intronic and missense variants, enabling classification based on posterior probability of pathogenicity for 734 variants: 447 variants were classified as (likely) benign, and 94 as (likely) pathogenic; and 248 classifications were new or considerably altered relative to ClinVar submissions. Classifications were compared with information not yet included in the likelihood model, and evidence strengths aligned to those recommended for ACMG/AMP classification codes. Altered mRNA splicing or function relative to known nonpathogenic variant controls were moderately to strongly predictive of variant pathogenicity. Variant absence in population datasets provided supporting evidence for variant pathogenicity. These findings have direct relevance for BRCA1 and BRCA2 variant evaluation, and justify the need for gene-specific calibration of evidence types used for variant classification., Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center Barretos Cancer Hospital. Grant Number: FINEP ‐ CT‐INFRA (02/2010) Breast Cancer Foundation of New Zealand Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Grant Number: PSR‐SIIRI‐701 Cancer Research UK. Grant Numbers: C8197/A16565, C5047/A8384, C1281/A12014, C12292/A11174, C1287/A10710, C1287/A10118, C1287/A16563, C5047/A10692, C5047/A15007 Department of Defence, USA. Grant Number: W81XWH‐10‐1‐0341 Helsinki University Hospital Research fund Scientific Foundation Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer Leiden University Medical Centre. Grant Number: Grant 30.925 Generalitat de Catalunya. Grant Numbers: PERIS_MedPerCan, URDCat, 2017SGR1282, 2017SGR496 Royal Society of New Zealand Cancer Council Victoria Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). Grant Number: Grant 017.008.022 Breast Cancer Research Foundation Cancer Foundation of Western Australia EU H2020. Grant Number: 634935 Fundación Mutua Madrileña Seventh Framework Programme. Grant Numbers: 634935, 223175, 633784 Cancer Council South Australia Government of Galicia. Grant Number: Consolidation and structuring program: IN607B Cancer Council Tasmania Italian Association of Cancer Research. Grant Number: 15547 Queensland Cancer Fund AstraZeneca National Institute of Health (USA). Grant Numbers: 1U19 CA148065‐01, CA128978, CA192393, 1U19 CA148537, P50 CA1162091, CA116167, 1U19 CA148112 Newcastle University Dutch Cancer Society KWF. Grant Numbers: KWF/Pink Ribbon‐11704, UL2012‐5649 National Institute for Health Research. Grant Number: Manchester Biomedical Research centre (IS‐BRC‐1215 National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq) Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Grant Numbers: FIS PI15/00355, FIS PI13/01711, CIBERONC, FIS PI16/01218, PI16/00563 French National Institute of Cancer National Breast Cancer Foundation National Health and Medical Research Council. Grant Numbers: ID1061778, ID1104808 Carlos III National Health Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enferemdades Raras. Grant Number: ACCI 2016: ER17P1AC7112/2018 Cancer Council NSW Deutsche Krebshilfe. Grant Numbers: (#110837, #70111850 Fondazione Pisa. Grant Number: Grant “Clinical characterization of BRCA 1/2 Mis
Published: 2019

20. The FANCM:p.Arg658* truncating variant is associated with risk of triple-negative breast cancer

Author: Figlioli, G., Bogliolo, M., Catucci, I., Caleca, L., Lasheras, S. V., Pujol, R., Kiiski, J. I., Muranen, T. A., Barnes, D. R., Dennis, J., Michailidou, K., Bolla, M. K., Leslie, G., Aalfs, C. M., Balleine, R., Baxter, R., Braye, S., Carpenter, J., Dahlstrom, J., Forbes, J., Lee, C. S., Marsh, D., Morey, A., Pathmanathan, N., Scott, R., Simpson, P., Spigelman, A., Wilcken, N., Yip, D., Zeps, N., Adank, M. A., Adlard, J., Agata, S., Cadoo, K., Agnarsson, B. A., Ahearn, T., Aittomaki, K., Ambrosone, C. B., Andrews, L., Anton-Culver, H., Antonenkova, N. N., Arndt, V., Arnold, N., Aronson, K. J., Arun, B. K., Asseryanis, E., Auber, B., Auvinen, P., Azzollini, J., Balmana, J., Barkardottir, R. B., Barrowdale, D., Barwell, J., Beane Freeman, L. E., Beauparlant, C. J., Beckmann, M. W., Behrens, S., Benitez, J., Berger, R., Bermisheva, M., Blanco, A. M., Blomqvist, C., Bogdanova, N. V., Bojesen, A., Bojesen, S. E., Bonanni, B., Borg, A., Brady, A. F., Brauch, H., Brenner, H., Bruning, T., Burwinkel, B., Buys, S. S., Caldes, T., Caliebe, A., Caligo, M. A., Campa, D., Campbell, I. G., Canzian, F., Castelao, J. E., Chang-Claude, J., Chanock, S. J., Claes, K. B. M., Clarke, C. L., Collavoli, A., Conner, T. A., Cox, D. G., Cybulski, C., Czene, K., Daly, M. B., de la Hoya, M., Devilee, P., Diez, O., Ding, Y. C., Dite, G. S., Ditsch, N., Domchek, S. M., Dorfling, C. M., dos-Santos-Silva, I., Durda, K., Dwek, M., Eccles, D. M., Ekici, A. B., Eliassen, A. H., Ellberg, C., Eriksson, M., Evans, D. G., Fasching, P. A., Figueroa, J., Flyger, H., Foulkes, W. D., Friebel, T. M., Friedman, E., Gabrielson, M., Gaddam, P., Gago-Dominguez, M., Gao, C., Gapstur, S. M., Garber, J., Garcia-Closas, M., Garcia-Saenz, J. A., Gaudet, M. M., Gayther, S. A., Belotti, M., Bertrand, O., Birot, A. -M., Buecher, B., Caputo, S., Dupre, A., Fourme, E., Gauthier-Villars, M., Golmard, L., Le Mentec, M., Moncoutier, V., de Pauw, A., Saule, C., Boutry-Kryza, N., Calender, A., Giraud, S., Leone, M., Bressac-de-Paillerets, B., Caron, O., Guillaud-Bataille, M., Bignon, Y. -J., Uhrhammer, N., Bonadona, V., Lasset, C., Berthet, P., Castera, L., Vaur, D., Bourdon, V., Nogues, C., Noguchi, T., Popovici, C., Remenieras, A., Sobol, H., Coupier, I., Pujol, P., Adenis, C., Dumont, A., Revillion, F., Muller, D., Barouk-Simonet, E., Bonnet, F., Bubien, V., Longy, M., Sevenet, N., Gladieff, L., Guimbaud, R., Feillel, V., Toulas, C., Dreyfus, H., Leroux, C. 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Università di Pisa, Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon (UNICANCER/CRCL), Centre Léon Bérard [Lyon]-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Genetics and Pathology, International Hereditary Cancer Centre-Pomeranian Medical University [Szczecin] (PUM), Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (MEB), Karolinska Institutet [Stockholm], Division of Population Science, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Department of Human Genetics & Department of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Oncogenetics Laboratory, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology [Munich, Germany], University-Hospital Munich-Großhadern [München]-Ludwig Maximilian University [Munich] (LMU), Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania [Philadelphia]-University of Pennsylvania [Philadelphia], Wessex clinical genetics service, Lund University Hospital, Department of Genomic Medicine, University of Manchester [Manchester], Department of Breast Surgery, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Department of Human Genetics [Montréal], McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada], The Susanne Levy Gertner Oncogenetics Unit, Institute of Human Genetics, National Institutes of Health [Bethesda] (NIH), Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California (USC)-Keck School of Medicine [Los Angeles], University of Southern California (USC), University of Melbourne, Ontario Cancer Genetics Network, Cancer Care Ontario, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center [Kansas City, KS, USA], International Agency for Cancer Research (IACR), Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Paris-Sud - 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Petrov Institute of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Department of Molecular and Regenerative Medicine, Hematology, Oncology and Transfusion, Vilnius University [Vilnius]-Hospital Santariskiu Clinics, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf = Heinrich Heine University [Düsseldorf], Department of Epidemiology, Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Women's Cancer Program, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics [Bashkortostan Republic, Russia], Russian Academy of Sciences / Ufa Scientific Centre [Bashkortostan Republic, Russia]], National Center for Scientific Research 'Demokritos' (NCSR), Harvard School of Public Health, Laboratory for translational genetics Leuven, Genetic Counseling and Hereditary Cancer Programme, Catalan Institute of Oncology, University of Hawai‘i [Mānoa] (UHM), Cancer et génome: Bioinformatique, biostatistiques et épidémiologie d'un système complexe, Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut Curie [Paris]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Clinical Genetics Branch, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Unit of Medical Genetics, Fondazione IRCCS INT, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Technische Universität Munchen - Université Technique de Munich [Munich, Allemagne] (TUM), Institute for Women's Health [London], University College London Hospitals (UCLH), Immunology and Molecular Oncology Unit, Istituto Oncologico Veneto IOV - IRCCS, Department of Medicine, Medical Genetics, Abramson Cancer Center-Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Section Génétique - Groupe Prédispositions génétiques au cancer, Centre International de Recherche contre le Cancer (CIRC), Clinical Genetics Service, Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center [New York], Department of Molecular Genetics and Department of Chemotherapy, National Institute of Oncology, University of Chicago, Recherches épidémiologiques et statistiques sur l'environnement et la santé., Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Human Genetics Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Department of Molecular Medicine, Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome], Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute, Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), University of Munich, Karolinska University Hospital [Stockholm], Umm Al-Qura University, Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, CHS National Cancer Control Center, Netherlands Cancer Institute, IT University of Copenhagen (ITU), Division of Molecular Gyneco-Oncology, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Clinical Center Un, Queen's University [Belfast] (QUB), Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine [Nashville], Laboratoire de Génomique des Cancers, Université Laval [Québec] (ULaval), Division of Special Gynecology, Medizinische Universität Wien = Medical University of Vienna-Department of OB/GYN, Division Molecular Biology of Breast Cancer, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg], Cancer Genomics Laboratory, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, Unité de génétique et biologie des cancers (U830), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut Curie [Paris]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas de Abel Salazar (ICBAS), Universidade do Porto = University of Porto, Department of Epidemiology [Columbia University], Columbia University [New York]-Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University [New York], Odense University Hospital, Instituto de Genética Humana, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ), HELIOS Hospital Berlin-Buch, Cancer Genetics Laboratory, University of Pretoria [South Africa], Genomic Medicine Group, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela [Spain] (USC ), Division of Experimental Oncology 1, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico (CRO), Division of Molecular Gyneco-Oncology, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute, Center for Astrophysical Sciences [Baltimore], Johns Hopkins University (JHU), European Bioinformatics Institute [Hinxton] (EMBL-EBI), EMBL Heidelberg, University of Science and Technology Beijing [Beijing] (USTB), University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM)-Department of Public Health and Primary Care-Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA), Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics [Colombus], Ohio State University [Columbus] (OSU)-College of Medicine and Public Health [Colombus], Departments of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto-Cancer Care Ontario, The institute of cancer research [London], Department of Medical Genetics, Mayo Clinic, Cancer Epidemiology Centre, Cancer Council Victoria, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Cancer Research U.K. Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Unit of Genetic Susceptibility to Cancer, Department of Experimental Oncology and Molecular Medici, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Unit of Molecular Bases of Genetic Risk and Genetic Testing, Department of Preventive and Predictive Medicine-Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori (INT), Muranen, Taru A [0000-0002-5895-1808], Foulkes, William D [0000-0001-7427-4651], Greene, Mark H [0000-0003-1852-9239], Institut Català de la Salut, [Figlioli G, Catucci I] IFOM - the FIRC Institute for Molecular Oncology, Genome Diagnostics Program, Milan, Italy. [Bogliolo M, Pujol R] Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain. Center for Biomedical Network Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Madrid, Spain. Institute of Biomedical Research, Sant Pau Hospital, Barcelona, Spain. [Caleca L] Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Unit of Molecular Bases of Genetic Risk and Genetic Testing, Department of Research, Milan, Italy. [Lasheras SV] Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain. [Balmaña J] High Risk and Cancer Prevention Group, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Barcelona, Spain. Oncologia Mèdica, Vall d’Hebron Hospital Universitari, Barcelona, Spain. [Diez O] Oncogenetics Group, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Barcelona, Spain. Genètica, Vall d’Hebron Hospital Universitari, Barcelona, Spain, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, University of Iceland [Reykjavik], Università degli Studi di Milano = University of Milan (UNIMI), Universiteit Leiden-Universiteit Leiden, University of Pennsylvania-University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University [Washington] (GU), Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome] (UNIROMA), Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg] = Heidelberg University, European Project: 634935,H2020,H2020-PHC-2014-two-stage,BRIDGES(2015), European Project: 633784,H2020,H2020-PHC-2014-two-stage,B-CAST(2015), European Project: 223175,EC:FP7:HEALTH,FP7-HEALTH-2007-B,COGS(2009), Human Genetics, Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona [Barcelona] (UAB), Università degli studi di Milano [Milano], University Hospitals of Leicester, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon (CRCL), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre Léon Bérard [Lyon]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Pomeranian Medical University-International Hereditary Cancer Centre, McGill University, University of Kansas Medical Center [Lawrence], Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (APHP)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Department of Oncology-University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf [Düsseldorf], Cancer et génôme: Bioinformatique, biostatistiques et épidémiologie d'un système complexe, MINES ParisTech - École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris-Institut Curie-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Technical University of Munich (TUM), Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' [Rome], IT University of Copenhagen, Laval University [Québec], Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut Curie-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, University of Santiago de Compostela, Læknadeild (HÍ), Faculty of Medicine (UI), Biomedical Center (UI), Lífvísindasetur (HÍ), Heilbrigðisvísindasvið (HÍ), School of Health Sciences (UI), Háskóli Íslands, University of Iceland, Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), MINES ParisTech - École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris, Institut Curie [Paris]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5), Universidade do Porto, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Unión Europea. Comisión Europea, Against Breast Cancer, Cancer Research UK (Reino Unido), Unión Europea. Comisión Europea. H2020, Cancer UK Grant, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Ministère de Économie, de la science et de innovation (Canadá), NIH - National Cancer Institute (NCI) (Estados Unidos), Dutch Cancer Society (Holanda), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Xunta de Galicia (España), Canadian Cancer Society, California Breast Cancer Research Program, California Department of Public Health, Medical Research Council (Reino Unido), Free State of Saxony, Germany (LIFE -Leipzig Research Centre for Civilization Diseases), Federal Ministry of Education & Research (Alemania), German Cancer Aid, Helsinki University Central Hospital Research Fund, Finlands Akademi (Finlandia), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Alemania), Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Rusia), National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia), Biobanking and BioMolecular resources Research Infrastructure (Países Bajos), Estée Lauder Companies’ Breast Cancer Campaign, Swedish Research Council, NIH - National Cancer Institute (NCI). Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPOREs) (Estados Unidos), Lon V. Smith Foundation, Research Coincil of Lithuania, Italian Association for Cancer Research, University of Kansas. Cancer Center (Estados Unidos), Unión Europea. Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER/ERDF), French National Cancer Institute, Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development, Pink Ribbons Project, United States of Department of Health & Human Services, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, Clinicum, University of Helsinki, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, HUSLAB, University Management, HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center, Biosciences, Helsinki University Hospital, and Lietuvos Mokslo Taryba (Lituania)
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Abstract: Publisher's version (útgefin grein), Breast cancer is a common disease partially caused by genetic risk factors. Germline pathogenic variants in DNA repair genes BRCA1, BRCA2, PALB2, ATM, and CHEK2 are associated with breast cancer risk. FANCM, which encodes for a DNA translocase, has been proposed as a breast cancer predisposition gene, with greater effects for the ER-negative and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) subtypes. We tested the three recurrent protein-truncating variants FANCM:p.Arg658*, p.Gln1701*, and p.Arg1931* for association with breast cancer risk in 67,112 cases, 53,766 controls, and 26,662 carriers of pathogenic variants of BRCA1 or BRCA2. These three variants were also studied functionally by measuring survival and chromosome fragility in FANCM−/− patient-derived immortalized fibroblasts treated with diepoxybutane or olaparib. We observed that FANCM:p.Arg658* was associated with increased risk of ER-negative disease and TNBC (OR = 2.44, P = 0.034 and OR = 3.79; P = 0.009, respectively). In a country-restricted analysis, we confirmed the associations detected for FANCM:p.Arg658* and found that also FANCM:p.Arg1931* was associated with ER-negative breast cancer risk (OR = 1.96; P = 0.006). The functional results indicated that all three variants were deleterious affecting cell survival and chromosome stability with FANCM:p.Arg658* causing more severe phenotypes. In conclusion, we confirmed that the two rare FANCM deleterious variants p.Arg658* and p.Arg1931* are risk factors for ER-negative and TNBC subtypes. Overall our data suggest that the effect of truncating variants on breast cancer risk may depend on their position in the gene. Cell sensitivity to olaparib exposure, identifies a possible therapeutic option to treat FANCM-associated tumors., Peterlongo laboratory is supported by Associazione Italiana Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC; IG2015 no.16732) to P. Peterlongo and by a fellowship from Fondazione Umberto Veronesi to G. Figlioli. Surrallés laboratory is supported by the ICREA-Academia program, the Spanish Ministry of Health (projects FANCOSTEM and FANCOLEN), the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competiveness (projects CB06/07/0023 and RTI2018-098419-B-I00), the European Commission (EUROFANCOLEN project HEALTH-F5-2012-305421 and P-SPHERE COFUND project), the Fanconi Anemia Research Fund Inc, and the “Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional, una manera de hacer Europa” (FEDER). CIBERER is an initiative of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain. BCAC: we thank all the individuals who took part in these studies and all the researchers, clinicians, technicians and administrative staff who have enabled this work to be carried out. ABCFS thank Maggie Angelakos, Judi Maskiell, Tu Nguyen-Dumont is a National Breast Cancer Foundation (Australia) Career Development Fellow. ABCS thanks the Blood bank Sanquin, The Netherlands. Samples are made available to researchers on a non-exclusive basis. BCEES thanks Allyson Thomson, Christobel Saunders, Terry Slevin, BreastScreen Western Australia, Elizabeth Wylie, Rachel Lloyd. The BCINIS study would not have been possible without the contributions of Dr. Hedy Rennert, Dr. K. Landsman, Dr. N. Gronich, Dr. A. Flugelman, Dr. W. Saliba, Dr. E. Liani, Dr. I. Cohen, Dr. S. Kalet, Dr. V. Friedman, Dr. O. Barnet of the NICCC in Haifa, and all the contributing family medicine, surgery, pathology and oncology teams in all medical institutes in Northern Israel. The BREOGAN study would not have been possible without the contributions of the following: Manuela Gago-Dominguez, Jose Esteban Castelao, Angel Carracedo, Victor Muñoz Garzón, Alejandro Novo Domínguez, Maria Elena Martinez, Sara Miranda Ponte, Carmen Redondo Marey, Maite Peña Fernández, Manuel Enguix Castelo, Maria Torres, Manuel Calaza (BREOGAN), José Antúnez, Máximo Fraga and the staff of the Department of Pathology and Biobank of the University Hospital Complex of Santiago-CHUS, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago, IDIS, Xerencia de Xestion Integrada de Santiago-SERGAS; Joaquín González-Carreró and the staff of the Department of Pathology and Biobank of University Hospital Complex of Vigo, Instituto de Investigacion Biomedica Galicia Sur, SERGAS, Vigo, Spain. BSUCH thanks Peter Bugert, Medical Faculty Mannheim. CBCS thanks study participants, co-investigators, collaborators and staff of the Canadian Breast Cancer Study, and project coordinators Agnes Lai and Celine Morissette. CCGP thanks Styliani Apostolaki, Anna Margiolaki, Georgios Nintos, Maria Perraki, Georgia Saloustrou, Georgia Sevastaki, Konstantinos Pompodakis. CGPS thanks staff and participants of the Copenhagen General Population Study. For the excellent technical assistance: Dorthe Uldall Andersen, Maria Birna Arnadottir, Anne Bank, Dorthe Kjeldgård Hansen. The Danish Cancer Biobank is acknowledged for providing infrastructure for the collection of blood samples for the cases. Investigators from the CPS-II cohort thank the participants and Study Management Group for their invaluable contributions to this research. They also acknowledge the contribution to this study from central cancer registries supported through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Program of Cancer Registries, as well as cancer registries supported by the National Cancer Institute Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results program. The CTS Steering Committee includes Leslie Bernstein, Susan Neuhausen, James Lacey, Sophia Wang, Huiyan Ma, and Jessica Clague DeHart at the Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Dennis Deapen, Rich Pinder, and Eunjung Lee at the University of Southern California, Pam Horn-Ross, Peggy Reynolds, Christina Clarke Dur and David Nelson at the Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Hoda Anton-Culver, Argyrios Ziogas, and Hannah Park at the University of California Irvine, and Fred Schumacher at Case Western University. DIETCOMPLYF thanks the patients, nurses and clinical staff involved in the study. The DietCompLyf study was funded by the charity Against Breast Cancer (Registered Charity Number 1121258) and the NCRN. We thank the participants and the investigators of EPIC (European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition). ESTHER thanks Hartwig Ziegler, Sonja Wolf, Volker Hermann, Christa Stegmaier, Katja Butterbach. FHRISK thanks NIHR for funding. GC-HBOC thanks Stefanie Engert, Heide Hellebrand, Sandra Kröber and LIFE - Leipzig Research Centre for Civilization Diseases (Markus Loeffler, Joachim Thiery, Matthias Nüchter, Ronny Baber). The GENICA Network: Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, and University of Tübingen, Germany [HB, Wing-Yee Lo], German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) [HB], Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy - EXC 2180 - 390900677 [HB], Department of Internal Medicine, Evangelische Kliniken Bonn gGmbH, Johanniter Krankenhaus, Bonn, Germany [Yon-Dschun Ko, Christian Baisch], Institute of Pathology, University of Bonn, Germany [Hans-Peter Fischer], Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany [Ute Hamann], Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum (IPA), Bochum, Germany [TB, Beate Pesch, Sylvia Rabstein, Anne Lotz]; and Institute of Occupational Medicine and Maritime Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany [Volker Harth]. HABCS thanks Michael Bremer. HEBCS thanks Heidi Toiminen, Kristiina Aittomäki, Irja Erkkilä and Outi Malkavaara. HMBCS thanks Peter Hillemanns, Hans Christiansen and Johann H. Karstens. HUBCS thanks Shamil Gantsev. KARMA thanks the Swedish Medical Research Counsel. KBCP thanks Eija Myöhänen, Helena Kemiläinen. LMBC thanks Gilian Peuteman, Thomas Van Brussel, EvyVanderheyden and Kathleen Corthouts. MABCS thanks Milena Jakimovska (RCGEB “Georgi D. Efremov), Katerina Kubelka, Mitko Karadjozov (Adzibadem-Sistina” Hospital), Andrej Arsovski and Liljana Stojanovska (Re-Medika” Hospital) for their contributions and commitment to this study. MARIE thanks Petra Seibold, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Judith Heinz, Nadia Obi, Alina Vrieling, Sabine Behrens, Ursula Eilber, Muhabbet Celik, Til Olchers and Stefan Nickels. MBCSG (Milan Breast Cancer Study Group) thanks Daniela Zaffaroni, Irene Feroce, and the personnel of the Cogentech Cancer Genetic Test Laboratory. We thank the coordinators, the research staff and especially the MMHS participants for their continued collaboration on research studies in breast cancer. MSKCC thanks Marina Corines and Lauren Jacobs. MTLGEBCS would like to thank Martine Tranchant (CHU de Québec Research Center), Marie-France Valois, Annie Turgeon and Lea Heguy (McGill University Health Center, Royal Victoria Hospital; McGill University) for DNA extraction, sample management and skillful technical assistance. J.S. is Chairholder of the Canada Research Chair in Oncogenetics. NBHS thanks study participants and research staff for their contributions and commitment to the studies. We would like to thank the participants and staff of the Nurses’ Health Study and Nurses’ Health Study II for their valuable contributions as well as the following state cancer registries for their help: AL, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, IA, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, NE, NH, NJ, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, WA, WY. The study protocol was approved by the institutional review boards of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and those of participating registries as required. The authors assume full responsibility for analyses and interpretation of these data. OFBCR thanks Teresa Selander and Nayana Weerasooriya. ORIGO thanks E. Krol-Warmerdam, and J. Blom for patient accrual, administering questionnaires, and managing clinical information. PBCS thanks Louise Brinton, Mark Sherman, Neonila Szeszenia-Dabrowska, Beata Peplonska, Witold Zatonski, Pei Chao and Michael Stagner. The ethical approval for the POSH study is MREC /00/6/69, UKCRN ID: 1137. We thank staff in the Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC) supported Faculty of Medicine Tissue Bank and the Faculty of Medicine DNA Banking resource. PREFACE thanks Sonja Oeser and Silke Landrith. PROCAS thanks NIHR for funding. RBCS thanks Petra Bos, Jannet Blom, Ellen Crepin, Elisabeth Huijskens, Anja Kromwijk-Nieuwlaat, Annette Heemskerk, the Erasmus MC Family Cancer Clinic. We thank the SEARCH and EPIC teams. SKKDKFZS thanks all study participants, clinicians, family doctors, researchers and technicians for their contributions and commitment to this study. We thank the SUCCESS Study teams in Munich, Duessldorf, Erlangen and Ulm. SZBCS thanks Ewa Putresza. UCIBCS thanks Irene Masunaka. UKBGS thanks Breast Cancer Now and the Institute of Cancer Research for support and funding of the Breakthrough Generations Study, and the study participants, study staff, and the doctors, nurses and other health care providers and health information sources who have contributed to the study. We acknowledge NHS funding to the Royal Marsden/ICR NIHR Biomedical Research Centre. CIMBA: we are grateful to all the families and clinicians who contribute to the studies; Sue Healey, in particular taking on the task of mutation classification with the late Olga Sinilnikova; Maggie Angelakos, Judi Maskiell, Helen Tsimiklis; members and participants in the New York site of the Breast Cancer Family Registry; members and participants in the Ontario Familial Breast Cancer Registry; Vilius Rudaitis and Laimonas Griškevičius; Yuan Chun Ding and Linda Steele for their work in participant enrollment and biospecimen and data management; Bent Ejlertsen and Anne-Marie Gerdes for the recruitment and genetic counseling of participants; Alicia Barroso, Rosario Alonso and Guillermo Pita; all the individuals and the researchers who took part in CONSIT TEAM (Consorzio Italiano Tumori Ereditari Alla Mammella), thanks in particular: Giulia Cagnoli, Roberta Villa, Irene Feroce, Mariarosaria Calvello, Riccardo Dolcetti, Giuseppe Giannini, Laura Papi, Gabriele Lorenzo Capone, Liliana Varesco, Viviana Gismondi, Maria Grazia Tibiletti, Daniela Furlan, Antonella Savarese, Aline Martayan, Stefania Tommasi, Brunella Pilato, Isabella Marchi, Elena Bandieri, Antonio Russo, Daniele Calistri and the personnel of the Cogentech Cancer Genetic Test Laboratory, Milan, Italy. FPGMX: members of the Cancer Genetics group (IDIS): Ana Blanco, Miguel Aguado, Uxía Esperón and Belinda Rodríguez. We thank all participants, clinicians, family doctors, researchers, and technicians for their contributions and commitment to the DKFZ study and the collaborating groups in Lahore, Pakistan (Noor Muhammad, Sidra Gull, Seerat Bajwa, Faiz Ali Khan, Humaira Naeemi, Saima Faisal, Asif Loya, Mohammed Aasim Yusuf) and Bogota, Colombia (Diana Torres, Ignacio Briceno, Fabian Gil). Genetic Modifiers of Cancer Risk in BRCA1/2 Mutation Carriers (GEMO) study is a study from the National Cancer Genetics Network UNICANCER Genetic Group, France. We wish to pay a tribute to Olga M. Sinilnikova, who with Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet initiated and coordinated GEMO until she sadly passed away on the 30th June 2014. The team in Lyon (Olga Sinilnikova, Mélanie Léoné, Laure Barjhoux, Carole Verny-Pierre, Sylvie Mazoyer, Francesca Damiola, Valérie Sornin) managed the GEMO samples until the biological resource centre was transferred to Paris in December 2015 (Noura Mebirouk, Fabienne Lesueur, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet). We want to thank all the GEMO collaborating groups for their contribution to this study. Drs.Sofia Khan, Irja Erkkilä and Virpi Palola; The Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Research Group Netherlands (HEBON) consists of the following Collaborating Centers: Netherlands Cancer Institute (coordinating center), Amsterdam, NL: M.A. Rookus, F.B.L. Hogervorst, F.E. van Leeuwen, M.A. Adank, M.K. Schmidt, N.S. Russell, D.J. Jenner; Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, NL: J.M. Collée, A.M.W. van den Ouweland, M.J. Hooning, C.M. Seynaeve, C.H.M. van Deurzen, I.M. Obdeijn; Leiden University Medical Center, NL: C.J. van Asperen, P. Devilee, T.C.T.E.F. van Cronenburg; Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, NL: C.M. Kets, A.R. Mensenkamp; University Medical Center Utrecht, NL: M.G.E.M. Ausems, M.J. Koudijs; Amsterdam Medical Center, NL: C.M. Aalfs, H.E.J. Meijers-Heijboer; VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, NL: K. van Engelen, J.J.P. Gille; Maastricht University Medical Center, NL: E.B. Gómez-Garcia, M.J. Blok; University of Groningen, NL: J.C. Oosterwijk, A.H. van der Hout, M.J. Mourits, G.H. de Bock; The Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organisation (IKNL): S. Siesling, J.Verloop; The nationwide network and registry of histo- and cytopathology in The Netherlands (PALGA): A.W. van den Belt-Dusebout. HEBON thanks the study participants and the registration teams of IKNL and PALGA for part of the data collection. Overbeek; the Hungarian Breast and Ovarian Cancer Study Group members (Janos Papp, Aniko Bozsik, Zoltan Matrai, Miklos Kasler, Judit Franko, Maria Balogh, Gabriella Domokos, Judit Ferenczi, Department of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary) and the clinicians and patients for their contributions to this study; HVH (University Hospital Vall d’Hebron) the authors acknowledge the Oncogenetics Group (VHIO) and the High Risk and Cancer Prevention Unit of the University Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Miguel Servet Progam (CP10/00617), and the Cellex Foundation for providing research facilities and equipment; the ICO Hereditary Cancer Program team led by Dr. Gabriel Capella; the ICO Hereditary Cancer Program team led by Dr. Gabriel Capella; Dr Martine Dumont for sample management and skillful assistance; Catarina Santos and Pedro Pinto; members of the Center of Molecular Diagnosis, Oncogenetics Department and Molecular Oncology Research Center of Barretos Cancer Hospital; Heather Thorne, Eveline Niedermayr, all the kConFab investigators, research nurses and staff, the heads and staff of the Family Cancer Clinics, and the Clinical Follow Up Study (which has received funding from the NHMRC, the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Cancer Australia, and the National Institute of Health (USA)) for their contributions to this resource, and the many families who contribute to kConFab; the investigators of the Australia New Zealand NRG Oncology group; members and participants in the Ontario Cancer Genetics Network; Kevin Sweet, Caroline Craven, Julia Cooper, Amber Aielts, and Michelle O’Conor; Christina Selkirk; Helena Jernström, Karin Henriksson, Katja Harbst, Maria Soller, Ulf Kristoffersson; from Gothenburg Sahlgrenska University Hospital: Anna Öfverholm, Margareta Nordling, Per Karlsson, Zakaria Einbeigi; from Stockholm and Karolinska University Hospital: Anna von Wachenfeldt, Annelie Liljegren, Annika Lindblom, Brita Arver, Gisela Barbany Bustinza; from Umeå University Hospital: Beatrice Melin, Christina Edwinsdotter Ardnor, Monica Emanuelsson; from Uppsala University: Hans Ehrencrona, Maritta Hellström Pigg, Richard Rosenquist; from Linköping University Hospital: Marie Stenmark-Askmalm, Sigrun Liedgren; Cecilia Zvocec, Qun Niu; Joyce Seldon and Lorna Kwan; Dr. Robert Nussbaum, Beth Crawford, Kate Loranger, Julie Mak, Nicola Stewart, Robin Lee, Amie Blanco and Peggy Conrad and Salina Chan; Carole Pye, Patricia Harrington and Eva Wozniak. OSUCCG thanks Kevin Sweet, Caroline Craven, Julia Cooper, Michelle O’Conor and Amber Aeilts. BCAC is funded by Cancer Research UK [C1287/A16563, C1287/A10118], the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (grant numbers 634935 and 633784 for BRIDGES and B-CAST respectively), and by the European Community´s Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement number 223175 (grant number HEALTH-F2-2009-223175) (COGS). The EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme funding source had no role in study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation or writing of the report. Genotyping of the OncoArray was funded by the NIH Grant U19 CA148065, and Cancer UK Grant C1287/A16563 and the PERSPECTIVE project supported by the Government of Canada through Genome Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (grant GPH-129344) and, the Ministère de l’Économie, Science et Innovation du Québec through Genome Québec and the PSRSIIRI-701 grant, and the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation. The Australian Breast Cancer Family Study (ABCFS) was supported by grant UM1 CA164920 from the National Cancer Institute (USA). The content of this manuscript does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the National Cancer Institute or any of the collaborating centers in the Breast Cancer Family Registry (BCFR), nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the USA Government or the BCFR. The ABCFS was also supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, the New South Wales Cancer Council, the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (Australia) and the Victorian Breast Cancer Research Consortium. J.L.H. is a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Senior Principal Research Fellow. M.C.S. is a NHMRC Senior Research Fellow. The ABCS study was supported by the Dutch Cancer Society [grants NKI 2007-3839; 2009 4363]. The Australian Breast Cancer Tissue Bank (ABCTB) was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, The Cancer Institute NSW and the National Breast Cancer Foundation. The AHS study is supported by the intramural research program of the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute (grant number Z01-CP010119), and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (grant number Z01-ES049030). The work of the BBCC was partly funded by ELAN-Fond of the University Hospital of Erlangen. The BBCS is funded by Cancer Research UK and Breast Cancer Now and acknowledges NHS funding to the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, and the National Cancer Research Network (NCRN). The BCEES was funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia and the Cancer Council Western Australia. For the BCFR-NY, BCFR-PA, BCFR-UT this work was supported by grant UM1 CA164920 from the National Cancer Institute. The content of this manuscript does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the National Cancer Institute or any of the collaborating centers in the Breast Cancer Family Registry (BCFR), nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the US Government or the BCFR. BCINIS study was funded by the BCRF (The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, USA). The BREast Oncology GAlician Network (BREOGAN) is funded by Acción Estratégica de Salud del Instituto de Salud Carlos III FIS PI12/02125/Cofinanciado FEDER; Acción Estratégica de Salud del Instituto de Salud Carlos III FIS Intrasalud (PI13/01136); Programa Grupos Emergentes, Cancer Genetics Unit, Instituto de Investigacion Biomedica Galicia Sur. Xerencia de Xestion Integrada de Vigo-SERGAS, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain; Grant 10CSA012E, Consellería de Industria Programa Sectorial de Investigación Aplicada, PEME I + D e I + D Suma del Plan Gallego de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica de la Consellería de Industria de la Xunta de Galicia, Spain; Grant EC11-192. Fomento de la Investigación Clínica Independiente, Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad, Spain; and Grant FEDER-Innterconecta. Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad, Xunta de Galicia, Spain. The BSUCH study was supported by the Dietmar-Hopp Foundation, the Helmholtz Society and the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). Sample collection and processing was funded in part by grants from the National Cancer Institute (NCI R01CA120120 and K24CA169004). CBCS is funded by the Canadian Cancer Society (grant # 313404) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. CCGP is supported by funding from the University of Crete. The CECILE study was supported by Fondation de France, Institut National du Cancer (INCa), Ligue Nationale contre le Cancer, Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire, de l’Alimentation, de l’Environnement et du Travail (ANSES), Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR). The CGPS was supported by the Chief Physician Johan Boserup and Lise Boserup Fund, the Danish Medical Research Council, and Herlev and Gentofte Hospital. The American Cancer Society funds the creation, maintenance, and updating of the CPS-II cohort. The CTS was initially supported by the California Breast Cancer Act of 1993 and the California Breast Cancer Research Fund (contract 97-10500) and is currently funded through the National Institutes of Health (R01 CA77398, K05 CA136967, UM1 CA164917, and U01 CA199277). Collection of cancer incidence data was supported by the California Department of Public Health as part of the statewide cancer reporting program mandated by California Health and Safety Code Section 103885. The University of Westminster curates the DietCompLyf database funded by Against Breast Cancer Registered Charity No. 1121258 and the NCRN. The coordination of EPIC is financially supported by the European Commission (DG-SANCO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer. The national cohorts are supported by: Ligue Contre le Cancer, Institut Gustave Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l’Education Nationale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) (France); German Cancer Aid, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (Germany); the Hellenic Health Foundation, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (Greece); Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro-AIRC-Italy and National Research Council (Italy); Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS), Netherlands Cancer Registry (NKR), LK Research Funds, Dutch Prevention Funds, Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland), World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), Statistics Netherlands (The Netherlands); Health Research Fund (FIS), PI13/00061 to Granada, PI13/01162 to EPIC-Murcia, Regional Governments of Andalucía, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia and Navarra, ISCIII RETIC (RD06/0020) (Spain); Cancer Research UK (14136 to EPIC-Norfolk; C570/A16491 and C8221/A19170 to EPIC-Oxford), Medical Research Council (1000143 to EPIC-Norfolk, MR/M012190/1 to EPIC-Oxford) (United Kingdom). The ESTHER study was supported by a grant from the Baden Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and Arts. Additional cases were recruited in the context of the VERDI study, which was supported by a grant from the German Cancer Aid (Deutsche Krebshilfe). FHRISK is funded from NIHR grant PGfAR 0707-10031. The GC-HBOC (German Consortium of Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer) is supported by the German Cancer Aid (grant no 110837, coordinator: Rita K. Schmutzler, Cologne). This work was also funded by the European Regional Development Fund and Free State of Saxony, Germany (LIFE - Leipzig Research Centre for Civilization Diseases, project numbers 713-241202, 713-241202, 14505/2470, 14575/2470). The GENICA was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) Germany grants 01KW9975/5, 01KW9976/8, 01KW9977/0 and 01KW0114, the Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Heidelberg, the Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum (IPA), Bochum, as well as the Department of Internal Medicine, Evangelische Kliniken Bonn gGmbH, Johanniter Krankenhaus, Bonn, Germany. The GEPARSIXTO study was conducted by the German Breast Group GmbH. The GESBC was supported by the Deutsche Krebshilfe e. V. [70492] and the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). The HABCS study was supported by the Claudia von Schilling Foundation for Breast Cancer Research, by the Lower Saxonian Cancer Society, and by the Rudolf Bartling Foundation. The HEBCS was financially supported by the Helsinki University Central Hospital Research Fund, Academy of Finland (266528), the Finnish Cancer Society, and the Sigrid Juselius Foundation. The HMBCS was supported by a grant from the German Research Foundation (Do 761/10-1). The HUBCS was supported by a grant from the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education (RUS08/017), and by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations for support the Bioresource collections and RFBR grants 14-04-97088, 17-29-06014 and 17-44-020498. E.K was supported by the program for support the bioresource collections №007-030164/2 and study was performed as part of the assignment of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russian Federation (№АААА-А16-116020350032-1). Financial support for KARBAC was provided through the regional agreement on medical training and clinical research (ALF) between Stockholm County Council and Karolinska Institutet, the Swedish Cancer Society, The Gustav V Jubilee foundation and Bert von Kantzows foundation. The KARMA study was supported by Märit and Hans Rausings Initiative Against Breast Cancer. The KBCP was financially supported by the special Government Funding (EVO) of Kuopio University Hospital grants, Cancer Fund of North Savo, the Finnish Cancer Organizations, and by the strategic funding of the University of Eastern Finland. LMBC is supported by the ‘Stichting tegen Kanker’. DL is supported by the FWO. The MABCS study is funded by the Research Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology “Georgi D. Efremov” and supported by the German Academic Exchange Program, DAAD. The MARIE study was supported by the Deutsche Krebshilfe e.V. [70-2892-BR I, 106332, 108253, 108419, 110826, 110828], the Hamburg Cancer Society, the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) Germany [01KH0402]. MBCSG is supported by grants from the Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC) and by funds from the Italian citizens who allocated the 5/1000 share of their tax payment in support of the Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, according to Italian laws (INT-Institutional strategic projects “5 × 1000”). The MCBCS was supported by the NIH grants CA192393, CA116167, CA176785 an NIH Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Breast Cancer [CA116201], and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and a generous gift from the David F. and Margaret T. Grohne Family Foundation. MCCS cohort recruitment was funded by VicHealth and Cancer Council Victoria. The MCCS was further supported by Australian NHMRC grants 209057 and 396414, and by infrastructure provided by Cancer Council Victoria. Cases and their vital status were ascertained through the Victorian Cancer Registry (VCR) and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), including the National Death Index and the Australian Cancer Database. The MEC was support by NIH grants CA63464, CA54281, CA098758, CA132839 and CA164973. The MISS study is supported by funding from ERC-2011-294576 Advanced grant, Swedish Cancer Society, Swedish Research Council, Local hospital funds, Berta Kamprad Foundation, Gunnar Nilsson. The MMHS study was supported by NIH grants CA97396, CA128931, CA116201, CA140286 and CA177150. MSKCC is supported by grants from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and Robert and Kate Niehaus Clinical Cancer Genetics Initiative. The work of MTLGEBCS was supported by the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for the “CIHR Team in Familial Risks of Breast Cancer” program – grant # CRN-87521 and the Ministry of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade – grant # PSR-SIIRI-701. The NBHS was supported by NIH grant R01CA100374. Biological sample preparation was conducted the Survey and Biospecimen Shared Resource, which is supported by P30 CA68485. The Northern California Breast Cancer Family Registry (NC-BCFR) and Ontario Familial Breast Cancer Registry (OFBCR) were supported by grant UM1 CA164920 from the National Cancer Institute (USA). The content of this manuscript does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the National Cancer Institute or any of the collaborating centers in the Breast Cancer Family Registry (BCFR), nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the USA Government or the BCFR. The Carolina Breast Cancer Study was funded by Komen Foundation, the National Cancer Institute (P50 CA058223, U54 CA156733, U01 CA179715), and the North Carolina University Cancer Research Fund. The NHS was supported by NIH grants P01 CA87969, UM1 CA186107, and U19 CA148065. The NHS2 was supported by NIH grants UM1 CA176726 and U19 CA148065. The ORIGO study was supported by the Dutch Cancer Society (RUL 1997-1505) and the Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure (BBMRI-NL CP16). The PBCS was funded by Intramural Research Funds of the National Cancer Institute, Department of Health and Human Services, USA. Genotyping for PLCO was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health, NCI, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics. The PLCO is supported by the Intramural Research Program of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics and supported by contracts from the Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health. The POSH study is funded by Cancer Research UK (grants C1275/A11699, C1275/C22524, C1275/A19187, C1275/A15956 and Breast Cancer Campaign 2010PR62, 2013PR044. PROCAS is funded from NIHR grant PGfAR 0707-10031. The RBCS was funded by the Dutch Cancer Society (DDHK 2004-3124, DDHK 2009-4318). SEARCH is funded by Cancer Research UK [C490/A10124, C490/A16561] and supported by the UK National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre at the University of Cambridge. The University of Cambridge has received salary support for PDPP from the NHS in the East of England through the Clinical Academic Reserve. The Sister Study (SISTER) is supported by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (Z01-ES044005 and Z01-ES049033). The Two Sister Study (2SISTER) was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (Z01-ES044005 and Z01-ES102245), and, also by a grant from Susan G. Komen for the Cure, grant FAS0703856. SKKDKFZS is supported by the DKFZ. The SMC is funded by the Swedish Cancer Foundation and the Swedish Research Council [grant 2017-00644 for the Swedish Infrastructure for Medical Population-based Life-course Environmental Research (SIMPLER)]. The SZBCS is financially supported under the program of Minister of Science and Higher Education “Regional Initiative of Excellence” in years 2019-2022, Grant No 002/RID/2018/19. The TNBCC was supported by: a Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Breast Cancer (CA116201), a grant from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, a generous gift from the David F. and Margaret T. Grohne Family Foundation. The UCIBCS component of this research was supported by the NIH [CA58860, CA92044] and the Lon V Smith Foundation [LVS39420]. The UKBGS is funded by Breast Cancer Now and the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), London. ICR acknowledges NHS funding to the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre. The UKOPS study was funded by The Eve Appeal (The Oak Foundation) and supported by the National Institute for Health Research University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre. The USRT Study was funded by Intramural Research Funds of the National Cancer Institute, Department of Health and Human Services, USA. CIMBA CIMBA: The CIMBA data management and data analysis were supported by Cancer Research – UK grants C12292/A20861, C12292/A11174. ACA is a Cancer Research -UK Senior Cancer Research Fellow. GCT and ABS are NHMRC Research Fellows. The PERSPECTIVE project was supported by the Government of Canada through Genome Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Ministry of Economy, Science and Innovation through Genome Québec, and The Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation. BCFR: UM1 CA164920 from the National Cancer Institute. The content of this manuscript does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the National Cancer Institute or any of the collaborating centers in the Breast Cancer Family Registry (BCFR), nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the US Government or the BCFR. BFBOCC: Lithuania (BFBOCC-LT): Research Council of Lithuania grant SEN-18/2015 and Nr. P-MIP-19-164. BIDMC: Breast Cancer Research Foundation. BMBSA: Cancer Association of South Africa (PI Elizabeth J. van Rensburg). CNIO: Spanish Ministry of Health PI16/00440 supported by FEDER funds, the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) SAF2014-57680-R and the Spanish Research Network on Rare diseases (CIBERER). COH-CCGCRN: Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under grant number R25CA112486, and RC4CA153828 (PI: J. Weitzel) from the National Cancer Institute and the Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. CONSIT TEAM: Associazione Italiana Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC; IG2014 no.15547) to P. Radice. Funds from Italian citizens who allocated the 5 × 1000 share of their tax payment in support of the Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, according to Italian laws (INT-Institutional strategic projects ‘5 × 1000’) to S. Manoukian. UNIROMA1: Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC; grant no. 21389) to L. Ottini. DFKZ: German Cancer Research Center. EMBRACE: Cancer Research UK Grants C1287/A10118 and C1287/A11990. D. Gareth Evans and Fiona Lalloo are supported by an NIHR grant to the Biomedical Research Centre, Manchester (IS-BRC-1215-20007). The Investigators at The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust are supported by an NIHR grant to the Biomedical Research Centre at The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. Ros Eeles and Elizabeth Bancroft are supported by Cancer Research UK Grant C5047/A8385. Ros Eeles is also supported by NIHR support to the Biomedical Research Centre at The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. FCCC: NIH/NCI grant P30-CA006927. The University of Kansas Cancer Center (P30 CA168524) and the Kansas Bioscience Authority Eminent Scholar Program. A.K.G. was funded by R0 1CA140323, R01 CA214545, and by the Chancellors Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Sciences Professorship. Ana Vega is supported by the Spanish Health Research Foundation, Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), partially supported by FEDER funds through Research Activity Intensification Program (contract grant numbers: INT15/00070, INT16/00154, INT17/00133), and through Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enferemdades Raras CIBERER (ACCI 2016: ER17P1AC7112/2018); Autonomous Government of Galicia (Consolidation and structuring program: IN607B), and by the Fundación Mutua Madrileña (call 2018). GC-HBOC: German Cancer Aid (grant no 110837, Rita K. Schmutzler) and the European Regional Development Fund and Free State of Saxony, Germany (LIFE - Leipzig Research Centre for Civilization Diseases, project numbers 713-241202, 713-241202, 14505/2470, 14575/2470). GEMO: Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer; the Association “Le cancer du sein, parlons-en!” Award, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for the “CIHR Team in Familial Risks of Breast Cancer” program, the French National Institute of Cancer (INCa) (grants AOR 01 082, 2013-1-BCB-01-ICH-1 and SHS-E-SP 18-015) and the Fondation ARC pour la recherche sur le cancer (grant PJA 20151203365). GEORGETOWN: the Survey, Recruitment and Biospecimen Shared Resource at Georgetown University (NIH/NCI grant P30-CA051008) and the Fisher Center for Hereditary Cancer and Clinical Genomics Research. HCSC: Spanish Ministry of Health PI15/00059, PI16/01292, and CB-161200301 CIBERONC from ISCIII (Spain), partially supported by European Regional Development FEDER funds. HEBCS: Helsinki University Hospital Research Fund, Academy of Finland (266528), the Finnish Cancer Society and the Sigrid Juselius Foundation. HEBON: the Dutch Cancer Society grants NKI1998-1854, NKI2004-3088, NKI2007-3756, the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research grant NWO 91109024, the Pink Ribbon grants 110005 and 2014-187.WO76, the BBMRI grant NWO 184.021.007/CP46 and the Transcan grant JTC 2012 Cancer 12-054. HUNBOCS: Hungarian Research Grants KTIA-OTKA CK-80745 and NKFI_OTKA K-112228. HVH (University Hospital Vall d’Hebron) This work was supported by Spanish Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) funding, an initiative of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Innovation partially supported by European Regional Development FEDER Funds: FIS PI12/02585 and PI15/00355. ICO: The authors would like to particularly acknowledge the support of the Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer (AECC), the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (organismo adscrito al Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad) and “Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER), una manera de hacer Europa” (PI10/01422, PI13/00285, PIE13/00022, PI15/00854, PI16/00563, P18/01029, and CIBERONC) and the Institut Català de la Salut and Autonomous Government of Catalonia (2009SGR290, 2014SGR338, 2017SGR449, and PERIS Project MedPerCan), and CERCA program. IHCC: PBZ_KBN_122/P05/2004. ILUH: Icelandic Association “Walking for Breast Cancer Research” and by the Landspitali University Hospital Research Fund. INHERIT: Canadian Institutes of Health Research for the “CIHR Team in Familial Risks of Breast Cancer” program – grant # CRN-87521 and the Ministry of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade – grant # PSR-SIIRI-701. IOVHBOCS: Ministero della Salute and “5 × 1000” Istituto Oncologico Veneto grant. IPOBCS: Liga Portuguesa Contra o Cancro. kConFab: The National Breast Cancer Foundation, and previously by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), the Queensland Cancer Fund, the Cancer Councils of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia, and the Cancer Foundation of Western Australia. MAYO: NIH grants CA116167, CA192393 and CA176785, an NCI Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Breast Cancer (CA116201), and a grant from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. MCGILL: Jewish General Hospital Weekend to End Breast Cancer, Quebec Ministry of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade. Marc Tischkowitz is supported by the funded by the European Union Seventh Framework Program (2007Y2013)/European Research Council (Grant No. 310018). MSKCC: the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, the Robert and Kate Niehaus Clinical Cancer Genetics Initiative, the Andrew Sabin Research Fund and a Cancer Center Support Grant/Core Grant (P30 CA008748). NCI: the Intramural Research Program of the US National Cancer Institute, NIH, and by support services contracts NO2-CP-11019-50, N02-CP-21013-63 and N02-CP-65504 with Westat, Inc, Rockville, MD. NNPIO: the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grants 17-54-12007, 17-00-00171 and 18-515-45012). NRG Oncology: U10 CA180868, NRG SDMC grant U10 CA180822, NRG Administrative Office and the NRG Tissue Bank (CA 27469), the NRG Statistical and Data Center (CA 37517) and the Intramural Research Program, NCI. OSUCCG: was funded by the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center. PBCS: Italian Association of Cancer Research (AIRC) [IG 2013 N.14477] and Tuscany Institute for Tumors (ITT) grant 2014-2015-2016. SMC: the Israeli Cancer Association. SWE-BRCA: the Swedish Cancer Society. UCHICAGO: NCI Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Breast Cancer (CA125183), R01 CA142996, 1U01CA161032 and by the Ralph and Marion Falk Medical Research Trust, the Entertainment Industry Fund National Women’s Cancer Research Alliance and the Breast Cancer research Foundation. UCSF: UCSF Cancer Risk Program and Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. UKFOCR: Cancer Researc h UK. UPENN: National Institutes of Health (NIH) (R01-CA102776 and R01-CA083855; Breast Cancer Research Foundation; Susan G. Komen Foundation for the cure, Basser Research Center for BRCA. UPITT/MWH: Hackers for Hope Pittsburgh. VFCTG: Victorian Cancer Agency, Cancer Australia, National Breast Cancer Foundation. WCP: Dr Karlan is funded by the American Cancer Society Early Detection Professorship (SIOP-06-258-01-COUN) and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), Grant UL1TR000124.
Published: 2019

21. Impact of constitutional TET2 haploinsufficiency on molecular and clinical phenotype in humans

Author: Amjad Alkodsi, Elmo Saarentaus, Outi Kilpivaara, Mikko Seppänen, Mervi Aavikko, Minna Taipale, Riku Katainen, Pia Vahteristo, Auli Karhu, Tomas Tanskanen, Kari Kaikkonen, Rainer Lehtonen, Morgane Hilpert, Heikki Ristolainen, Ekaterina Morgunova, Jussi Taipale, Mitja I. Kurki, Aarno Palotie, Lauri A. Aaltonen, Markus J. Mäkinen, Outi Kuismin, Aurora Taira, Kaarle Franssila, Radek C. Skoda, Kari K. Eklund, Juhani Junttila, Silva Saarinen, Kristiina Aittomäki, Jaakko Niinimäki, Johanna Kondelin, Eevi Kaasinen, Elina A. M. Hirvonen, Olli Pietilainen, Kristiina Rajamäki, Davide G. Berta, Genome-Scale Biology (GSB) Research Program, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Research Programs Unit, University of Helsinki, Medicum, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Helsinki Institute of Life Science HiLIFE, Clinicum, Lauri Antti Aaltonen / Principal Investigator, Sampsa Hautaniemi / Principal Investigator, Department of Pathology, HUSLAB, Research Program in Systems Oncology, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, Centre of Excellence in Complex Disease Genetics, Research Programme of Molecular Medicine, Aarno Palotie / Principal Investigator, Children's Hospital, Department of Medicine, Infektiosairauksien yksikkö, Reumatologian yksikkö, Jussi Taipale / Principal Investigator, HUS Children and Adolescents, HUS Inflammation Center, and Genomics of Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Subjects: Male, 0301 basic medicine, General Physics and Astronomy, Haploinsufficiency, 02 engineering and technology, medicine.disease_cause, Germline, DNA Methyltransferase 3A, Epigenesis, Genetic, DNA (Cytosine-5-)-Methyltransferases, RNA, Small Interfering, lcsh:Science, DNA METHYLATION, Cells, Cultured, Finland, Mutation, Multidisciplinary, AMINO-ACID SUBSTITUTIONS, CLONAL HEMATOPOIESIS, T-BET, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Hodgkin Disease, READ ALIGNMENT, 3. Good health, Chromatin, DNA-Binding Proteins, Phenotype, WEB SERVER, DNA methylation, Female, 0210 nano-technology, STEM-CELLS, Adult, Science, Primary Cell Culture, J-CHAIN GENE, Biology, Article, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Dioxygenases, 03 medical and health sciences, Germline mutation, Proto-Oncogene Proteins, medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Epigenetics, Enhancer, Germ-Line Mutation, Whole Genome Sequencing, MUTATIONS, MEMORY, General Chemistry, Atherosclerosis, Hematopoiesis, 030104 developmental biology, Cancer research, lcsh:Q, 3111 Biomedicine
Abstract: Clonal hematopoiesis driven by somatic heterozygous TET2 loss is linked to malignant degeneration via consequent aberrant DNA methylation, and possibly to cardiovascular disease via increased cytokine and chemokine expression as reported in mice. Here, we discover a germline TET2 mutation in a lymphoma family. We observe neither unusual predisposition to atherosclerosis nor abnormal pro-inflammatory cytokine or chemokine expression. The latter finding is confirmed in cells from three additional unrelated TET2 germline mutation carriers. The TET2 defect elevates blood DNA methylation levels, especially at active enhancers and cell-type specific regulatory regions with binding sequences of master transcription factors involved in hematopoiesis. The regions display reduced methylation relative to all open chromatin regions in four DNMT3A germline mutation carriers, potentially due to TET2-mediated oxidation. Our findings provide insight into the interplay between epigenetic modulators and transcription factor activity in hematological neoplasia, but do not confirm the putative role of TET2 in atherosclerosis., Somatic heterozygous TET2 loss drives clonal hematopoiesis, which is linked to malignant cell degeneration and potentially cardiovascular disease. Here, the authors investigate the molecular impact of a germline TET2 mutation in a lymphoma family, finding elevated blood DNA methylation levels and no predisposition to atherosclerosis
Published: 2019

22. The BRCA2 c.68-7T > A variant is not pathogenic : A model for clinical calibration of spliceogenicity

Author: kConFab-AOCS Investigators, Study EMBRACE, Study HEBON, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, Clinicum, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and University of Helsinki
Subjects: RISK, GENES, digital PCR, multifactorial likelihood analysis, MUTATIONS, spliceogenic variants, INTEGRATED EVALUATION, BRCA2, CANCER, BREAST, FANCONI-ANEMIA, UNCLASSIFIED VARIANTS, SEQUENCE VARIANTS, RNA, quantitative real-time PCR, 3111 Biomedicine
Abstract: Although the spliceogenic nature of the BRCA2 c.68-7T > A variant has been demonstrated, its association with cancer risk remains controversial. In this study, we accurately quantified by real-time PCR and digital PCR (dPCR), the BRCA2 isoforms retaining or missing exon 3. In addition, the combined odds ratio for causality of the variant was estimated using genetic and clinical data, and its associated cancer risk was estimated by case-control analysis in 83,636 individuals. Co-occurrence in trans with pathogenic BRCA2 variants was assessed in 5,382 families. Exon 3 exclusion rate was 4.5-fold higher in variant carriers (13%) than controls (3%), indicating an exclusion rate for the c.68-7T > A allele of approximately 20%. The posterior probability of pathogenicity was 7.44x10(-115). There was neither evidence for increased risk of breast cancer (OR 1.03; 95% CI 0.86-1.24) nor for a deleterious effect of the variant when co-occurring with pathogenic variants. Our data provide for the first time robust evidence of the nonpathogenicity of the BRCA2 c.68-7T > A. Genetic and quantitative transcript analyses together inform the threshold for the ratio between functional and altered BRCA2 isoforms compatible with normal cell function. These findings might be exploited to assess the relevance for cancer risk of other BRCA2 spliceogenic variants.
Published: 2018

23. Gene-panel testing of breast and ovarian cancer patients identifies a recurrent RAD51C duplication

Author: Pelttari, L. M., Shimelis, H., Toiminen, H., Kvist, A., Törngren, T., Borg, Å., Blomqvist, C., Bützow, R., Couch, F., Aittomäki, K., Nevanlinna, H., Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinicum, University of Helsinki, HUSLAB, Department of Oncology, Department of Pathology, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, and HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center
Subjects: RISK, endocrine system diseases, RAD51C, 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, GERMLINE MUTATIONS, BRCA1, CHEK2-ASTERISK-1100DELC, FAMILIES, PARALOGS, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, 3123 Gynaecology and paediatrics, gene-panel, PATTERNS, CONFER SUSCEPTIBILITY, COMPLEXES, 3111 Biomedicine, skin and connective tissue diseases, POPULATION
Abstract: Gene-panel sequencing allows comprehensive analysis of multiple genes simultaneously and is now routinely used in clinical mutation testing of high-risk breast and ovarian cancer patients. However, only BRCA1 and BRCA2 are often analyzed also for large genomic changes. Here, we have analyzed 10 clinically relevant susceptibility genes in 95 breast or ovarian cancer patients with gene-panel sequencing including also copy number variants (CNV) analysis for genomic changes. We identified 12 different pathogenic BRCA1, BRCA2, TP53, PTEN, CHEK2, or RAD51C mutations in 18 of 95 patients (19%). BRCA1/2 mutations were observed in 8 patients (8.4%) and CHEK2 protein-truncating mutations in 7 patients (7.4%). In addition, we identified a novel duplication encompassing most of the RAD51C gene. We further genotyped the duplication in breast or ovarian cancer families (n=1149), in unselected breast (n=1729) and ovarian cancer cohorts (n=553), and in population controls (n=1273). Seven additional duplication carries were observed among cases but none among controls. The duplication associated with ovarian cancer risk (3/590 of all ovarian cancer patients, 0.5%, P=.032 compared with controls) and was found to represent a large fraction of all identified RAD51C mutations in the Finnish population. Our data emphasizes the importance of comprehensive mutation analysis including CNV detection in all the relevant genes.
Published: 2018

24. Identification of four novel susceptibility loci for oestrogen receptor negative breast cancer

Author: Javier Benitez, Marie Stenmark-Askmalm, Susan L. Neuhausen, Pascal Guénel, Jane Carpenter, Christine B. Ambrosone, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Nadine Tung, Gad Rennert, Stephen J. Chanock, Andrew K. Godwin, Regina M. Santella, Brita Arver, Karoline Kuchenbaecker, Kamila Czene, Vessela N. Kristensen, Natalia Bogdanova, Nazneen Rahman, Jianjun Liu, Federico Canzian, Hoda Anton-Culver, Maya Ghoussaini, Mark E. Robson, Sue K. Park, Manjeet K. Bolla, Roger L. Milne, Veli-Matti Kosma, Siranoush Manoukian, Angela Cox, Daniel F. Schmidt, Kay-Tee Khaw, Rosario Tumino, Melissa C. Southey, Ramunas Janavicius, Irene Konstantopoulou, Carl Blomqvist, John L. Hopper, Sue Healey, Christine Rappaport, Marco Montagna, SA Gayther, Heather Eliassen, Carolien H.M. van Deurzen, Jacques Simard, Emiel J. Rutgers, Jonine Figueroa, Maria A. Caligo, Volker Arndt, Sylvie Mazoyer, Diana Eccles, M.J. Hooning, Antoinette Hollestelle, Mary B. Daly, Robert Winqvist, Antonis C. Antoniou, Patricia A. Ganz, Orland Diez, Priyanka Sharma, Ana Osorio, Daniel Barrowdale, Loic Le Marchand, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Elinor J. Sawyer, Conxi Lázaro, Soo-Hwang Teo, Penny Soucy, Paolo Radice, John W. M. Martens, Steve Ellis, David E. Goldgar, Anna Jakubowska, Maria Kabisch, Raymonda Varon-Mateeva, Diether Lambrechts, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Leigha Senter, Anna González-Neira, Cecilia M. Dorfling, Brian E. Henderson, Rulla M. Tamimi, Sara Margolin, Susan M. Gapstur, Ian Tomlinson, Thérèse Truong, Robert A.E.M. Tollenaar, Amanda E. Toland, Anna Marie Mulligan, Irene L. Andrulis, Isabelle Romieu, Monica Barile, Florentia Fostira, Johanna Rantala, Enes Makalic, Eitan Friedman, Zhaoming Wang, Mark H. Greene, Noralane M. Lindor, Julie M. Cunningham, Riccardo Dolcetti, Steven N. Hart, Mary Beth Terry, Jenny Chang-Claude, Austin Miller, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Asta Försti, Kathleen E. Malone, Paolo Peterlongo, Lothar Haeberle, Celine M. Vachon, Elizabeth J. van Rensburg, Michael Jones, Laima Tihomirova, Penelope Miron, Eunjung Lee, María José Sánchez, Hatef Darabi, Frans B. L. Hogervorst, Matthias W. Beckmann, Edith Olah, Annika Lindblom, Phuong L. Mai, Emily Hallberg, Alison M. Dunning, Kathleen Claes, Esther M. John, Sofia Khan, David J. Hunter, Kristiina Aittomäki, Katherine L. Nathanson, Lars Beckmann, Stephanie V. Blank, Wei Zheng, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Heli Nevanlinna, Miguel de la Hoya, Olga M. Sinilnikova, Bruce Poppe, Catherine M. Phelan, S. Lindstrom, Stig E. Bojesen, Curtis Olswold, Fredrick R. Schumacher, Janet E. Olson, Tuomas Heikkinen, Judy Garber, Fergus J. Couch, Tara M. Friebel, Isabel dos-Santos-Silva, Douglas F. Easton, Song Yao, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Hans Ehrencrona, Simon S. Cross, Rodney J. Scott, Kenneth Offit, Petra H.M. Peeters, Clare Turnbull, Taru A. Muranen, William J. Tapper, Trinidad Caldés, Jenny Lester, Robert L. Nussbaum, Paul A. James, Marike Gabrielson, Susan M. Domchek, Mads Thomassen, Marilie D. Gammon, Susan L. Slager, Graham G. Giles, Silje Nord, Hans Wildiers, Hiltrud Brauch, Gustavo Mendoza-Fandiño, Christopher A. Haiman, Martine Dumont, Mark S. Goldberg, Bernardo Bonanni, Jirong Long, Kyriaki Michailidou, Ute Hamann, Wendy K. Chung, Marc J. Gunter, Mia M. Gaudet, Keith Humphreys, Per Hall, Yuan C. Ding, Simona Agata, Julia A. Knight, Robert Pilarski, Claudine Isaacs, Alvaro A.N. Monteiro, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Rosa B. Barkardottir, Beth Y. Karlan, Uffe Birk Jensen, Arif B. Ekici, Evgeny N. Imyanitov, Alex Teulé, Anne-Marie Gerdes, Frederik Marme, Debra Frost, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Yon Ko, Xiaohong R. Yang, Jan Lubinski, Peter A. Fasching, Lesley McGuffog, Jacek Gronwald, Katri Pylkäs, Banu Arun, Josef Herzog, Gord Glendon, Doris Steinemann, Tomasz Huzarski, Peter Kraft, Anja Rudolph, Arto Mannermaa, Habibul Ahsan, Christian F. Singer, Rita K. Schmutzler, Julian Peto, Giski Ursin, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Andrea L. Richardson, Jeffrey N. Weitzel, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Alice S. Whittemore, Hermann Brenner, Barbara Burwinkel, D Thompson, Csilla I. Szabo, M. Pilar Zamora, Janna Lilyquist, Muhammad G. Kibriya, Yael Laitman, Helen Tsimiklis, W. D. Foulkes, Thomas Hansen, Francesca Damiola, Robert N. Hoover, Ava Kwong, Alfons Meindl, Siddhartha Kar, Manuel R. Teixeira, Elisabete Weiderpass, Bernard Peissel, Saundra S. Buys, Peter Devilee, Unión Europea. Comisión Europea. 7 Programa Marco, Cancer Research UK (Reino Unido), National Institutes of Health (Estados Unidos), Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Florida Breast Cancer Foundation (Estados Unidos), Dunning, Alison [0000-0001-6651-7166], Ghoussaini, Maya [0000-0002-2415-2143], Khaw, Kay-Tee [0000-0002-8802-2903], Thompson, Deborah [0000-0003-1465-5799], Pharoah, Paul [0000-0001-8494-732X], Easton, Douglas [0000-0003-2444-3247], Antoniou, Antonis [0000-0001-9223-3116], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Medical Oncology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Pathology, Cell biology, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Clinicum, Department of Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, and [ 1 ] Mayo Clin, Dept Lab Med & Pathol, Rochester, MN 55905 USA [ 2 ] Mayo Clin, Dept Hlth Sci Res, Rochester, MN 55905 USA [ 3 ] Univ Cambridge, Dept Publ Hlth & Primary Care, Ctr Canc Genet 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Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Oncology, General Physics and Astronomy, Genome-wide association study, Cyclophilins, Breast cancer, 3123 Gynaecology and paediatrics, Risk Factors, Brjóstakrabbamein, Genotype, BRCA2 MUTATION CARRIERS, Medicine and Health Sciences, CONFER SUSCEPTIBILITY, skin and connective tissue diseases, Cancer, GENE-EXPRESSION, Genetics, RISK, tRNA Methyltransferases, Multidisciplinary, Genome, VDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Helsefag: 800::Samfunnsmedisin, sosialmedisin: 801, Loci, BRCA1 Protein, Chromosome Mapping, COMMON VARIANTS, IDENTIFY, PANCREATIC-CANCER, 3. Good health, Multidisciplinary Sciences, Biological sciences, Receptors, Estrogen, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 2, Science & Technology - Other Topics, Female, NAF12, medicine.medical_specialty, Heterozygote, Science, 3122 Cancers, Locus (genetics), Breast Neoplasms, Biology, Breast Neoplasms/genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Article, Càncer de mama, 03 medical and health sciences, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Internal medicine, Pancreatic cancer, MD Multidisciplinary, medicine, Genetic predisposition, Journal Article, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, METAANALYSIS, Cancer och onkologi, Science & Technology, VDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Clinical medical disciplines: 750::Oncology: 762, General Chemistry, Arfgengi, medicine.disease, TRNA Methyltransferases, VDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Klinisk medisinske fag: 750::Onkologi: 762, 030104 developmental biology, Cancer and Oncology, Expression quantitative trait loci, Mutation, TELOMERE LENGTH, 3111 Biomedicine, Gene expression, VDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Health sciences: 800::Community medicine, Social medicine: 801, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Common variants in 94 loci have been associated with breast cancer including 15 loci with genome-wide significant associations (P, B.C.A.C. was funded through a European Community Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement no 223175 (HEALTH-F2-2009-223175; COGS); Cancer Research UK (C1287/A10118, C1287/A10710, C12292/A11174, C1281/A12014, C5047/A8384, C5047/A15007, C5047/A10692); the National Institutes of Health Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Breast Cancer (CA116201), R01 grants (CA128978, CA176785, CA192393), and Post-Cancer GWAS initiative (1U19 CA148537, 1U19 CA148065 and 1U19 CA148112 - the GAME-ON initiative); the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) for the CIHR Team in Familial Risks of Breast Cancer, the Breast Cancer Res. Foundation, and the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund. CIMBA genotyping was supported by National Institutes of Health grant (CA128978); the Department of Defence (W81XWH-10-1-0341); and the Breast Cancer Res. Foundation. CIMBA data management and data analysis were supported by Cancer Research UK grants C12292/A11174 and C1287/A10118. This study made use of data generated by the Wellcome Trust Case Control consortium. Functional studies were supported by the Florida Breast Cancer Foundation. A full description of funding and acknowledgments is provided in Supplementary Note 1.
Published: 2018

25. Meta-analysis of three genome-wide association studies identifies two loci that predict survival and treatment outcome in breast cancer

Author: Sofia Khan, Latha Kadalayil, Carl Blomqvist, William J. Tapper, Heli Nevanlinna, Kristiina Aittomäki, Rainer Fagerholm, Jianjun Liu, Diana Eccles, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinicum, University of Helsinki, Medicum, Research Programs Unit, Genome-Scale Biology (GSB) Research Program, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Department of Oncology, and HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Oncology, EXPRESSION, medicine.medical_specialty, 3122 Cancers, Estrogen receptor, Genome-wide association study, PROGRESSION, survival, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Breast cancer, breast cancer, Internal medicine, Genotype, medicine, GWAS, TUMOR-SUPPRESSOR, Genetic association, CYCLIN D1, tamoxifen, ENDOCRINE THERAPY, business.industry, Hazard ratio, medicine.disease, 3. Good health, APOPTOSIS, 030104 developmental biology, ESTROGEN-RECEPTOR, GTPASES, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Meta-analysis, AUTOPHAGY, business, Tamoxifen, RESISTANCE, Meta-Analysis, medicine.drug
Abstract: The majority of breast cancers are driven by the female hormone oestrogen via oestrogen receptor (ER) alpha. ER-positive patients are commonly treated with adjuvant endocrine therapy, however, resistance is a common occurrence and aside from ER-status, no unequivocal predictive biomarkers are currently in clinical use. In this study, we aimed to identify constitutional genetic variants influencing breast cancer survival among ER-positive patients and specifically, among endocrine-treated patients. We conducted a meta-analysis of three genome-wide association studies comprising in total 3,136 patients with ER-positive breast cancer of which 2,751 had received adjuvant endocrine therapy. We identified a novel locus (rs992531 at 8p21.2) associated with reduced survival among the patients with ER-positive breast cancer (P = 3.77 x 10(-8)). Another locus (rs7701292 at 5q21.3) was associated with reduced survival among the endocrine-treated patients (P = 2.13 x 10(-8)). Interaction analysis indicated that the survival association of rs7701292 is treatment-specific and independent of conventional prognostic markers. In silico functional studies suggest plausible biological mechanisms for the observed survival associations and a functional link between the putative target genes of the rs992531 and rs7701292 (RHOBTB2 and RAB9P1, respectively). We further explored the genetic interaction between rs992531 and rs7701292 and found a significant, treatment-specific interactive effect on survival among ER-positive, endocrine-treated patients (hazard ratio = 6.97; 95% confidence interval, 1.79-27.08, P-interaction = 0.036). This is the first study to identify a genetic interaction that specifically predicts treatment outcome. These findings may provide predictive biomarkers based on germ line genotype informing more personalized treatment selection.
Published: 2018

26. Recent developments in genetics and medically assisted reproduction : from research to clinical applications

Author: Harper, J. C., Aittomäki, K., Borry, P., Cornel, M. C., de Wert, G., Dondorp, W., Geraedts, J., Gianaroli, L., Ketterson, K., Liebaers, I., Lundin, K., Mertes, H., Morris, M., Pennings, G., Sermon, K., Spits, C., Soini, S., van Montfoort, A. P. A., Veiga, A., Vermeesch, J. R., Viville, S., Macek, M., European Soc Human Reprod, European Soc Human Genetics, Medicum, and Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator
Subjects: Male infertility, Preimplantation genetic testing, MALE-INFERTILITY, 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, Gamete donor anonymity, FETAL SEX DETERMINATION, Assisted reproductive technology, MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA DISEASE, PRIMARY OVARIAN INSUFFICIENCY, OOGONIAL STEM-CELLS, Non-invasive prenatal testing, SCREENING PGS STILL, Germline genome editing, NEXT-GENERATION, HUMAN PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYOS, Epigenetics, Female infertility, Mitochondrial replacement therapy, 3111 Biomedicine, Expanded carrier screening, CONGENITAL ADRENAL-HYPERPLASIA, EXOME SEQUENCING REVEALS
Abstract: Two leading European professional societies, the European Society of Human Genetics and the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology, have worked together since 2004 to evaluate the impact of fast research advances at the interface of assisted reproduction and genetics, including their application into clinical practice. In September 2016, the expert panel met for the third time. The topics discussed highlighted important issues covering the impacts of expanded carrier screening, direct-to-consumer genetic testing, voiding of the presumed anonymity of gamete donors by advanced genetic testing, advances in the research of genetic causes underlying male and female infertility, utilisation of massively parallel sequencing in preimplantation genetic testing and non-invasive prenatal screening, mitochondrial replacement in human oocytes, and additionally, issues related to cross-generational epigenetic inheritance following IVF and germline genome editing. The resulting paper represents a consensus of both professional societies involved.
Published: 2018

27. Body mass index and breast cancer survival:a Mendelian randomization analysis

Author: Guo, Qi, Burgess, Stephen, Turman, Constance, Bolla, Manjeet K., Wang, Qin, Lush, Michael, Abraham, Jean, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Andrulis, Irene L., Apicella, Carmel, Arndt, Volker, Barrdahl, Myrto, Benitez, Javier, Berg, Christine D., Blomqvist, Carl, Bojesen, Stig E., Bonanni, Bernardo, Brand, Judith S., Brenner, Hermann, Broeks, Annegien, Burwinkel, Barbara, Caldas, Carlos, Campa, Daniele, Canzian, Federico, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Chanock, Stephen J., Chin, Suet-Feung, Couch, Fergus J., Cox, Angela, Cross, Simon S., Cybulski, Cezary, Czene, Kamila, Darabi, Hatef, Devilee, Peter, Diver, W. Ryan, Dunning, Alison M., Earl, Helena M., Eccles, Diana M., Ekici, Arif B., Eriksson, Mikael, Evans, D. Gareth, Fasching, Peter A., Figueroa, Jonine, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Flyger, Henrik, Gapstur, Susan M., Gaudet, Mia M., Giles, Graham G., Muranen, Taru A., Nevanlinna, Heli, kConFab-AOCS Investigators, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Clinicum, Department of Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, and HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center
Subjects: PROGNOSIS, 3122 Cancers, WOMEN, INSTRUMENTS, DIAGNOSIS, DISEASE, 3142 Public health care science, environmental and occupational health, OBESITY, REGRESSION, breast cancer survival, Mendelian randomization, Journal Article, EPIDEMIOLOGY, genetics, TRIAL, Body mass index, METAANALYSIS
Abstract: Background: There is increasing evidence that elevated body mass index (BMI) is associated with reduced survival for women with breast cancer. However, the underlying reasons remain unclear. We conducted a Mendelian randomization analysis to investigate a possible causal role of BMI in survival from breast cancer.Methods: We used individual-level data from six large breast cancer case-cohorts including a total of 36 210 individuals (2475 events) of European ancestry. We created a BMI genetic risk score (GRS) based on genotypes at 94 known BMI-associated genetic variants. Association between the BMI genetic score and breast cancer survival was analysed by Cox regression for each study separately. Study-specific hazard ratios were pooled using fixed-effect meta-analysis.Results: BMI genetic score was found to be associated with reduced breast cancer-specific survival for estrogen receptor (ER)-positive cases [hazard ratio (HR) = 1.11, per one-unit increment of GRS, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.01-1.22, P = 0.03). We observed no association for ER-negative cases (HR = 1.00, per one-unit increment of GRS, 95% CI 0.89-1.13, P = 0.95).Conclusions: Our findings suggest a causal effect of increased BMI on reduced breast cancer survival for ER-positive breast cancer. There is no evidence of a causal effect of higher BMI on survival for ER-negative breast cancer cases.
Published: 2017

28. A missense mutation in SLC26A3 is associated with human male subfertility and impaired activation of CFTR

Author: Kristiina Aittomäki, Liana Shimshilashvili, Jorma Toppari, Juha S. Tapanainen, Satu Wedenoja, Pia Höglund, Outi Hovatta, Ahlam Khamaysi, Juha Kere, Outi Elomaa, Ehud Ohana, Shireen Anbtawe-Jomaa, Christer Holmberg, Clinicum, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Helsinki, Research Programs Unit, Research Programme for Molecular Neurology, Genome-Scale Biology (GSB) Research Program, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Medicum, HUSLAB, Children's Hospital, Lastentautien yksikkö, Reproductive Disease Modeling, Juha Kere / Principal Investigator, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, and HUS Children and Adolescents
Subjects: Male, Models, Molecular, 0301 basic medicine, Protein Conformation, lcsh:Medicine, Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator, VAS-DEFERENS, Cystic fibrosis, Male infertility, 0302 clinical medicine, Missense mutation, Chloride-Bicarbonate Antiporters, lcsh:Science, CYSTIC-FIBROSIS GENE, 030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine, Multidisciplinary, Molecular medicine, biology, Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator, TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR, Sulfate Transporters, DEPENDENT HCO3-TRANSPORT, SPERM FERTILIZING-CAPACITY, Infertility, Heterozygote, medicine.medical_specialty, Congenital chloride diarrhea, Mutation, Missense, CONGENITAL CHLORIDE DIARRHEA, SLC26A3, Article, Andrology, 03 medical and health sciences, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, Amino Acid Sequence, Infertility, Male, MALE-INFERTILITY, lcsh:R, Heterozygote advantage, medicine.disease, MOLECULAR-MECHANISM, 030104 developmental biology, Endocrinology, EXCHANGER DRA, biology.protein, lcsh:Q, 3111 Biomedicine, REPRODUCTIVE-TRACT
Abstract: Chloride absorption and bicarbonate excretion through exchange by the solute carrier family 26 member 3 (SLC26A3) and cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) are crucial for many tissues including sperm and epithelia of the male reproductive tract. Homozygous SLC26A3 mutations cause congenital chloride diarrhea with male subfertility, while homozygous CFTR mutations cause cystic fibrosis with male infertility. Some homozygous or heterozygous CFTR mutations only manifest as male infertility. Accordingly, we studied the influence of SLC26A3 on idiopathic infertility by sequencing exons of SLC26A3 in 283 infertile and 211 control men. A heterozygous mutation c.2062 G > C (p.Asp688His) appeared in nine (3.2%) infertile men, and additionally, in two (0.9%) control men, whose samples revealed a sperm motility defect. The p.Asp688His mutation is localized in the CFTR-interacting STAS domain of SLC26A3 and enriched in Finland, showing a significant association with male infertility in comparison with 6,572 Finnish (P P −/HCO3− exchange activity but suppresses CFTR, despite unaffected domain binding and expression. These results suggest a novel mechanism for human male infertility─impaired anion transport by the coupled SLC26A3 and CFTR.
Published: 2017

29. Family history influences the tumor characteristics and prognosis of breast cancers developing during postmenopausal hormone therapy

Author: Heli Nevanlinna, Maria Faltinova, Rainer Fagerholm, Mervi Halttunen-Nieminen, Päivi Heikkilä, Kristiina Aittomäki, Kirsi Aaltonen, Carl Blomqvist, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinicum, Department of Oncology, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Department of Pathology, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Teachers' Academy
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Oncology, Cancer Research, Survival, medicine.medical_treatment, Estrogen receptor, 0302 clinical medicine, Breast cancer, ESTROGEN PLUS PROGESTIN, Observational study, Medicine, Family history, Genetics (clinical), RISK, Estrogen Replacement Therapy, WOMEN, Hormone replacement therapy (menopause), Middle Aged, Prognosis, 3. Good health, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Female, EXPRESSION, medicine.medical_specialty, CARCINOMA, 3122 Cancers, Breast Neoplasms, DIAGNOSIS, Disease-Free Survival, 03 medical and health sciences, REPLACEMENT THERAPY, Internal medicine, Genetics, Carcinoma, Humans, BRCA2 MUTATIONS, Risk factor, Aged, business.industry, MORTALITY, medicine.disease, Regimen, 030104 developmental biology, Hormone replacement therapy, Hormone therapy, business, FOLLOW-UP
Abstract: Long term use of postmenopausal hormone therapy (HT) has been reported to increase breast cancer risk. On the other hand, observational studies suggest that breast cancers diagnosed during HT may have a more favorable prognosis. While family history is a risk factor for breast cancer, and genetic factors also influence prognosis, the role of family history in combination with HT use has been little studied. We investigated the relationship between HT, family history, and prognosis in 584 (267 exposed) familial and 952 (460 exposed) non-familial breast cancer cases, using three survival end points: death from breast cancer (BCS), distant disease free survival (DDFS), and local recurrence free survival (LRFS). Among non-familial cases, HT was associated with better BCS (HR 0.63, 95% CI 0.41-0.94; p = 0.025), and DDFS (HR 0.58, 95% CI 0.40-0.85; p = 0.005), with a consistent but not statistically significant effect in LRFS. This effect was not seen in familial cases (HR > 1.0), and family history was found to interact with HT in BCS (p((interaction)) = 0.0067) (BC-death) and DDFS (p((interaction)) = 0.0070). There was phenotypic heterogeneity between HT-associated tumors in familial and non-familial cases, particularly on estrogen receptor (ER) status, although the interaction between HT and family history appears to be at least partially independent of these markers (p = 0.0370 after adjustment for standard prognostic factors). If confirmed by further studies, our results suggest that family history should be taken into consideration in clinical counseling before beginning a HT regimen.
Published: 2017

30. Prediction of Breast and Prostate Cancer Risks in Male BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers Using Polygenic Risk Scores

Author: Lecarpentier, Julie, Silvestri, Valentina, Kuchenbaecker, Karoline B., Barrowdale, Daniel, Dennis, Joe, McGuffog, Lesley, Soucy, Penny, Leslie, Goska, Rizzolo, Piera, Navazio, Anna Sara, Valentini, Virginia, Zelli, Veronica, Lee, Andrew, Al Olama, Ali Amin, Tyrer, Jonathan P., Southey, Melissa, John, Esther M., Conner, Thomas A., Goldgar, David E., Buys, Saundra S., Janavicius, Ramunas, Steele, Linda, Ding, Yuan Chun, Neuhausen, Susan L., Hansen, Thomas V. O., Osorio, Ana, Weitzel, Jeffrey N., Toss, Angela, Medici, Veronica, Cortesi, Laura, Zanna, Ines, Palli, Domenico, Radice, Paolo, Manoukian, Siranoush, Peissel, Bernard, Azzollini, Jacopo, Viel, Alessandra, Cini, Giulia, Damante, Giuseppe, Tommasi, Stefania, Peterlongo, Paolo, Fostira, Florentia, Hamann, Ute, Evans, D. Gareth, Henderson, Alex, Brewer, Carole, Kiiski, Johanna I., Aittomäki, Kristiina, Khan, Sofia, Nevanlinna, Heli, EMBRACE, GEMO Study Collaborators, HEBON, kConFab Investigators, Clinicum, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, HUSLAB, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, and HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics
Subjects: OVERDIAGNOSIS, SUSCEPTIBILITY LOCI, IDENTIFICATION, GENETIC-VARIANTS, 3122 Cancers, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, FUNCTIONAL VARIANTS, skin and connective tissue diseases
Abstract: PurposeBRCA1/2 mutations increase the risk of breast and prostate cancer in men. Common genetic variants modify cancer risks for female carriers of BRCA1/2 mutations. We investigatedfor the first time to our knowledgeassociations of common genetic variants with breast and prostate cancer risks for male carriers of BRCA1/2 mutations and implications for cancer risk prediction.Materials and MethodsWe genotyped 1,802 male carriers of BRCA1/2 mutations from the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 by using the custom Illumina OncoArray. We investigated the combined effects of established breast and prostate cancer susceptibility variants on cancer risks for male carriers of BRCA1/2 mutations by constructing weighted polygenic risk scores (PRSs) using published effect estimates as weights.ResultsIn male carriers of BRCA1/2 mutations, PRS that was based on 88 female breast cancer susceptibility variants was associated with breast cancer risk (odds ratio per standard deviation of PRS, 1.36; 95% CI, 1.19 to 1.56; P = 8.6 x 10(-6)). Similarly, PRS that was based on 103 prostate cancer susceptibility variants was associated with prostate cancer risk (odds ratio per SD of PRS, 1.56; 95% CI, 1.35 to 1.81; P = 3.2 x 10(-9)). Large differences in absolute cancer risks were observed at the extremes of the PRS distribution. For example, prostate cancer risk by age 80 years at the 5th and 95th percentiles of the PRS varies from 7% to 26% for carriers of BRCA1 mutations and from 19% to 61% for carriers of BRCA2 mutations, respectively.ConclusionPRSs may provide informative cancer risk stratification for male carriers of BRCA1/2 mutations that might enable these men and their physicians to make informed decisions on the type and timing of breast and prostate cancer risk management.
Published: 2017

31. Case-control analysis of truncating mutations in DNA damage response genes connects TEX15 and FANCD2 with hereditary breast cancer susceptibility

Author: Arto Mannermaa, Johanna Schleutker, Robert Winqvist, Maria Tengström, Pentti Nieminen, Jaana M. Hartikainen, Kristiina Aittomäki, Anne Kallioniemi, Tuomo Mantere, Riitta Hanhisalo, Carl Blomqvist, Anna Tervasmäki, Saila Kauppila, Åke Borg, Anders Kvist, Päivi Auvinen, Anna Nurmi, Roger A. Greenberg, Jiangbo Tang, Katrin Rapakko, Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen, Katri Pylkäs, Sini Lehto, Mervi Grip, Heli Nevanlinna, Maija Suvanto, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Helsinki, Department of Oncology, Clinicum, HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medicum, Research Programs Unit, Genome-Scale Biology (GSB) Research Program, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, and School of Medicine / Clinical Medicine
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, RNA Stability, DNA Mutational Analysis, PROTEIN, Cell Cycle Proteins, medicine.disease_cause, FAMILY-HISTORY, Workflow, Breast cancer, Gene Frequency, Genotype, Cancer genetics, Genetics, Mutation, Multidisciplinary, Fanconi Anemia Complementation Group D2 Protein, CHROMOSOMAL SYNAPSIS, 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, 3. Good health, Medicine, Female, EXPRESSION, DNA damage, Science, Nonsense mutation, 3122 Cancers, Breast Neoplasms, Biology, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Germline mutation, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Neoplastic Syndromes, Hereditary, medicine, Biomarkers, Tumor, Humans, NONSENSE MUTATION, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, ATAXIA-TELANGIECTASIA, RNA, Messenger, Gene, Alleles, Genetic Association Studies, Germ-Line Mutation, REPAIR, medicine.disease, BRCA1, PREDISPOSITION, body regions, 030104 developmental biology, Case-Control Studies, FANCONI-ANEMIA, 3111 Biomedicine, DNA Damage
Abstract: Several known breast cancer susceptibility genes encode proteins involved in DNA damage response (DDR) and are characterized by rare loss-of-function mutations. However, these explain less than half of the familial cases. To identify novel susceptibility factors, 39 rare truncating mutations, identified in 189 Northern Finnish hereditary breast cancer patients in parallel sequencing of 796 DDR genes, were studied for disease association. Mutation screening was performed for Northern Finnish breast cancer cases (n = 578–1565) and controls (n = 337–1228). Mutations showing potential cancer association were analyzed in additional Finnish cohorts. c.7253dupT in TEX15, encoding a DDR factor important in meiosis, associated with hereditary breast cancer (p = 0.018) and likely represents a Northern Finnish founder mutation. A deleterious c.2715 + 1G > A mutation in the Fanconi anemia gene, FANCD2, was over two times more common in the combined Finnish hereditary cohort compared to controls. A deletion (c.640_644del5) in RNF168, causative for recessive RIDDLE syndrome, had high prevalence in majority of the analyzed cohorts, but did not associate with breast cancer. In conclusion, truncating variants in TEX15 and FANCD2 are potential breast cancer risk factors, warranting further investigations in other populations. Furthermore, high frequency of RNF168 c.640_644del5 indicates the need for its testing in Finnish patients with RIDDLE syndrome symptoms., published version, peerReviewed
Published: 2017

32. Evaluation of polygenic risk scores for breast and ovarian cancer risk prediction in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers

Author: Kuchenbaecker, K.B., McGuffog, L., Barrowdale, D., Lee, Andrew, Soucy, P., Dennis, J., Domchek, S.M., Robson, M., Spurdle, A.B., Ramus, S.J., Mavaddat, N., Terry, M.B., Neuhausen, S.L., Schmutzler, R.K., Simard, J., Pharoah, P.D.P., Offit, K., Couch, F.J., Chenevix-Trench, G., Easton, D.F., Antoniou, A.C., Healey, S., Lush, M., Hamann, U., Southey, M., John, E.M., Chung, W.K., Daly, M. B., Buys, S.S., Goldgar, D.E., Dorfling, C.M., van Rensburg, E.J., Ding, Y.C., Ejlertsen, B., Gerdes, A.-M., Hansen, T.V.O., Slager, S., Hallberg, E., Benitez, J., Osorio, A., Cohen, N., Lawler, W., Weitzel, J.N., Peterlongo, P., Pensotti, V., Dolcetti, R., Barile, M., Aittomäki, K., Nevanlinna, H., Rantala, J., Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Subjects: Adult, Heterozygote, cancer patient, Multifactorial Inheritance, endocrine system diseases, proportional hazards model, 3122 Cancers, Genes, BRCA2, Genes, BRCA1, Breast Neoplasms, cancer risk, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, young adult, Adolescent, Young Adult, breast cancer, single nucleotide polymorphism, Risk Factors, middle aged, statistics and numerical data, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, genetics, human, procedures, gene mutation, tumor suppressor gene, Proportional Hazards Models, Ovarian Neoplasms, genome-wide association study, ovary cancer, risk assessment, cancer susceptibility, Prognosis, major clinical study, estrogen receptor, adult, female, age, priority journal, risk factor, Receptors, Estrogen, adolescent, Mutation, BRCA2 protein, BRCA1 protein, population research, genetic predisposition, metabolism, estrogen receptor
Abstract: Background: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified 94 common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with breast cancer (BC) risk and 18 associated with ovarian cancer (OC) risk. Several of these are also associated with risk of BC or OC for women who carry a pathogenic mutation in the high-risk BC and OC genes BRCA1 or BRCA2. The combined effects of these variants on BC or OC risk for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers have not yet been assessed while their clinical management could benefit from improved personalized risk estimates. Methods: We constructed polygenic risk scores (PRS) using BC and OC susceptibility SNPs identified through population-based GWAS: for BC (overall, estrogen receptor [ER]-positive, and ER-negative) and for OC. Using data from 15 252 female BRCA1 and 8211 BRCA2 carriers, the association of each PRS with BC or OC risk was evaluated using a weighted cohort approach, with time to diagnosis as the outcome and estimation of the hazard ratios (HRs) per standard deviation increase in the PRS. Results: The PRS for ER-negative BC displayed the strongest association with BC risk in BRCA1 carriers (HR = 1.27, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.23 to 1.31, P = 8.2 × 10-53). InBRCA2 carriers, the strongest association with BC risk was seen for the overall BCPRS (HR = 1.22, 95% CI = 1.17 to 1.28, P = 7.2 × 10-20). The OC PRS was strongly associated with OC risk for both BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers. These translate to differences in absolute risks (more than 10% in each case) between the top and bottom deciles of the PRS distribution; for example, the OC risk was 6% by age 80 years for BRCA2 carriers at the 10th percentile of the OC PRS compared with 19% risk for those at the 90th percentile of PRS. Conclusions: BC and OC PRS are predictive of cancer risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers. Incorporation of the PRS into risk prediction models has promise to better inform decisions on cancer risk management. © The Author 2017.
Published: 2017

33. CHEK2 c.1100delC mutation is associated with an increased risk for male breast cancer in Finnish patient population

Author: Liisa M. Pelttari, Paula Poikonen-Saksela, Kristiina Aittomäki, Päivi Auvinen, Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen, Sanna Hallamies, Heli Nevanlinna, Johanna Mattson, Carl Blomqvist, Antti Jekunen, School of Medicine / Clinical Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Helsinki, Clinicum, Department of Oncology, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, and HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center
Subjects: Male, 0301 basic medicine, Oncology, Cancer Research, VARIANT, FAMILIES, 0302 clinical medicine, Gene Frequency, Epidemiology of cancer, CONFER SUSCEPTIBILITY, PROSTATE, Medicine, FANCM, Neoplasm Metastasis, skin and connective tissue diseases, Finland, Sequence Deletion, Aged, 80 and over, education.field_of_study, RAD51C, Middle Aged, lcsh:Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, 3. Good health, Population Surveillance, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Male breast cancer, Research Article, Adult, Risk, medicine.medical_specialty, Genotype, PALB2, 3122 Cancers, Population, CHEK2-ASTERISK-1100DELC, lcsh:RC254-282, OVARIAN-CANCER, Breast Neoplasms, Male, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, Breast cancer, Internal medicine, Biomarkers, Tumor, Genetics, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, BRCA2 MUTATIONS, education, CHEK2, Alleles, Aged, Neoplasm Staging, CHEK2 c.1100delC, business.industry, 1100DELC, Cancer, medicine.disease, GENE, Checkpoint Kinase 2, 030104 developmental biology, Case-Control Studies, Neoplasm Grading, business
Abstract: Background Several susceptibility genes have been established for female breast cancer, of which mutations in BRCA1 and especially in BRCA2 are also known risk factors for male breast cancer (MBC). The role of other breast cancer genes in MBC is less well understood. Methods In this study, we have genotyped 68 MBC patients for the known breast or ovarian cancer associated mutations in the Finnish population in CHEK2, PALB2, RAD51C, RAD51D, and FANCM genes. Results CHEK2 c.1100delC mutation was found in 4 patients (5.9%), which is significantly more frequent than in the control population (OR: 4.47, 95% CI 1.51–13.18, p = 0.019). Four CHEK2 I157T variants were also detected, but the frequency did not significantly differ from population controls (p = 0.781). No RAD51C, RAD51D, PALB2, or FANCM mutations were found. Conclusions These data suggest that the CHEK2 c.1100delC mutation is associated with an increased risk for MBC in the Finnish population., published version, peerReviewed
Published: 2017

34. FANCM c.5101C > T mutation associates with breast cancer survival and treatment outcome

Author: Anne Kallioniemi, Anna Tervasmäki, Rainer Fagerholm, Jirina Bartkova, Johanna I. Kiiski, Maria Tengström, Kristiina Aittomäki, Tuomo Mantere, Veli-Matti Kosma, Carl Blomqvist, Maral Jamshidi, Liisa M. Pelttari, Katri Pylkäs, Sofia Khan, Heli Nevanlinna, Arto Mannermaa, Jiri Bartek, Robert Winqvist, Clinicum, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Department of Oncology, and HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Oncology, Cancer Research, Pathology, PROTEIN EXPRESSION, medicine.medical_treatment, Estrogen receptor, Kaplan-Meier Estimate, SUSCEPTIBILITY, FAMILIES, 0302 clinical medicine, FANCM, 3123 Gynaecology and paediatrics, Medicine, STALLED REPLICATION FORKS, Neoplasm Metastasis, Aged, 80 and over, Hazard ratio, Middle Aged, Prognosis, Combined Modality Therapy, 3. Good health, Phenotype, Treatment Outcome, TUMOR CHARACTERISTICS, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Population Surveillance, Female, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Genotype, Nonsense mutation, 3122 Cancers, DNA repair, Breast Neoplasms, PARP-1, survival, Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics, 03 medical and health sciences, Young Adult, Breast cancer, breast cancer, Internal medicine, Biomarkers, Tumor, Humans, Point Mutation, BRCA2 MUTATIONS, ANEMIA, radiotherapy, Aged, Neoplasm Staging, Proportional Hazards Models, REPAIR, business.industry, Proportional hazards model, Point mutation, DNA Helicases, DNA, medicine.disease, Radiation therapy, 030104 developmental biology, Neoplasm Grading, business
Abstract: Breast cancer (BC) is a heterogeneous disease, and different tumor characteristics and genetic variation may affect the clinical outcome. The FANCM c.5101C > T nonsense mutation in the Finnish population associates with increased risk of breast cancer, especially for triple‐negative breast cancer patients. To investigate the association of the mutation with disease prognosis, we studied tumor phenotype, treatment outcome, and patient survival in 3,933 invasive breast cancer patients, including 101 FANCM c.5101C > T mutation carriers and 3,832 non‐carriers. We also examined association of the mutation with nuclear immunohistochemical staining of DNA repair markers in 1,240 breast tumors. The FANCM c.5101C > T mutation associated with poor 10‐year breast cancer‐specific survival (hazard ratio (HR)=1.66, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.09–2.52, p = 0.018), with a more pronounced survival effect among familial cases (HR = 2.93, 95% CI 1.5–5.76, p = 1.80 × 10−3). Poor disease outcome of the carriers was also found among the estrogen receptor (ER) positive subgroup of patients (HR = 1.8, 95% CI 1.09–2.98, p = 0.021). Reduced survival was seen especially among patients who had not received radiotherapy (HR = 3.43, 95% CI 1.6–7.34, p = 1.50 × 10−3) but not among radiotherapy treated patients (HR = 1.35, 95% CI 0.82–2.23, p = 0.237). Significant interaction was found between the mutation and radiotherapy (p = 0.040). Immunohistochemical analyses show that c.5101C > T carriers have reduced PAR‐activity. Our results suggest that FANCM c.5101C > T nonsense mutation carriers have a reduced breast cancer survival but postoperative radiotherapy may diminish this survival disadvantage., What's new? Variations in DNA repair genes can predispose individuals to breast cancer, with one example being FANCM c.5101C > T, a nonsense mutation in the Fanconi Anemia DNA repair pathway. In previous work, FANCM c.5101C > T was associated with increased breast cancer risk in the Finnish population. Here, the mutation is further shown to be associated with adverse breast cancer outcome. Mutation‐positive Finnish patients exhibited reduced long‐term survival and increased risk of disease recurrence. Survival was worse particularly for patients who were not treated with radiotherapy, indicating that FANCM c.5101C>T may interact with radiotherapy to improve disease outcome in mutation carriers.
Published: 2016

35. Patient survival and tumor characteristics associated with CHEK2:p.I157T - findings from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium

Author: Marjanka K. Schmidt, Per Hall, Judith S. Brand, Sara Margolin, Thilo Dörk, Jonine D. Figueroa, Mitul Shah, Matthias W. Beckmann, Katri Pylkäs, Kristiina Aittomäki, Päivi Heikkilä, Rainer Fagerholm, Hatef Darabi, Douglas F. Easton, Anja Rudolph, Kyriaki Michailidou, Robert Winqvist, Arto Mannermaa, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Anna Jakubowska, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Fergus J. Couch, Jingmei Li, Irene L. Andrulis, Dario Greco, Jan Lubinski, Steven N. Hart, Kamila Czene, Annika Lindblom, Peter A. Fasching, Alison M. Dunning, Qin Wang, Joe Dennis, Heli Nevanlinna, Jianjun Liu, Valerie Rhenius, Stig E. Bojesen, Taru A. Muranen, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Jenny Chang-Claude, Vesa Kataja, Manjeet K. Bolla, Carl Blomqvist, Natalia Dubrowinskaja, Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinicum, Department of Oncology, Department of Pathology, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, Dunning, Alison [0000-0001-6651-7166], Rhenius, Valerie [0000-0003-4215-3235], Dennis, Joe [0000-0003-4591-1214], Wang, Jean [0000-0002-9139-0627], Easton, Douglas [0000-0003-2444-3247], and Pharoah, Paul [0000-0001-8494-732X]
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Oncology, Survival, SUSCEPTIBILITY, CDH1, 0302 clinical medicine, Breast cancer, Surgical oncology, Medizinische Fakultät, PROGNOSTIC-SIGNIFICANCE, Pathology, Cluster Analysis, 1100delC, Neoplasm Metastasis, skin and connective tissue diseases, GENE-EXPRESSION, Medicine(all), RISK, biology, WOMEN, Prognosis, 3. Good health, Europe, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Female, Research Article, Heterozygote, medicine.medical_specialty, CHK2, 3122 Cancers, Mutation, Missense, I157T, Breast Neoplasms, INTRINSIC SUBTYPES, CHEK2 MUTATIONS, CHEK2-ASTERISK-1100DELC, MAMMARY-GLAND DEVELOPMENT, 03 medical and health sciences, Internal medicine, Biomarkers, Tumor, medicine, Journal Article, Humans, PAM50 Gene Expression Signature, ddc:610, Codon, CHEK2, Genetic Association Studies, Neoplasm Staging, Proportional hazards model, business.industry, Gene Expression Profiling, Cancer, medicine.disease, Gene expression profiling, Checkpoint Kinase 2, 030104 developmental biology, Amino Acid Substitution, DNA-DAMAGE, biology.protein, Gene expression, Neoplasm Grading, Transcriptome, business
Abstract: Background P.I157T is a CHEK2 missense mutation associated with a modest increase in breast cancer risk. Previously, another CHEK2 mutation, the protein truncating c.1100delC has been associated with poor prognosis of breast cancer patients. Here, we have investigated patient survival and characteristics of breast tumors of germ line p.I157T carriers. Methods We included in the analyses 26,801 European female breast cancer patients from 15 studies participating in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium. We analyzed the association between p.I157T and the clinico-pathological breast cancer characteristics by comparing the p.I157T carrier tumors to non-carrier and c.1100delC carrier tumors. Similarly, we investigated the p.I157T associated risk of early death, breast cancer-associated death, distant metastasis, locoregional relapse and second breast cancer using Cox proportional hazards models. Additionally, we explored the p.I157T-associated genomic gene expression profile using data from breast tumors of 183 Finnish female breast cancer patients (ten p.I157T carriers) (GEO: GSE24450). Differential gene expression analysis was performed using a moderated t test. Functional enrichment was investigated using the DAVID functional annotation tool and gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA). The tumors were classified into molecular subtypes according to the St Gallen 2013 criteria and the PAM50 gene expression signature. Results P.I157T was not associated with increased risk of early death, breast cancer-associated death or distant metastasis relapse, and there was a significant difference in prognosis associated with the two CHEK2 mutations, p.I157T and c.1100delC. Furthermore, p.I157T was associated with lobular histological type and clinico-pathological markers of good prognosis, such as ER and PR expression, low TP53 expression and low grade. Gene expression analysis suggested luminal A to be the most common subtype for p.I157T carriers and CDH1 (cadherin 1) target genes to be significantly enriched among genes, whose expression differed between p.I157T and non-carrier tumors. Conclusions Our analyses suggest that there are fundamental differences in breast tumors of CHEK2:p.I157T and c.1100delC carriers. The poor prognosis associated with c.1100delC cannot be generalized to other CHEK2 mutations. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13058-016-0758-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
Published: 2016

36. Functional mechanisms underlying pleiotropic risk alleles at the 19p13.1 breast-ovarian cancer susceptibility locus

Author: Lawrenson, Kate, Kar, Siddhartha, McCue, Karen, Kuchenbaeker, Karoline, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Tyrer, Jonathan, Beesley, Jonathan, Ramus, Susan J., Li, Qiyuan, Delgado, Melissa K., Lee, Janet M., Aittomäki, Kristiina, Andrulis, Irene L., Anton-Culver, Hoda, Arndt, Volker, Arun, Banu K., Arver, Brita, Bandera, Elisa V., Barile, Monica, Barkardottir, Rosa B., Barrowdale, Daniel, Beckmann, Matthias W., Benitez, Javier, Berchuck, Andrew, Bisogna, Maria, Bjorge, Line, Blomqvist, Carl, Blot, William, Bogdanova, Natalia, Bojesen, Anders, Bojesen, Stig E., Bolla, Manjeet K., Bonanni, Bernardo, Borresen-Dale, Anne-Lise, Brauch, Hiltrud, Brennan, Paul, Brenner, Hermann, Bruinsma, Fiona, Brunet, Joan, Buhari, Shaik Ahmad, Burwinkel, Barbara, Butzow, Ralf, Buys, Saundra S., Cai, Qiuyin, Caldes, Trinidad, Campbell, Ian, Canniotto, Rikki, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Khan, Sofia, Nevanlinna, Heli, GEMO Study Collaborators, EMBRACE, Hereditary Breast & Ovarian Canc R, kConFab Investigators, Australian Ovarian Canc Study Grp, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Clinicum, Department of Oncology, Department of Pathology, and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Subjects: 3123 Gynaecology and paediatrics, BRCA2 MUTATION CARRIERS, REVEALS, 3122 Cancers, IDENTIFIES 3, COMMON VARIANTS, MODIFIERS, GWAS, EPITHELIAL-CELLS, INVESTIGATORS, 3111 Biomedicine, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, GENE
Abstract: A locus at 19p13 is associated with breast cancer (BC) and ovarian cancer (OC) risk. Here we analyse 438 SNPs in this region in 46,451 BC and 15,438 OC cases, 15,252 BRCA1 mutation carriers and 73,444 controls and identify 13 candidate causal SNPs associated with serous OC (P = 9.2 x 10(-20)), ER-negative BC (P = 1.1 x 10(-13)), BRCA1-associated BC (P = 7.7 x 10(-16)) and triple negative BC (P-diff = 2 x 10(-5)). Genotype-gene expression associations are identified for candidate target genes ANKLE1 (P = 2 x 10(-3)) and ABHD8 (P
Published: 2016

37. Polygenic risk score is associated with increased disease risk in 52 Finnish breast cancer families

Author: Nasim Mavaddat, Carl Blomqvist, Liisa M. Pelttari, Andy C. H. Lee, Douglas F. Easton, Heli Nevanlinna, Rainer Fagerholm, Taru A. Muranen, Kristiina Aittomäki, Sofia Khan, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinicum, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Department of Oncology, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, Mavaddat, Nasim [0000-0003-0307-055X], Lee, Andrew [0000-0003-0677-0252], Easton, Douglas [0000-0003-2444-3247], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Gerontology, Oncology, Multifactorial Inheritance, Cancer Research, Genotyping Techniques, LOCI, Disease, SUSCEPTIBILITY, PRS, Preclinical Study, 0302 clinical medicine, Breast cancer, 3123 Gynaecology and paediatrics, HISTORY, Medicine, Family history, skin and connective tissue diseases, MUTATION, Finland, WOMEN, Pedigree, 3. Good health, Hereditary, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Female, Algorithms, Risk, EXPRESSION, medicine.medical_specialty, 3122 Cancers, Breast Neoplasms, 03 medical and health sciences, Internal medicine, Genetic variation, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, business.industry, Common variants, Case-control study, Genetic Variation, Odds ratio, medicine.disease, BRCA2, MODEL, 030104 developmental biology, Case-Control Studies, Polygenic risk score, business, Ovarian cancer
Abstract: The risk of developing breast cancer is increased in women with family history of breast cancer and particularly in families with multiple cases of breast or ovarian cancer. Nevertheless, many women with a positive family history never develop the disease. Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) based on the risk effects of multiple common genetic variants have been proposed for individual risk assessment on a population level. We investigate the applicability of the PRS for risk prediction within breast cancer families. We studied the association between breast cancer risk and a PRS based on 75 common genetic variants in 52 Finnish breast cancer families including 427 genotyped women and pedigree information on ~4000 additional individuals by comparing the affected to healthy family members, as well as in a case–control dataset comprising 1272 healthy population controls and 1681 breast cancer cases with information on family history. Family structure was summarized using the BOADICEA risk prediction model. The PRS was associated with increased disease risk in women with family history of breast cancer as well as in women within the breast cancer families. The odds ratio (OR) for breast cancer within the family dataset was 1.55 [95 % CI 1.26–1.91] per unit increase in the PRS, similar to OR in unselected breast cancer cases of the case–control dataset (1.49 [1.38–1.62]). High PRS-values were informative for risk prediction in breast cancer families, whereas for the low PRS-categories the results were inconclusive. The PRS is informative in women with family history of breast cancer and should be incorporated within pedigree-based clinical risk assessment. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s10549-016-3897-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
Published: 2016

38. Identification of independent association signals and putative functional variants for breast cancer risk through fine-scale mapping of the 12p11 locus

Author: Kenneth Offit, Hoda Anton-Culver, Ans M.W. van den Ouweland, Siranoush Manoukian, Christine L. Clarke, Kyriaki Michailidou, Antonis C. Antoniou, Maria Kabisch, Isabel dos-Santos-Silva, Douglas F. Easton, Curtis Olswold, Graham G. Giles, Tien Yin Wong, Ursula Eilber, Mads Thomassen, Christopher A. Haiman, Alice J. Sigurdson, Lothar Haeberle, Florence Menegaux, Ana Osorio, Marco Montagna, Katarzyna Jaworska-Bieniek, Eitan Friedman, Simon S. Cross, Daniel Barrowdale, Elinor J. Sawyer, Adam N. Freeman, Caroline Seynaeve, Min Hyuk Lee, Arnaud Droit, Per Hall, Minouk J. Schoemaker, Trinidad Caldés, Peter Hillemanns, Frederik Marmé, Jenny Lester, Michele M. Doody, Bernard Peissel, Peter Kraft, Elza Khusnutdinova, Anna H. Wu, Stéphanie Peeters, Georg Pfeiler, Pascal Guénel, Hidemi Ito, Xingyi Guo, Antoinette Hollestelle, Heli Nevanlinna, Kathleen Claes, Ylva Paulsson-Karlsson, Cecilia M. Dorfling, Roger L. Milne, Daehee Kang, Judith S. Brand, Diether Lambrechts, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Simona Agata, Saundra S. Buys, Muhammad Usman Rashid, Fabienne Lesueur, Alicia Beeghly-Fadiel, Peter Devilee, Manjeet K. Bolla, Natalia Antonenkova, Irene Konstantopoulou, Claudine Isaacs, Anja Rudolph, Carl Blomqvist, Tjoung Won Park-Simon, Judy Garber, Csilla Szabo, Francois Bacot, Arto Mannermaa, Yu-Tang Gao, Stig E. Bojesen, Susan L. Neuhausen, Marina Bermisheva, Qiuyin Cai, Zakaria Einbeigi, Christian F. Singer, Qin Wang, Kerstin Rhiem, Sofia Khan, Fiona Lalloo, Robert L. Nussbaum, Thilo Dörk, William J. Blot, Sylvie Mazoyer, Julia A. Knight, Katherine L. Nathanson, Clare Turnbull, Nazneen Rahman, Anne Lise Børresen-Dale, Chuen Neng Lee, Annegien Broeks, Martha J. Shrubsole, Ava Kwong, Jirong Long, Ian G. Campbell, Sara Margolin, Fergus J. Couch, Laima Tihomirova, Mary Beth Terry, Jenny Chang-Claude, Alice S. Whittemore, Joseph Vijai, Alfons Meindl, Xiao-Ou Shu, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Wei Zheng, Beth Y. Karlan, Jacques Simard, Angela Cox, Shahana Ahmed, Polly A. Newcomb, Ritu Salani, Chen-Yang Shen, Adalgeir Arason, Sandrine Tchatchou, Ute Hamann, Elizabeth J. van Rensburg, Michael Jones, Mark H. Greene, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Senno Verhoef, Jonine Figueroa, Hermann Brenner, Volker Arndt, Charles Joly Beauparlant, Esther M. John, Nadege Presneau, Jingmei Li, Laura Papi, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Uffe Birk Jensen, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Paolo Peterlongo, Penny Soucy, Thomas Brüning, Jaana M. Hartikainen, Siddhartha Kar, Ji Yeob Choi, Manuel R. Teixeira, Phuong L. Mai, Alex Teulé, Jyh Cherng Yu, Paul Brennan, Maya Ghoussaini, Edith Olah, Henrik Flyger, Michael Friedlander, Soo Hwang Teo, Frans B. L. Hogervorst, Kathleen M. Egan, David J. Hunter, Kristiina Aittomäki, Joe Dennis, Anna González-Neira, Mikael Hartman, Alison M. Dunning, Doris Steinemann, Debra Frost, Melissa C. Southey, Ramunas Janavicius, Evgeny N. Imyanitov, Catherine M. Phelan, Amanda E. Toland, Anna Marie Mulligan, David ven den Berg, Rita K. Schmutzler, Julian Peto, Irene L. Andrulis, Chenjie Zeng, Kenneth Muir, Peter Schürmann, Saila Kauppila, Banu Arun, Jane Carpenter, Jeffrey N. Weitzel, Yael Laitman, Susan M. Domchek, Robert Winqvist, Caroline Baynes, Brita Arver, Marc Tischkowitz, Kamila Czene, Keitaro Matsuo, Barbara Burwinkel, Miriam Dwek, Kim De Leeneer, David E. Goldgar, Anna Jakubowska, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Peter A. Fasching, Bernd Dworniczak, Susan J. Ramus, Lesley McGuffog, Andrea Gehrig, Michael J. Kerin, Thomas Hansen, Francesca Damiola, John L. Hopper, Loic Le Marchand, Peter J. Hulick, Annika Lindblom, Emily Hallberg, Miguel de la Hoya, Gaetana Gambino, Martine Dumont, Susan L. Slager, Bernardo Bonanni, Bent Ejlertsen, Norhashimah Hassan, Sue Healey, Orland Diez, Mary B. Daly, Carolyn B. Hendricks, Artitaya Lophatananon, Annelie Liljegren, Steven N. Hart, Jan Lubinski, Natalia Bogdanova, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Steve Ellis, Silje Nord, Hiltrud Brauch, Gad Rennert, Conxi Lázaro, Daniel C. Tessier, Paolo Radice, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Nadine Tung, Andrew K. Godwin, Suleeporn Sangrajrang, Karoline Kuchenbaecker, Javier Benitez, Critical care, Anesthesiology, Peri-operative and Emergency medicine (CAPE), Damage and Repair in Cancer Development and Cancer Treatment (DARE), Targeted Gynaecologic Oncology (TARGON), Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Clinicum, Department of Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine / Clinical Medicine, Wang, Jean [0000-0002-9139-0627], Dennis, Joe [0000-0003-4591-1214], Tischkowitz, Marc [0000-0002-7880-0628], Pharoah, Paul [0000-0001-8494-732X], Dunning, Alison [0000-0001-6651-7166], Antoniou, Antonis [0000-0001-9223-3116], Easton, Douglas [0000-0003-2444-3247], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Clinical Genetics, Medical Oncology, and Obstetrics & Gynecology
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Fine-scale mapping, Genome-wide association study, HORMONE-RELATED PROTEIN, Epigenesis, Genetic, Breast cancer, Medizinische Fakultät, Databases, Genetic, Genotype, BRCA2 MUTATION CARRIERS, Odds Ratio, Medicine and Health Sciences, Pair 12, Medicine, Genetic risk factor, Promoter Regions, Genetic, Medicine(all), Genetics, BRCA1 Protein, PTHLH-CCDC91, Chromosome Mapping, LOCALIZATION, Single Nucleotide, PTHLH, 3. Good health, Enhancer Elements, Genetic, Population Surveillance, Female, Medical Genetics, BRAC1 mutation carriers, CCDC91, Alleles, Breast Neoplasms, Case-Control Studies, Computational Biology, European Continental Ancestry Group, Haplotypes, Heterozygote, Humans, Mutation, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, Risk, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 12, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Human, Research Article, EXPRESSION, Enhancer Elements, SUSCEPTIBILITY LOCI, 3122 Cancers, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Chromosomes, White People, OVARIAN-CANCER, Càncer de mama, Promoter Regions, Databases, 03 medical and health sciences, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Genetic, Journal Article, ddc:610, Polymorphism, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, Medicinsk genetik, Genetic association, Cancer och onkologi, business.industry, Haplotype, Case-control study, Biology and Life Sciences, Odds ratio, medicine.disease, ENHANCERS, 030104 developmental biology, Cancer and Oncology, METASTASIS, 3111 Biomedicine, GENETIC MODIFIERS, business, Genètica, Epigenesis
Abstract: Article, Background Multiple recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), rs10771399, at 12p11 that is associated with breast cancer risk. Method We performed a fine-scale mapping study of a 700 kb region including 441 genotyped and more than 1300 imputed genetic variants in 48,155 cases and 43,612 controls of European descent, 6269 cases and 6624 controls of East Asian descent and 1116 cases and 932 controls of African descent in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC; http://bcac.ccge.medschl.cam.ac.uk/), and in 15,252 BRCA1 mutation carriers in the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA). Stepwise regression analyses were performed to identify independent association signals. Data from the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements project (ENCODE) and the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) were used for functional annotation. Results Analysis of data from European descendants found evidence for four independent association signals at 12p11, represented by rs7297051 (odds ratio (OR) = 1.09, 95 % confidence interval (CI) = 1.06–1.12; P = 3 × 10-9), rs805510 (OR = 1.08, 95 % CI = 1.04–1.12, P = 2 × 10-5), and rs1871152 (OR = 1.04, 95 % CI = 1.02–1.06; P = 2 × 10-4) identified in the general populations, and rs113824616 (P = 7 × 10-5) identified in the meta-analysis of BCAC ER-negative cases and BRCA1 mutation carriers. SNPs rs7297051, rs805510 and rs113824616 were also associated with breast cancer risk at P, published version, peerReviewed
Published: 2016

39. No clinical utility of KRAS variant rs61764370 for ovarian or breast cancer

Author: Hollestelle, Antoinette, van der Baan, Frederieke H., Berchuck, Andrew, Johnatty, Sharon E., Aben, Katja K., Agnarsson, Bjarni A., Aittomäki, Kristiina, Alducci, Elisa, Andrulis, Irene L., Anton-Culver, Hoda, Antonenkova, Natalia N., Antoniou, Antonis C., Apicella, Carmel, Arndt, Volker, Arnold, Norbert, Arun, Banu K., Arver, Brita, Ashworth, Alan, Baglietto, Laura, Balleine, Rosemary, Bandera, Elisa V., Barrowdale, Daniel, Bean, Yukie T., Beckmann, Lars, Beckmann, Matthias W., Benitez, Javier, Berger, Andreas, Berger, Raanan, Beuselinck, Benoit, Bisogna, Maria, Bjorge, Line, Blomqvist, Carl, Bogdanova, Natalia V., Bojesen, Anders, Bojesen, Stig E., Bolla, Manjeet K., Bonanni, Bernardo, Brand, Judith S., Brauch, Hiltrud, Brenner, Hermann, Brinton, Louise, Brooks-Wilson, Angela, Bruinsma, Fiona, Brunet, Joan, Bruning, Thomas, Butzow, Ralf, Leminen, Arto, Muranen, Taru A., Nevanlinna, Heli, Pelttari, Liisa M., Ovarian Canc Assoc Consortium, Breast Canc Assoc Consortium, Consortium Modifiers BRCA1 & BRCA2, Australian Ovarian Canc Study Grp, Breast Cancer Family Register, EMBRACE, GEMO Study Collaborators, GENICA Network, HEBON, kConFab Investigators, SWE-BRCA, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Clinicum, Department of Oncology, Department of Pathology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics
Subjects: RISK, SUSCEPTIBILITY LOCI, IDENTIFICATION, Clinical outcome, ENDOMETRIOSIS, 3122 Cancers, WOMEN, KRAS variant, Breast cancer, Ovarian cancer, 3123 Gynaecology and paediatrics, Genetic association, PROSTATE, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, POLYMORPHISMS, MICRORNA-BINDING-SITE
Abstract: Objective. Clinical genetic testing is commercially available for rs61764370, an inherited variant residing in a KRAS 3' UTR microRNA binding site, based on suggested associations with increased ovarian and breast cancer risk as well as with survival time. However, prior studies, emphasizing particular subgroups, were relatively small. Therefore, we comprehensively evaluated ovarian and breast cancer risks as well as clinical outcome associated with rs61764370. Methods. Centralized genotyping and analysis were performed for 140,012 women enrolled in the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium (15,357 ovarian cancer patients; 30,816 controls), the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (33,530 breast cancer patients; 37,640 controls), and the Consortium of Modifiers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 (14,765 BRCA1 and 7904 BRCA2 mutation carriers). Results. We found no association with risk of ovarian cancer (OR = 0.99, 95% CI 0.94-1.04, p = 0.74) or breast cancer (OR = 0.98, 95% CI 0.94-1.01, p = 0.19) and results were consistent among mutation carriers (BRCA1, ovarian cancer HR = 1.09, 95% CI 0.97-1.23, p = 0.14, breast cancer HR = 1.04, 95% CI 0.97-1.12, p = 0.27; BRCA2, ovarian cancer HR = 0.89, 95% CI 0.71-1.13, p = 034, breast cancer HR = 1.06, 95% CI 0.94-1.19, p = 0.35). Null results were also obtained for associations with overall survival following ovarian cancer (HR = 0.94, 95% CI 0.83-1.07, p = 0.38), breast cancer (HR = 0.96, 95% CI 0.87-1.06, p = 0.38), and all other previously-reported associations. Conclusions. rs61764370 is not associated with risk of ovarian or breast cancer nor with clinical outcome for patients with these cancers. Therefore, genotyping this variant has no clinical utility related to the prediction or management of these cancers. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Published: 2016

40. RAD51B in Familial Breast Cancer

Author: kConFab, Jonine Figueroa, Elinor J. Sawyer, Manjeet K. Bolla, Carl Blomqvist, Jaana M. Hartikainen, Sara Margolin, Mitul Shah, Matthias W. Beckmann, Fredrick Schumacher, Vessela N. Kristensen, Graham G. Giles, Isabel dos-Santos-Silva, Kamila Czene, Douglas F. Easton, Qin Wang, Javier Benitez, Janet E. Olson, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, John L. Hopper, Alicia Beeghly-Fadiel, Hoda Anton-Culver, Paolo Radice, Aocs Investigators, Nick Orr, Jacques Simard, Mervi Grip, Salla Ranta, Fergus J. Couch, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Kristiina Aittomäki, Caroline Seynaeve, Ute Hamann, Johanna Schleutker, Hilde Janssen, Robert Luben, Anna González-Neira, Peter A. Fasching, Pascal Guénel, Anja Rudolph, Arto Mannermaa, Melissa C. Southey, Ian Tomlinson, Thérèse Truong, Alison M. Dunning, Margriet Collée, Robert Winqvist, Johanna Mattson, Mikko Vuorela, Sara Vilske, Anne Lise Børresen-Dale, Johanna I. Kiiski, Paolo Peterlongo, Anna Jakubowska, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Alfons Meindl, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Roger L. Milne, Hermann Brenner, Joe Dennis, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Thomas Brüning, Christopher A. Haiman, Martine Dumont, Wei Zheng, Per Hall, Gord Glendon, Jingmei Li, Laurien Van Dyck, Susan L. Neuhausen, Simon S. Cross, Irene L. Andrulis, Peter Devilee, Annika Lindblom, Emily Hallberg, Diana Torres, Sofia Khan, Kyriaki Michailidou, Rita K. Schmutzler, Julian Peto, Harald Surowy, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Barbara Burwinkel, Natalia Bogdanova, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Heli Nevanlinna, Jan Lubinski, Liisa M. Pelttari, Efraim H. Rosenberg, Hiltrud Brauch, Thilo Dörk, Angela Cox, Viivi Nevanlinna, Maartje J. Hooning, Volker Arndt, Anne Kallioniemi, Stig E. Bojesen, Jenny Chang-Claude, Hatef Darabi, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Clinical Genetics, Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Medical Oncology, Brusgaard, Klaus, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinicum, Department of Oncology, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, Pelttari, LM, Khan, S, Vuorela, M, Kiiski, JI, Thierry, B, Zeps, N, Pharoah, Paul [0000-0001-8494-732X], Dunning, Alison [0000-0001-6651-7166], Dennis, Joe [0000-0003-4591-1214], Wang, Jean [0000-0002-9139-0627], Luben, Robert [0000-0002-5088-6343], Easton, Douglas [0000-0003-2444-3247], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Oncology, Male, Heredity, XRCC2, Genotyping Techniques, lcsh:Medicine, Genome-wide association study, 14Q24.1 RAD51L1, VARIANTS, Geographical Locations, 3123 Gynaecology and paediatrics, Cancer screening, Breast Tumors, Medicine and Health Sciences, CONFER SUSCEPTIBILITY, Ethnicities, lcsh:Science, Finland, Genetics, RISK, education.field_of_study, Multidisciplinary, GERMLINE MUTATIONS, Genomics, Middle Aged, 3. Good health, Ovarian Cancer, Europe, DNA-Binding Proteins, Genetic Mapping, Male breast cancer, Female, Cancer Screening, Research Article, medicine.medical_specialty, Heterozygote, General Science & Technology, Population, 3122 Cancers, Mutation, Missense, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Variant Genotypes, Breast Neoplasms, Genome Complexity, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, OVARIAN-CANCER, 03 medical and health sciences, Breast cancer, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Internal medicine, Breast Cancer, medicine, Cancer Detection and Diagnosis, Journal Article, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, education, Evolutionary Biology, Population Biology, business.industry, lcsh:R, Cancers and Neoplasms, Biology and Life Sciences, Computational Biology, Odds ratio, medicine.disease, ta3122, GENE, Introns, 030104 developmental biology, Haplotypes, FANCONI-ANEMIA, People and Places, lcsh:Q, Population Groupings, business, Ovarian cancer, Gynecological Tumors, Population Genetics, Finns
Abstract: Common variation on 14q24.1, close to RAD51B, has been associated with breast cancer: rs999737 and rs2588809 with the risk of female breast cancer and rs1314913 with the risk of male breast cancer. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of RAD51B variants in breast cancer predisposition, particularly in the context of familial breast cancer in Finland. We sequenced the coding region of RAD51B in 168 Finnish breast cancer patients from the Helsinki region for identification of possible recurrent founder mutations. In addition, we studied the known rs999737, rs2588809, and rs1314913 SNPs and RAD51B haplotypes in 44,791 breast cancer cases and 43,583 controls from 40 studies participating in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC) that were genotyped on a custom chip (iCOGS). We identified one putatively pathogenic missense mutation c.541C>T among the Finnish cancer patients and subsequently genotyped the mutation in additional breast cancer cases (n = 5259) and population controls (n = 3586) from Finland and Belarus. No significant association with breast cancer risk was seen in the meta-analysis of the Finnish datasets or in the large BCAC dataset. The association with previously identified risk variants rs999737, rs2588809, and rs1314913 was replicated among all breast cancer cases and also among familial cases in the BCAC dataset. The most significant association was observed for the haplotype carrying the risk-alleles of all the three SNPs both among all cases (odds ratio (OR): 1.15, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.11-1.19, P = 8.88 x 10-16) and among familial cases (OR: 1.24, 95% CI: 1.16-1.32, P = 6.19 x 10-11), compared to the haplotype with the respective protective alleles. Our results suggest that loss-of-function mutations in RAD51B are rare, but common variation at the RAD51B region is significantly associated with familial breast cancer risk. ispartof: PLoS One vol:11 issue:5 ispartof: location:United States status: published
Published: 2016

41. PALB2, CHEK2 and ATM rare variants and cancer risk: data from COGS

Author: Southey, Melissa C, Goldgar, David E, Winqvist, Robert, Pylkäs, Katri, Couch, Fergus, Tischkowitz, Marc, Foulkes, William D, Dennis, Joe, Michailidou, Kyriaki, van Rensburg, Elizabeth J, Heikkinen, Tuomas, Nevanlinna, Heli, Hopper, John L, Dörk, Thilo, Claes, Kathleen Bm, Reis-Filho, Jorge, Teo, Zhi Ling, Radice, Paolo, Catucci, Irene, Peterlongo, Paolo, Tsimiklis, Helen, Odefrey, Fabrice A, Dowty, James G, Schmidt, Marjanka K, Broeks, Annegien, Hogervorst, Frans B, Verhoef, Senno, Carpenter, Jane, Clarke, Christine, Scott, Rodney J, Fasching, Peter A, Haeberle, Lothar, Ekici, Arif B, Beckmann, Matthias W, Peto, Julian, Dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Fletcher, Olivia, Johnson, Nichola, Bolla, Manjeet K, Sawyer, Elinor J, Tomlinson, Ian, Kerin, Michael J, Miller, Nicola, Marme, Federik, Burwinkel, Barbara, Yang, Rongxi, Guénel, Pascal, Truong, Thérèse, Menegaux, Florence, Sanchez, Marie, Bojesen, Stig, Nielsen, Sune F, Flyger, Henrik, Benitez, Javier, Zamora, M Pilar, Perez, Jose Ignacio Arias, Menéndez, Primitiva, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Neuhausen, Susan, Ziogas, Argyrios, Clarke, Christina A, Brenner, Hermann, Arndt, Volker, Stegmaier, Christa, Brauch, Hiltrud, Brüning, Thomas, Ko, Yon-Dschun, Muranen, Taru A, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Blomqvist, Carl, Bogdanova, Natalia V, Antonenkova, Natalia N, Lindblom, Annika, Margolin, Sara, Mannermaa, Arto, Kataja, Vesa, Kosma, Veli-Matti, Hartikainen, Jaana M, Spurdle, Amanda B, Investigators, kConFab, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group, Wauters, Els, Smeets, Dominiek, Beuselinck, Benoit, Floris, Giuseppe, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Rudolph, Anja, Seibold, Petra, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Olson, Janet E, Vachon, Celine, Pankratz, Vernon S, McLean, Catriona, Haiman, Christopher A, Henderson, Brian E, Schumacher, Fredrick, Le Marchand, Loic, Kristensen, Vessela, Alnæs, Grethe Grenaker, Zheng, Wei, Hunter, David J, Lindstrom, Sara, Hankinson, Susan E, Kraft, Peter, Andrulis, Irene, Knight, Julia A, Glendon, Gord, Mulligan, Anna Marie, Jukkola-Vuorinen, Arja, Grip, Mervi, Kauppila, Saila, Devilee, Peter, Tollenaar, Robert AEM, Seynaeve, Caroline, Hollestelle, Antoinette, Garcia-Closas, Montserrat, Figueroa, Jonine, Chanock, Stephen J, Lissowska, Jolanta, Czene, Kamila, Darabi, Hatef, Eriksson, Mikael, Eccles, Diana M, Rafiq, Sajjad, Tapper, William J, Gerty, Sue M, Hooning, Maartje J, Martens, John WM, Collée, J Margriet, Tilanus-Linthorst, Madeleine, Hall, Per, Li, Jingmei, Brand, Judith S, Humphreys, Keith, Cox, Angela, Reed, Malcolm WR, Luccarini, Craig, Baynes, Caroline, Dunning, Alison M, Hamann, Ute, Torres, Diana, Ulmer, Hans Ulrich, Rüdiger, Thomas, Jakubowska, Anna, Lubinski, Jan, Jaworska, Katarzyna, Durda, Katarzyna, Slager, Susan, Toland, Amanda E, Ambrosone, Christine B, Yannoukakos, Drakoulis, Swerdlow, Anthony, Ashworth, Alan, Orr, Nick, Jones, Michael, González-Neira, Anna, Pita, Guillermo, Alonso, M Rosario, Álvarez, Nuria, Herrero, Daniel, Tessier, Daniel C, Vincent, Daniel, Bacot, Francois, Simard, Jacques, Dumont, Martine, Soucy, Penny, Eeles, Rosalind, Muir, Kenneth, Wiklund, Fredrik, Gronberg, Henrik, Schleutker, Johanna, Nordestgaard, Børge G, Weischer, Maren, Travis, Ruth C, Neal, David, Donovan, Jenny L, Hamdy, Freddie C, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Stanford, Janet L, Blot, William J, Thibodeau, Stephen, Schaid, Daniel J, Kelley, Joseph L, Maier, Christiane, Kibel, Adam S, Cybulski, Cezary, Cannon-Albright, Lisa, Butterbach, Katja, Park, Jong, Kaneva, Radka, Batra, Jyotsna, Teixeira, Manuel R, Kote-Jarai, Zsofia, Olama, Ali Amin Al, Benlloch, Sara, Renner, Stefan P, Hartmann, Arndt, Hein, Alexander, Ruebner, Matthias, Lambrechts, Diether, Van Nieuwenhuysen, Els, Vergote, Ignace, Lambretchs, Sandrina, Doherty, Jennifer A, Rossing, Mary Anne, Nickels, Stefan, Eilber, Ursula, Wang-Gohrke, Shan, Odunsi, Kunle, Sucheston-Campbell, Lara E, Friel, Grace, Lurie, Galina, Killeen, Jeffrey L, Wilkens, Lynne R, Goodman, Marc T, Runnebaum, Ingo, Hillemanns, Peter A, Pelttari, Liisa M, Butzow, Ralf, Modugno, Francesmary, Edwards, Robert P, Ness, Roberta B, Moysich, Kirsten B, du Bois, Andreas, Heitz, Florian, Harter, Philipp, Kommoss, Stefan, Karlan, Beth Y, Walsh, Christine, Lester, Jenny, Jensen, Allan, Kjaer, Susanne Krüger, Høgdall, Estrid, Peissel, Bernard, Bonanni, Bernardo, Bernard, Loris, Goode, Ellen L, Fridley, Brooke L, Vierkant, Robert A, Cunningham, Julie M, Larson, Melissa C, Fogarty, Zachary C, Kalli, Kimberly R, Liang, Dong, Lu, Karen H, Hildebrandt, Michelle AT, Wu, Xifeng, Levine, Douglas A, Dao, Fanny, Bisogna, Maria, Berchuck, Andrew, Iversen, Edwin S, Marks, Jeffrey R, Akushevich, Lucy, Cramer, Daniel W, Schildkraut, Joellen, Terry, Kathryn L, Poole, Elizabeth M, Stampfer, Meir, Tworoger, Shelley S, Bandera, Elisa V, Orlow, Irene, Olson, Sara H, Bjorge, Line, Salvesen, Helga B, van Altena, Anne M, Aben, Katja KH, Kiemeney, Lambertus A, Massuger, Leon FAG, Pejovic, Tanja, Bean, Yukie, Brooks-Wilson, Angela, Kelemen, Linda E, Cook, Linda S, Le, Nhu D, Górski, Bohdan, Gronwald, Jacek, Menkiszak, Janusz, Høgdall, Claus K, Lundvall, Lene, Nedergaard, Lotte, Engelholm, Svend Aage, Dicks, Ed, Tyrer, Jonathan, Campbell, Ian, McNeish, Iain, Paul, James, Siddiqui, Nadeem, Glasspool, Rosalind, Whittemore, Alice S, Rothstein, Joseph H, McGuire, Valerie, Sieh, Weiva, Cai, Hui, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Teten, Rachel T, Sutphen, Rebecca, McLaughlin, John R, Narod, Steven A, Phelan, Catherine M, Monteiro, Alvaro N, Fenstermacher, David, Lin, Hui-Yi, Permuth, Jennifer B, Sellers, Thomas A, Chen, Y Ann, Tsai, Ya-Yu, Chen, Zhihua, Gentry-Maharaj, Aleksandra, Gayther, Simon A, Ramus, Susan J, Menon, Usha, Wu, Anna H, Pearce, Celeste L, Van Den Berg, David, Pike, Malcolm C, Dansonka-Mieszkowska, Agnieszka, Plisiecka-Halasa, Joanna, Moes-Sosnowska, Joanna, Kupryjanczyk, Jolanta, Pharoah, Paul Dp, Song, Honglin, Winship, Ingrid, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Giles, Graham G, Tavtigian, Sean V, Easton, Doug F, Milne, Roger L, Clinical Genetics, Neurology, Medical Oncology, Surgery, Erasmus MC other, Clinicum, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Department of Oncology, Department of Pathology, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, Tischkowitz, Marc [0000-0002-7880-0628], Dennis, Joe [0000-0003-4591-1214], Dunning, Alison [0000-0001-6651-7166], Khaw, Kay-Tee [0000-0002-8802-2903], Amin Al Olama, Ali [0000-0002-7178-3431], Dicks, Ed [0000-0002-0617-0401], Tyrer, Jonathan [0000-0003-3724-4757], Pharoah, Paul [0000-0001-8494-732X], Song, Honglin [0000-0001-5076-7371], Easton, Douglas [0000-0003-2444-3247], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Oncology, Male, Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated Proteins, prostate-cancer, Prostate cancer, 0302 clinical medicine, brca1, Medizinische Fakultät, Medicine and Health Sciences, skin and connective tissue diseases, Genetics (clinical), Ovarian Neoplasms, education.field_of_study, brca2-interacting protein, Women's cancers Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences [Radboudumc 17], 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, Nuclear Proteins, Women's cancers Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 17], 3. Good health, PROSTATE-CANCER, Cancer: prostate, Multicenter Study, ovarian-cancer, Centre for Surgical Research, Urological cancers Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 15], 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, ovary [Cancer], Female, Fanconi Anemia Complementation Group N Protein, metaanalysis, Risk, medicine.medical_specialty, SUSCEPTIBILITY LOCI, Population, 3122 Cancers, cancer predisposition, Breast Neoplasms, OVARIAN-CANCER, BRCA2-INTERACTING PROTEIN, Cancer: ovary, 03 medical and health sciences, Breast cancer, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Internal medicine, prostate [Cancer], medicine, Cancer Genetics, Genetics, Journal Article, breast [Cancer], BREAST-CANCER, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, ddc:610, education, gene, CHEK2, FAMILY REGISTRY, METAANALYSIS, breast-cancer, Genetic Association Studies, business.industry, MUTATIONS, Cancer: breast, Tumor Suppressor Proteins, Case-control study, Cancer, Prostatic Neoplasms, medicine.disease, BRCA1, mutations, GENE, susceptibility loci, Checkpoint Kinase 2, 030104 developmental biology, Relative risk, Case-Control Studies, Mutation, family registry, Ovarian cancer, business
Abstract: Background: The rarity of mutations in PALB2, CHEK2 and ATM make it difficult to estimate precisely associated cancer risks. Population-based family studies have provided evidence that at least some of these mutations are associated with breast cancer risk as high as those associated with rare BRCA2 mutations. We aimed to estimate the relative risks associated with specific rare variants in PALB2, CHEK2 and ATM via a multicentre case-control study.Methods: We genotyped 10 rare mutations using the custom iCOGS array: PALB2 c.1592delT, c.2816T>G and c.3113G>A, CHEK2c.349A>G, c.538C>T, c.715G>A, c.1036C>T, c.1312G>T, and c.1343T>G and ATM c.7271T>G. We assessed associations with breast cancer risk (42 671 cases and 42 164 controls), as well as prostate (22 301 cases and 22 320 controls) and ovarian (14 542 cases and 23 491 controls) cancer risk, for each variant.Results: For European women, strong evidence of association with breast cancer risk was observed for PALB2 c.1592delT OR 3.44 (95% CI 1.39 to 8.52, p=7.1×10−5), PALB2 c.3113G>A OR 4.21 (95% CI 1.84 to 9.60, p=6.9×10−8) and ATM c.7271T>G OR 11.0 (95% CI 1.42 to 85.7, p=0.0012). We also found evidence of association with breast cancer risk for three variants in CHEK2, c.349A>G OR 2.26 (95% CI 1.29 to 3.95), c.1036C>T OR 5.06 (95% CI 1.09 to 23.5) and c.538C>T OR 1.33 (95% CI 1.05 to 1.67) (p≤0.017). Evidence for prostate cancer risk was observed for CHEK2 c.1343T>G OR 3.03 (95% CI 1.53 to 6.03, p=0.0006) for African men and CHEK2 c.1312G>T OR 2.21 (95% CI 1.06 to 4.63, p=0.030) for European men. No evidence of association with ovarian cancer was found for any of these variants.Conclusions: This report adds to accumulating evidence that at least some variants in these genes are associated with an increased risk of breast cancer that is clinically important.
Published: 2016

42. SNP-SNP interaction analysis of NF-kappa B signaling pathway on breast cancer survival

Author: Jamshidi, M., Fagerholm, R., Khan, S., Aittomaki, K., Czene, K., Darabi, H., Li, J.M., Andrulis, I.L., Chang-Claude, J., Devilee, P., Fasching, P.A., Michailidou, K., Bolla, M.K., Dennis, J., Wang, Q., Guo, Q., Rhenius, V., Cornelissen, S., Rudolph, A., Knight, J.A., Loehberg, C.R., Burwinkel, B., Marme, F., Hopper, J.L., Southey, M.C., Bojesen, S.E., Flyger, H., Brenner, H., Holleczek, B., Margolin, S., Mannermaa, A., Kosma, V.M., Dyck, L. van, Nevelsteen, I., Couch, F.J., Olson, J.E., Giles, G.G., McLean, C., Haiman, C.A., Henderson, B.E., Winqvist, R., Pylkas, K., Tollenaar, R.A.E.M., Garcia-Closas, M., Figueroa, J., Hooning, M.J., Martens, J.W.M., Cox, A., Cross, S.S., Simard, J., Dunning, A.M., Easton, D.F., Pharoah, P.D.P., Hall, P., Blomqvist, C., Schmidt, M.K., Nevanlinna, H., kConFab Investigators, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinicum, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, and Department of Oncology
Subjects: Oncology, medicine.medical_specialty, GENES, In silico, 3122 Cancers, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Breast Neoplasms, Biology, Bioinformatics, ANNOTATION, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, survival analysis, ACTIVATION, Breast cancer, breast cancer, 3123 Gynaecology and paediatrics, Internal medicine, Genetic variation, medicine, Biomarkers, Tumor, SNP, Humans, Neoplasm Invasiveness, TRANSCRIPTION, Allele, Survival rate, Survival analysis, POLYMORPHISMS, Neoplasm Staging, NF-κB pathway, IDENTIFICATION, NF-kappa B, NF-kappa B pathway, CHEMOTHERAPY, medicine.disease, Prognosis, 3. Good health, FALSE DISCOVERY RATE, Survival Rate, SNP-SNP interaction, CELLS, Female, Neoplasm Grading, Research Paper, Signal Transduction
Abstract: In breast cancer, constitutive activation of NF-κB has been reported, however, the impact of genetic variation of the pathway on patient prognosis has been little studied. Furthermore, a combination of genetic variants, rather than single polymorphisms, may affect disease prognosis. Here, in an extensive dataset (n = 30,431) from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium, we investigated the association of 917 SNPs in 75 genes in the NF-κB pathway with breast cancer prognosis. We explored SNP-SNP interactions on survival using the likelihood-ratio test comparing multivariate Cox’ egression models of SNP pairs without and with an interaction term. We found two interacting pairs associating with prognosis: patients simultaneously homozygous for the rare alleles of rs5996080 and rs7973914 had worse survival (HRinteraction 6.98, 95% CI=3.3-14.4, P=1.42E-07), and patients carrying at least one rare allele for rs17243893 and rs57890595 had better survival (HRinteraction 0.51, 95% CI=0.3-0.6, P = 2.19E-05). Based on in silico functional analyses and literature, we speculate that the rs5996080 and rs7973914 loci may affect the BAFFR and TNFR1/TNFR3 receptors and breast cancer survival, possibly by disturbing both the canonical and non-canonical NF-κB pathways or their dynamics, whereas, rs17243893-rs57890595 interaction on survival may be mediated through TRAF2-TRAIL-R4 interplay. These results warrant further validation and functional analyses. ispartof: Oncotarget vol:6 issue:35 pages:37979-94 ispartof: location:United States status: published
Published: 2015

43. Screening of HELQ in breast and ovarian cancer families

Author: Kristiina Aittomäki, Laura Kinnunen, Carl Blomqvist, Johanna I. Kiiski, Liisa M. Pelttari, Sofia Khan, Heli Nevanlinna, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinicum, Department of Oncology, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, Genome-Scale Biology (GSB) Research Program, Research Programs Unit, and HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Oncology, Cancer Research, medicine.medical_specialty, Population, 3122 Cancers, LOCI, DNA repair, Breast Neoplasms, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, XRCC2, 03 medical and health sciences, Breast cancer, Ovarian cancer, Internal medicine, Genetics, medicine, TUMORIGENESIS, Humans, BRCA2 MUTATIONS, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, education, Genetics (clinical), Finland, REPAIR, RISK, Ovarian Neoplasms, education.field_of_study, Haplotype, DNA Helicases, Cancer, medicine.disease, 3. Good health, 030104 developmental biology, SUSCEPTIBILITY GENE, Haplotypes, RAD51C, HELQ, RAD51 PARALOGS, Female, Carcinogenesis
Abstract: Several high and moderate risk alleles have been identified for breast and ovarian cancer predisposition and most of them encode proteins that function in DNA repair. A prospective candidate for breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility is the HELQ helicase that has a role in the resolution of DNA interstrand cross-links. HELQ interacts with the RAD51 paralog complex BCDX2. Two components of the complex, RAD51C and RAD51D, increase the risk of ovarian cancer especially, and the other two, RAD51B and XRCC2 have been associated with breast cancer risk. To investigate the role of HELQ in cancer predisposition, we screened the gene for germline variation in 185 Finnish breast or ovarian cancer families and performed haplotype analyses for 1517 breast cancer cases, 308 ovarian cancer cases, and 1234 population controls using five common polymorphisms at the HELQ gene locus. No truncating mutations were identified among the families. One putatively pathogenic missense mutation c.1309A > G was identified but no additional carriers were observed in the subsequent genotyping of 332 familial breast or ovarian cancer patients. Furthermore, the haplotype distribution did not differ between breast or ovarian cancer cases and population controls. Our results indicate that HELQ is not a major breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility gene in the Finnish population. However, we cannot rule out rare risk-variants in the Finnish or other populations and larger datasets are needed to further assess the role of HELQ especially in ovarian cancer predisposition.
Published: 2015

44. Prediction of Breast Cancer Risk Based on Profiling With Common Genetic Variants

Author: Mavaddat, N., Pharoah, P.D.P., Michailidou, K., Tyrer, J., Brook, M.N., Bolla, M.K., Wang, Q., Dennis, J., Dunning, A.M., Shah, M., Luben, R., Brown, J., Bojesen, S.E., Nordestgaard, B.G., Nielsen, S.F., Flyger, H., Czene, K., Darabi, H., Eriksson, M., Peto, J., dos-Santos-Silva, I., Dudbridge, F., Johnson, N., Schmidt, M.K., Broeks, A., Verhoef, S., Rutgers, E.J., Swerdlow, A., Ashworth, A., Orr, N., Schoemaker, M.J., Figueroa, J., Chanock, S.J., Brinton, L., Lissowska, J., Couch, F.J., Olson, J.E., Vachon, C., Pankratz, V.S., Lambrechts, D., Wildiers, H., Ongeval, C. van, Limbergen, E. van, Kristensen, V., Alnaes, G.G., Nord, S., Borresen-Dale, A.L., Nevanlinna, H., Muranen, T.A., Aittomaki, K., Blomqvist, C., Chang-Claude, J., Rudolph, A., Seibold, P., Flesch-Janys, D., Fasching, P.A., Haeberle, L., Ekici, A.B., Beckmann, M.W., Burwinkel, B., Marme, F., Schneeweiss, A., Sohn, C., Trentham-Dietz, A., Newcomb, P., Titus, L., Egan, K.M., Hunter, D.J., Lindstrom, S., Tamimi, R.M., Kraft, P., Rahman, N., Turnbull, C., Renwick, A., Seal, S., Li, J.M., Liu, J.J., Humphreys, K., Benitez, J., Zamora, M.P., Perez, J.I.A., Menendez, P., Jakubowska, A., Lubinski, J., Jaworska-Bieniek, K., Durda, K., Bogdanova, N.V., Antonenkova, N.N., Dork, T., Anton-Culver, H., Neuhausen, S.L., Ziogas, A., Bernstein, L., Devilee, P., Tollenaar, R.A.E.M., Seynaeve, C., Asperen, C.J. van, Cox, A., Cross, S.S., Reed, M.W.R., Khusnutdinova, E., Bermisheva, M., Prokofyeva, D., Takhirova, Z., Meindl, A., Schmutzler, R.K., Sutter, C., Yang, R.X., Schurmann, P., Bremer, M., Christiansen, H., Park-Simon, T.W., Hillemanns, P., Guenel, P., Truong, T., Menegaux, F., Sanchez, M., Radice, P., Peterlongo, P., Manoukian, S., Pensotti, V., Hopper, J.L., Tsimiklis, H., Apicella, C., Southey, M.C., Brauch, H., Bruning, T., Ko, Y.D., Sigurdson, A.J., Doody, M.M., Hamann, U., Torres, D., Ulmer, H.U., Forsti, A., Sawyer, E.J., Tomlinson, I., Kerin, M.J., Miller, N., Andrulis, I.L., Knight, J.A., Glendon, G., Mulligan, A.M., Chenevix-Trench, G., Balleine, R., Giles, G.G., Milne, R.L., McLean, C., Lindblom, A., Margolin, S., Haiman, C.A., Henderson, B.E., Schumacher, F., Marchand, L. le, Eilber, U., Wang-Gohrke, S., Hooning, M.J., Hollestelle, A., Ouweland, A.M.W. van den, Koppert, L.B., Carpenter, J., Clarke, C., Scott, R., Mannermaa, A., Kataja, V., Kosma, V.M., Hartikainen, J.M., Brenner, H., Arndt, V., Stegmaier, C., Dieffenbach, A.K., Winqvist, R., Pylkas, K., Jukkola-Vuorinen, A., Grip, M., Offit, K., Vijai, J., Robson, M., Rau-Murthy, R., Dwek, M., Swann, R., Perkins, K.A., Goldberg, M.S., Labreche, F., Dumont, M., Eccles, D.M., Tapper, W.J., Rafiq, S., John, E.M., Whittemore, A.S., Slager, S., Yannoukakos, D., Toland, A.E., Yao, S., Zheng, W., Halverson, S.L., Gonzalez-Neira, A., Pita, G., Alonso, M.R., Alvarez, N., Herrero, D., Tessier, D.C., Vincent, D., Bacot, F., Luccarini, C., Baynes, C., Ahmed, S., Maranian, M., Healey, C.S., Simard, J., Hall, P., Easton, D.F., Garcia-Closas, M., Clinical Genetics, Medical Oncology, Surgery, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinicum, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Department of Oncology, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, Mavaddat, Nasim [0000-0003-0307-055X], Pharoah, Paul [0000-0001-8494-732X], Tyrer, Jonathan [0000-0003-3724-4757], Wang, Jean [0000-0002-9139-0627], Dennis, Joe [0000-0003-4591-1214], Dunning, Alison [0000-0001-6651-7166], Luben, Robert [0000-0002-5088-6343], Easton, Douglas [0000-0003-2444-3247], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: Adult, Genotype, 3122 Cancers, Breast Neoplasms, consortium, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk Assessment, Article, prevention, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Predictive Value of Tests, Risk Factors, 3123 Gynaecology and paediatrics, Biomarkers, Tumor, Odds Ratio, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, family-history, Aged, prostate, Gene Expression Profiling, subtypes, Middle Aged, susceptibility loci, Europe, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Receptors, Estrogen, Tumor Markers, Biological, Cancer and Oncology, genome-wide association, Female, women
Abstract: Background: Data for multiple common susceptibility alleles for breast cancer may be combined to identify women at different levels of breast cancer risk. Such stratification could guide preventive and screening strategies. However, empirical evidence for genetic risk stratification is lacking. Methods: We investigated the value of using 77 breast cancer-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for risk stratification, in a study of 33 673 breast cancer cases and 33 381 control women of European origin. We tested all possible pair-wise multiplicative interactions and constructed a 77-SNP polygenic risk score (PRS) for breast cancer overall and by estrogen receptor (ER) status. Absolute risks of breast cancer by PRS were derived from relative risk estimates and UK incidence and mortality rates. Results: There was no strong evidence for departure from a multiplicative model for any SNP pair. Women in the highest 1 of the PRS had a three-fold increased risk of developing breast cancer compared with women in the middle quintile (odds ratio [OR] = 3.36, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 2.95 to 3.83). The ORs for ER-positive and ER-negative disease were 3.73 (95% CI = 3.24 to 4.30) and 2.80 (95% CI = 2.26 to 3.46), respectively. Lifetime risk of breast cancer for women in the lowest and highest quintiles of the PRS were 5.2% and 16.6% for a woman without family history, and 8.6% and 24.4% for a woman with a first-degree family history of breast cancer. Conclusions: The PRS stratifies breast cancer risk in women both with and without a family history of breast cancer. The observed level of risk discrimination could inform targeted screening and prevention strategies. Further discrimination may be achievable through combining the PRS with lifestyle/environmental factors, although these were not considered in this report. © 2015 © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press.
Published: 2015

45. Fine-mapping identifies two additional breast cancer susceptibility loci at 9q31.2

Author: Orr, Nick, Dudbridge, Frank, Dryden, Nicola, Maguire, Sarah, Novo, Daniela, Perrakis, Eleni, Johnson, Nichola, Ghoussaini, Maya, Hopper, John L., Southey, Melissa C., Apicella, Carmel, Stone, Jennifer, Schmidt, Marjanka K., Broeks, Annegien, Van't Veer, Laura J., Hogervorst, Frans B., Fasching, Peter A., Haeberle, Lothar, Ekici, Arif B., Beckmann, Matthias W., Gibson, Lorna, Aitken, Zoe, Warren, Helen, Sawyer, Elinor, Tomlinson, Ian, Kerin, Michael J., Miller, Nicola, Burwinkel, Barbara, Marme, Frederik, Schneeweiss, Andreas, Sohn, Chistof, Guenel, Pascal, Truong, Therese, Cordina-Duverger, Emilie, Sanchez, Marie, Bojesen, Stig E., Nordestgaard, Borge G., Nielsen, Sune F., Flyger, Henrik, Benitez, Javier, Zamora, Maria Pilar, Perez, Jose Ignacio Arias, Menendez, Primitiva, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Neuhausen, Susan L., Brenner, Hermann, Nevanlinna, Heli, Aittomaki, Kristiina, Blomqvist, Carl, Khan, Sofia, GENICA Network, kConFab Investigators, Australian Ovarian Canc Study Grp, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinicum, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, and Department of Oncology
Subjects: EXPRESSION, 3122 Cancers, 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, COMMON VARIANTS, ANALYSES REVEAL, 3123 Gynaecology and paediatrics, BINDING, CONFER SUSCEPTIBILITY, 1182 Biochemistry, cell and molecular biology, 3111 Biomedicine, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, ESTROGEN-RECEPTOR-ALPHA, FUNCTIONAL VARIANTS, FOXA1, RISK LOCUS
Abstract: We recently identified a novel susceptibility variant, rs865686, for estrogen-receptor positive breast cancer at 9q31.2. Here, we report a fine-mapping analysis of the 9q31.2 susceptibility locus using 43 160 cases and 42 600 controls of European ancestry ascertained from 52 studies and a further 5795 cases and 6624 controls of Asian ancestry from nine studies. Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs676256 was most strongly associated with risk in Europeans (odds ratios [OR] = 0.90 [0.88-0.92]; P-value = 1.58 x 10(-25)). This SNP is one of a cluster of highly correlated variants, including rs865686, that spans 14.5 kb. We identified two additional independent association signals demarcated by SNPs rs10816625 (OR = 1.12 [1.08-1.17]; P-value = 7.89 x 10(-09)) and rs13294895 (OR = 1.09 [1.06-1.12]; P-value = 2.97 x 10(-11)). SNP rs10816625, but not rs13294895, was also associated with risk of breast cancer in Asian individuals (OR = 1.12 [1.06-1.18]; P-value = 2.77 x 10(-05)). Functional genomic annotation using data derived from breast cancer cell-line models indicates that these SNPs localise to putative enhancer elements that bind known drivers of hormone-dependent breast cancer, including ER-alpha, FOXA1 and GATA-3. In vitro analyses indicate that rs10816625 and rs13294895 have allele-specific effects on enhancer activity and suggest chromatin interactions with the KLF4 gene locus. These results demonstrate the power of dense genotyping in large studies to identify independent susceptibility variants. Analysis of associations using subjects with different ancestry, combined with bioinformatic and genomic characterisation, can provide strong evidence for the likely causative alleles and their functional basis.
Published: 2015

46. Identification of Novel Genetic Markers of Breast Cancer Survival

Author: Guo, Qi, Schmidt, Marjanka K., Kraft, Peter, Canisius, Sander, Chen, Constance, Khan, Sofia, Tyrer, Jonathan, Bolla, Manjeet K., Wang, Qin, Dennis, Joe, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Lush, Michael, Kar, Siddhartha, Beesley, Jonathan, Dunning, Alison M., Shah, Mitul, Czene, Kamila, Darabi, Hatef, Eriksson, Mikael, Lambrechts, Diether, Weltens, Caroline, Leunen, Karin, Bojesen, Stig E., Nordestgaard, Borge G., Nielsen, Sune F., Flyger, Henrik, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Rudolph, Anja, Seibold, Petra, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Blomqvist, Carl, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Fagerholm, Rainer, Muranen, Taru A., Couch, Fergus J., Olson, Janet E., Vachon, Celine, Andrulis, Irene L., Knight, Julia A., Glendon, Gord, Mulligan, Anna Marie, Broeks, Annegien, Hogervorst, Frans B., Haiman, Christopher A., Henderson, Brian E., Schumacher, Fredrick, Le Marchand, Loic, Hopper, John L., Tsimiklis, Helen, Nevanlinna, Heli, kConFab Investigators, Department of Oncology, Clinicum, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics
Subjects: RISK, PROGNOSIS, 3123 Gynaecology and paediatrics, CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE, 3122 Cancers, LOCI, EPIRUBICIN, SINGLE-NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS, PROGRESSION, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, GENOTYPE IMPUTATION, METAANALYSIS
Abstract: Background: Survival after a diagnosis of breast cancer varies considerably between patients, and some of this variation may be because of germline genetic variation. We aimed to identify genetic markers associated with breast cancer-specific survival. Methods: We conducted a large meta-analysis of studies in populations of European ancestry, including 37 954 patients with 2900 deaths from breast cancer. Each study had been genotyped for between 200 000 and 900 000 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across the genome; genotypes for nine million common variants were imputed using a common reference panel from the 1000 Genomes Project. We also carried out subtype-specific analyses based on 6881 estrogen receptor (ER)-negative patients (920 events) and 23 059 ER-positive patients (1333 events). All statistical tests were two-sided. Results: We identified one new locus (rs2059614 at 11q24.2) associated with survival in ER-negative breast cancer cases (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.95, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.55 to 2.47, P = 1.91 x 10(-8)). Genotyping a subset of 2113 case patients, of which 300 were ER negative, provided supporting evidence for the quality of the imputation. The association in this set of case patients was stronger for the observed genotypes than for the imputed genotypes. A second locus (rs148760487 at 2q24.2) was associated at genome-wide statistical significance in initial analyses; the association was similar in ER-positive and ER-negative case patients. Here the results of genotyping suggested that the finding was less robust. Conclusions: This is currently the largest study investigating genetic variation associated with breast cancer survival. Our results have potential clinical implications, as they confirm that germline genotype can provide prognostic information in addition to standard tumor prognostic factors.
Published: 2015

47. An original phylogenetic approach identified mitochondrial haplogroup T1a1 as inversely associated with breast cancer risk in BRCA2 mutation carriers

Author: Blein, Sophie, Bardel, Claire, Danjean, Vincent, Mcguffog, Lesley, Healey, Sue, Barrowdale, Daniel, Lee, Andrew, Dennis, Joe, Kuchenbaecker, Karoline B., Soucy, Penny, Terry, Mary Beth, Chung, Wendy K., Goldgar, David E., Buys, Saundra S., Janavicius, Ramunas, Tihomirova, Laima, Tung, Nadine, Dorfling, Cecilia M., van Rensburg, Elizabeth J., Neuhausen, Susan L., Ding, Yuan Chun, Gerdes, Anne Marie, Ejlertsen, Bent, Nielsen, Finn C., Hansen, Thomas V. O., Osorio, Ana, Benitez, Javier, Conejero, Raquel Andrés, Segota, Ena, Weitzel, Jeffrey N., Thelander, Margo, Peterlongo, Paolo, Radice, Paolo, Pensotti, Valeria, Dolcetti, Riccardo, Bonanni, Bernardo, Peissel, Bernard, Zaffaroni, Daniela, Scuvera, Giulietta, Manoukian, Siranoush, Varesco, Liliana, Capone, Gabriele L., Papi, Laura, Ottini, Laura, Yannoukakos, Drakoulis, Konstantopoulou, Irene, Garber, Judy, Hamann, Ute, Donaldson, Alan, Brady, Angela, Brewer, Carole, Foo, Claire, Evans, D. Gareth, Frost, Debra, Eccles, Diana, Douglas, Fiona, Cook, Jackie, Adlard, Julian, Barwell, Julian, Walker, Lisa, Izatt, Louise, Side, Lucy E., Kennedy, M. John, Tischkowitz, Marc, Rogers, Mark T., Porteous, Mary E., Morrison, Patrick J., Platte, Radka, Eeles, Ros, Davidson, Rosemarie, Hodgson, Shirley, Cole, Trevor, Godwin, Andrew K., Isaacs, Claudine, Claes, Kathleen, De Leeneer, Kim, Meindl, Alfons, Gehrig, Andrea, Wappenschmidt, Barbara, Sutter, Christian, Engel, Christoph, Niederacher, Dieter, Steinemann, Doris, Plendl, Hansjoerg, Kast, Karin, Rhiem, Kerstin, Ditsch, Nina, Arnold, Norbert, Varon Mateeva, Raymonda, Schmutzler, Rita K., Preisler Adams, Sabine, Markov, Nadja Bogdanova, Wang Gohrke, Shan, de Pauw, Antoine, Lefol, Cédrick, Lasset, Christine, Leroux, Dominique, Rouleau, Etienne, Damiola, Francesca, Dreyfus, Hélène, Barjhoux, Laure, Golmard, Lisa, Uhrhammer, Nancy, Bonadona, Valérie, Sornin, Valérie, Bignon, Yves Jean, Carter, Jonathan, Van Le, Linda, Piedmonte, Marion, Disilvestro, Paul A., de la Hoya, Miguel, Caldes, Trinidad, Nevanlinna, Heli, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Jager, Agnes, van den Ouweland, Ans M. W., Kets, Carolien M., Aalfs, Cora M., van Leeuwen, Flora E., Hogervorst, Frans B. L., Meijers Heijboer, Hanne E. J., Oosterwijk, Jan C., van Roozendaal, Kees E. P., Rookus, Matti A., Devilee, Peter, van der Luijt, Rob B., Olah, Edith, Diez, Orland, Teulé, Alex, Lazaro, Conxi, Blanco, Ignacio, Del Valle, Jesús, Jakubowska, Anna, Sukiennicki, Grzegorz, Gronwald, Jacek, Lubinski, Jan, Durda, Katarzyna, Jaworska Bieniek, Katarzyna, Agnarsson, Bjarni A., Maugard, Christine, Amadori, Alberto, Montagna, Marco, Teixeira, Manuel R., Spurdle, Amanda B., Foulkes, William, Olswold, Curtis, Lindor, Noralane M., Pankratz, Vernon S., Szabo, Csilla I., Lincoln, Anne, Jacobs, Lauren, Corines, Marina, Robson, Mark, Vijai, Joseph, Berger, Andreas, Fink Retter, Anneliese, Singer, Christian F., Rappaport, Christine, Kaulich, Daphne Geschwantler, Pfeiler, Georg, Tea, Muy Kheng, Greene, Mark H., Mai, Phuong L., Rennert, Gad, Imyanitov, Evgeny N., Mulligan, Anna Marie, Glendon, Gord, Andrulis, Irene L., Tchatchou, Sandrine, Toland, Amanda Ewart, Pedersen, Inge Sokilde, Thomassen, Mads, Kruse, Torben A., Jensen, Uffe Birk, Caligo, Maria A., Friedman, Eitan, Zidan, Jamal, Laitman, Yael, Lindblom, Annika, Melin, Beatrice, Arver, Brita, Loman, Niklas, Rosenquist, Richard, Olopade, Olufunmilayo I., Nussbaum, Robert L., Ramus, Susan J., Nathanson, Katherine L., Domchek, Susan M., Rebbeck, Timothy R., Arun, Banu K., Mitchell, Gillian, Karlan, Beth Y., Lester, Jenny, Orsulic, Sandra, Stoppa Lyonnet, Dominique, Thomas, Gilles, Simard, Jacques, Couch, Fergus J., Offit, Kenneth, Easton, Douglas F., Chenevix Trench, Georgia, Antoniou, Antonis C., Mazoyer, Sylvie, Phelan, Catherine M., Sinilnikova, Olga M., Cox, David G., Angelakos, Maggie, Maskiell, Judi, Dite, Gillian, Tsimiklis, Helen, Rudaitis, Vilius, Griškevicius, Laimonas, Eglitis, Drs Janis, Krilova, Anna, Stengrevics, Aivars, Ding, Chun, Steele, Linda, Barroso, Alicia, Alonso, Rosario, Pita, Guillermo, Viel, Alessandra, della Puppa, Lara, Barile, Monica, Tommasi, Stefania, Pilato, Brunella, Lambo, Rossana, Martayan, Aline, Tibiletti, Maria Grazia, Ellis, Steve, Fineberg, Elena, Miedzybrodzka, Zosia, Gregory, Helen, Jeffers, Lisa, Ong, Kai Ren, Hoffman, Jonathan, James, Margaret, Paterson, Joan, Taylor, Amy, Murray, Alexandra, Mccann, Emma, Barton, David, Drummond, Sarah, Kivuva, Emma, Searle, Anne, Goodman, Selina, Hill, Kathryn, Murday, Victoria, Bradshaw, Nicola, Snadden, Lesley, Longmuir, Mark, Watt, Catherine, Gibson, Sarah, Haque, Eshika, Tobias, Ed, Duncan, Alexis, Jacobs, Chris, Langman, Caroline, Dorkins, Huw, Serra Feliu, Gemma, Ellis, Ian, Houghton, Catherine, Lalloo, Fiona, Taylor, Jane, Male, Alison, Berlin, Cheryl, Eason, Jacqueline, Collier, Rebecca, Claber, Oonagh, Jobson, Irene, Mcleod, Diane, Halliday, Dorothy, Durell, Sarah, Stayner, Barbara, Shanley, Susan, Rahman, Nazneen, Houlston, Richard, Bancroft, Elizabeth, Page, Elizabeth, Ardern Jones, Audrey, Kohut, Kelly, Wiggins, Jennifer, Castro, Elena, Killick, Emma, Martin, Sue, Rea, Gillian, Kulkarni, Anjana, Quarrell, Oliver, Bardsley, Cathryn, Goff, Sheila, Brice, Glen, Winchester, Lizzie, Eddy, Charlotte, Tripathi, Vishakha, Attard, Virginia, Lehmann, Anna, Lucassen, Anneke, Crawford, Gillian, Mcbride, Donna, Smalley, Sarah, Weaver, Jo Ellen, Bove, Betsy, Verny Pierre, Carole, Calender, Alain, Giraud, Sophie, Léone, Mélanie, Gauthier Villars, Marion, Buecher, Bruno, Houdayer, Claude, Moncoutier, Virginie, Belotti, Muriel, Tirapo, Carole, Bressac de Paillerets, Brigitte, Caron, Olivier, Handallou, Sandrine, Hardouin, Agnès, Berthet, Pascaline, Sobol, Hagay, Bourdon, Violaine, Noguchi, Tetsuro, Remenieras, Audrey, Eisinger, François, Coupier, Isabelle, Pujol, Pascal, Peyrat, Jean Philippe, Fournier, Joëlle, Révillion, Françoise, Vennin, Philippe, Adenis, Claude, Lidereau, Rosette, Demange, Liliane, Nogues, Catherine, Muller, Danièle, Fricker, Jean Pierre, Barouk Simonet, Emmanuelle, Bonnet, Françoise, Bubien, Virginie, Sevenet, Nicolas, Longy, Michel, Toulas, Christine, Guimbaud, Rosine, Gladieff, Laurence, Feillel, Viviane, Rebischung, Christine, Peysselon, Magalie, Coron, Fanny, Faivre, Laurence, Prieur, Fabienne, Lebrun, Marine, Kientz, Caroline, Ferrer, Sandra Fert, Frénay, Marc, Vénat Bouvet, Laurence, Delnatte, Capucine, Mortemousque, Isabelle, Coulet, Florence, Colas, Chrystelle, Soubrier, Florent, Sokolowska, Johanna, Bronner, Myriam, Collonge Rame, Marie Agnès, Damette, Alexandre, Lynch, Henry T., Snyder, Carrie L., Muranen, Taru A., Blomqvist, Drs Carl, Aaltonen, Kirsimari, Erkkilä, Irja, Palola, Virpi, Verhoef, S., Schmidt, M. K., de Lange, J. L., Wijnands, R., Collée, J. M., Hooning, M. J., Seynaeve, C., van Deurzen, C. H. M., Obdeijn, I. M., van Asperen, C. J., Wijnen, J. T., Tollenaar, R. A. E. M., van Cronenburg, T. C. T. E. F., Mensenkamp, A. R., Ausems, M. G. E. M., van Os, T. A. M., Gille, J. J. P., Waisfisz, Q., Gómez Garcia, E. B., Blok, M. J., van der Hout, A. H., Mourits, M. J., de Bock, G. H., Vasen, H. F., Siesling, S., Overbeek, L. I. H., Papp, Janos, Vaszko, Tibor, Bozsik, Aniko, Pocza, Timea, Franko, Judit, Balogh, Maria, Domokos, Gabriella, Ferenczi, Judit, Balmaña, J., Capella, Gabriel, Dumont, Martine, Tranchant, Martine, Peixoto, Ana, Santos, Catarina, Rocha, Patrícia, Pinto, Pedro, Thorne, Heather, Niedermayr, Eveline, Foretova, Lenka, Machackova, Eva, Zikan, Michal, Pohlreich, Petr, Kleibl, Zdenek, Dishon, Sara, Lejbkowicz, Flavio, Pinchev, Mila, Senter, Leigha, Sweet, Kevin, Craven, Caroline, O'Conor, Michelle, Borg, Ake, Olsson, Håkan, Jernström, Helena, Henriksson, Karin, Harbst, Katja, Soller, Maria, Kristoffersson, Ulf, Öfverholm, Anna, Nordling, Margareta, Karlsson, Per, Einbeigi, Zakaria, von Wachenfeldt, Anna, Liljegren, Annelie, Bustinza, Gisela Barbany, Rantala, Johanna, Ardnor, Christina Edwinsdotter, Emanuelsson, Monica, Ehrencrona, Hans, Pigg, Maritta Hellström, Stenmark Askmalm, Marie, Liedgren, Sigrun, Zvocec, Cecilia, Niu, Qun, Seldon, Joyce, Kwan, Lorna, Crawford, Beth, Loranger, Kate, Mak, Julie, Stewart, Nicola, Lee, Robin, Blanco, Amie, Conrad, Peggy, Chan, Salina, Pharoah, Paul D. P., Gayther, Simon, Pye, Carole, Harrington, Patricia, Wozniak, Eva, Lindeman, Geoffrey, Harris, Marion, Delatycki, Martin, Sawyer, Sarah, Driessen, Rebecca, Thompson, Ella, Breast Cancer Family Registry, Null, Embrace, Null, Biostatistiques santé, Département biostatistiques et modélisation pour la santé et l'environnement [LBBE], Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive - UMR 5558 (LBBE), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive - UMR 5558 (LBBE), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Medical Oncology, Clinical Genetics, Radiotherapy, MUMC+: DA KG Lab Specialisten (9), Klinische Genetica, Genetica & Celbiologie, RS: FHML non-thematic output, [ 1 ] Univ Lyon 1, Ctr Rech Cancerol Lyon, CNRS, INSERM U1052,UMR5286, F-69365 Lyon, France [ 2 ] Univ Lyon, F-69000 Lyon, France [ 3 ] Univ Lyon 1, F-69100 Villeurbanne, France [ 4 ] Univ Lyon 1, CNRS, Lab Biometrie & Biol Evolut LBBE Biometrie & Bio, UMR 5558, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France [ 5 ] Univ Grenoble Alpes, Lab Informat 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Counseling Unit,Hereditary Canc Program, Barcelona 08908, Spain [ 121 ] Hosp Duran & Reynals, Catalan Inst Oncol, Inst Invest Biomed Bellvitge IDIBELL, Mol Diagnost Unit,Hereditary Canc Program, Barcelona 08908, Spain [ 122 ] Pomeranian Med Univ, Fac Med & Dent, Dept Genet & Pathomorphol, PL-70111 Szczecin, Poland [ 123 ] Landspitali Natl Univ Hosp Iceland, IS-101 Reykjavik, Iceland [ 124 ] Univ Iceland, Fac Med, Sch Med, Sch Hlth Sci, IS-101 Reykjavik, Iceland [ 125 ] Nouvel Hop Civil, Hop Univ Strasbourg, Lab Diagnost Genet, F-67091 Strasbourg, France [ 126 ] Nouvel Hop Civil, Hop Univ Strasbourg, Serv Oncohematol, F-67091 Strasbourg, France [ 127 ] Univ Padua, Dept Surg Sci Oncol & Gastroenterol, Clin Surg 2, I-35124 Padua, Italy [ 128 ] IRCCS, IOV, Immunol & Mol Oncol Unit, I-35128 Padua, Italy [ 129 ] Portuguese Oncol Inst IPO PORTO, Dept Genet, P-4200072 Oporto, Portugal [ 130 ] Univ Porto, ICBAS, P-4050313 Oporto, Portugal [ 131 ] McGill Univ, Dept Human Genet & Oncol, Program Canc Genet, Montreal, PQ J2W 1S6, Canada [ 132 ] Mayo Clin, Dept Hlth Sci Res, Rochester, MN 55905 USA [ 133 ] Mayo Clin, Dept Hlth Sci Res, Scottsdale, AZ 85259 USA [ 134 ] NHGRI, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA [ 135 ] Mem Sloan Kettering Canc Ctr, Dept Med, Clin Genet Serv, New York, NY 10065 USA [ 136 ] Mem Sloan Kettering Canc Ctr, Clin Genet Res Lab, New York, NY 10065 USA [ 137 ] AKH Wien, Med Univ Vienna, Univ Klin Frauenheilkun, Comprehens Canc Ctr Vienna,Dept Obstet & Gynecol, A-1090 Vienna, Austria [ 138 ] NCI, Clin Genet Branch, Div Canc Epidemiol & Genet, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA [ 139 ] Natl Israeli Canc Control Ctr, IL-34361 Haifa, Israel [ 140 ] Carmel Hosp, Dept Community Med & Epidemiol, Clalit Hlth Serv, IL-34361 Haifa, Israel [ 141 ] Technion Israel Inst Technol, Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Fac Med, IL-34362 Haifa, Israel [ 142 ] NN Petrov Oncol Res Inst, St Petersburg 197758, Russia [ 143 ] Univ Toronto, Dept Lab Med & Pathol, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada [ 144 ] St Michaels Hosp, Keenan Res Ctr, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Inst, Toronto, ON M5B 1T8, Canada [ 145 ] Canc Care Ontario, Ontario Canc Genet Network, Toronto, ON M5G 2L7, Canada [ 146 ] Mt Sinai Hosp, Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Res Inst, Toronto, ON M5G 1X5, Canada [ 147 ] Univ Toronto, Dept Mol Genet, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada [ 148 ] Dept Human Canc Genet, Columbus, OH 43210 USA [ 149 ] Ohio State Univ, Wexner Med Ctr, Dept Internal Med, Columbus, OH 43210 USA [ 150 ] Ohio State Univ, Wexner Med Ctr, Dept Mol Virol Immunol & Med Genet, Columbus, OH 43210 USA [ 151 ] Ohio State Univ, Arthur G James Canc Hosp, Ctr Comprehens Canc, Columbus, OH 43210 USA [ 152 ] Richard J Solove Res Inst OSUCCC James, Columbus, OH 43210 USA [ 153 ] Aalborg Univ Hosp, Dept Biochem, Sect Mol Diagnost, DK-9000 Aalborg, Denmark [ 154 ] Odense Univ Hosp, Dept Clin Genet, DK-5000 Odense C, Denmark [ 155 ] Aarhus Univ Hosp, Dept Clin Genet, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark [ 156 ] Azienda Osped Univ Pisana, Osped S Chiara, Div 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Tampa, FL 33612 USA [ 179 ] Ctr Leon Berard, Hosp Civils Lyon, Unite Mixte Genet Constitut Canc Frequents, F-69373 Lyon 08, France [ 180 ] City Hope Natl Med Ctr, Clin Canc Genet Community Res Network, Duarte, CA 91010 USA, Human genetics, CCA - Oncogenesis, MUMC+: DA KG Lab Centraal Lab (9), Lee, Andrew [0000-0003-0677-0252], Dennis, Joe [0000-0003-4591-1214], Tischkowitz, Marc [0000-0002-7880-0628], Antoniou, Antonis [0000-0001-9223-3116], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Damage and Repair in Cancer Development and Cancer Treatment (DARE), Targeted Gynaecologic Oncology (TARGON), Human Genetics, Cancer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam Reproduction & Development (AR&D), Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinicum, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, and Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics
Subjects: Genetic modifiers, Dna haplogroups, endocrine system diseases, Genes, BRCA2, Genes, BRCA1, lnfectious Diseases and Global Health Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences [Radboudumc 4], ADN mitocondrial, SUSCEPTIBILITY, VARIANTS, 0302 clinical medicine, Breast Cancer Family Registry, Brjóstakrabbamein, MULTIPLE, Aetiology, skin and connective tissue diseases, Phylogeny, Cancer, ddc:616, 0303 health sciences, Mutation, education.field_of_study, Variants, SINGLE-NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS, Subclade, Mitochondrial DNA, 3. Good health, ddc, Damage, Oncology, Ovarian, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, DISEASES, Multiple, Rare cancers Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 9], Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Breast Neoplasms/genetics, EMBRACE, GEMO Study Collaborators, 03 medical and health sciences, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Urological cancers Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences [Radboudumc 15], Genetics, Humans, education, Cancer och onkologi, Haplotype, BRCA2, Genes, mitochondrial haplogroup T1a1, breast cancer, BRCA2, Cancer and Oncology, GENETIC MODIFIERS, Polymorphisms, Cancer Research, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], medicine.disease_cause, Haplogroup, 610 Medical sciences Medicine, 3123 Gynaecology and paediatrics, Medicine and Health Sciences, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, OXIDATIVE STRESS, Non-U.S. Gov't, Medicine(all), Gen, BRCA1 Protein, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Cohort, OVARIAN, Mitochondria, Mitochondrial, Genes, Mitochondrial, Female, Research Article, Risk, Heterozygote, BRCA1 protein, breast neoplasms, female, genetic predisposition to disease, haplotypes, humans, phylogeny, risk, genes, BRCA2, genes, mitochondrial, heterozygote, mutation, cancer research, oncology, Population, 3122 Cancers, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Breast Neoplasms, Biology, Research Support, Càncer de mama, Breast Cancer, medicine, Journal Article, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, ddc:610, Oncology & Carcinogenesis, HEBON, 030304 developmental biology, Neurodevelopmental disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 7], CONSORTIUM, African, DNA HAPLOGROUPS, Arfgengi, Haplotypes, Susceptibility, BRCA1 Protein/genetics, Human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup
Abstract: To access publisher's full text version of this article, please click on the hyperlink in Additional Links field or click on the hyperlink at the top of the page marked Files. This article is open access. Individuals carrying pathogenic mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes have a high lifetime risk of breast cancer. BRCA1 and BRCA2 are involved in DNA double-strand break repair, DNA alterations that can be caused by exposure to reactive oxygen species, a main source of which are mitochondria. Mitochondrial genome variations affect electron transport chain efficiency and reactive oxygen species production. Individuals with different mitochondrial haplogroups differ in their metabolism and sensitivity to oxidative stress. Variability in mitochondrial genetic background can alter reactive oxygen species production, leading to cancer risk. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that mitochondrial haplogroups modify breast cancer risk in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers. We genotyped 22,214 (11,421 affected, 10,793 unaffected) mutation carriers belonging to the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 for 129 mitochondrial polymorphisms using the iCOGS array. Haplogroup inference and association detection were performed using a phylogenetic approach. ALTree was applied to explore the reference mitochondrial evolutionary tree and detect subclades enriched in affected or unaffected individuals. We discovered that subclade T1a1 was depleted in affected BRCA2 mutation carriers compared with the rest of clade T (hazard ratio (HR) = 0.55; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.34 to 0.88; P = 0.01). Compared with the most frequent haplogroup in the general population (that is, H and T clades), the T1a1 haplogroup has a HR of 0.62 (95% CI, 0.40 to 0.95; P = 0.03). We also identified three potential susceptibility loci, including G13708A/rs28359178, which has demonstrated an inverse association with familial breast cancer risk. This study illustrates how original approaches such as the phylogeny-based method we used can empower classical molecular epidemiological studies aimed at identifying association or risk modification effects. European Commission Seventh Framework Program 223175: HEALTH-F2-2009-223175 Cancer Research UK C12292/A11174 C1287/A10118 C1287/A11990 C5047/A8385 National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) program National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) American Cancer Society Early Detection Professorship SIOP-06-258-01-COUN Intramural Research Program of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health UM1 CA164920 Lithuania (BFBOCC-LT): Research Council of Lithuania LIG-07/2012 LSC 10.0010.08 European Social Fund 2009/0220/1DP/1.1.1.2.0/09/APIA/VIAA/016 Liepaja City Council, Liepaja, Latvia Breast Cancer Research Foundation Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) Morris and Horowitz Families Professorship in Cancer Etiology and Outcomes Research NEYE Foundation Spanish Association against Cancer (Asociacion Espanola Contra el Cancer) AECC08 Thematic Network Cooperative Research in Cancer (Red Tematica Investigacion Cooperativa en Cancer (RTICC), Centro de Investigacion Cancer, Salamanca, Spain) RTICC 06/0020/1060 Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation FIS PI08 1120 Fondo de Investigacion Sanitaria (FIS) SAF2010-20493 Fundacion Mutua Madrilena (FMMA) City of Hope Clinical Cancer Genetics Community Network and the Hereditary Cancer Research Registry (COH-CCGCRN) National Cancer Institute and the Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health RC4CA153828 Italian citizens Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC) European Union (European Social Fund (ESF) Greek national funds through the "Education and Lifelong Learning" operational program of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) - Research Funding Program of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology: ARISTEIA "Heracleitus II: Investing in knowledge society through the European Social Fund" Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ) National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) grant to the Biomedical Research Centre, Manchester, UK NIHR grant to the Biomedical Research Centre at The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London University of Kansas Cancer Center P30 CA168524 Kansas Bioscience Authority Eminent Scholar Program Chancellors Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Sciences Professorship German Cancer Aid 109076 Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC) Ligue National Contre le Cancer Association "Le cancer du sein, parlons-en!" Award Canadian Institutes of Health Research for the CIHR Team in Familial Risks of Breast Cancer program GOA BOF10/GOA/019 Ghent University Hospital National Cancer Institute grants to the GOG Administrative Office and Tissue Bank CA 27469 GOG Statistical and Data Center CA 37517 GOG's Cancer Prevention and Control Committee CA 101165 Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain RD12/00369/0006 12/00539 European Regional Development Fund (Fonds europeen de developpement regional (FEDER)) funds Helsinki University Central Hospital Research Fund Academy of Finland 266528 Finnish Cancer Society Sigrid Juselius Foundation Dutch Cancer Society NKI1998-1854 NKI2004-3088 NKI2007-3756 Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research NWO 91109024 Pink Ribbon grant 110005 Biobanking and Molecular Resource Infrastructure (BBMRI) NWO 184.021.007/CP46 Hungarian Research and Technological Innovation Fund (KTIA)/Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (Orszagos Tudomanyos Kutatasi Alapprogramok (OTKA)) KTIA-OTKA CK-80745 KTIA-OTKA K-112228 Institut Catala d'Oncologia (ICO): contract grant sponsor: Asociacion Espanola Contra el Cancer Spanish Health Research Foundation Ramon Areces Foundation Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) Catalan Health Institute Autonomous Government of Catalonia International Hereditary Cancer Center (Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland) PBZ_KBN_122/P05/2004 Icelandic Association "Walking for Breast Cancer Research" Landspitali University Hospital Research Fund Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) for the "CIHR Team in Familial Risks of Breast Cancer" program, Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance 019511 Ministry of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade PSR-SIIRI-701 Ministero della Salute and a "5 x 1,000" Istituto Oncologico Veneto grant Liga Portuguesa Contra o Cancro National Breast Cancer Foundation Queensland Cancer Fund Cancer Councils of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia Cancer Foundation of Western Australia National Institutes of Health (NIH) through the National Cancer Institute (NCI) CA 116167 CA 128978 CA 176785 NCI Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Breast Cancer CA116201 US Department of Defense Ovarian Cancer Idea award W81XWH-10-1-0341 Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic to Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute MMCI 00209805 European Regional Development Fund State Budget of the Czech Republic (RECAMO) CZ. 1.05/2.1.00/03.0101 Charles University in Prague project UNCE204024 Robert and Kate Niehaus Clinical Cancer Genetics Initiative Intramural Research Program of the National Cancer Institute Westat, Inc, Rockville, MD, USA N02-CP-11019-50 N02-CP-65504 Clalit Health Services in Israel Israel Cancer Association Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF), New York, NY, USA Russian Federation for Basic Research 11-04-00227 12-04-00928 12-04-01490 Federal Agency for Science and Innovations, Russia 02.740.11.0780 Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center Istituto Toscano Tumori (ITT) Israeli Inherited Breast Cancer Consortium Swedish Breast Cancer Swedish Cancer Society Ralph and Marion Falk Medical Research Trust Entertainment Industry Fund National Women's Cancer Research Alliance University of California, Los Angeles Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Foundation: Breast Cancer Research Foundation University of California, San Francisco Cancer Risk Program and Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Cancer Research UK University of Pennsylvania: National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 CA102776 R01 CA083855 Susan G Komen for the Cure, Basser Center for BRCA Victorian Familial Cancer Trials Group (VFCTG): Victorian Cancer Agency, Cancer Australia, National Breast Cancer Foundation 5U01 CA113916 R01 CA140323 ISCIIIRETIC RD06/0020/1051 PI09/02483 PI10/01422 PI10/00748 PI13/00285 PI13/00189 2009SGR290 PI13/00189 2009SGR283 CA125183 R01 CA142996 1U01CA161032
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48. Association of Type and Location of BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations With Risk of Breast and Ovarian Cancer (vol 313, pg 1347, 2015)

Author: Rebbeck, Timothy R., Mitra, Nandita, Wan, Fei, Sinilnikova, Olga M., Healey, Sue, McGuffog, Lesley, Mazoyer, Sylvie, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Easton, Douglas F., Antoniou, Antonis C., Nathanson, Katherine L., CIMBA Consortium, Nevanlinna, Heli, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinicum, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, and Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics
Subjects: MESSENGER-RNA DECAY, endocrine system diseases, PROTEINS, UNKNOWN CLINICAL-SIGNIFICANCE, 3122 Cancers, GERMLINE MUTATIONS, DNA-SEQUENCE VARIANTS, CARRIERS, REGION, SUSCEPTIBILITY GENE, MOUSE MODELS, 3123 Gynaecology and paediatrics, 3111 Biomedicine, POSITION, skin and connective tissue diseases
Abstract: Heli Nevanlinna ja Kristiina Aittomäki ovat CIMBA Consortium -työryhmän jäseniä. IMPORTANCE Limited information about the relationship between specific mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 (BRCA1/2) and cancer risk exists. OBJECTIVE To identify mutation-specific cancer risks for carriers of BRCA1/2. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Observational study of women who were ascertained between 1937 and 2011 (median, 1999) and found to carry disease-associated BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations. The international sample comprised 19 581 carriers of BRCA1 mutations and 11 900 carriers of BRCA2 mutations from 55 centers in 33 countries on 6 continents. We estimated hazard ratios for breast and ovarian cancer based on mutation type, function, and nucleotide position. We also estimated RHR, the ratio of breast vs ovarian cancer hazard ratios. A value of RHR greater than 1 indicated elevated breast cancer risk; a value of RHR less than 1 indicated elevated ovarian cancer risk. EXPOSURES Mutations of BRCA1 or BRCA2. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Breast and ovarian cancer risks. RESULTS Among BRCA1 mutation carriers, 9052 women (46%) were diagnosed with breast cancer, 2317(12%) with ovarian cancer, 1041 (5%) with breast and ovarian cancer, and 7171 (37%) without cancer. Among BRCA2 mutation carriers, 6180 women (52%) were diagnosed with breast cancer, 682(6%) with ovarian cancer, 272(2%) with breast and ovarian cancer, and 4766 (40%) without cancer. In BRCA1, we identified 3 breast cancer cluster regions (BCCRs) located at c.179 to c.505 (BCCR1; RHR = 1.46; 95% Cl, 1.22-1.74; P = 2 x 10(-6)), c.4328 to c.4945 (BCCR2; RH R = 1.34; 95% Cl, 1.01-1.78; P =.04), and c. 5261 to c.5563 (BCCR2', RHR = 1.38; 95% Cl, 1.22-1.55; P = 6 x 10(-9)). We also identified an ovarian cancer cluster region (OCCR) from c.1380 to c.4062 (approximately exon 11) with RHR = 0.62 (95% Cl, 0.56-0.70; P = 9 x 10(-17)). In BRCA2, we observed multiple BCCRs spanning c.1 to c.596 (BCCR1; RHR = 1.71; 95% Cl, 1.06-2.78; P =.03), c.772 to c.1806 (BCCRI; RHR = 1.63; 95% Cl, 1.10-2.40; P =.01), and c.7394 to c.8904 (BCCR2; RHR = 2.31; 95% Cl, 1.69-3.16; P =.00002). We also identified 3 OCCRs: the first (OCCR1) spanned c.3249 to c.5681 that was adjacent to c.5946delT (6174delT; RHR = 0.51; 95% Cl, 0.44-0.60; P = 6 x 10(-17)). The second OCCR spanned c.6645 to c.7471 (OCCR2; RHR = 0.57; 95% Cl, 0.41-0.80; P =.001). Mutations conferring nonsense-mediated decay were associated with differential breast or ovarian cancer risks and an earlier age of breast cancer diagnosis for both BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE Breast and ovarian cancer risks varied by type and location of BRCA1/2 mutations. With appropriate validation, these data may have implications for risk assessment and cancer prevention decision making for carriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations.
Published: 2015

49. The SNP rs6500843 in 16p13.3 is associated with survival specifically among chemotherapy-treated breast cancer patients

Author: Douglas F. Easton, William J. Tapper, Robert Luben, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Jianjun Liu, Melissa C. Southey, Vesa Kataja, Renske Keeman, Diana Eccles, Hans Wildiers, Rainer Fagerholm, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Sara Margolin, Mitul Shah, Diether Lambrechts, Irene L. Andrulis, Agnes Jager, Kristiina Aittomäki, Dario Greco, Annika Lindblom, Per Hall, Arto Mannermaa, Christian R. Loehberg, Barbara Perkins, Jonine D. Figueroa, Julia A. Knight, Petra Seibold, Sajjad Rafiq, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Wolfgang Janni, Janet E. Olson, Sofia Khan, Heli Nevanlinna, Peter A. Fasching, Richard M. Weinshilboum, Kamila Czene, Maartje J. Hooning, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, John L. Hopper, kConFab Investigators, Fergus J. Couch, Maria Kabisch, Ute Hamann, Tuomas Heikkinen, Taru A. Muranen, Jenny Chang-Claude, Carl Blomqvist, Clinicum, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Lauri Antti Aaltonen / Principal Investigator, Department of Oncology, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Medical Oncology
Subjects: Oncology, PROGNOSIS, medicine.medical_treatment, SUSCEPTIBILITY, Bioinformatics, chemotherapy, Deoxycytidine, 0302 clinical medicine, 3123 Gynaecology and paediatrics, Genotype, Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols, Anthracyclines, Aged, 80 and over, 0303 health sciences, OUTCOMES, Middle Aged, 3. Good health, Chemotherapy, Adjuvant, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Female, Taxoids, cell cycle, ESTROGEN-RECEPTOR-ALPHA, Adult, EXPRESSION, medicine.medical_specialty, LARGE GENE LISTS, Anthracycline, Quantitative Trait Loci, 3122 Cancers, SNP, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Breast Neoplasms, CELL-LINES, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, survival, 03 medical and health sciences, Young Adult, Breast cancer, breast cancer, LUNG-CANCER, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Internal medicine, REVEALS, medicine, Humans, BRCA2 MUTATIONS, Lung cancer, Survival analysis, 030304 developmental biology, Aged, Chemotherapy, business.industry, medicine.disease, Survival Analysis, Gemcitabine, Multivariate Analysis, business, Genome-Wide Association Study, Priority Research Paper
Abstract: We have utilized a two-stage study design to search for SNPs associated with the survival of breast cancer patients treated with adjuvant chemotherapy. Our initial GWS data set consisted of 805 Finnish breast cancer cases (360 treated with adjuvant chemotherapy). The top 39 SNPs from this stage were analyzed in three independent data sets: iCOGS (n=6720 chemotherapy-treated cases), SUCCESS-A (n=3596), and POSH (n=518). Two SNPs were successfully validated: rs6500843 (any chemotherapy; per-allele HR 1.16, 95% C.I. 1.08-1.26, p=0.0001, p(adjusted)=0.0091), and rs11155012 (anthracycline therapy; per-allele HR 1.21, 95% C.I. 1.08-1.35, p=0.0010, p(adjusted)=0.0270). The SNP rs6500843 was found to specifically interact with adjuvant chemotherapy, independently of standard prognostic markers (p(interaction)=0.0009), with the rs6500843-GG genotype corresponding to the highest hazard among chemotherapy-treated cases (HR 1.47, 95% C.I. 1.20-1.80). Upon trans-eQTL analysis of public microarray data, the rs6500843 locus was found to associate with the expression of a group of genes involved in cell cycle control, notably AURKA, the expression of which also exhibited differential prognostic value between chemotherapy-treated and untreated cases in our analysis of microarray data. Based on previously published information, we propose that the eQTL genes may be connected to the rs6500843 locus via a RBFOX1-FOXM1 -mediated regulatory pathway. ispartof: Oncotarget vol:6 issue:10 pages:7390-407 ispartof: location:United States status: published
Published: 2015

50. RAD51, XRCC3, and XRCC2 mutation screening in Finnish breast cancer families

Author: Heli Nevanlinna, Liisa M. Pelttari, Johanna I. Kiiski, Salla Ranta, Carl Blomqvist, Sara Vilske, Kristiina Aittomäki, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinicum, Department of Oncology, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, and HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics
Subjects: ASSOCIATION CONSORTIUM, XRCC2, DNA repair, 3122 Cancers, RAD51, VARIANTS, OVARIAN-CANCER, Breast cancer, Germline mutation, XRCC3, 3123 Gynaecology and paediatrics, CONFER SUSCEPTIBILITY, Medicine, BRCA2 MUTATIONS, POLYMORPHISMS, RISK, Genetics, Multidisciplinary, business.industry, Research, Haplotype, FINLAND, CARRIERS, medicine.disease, GENE, 3. Good health, RAD51C, business
Abstract: Majority of the known breast cancer susceptibility genes have a role in DNA repair and the most important high-risk genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are specifically involved in the homologous recombination repair (HRR) of DNA double-strand breaks. A central player in HRR is RAD51 that binds DNA at the damage site. The RAD51 paralogs RAD51B, RAD51C, RAD51D, XRCC2, and XRCC3 facilitate the binding of RAD51 to DNA. While germline mutations in RAD51C and RAD51D are associated with high ovarian cancer risk and RAD51B polymorphisms with breast cancer, the contribution of RAD51, XRCC3, and XRCC2 is more unclear. To investigate the role of RAD51, XRCC3, and XRCC2 in breast cancer predisposition and to identify putative recurrent founder mutations in the Finnish population where such mutations have been observed in most of the currently known susceptibility genes, we screened 182 familial Finnish breast or ovarian cancer patients for germline variation in the RAD51and XRCC3 genes and 342 patients for variation in XRCC2, with a subset of the patients selected on the basis of decreased RAD51 protein expression on tumors. We also performed haplotype analyses for 1516 breast cancer cases and 1234 controls to assess the common variation in these genes. No pathogenic mutations were detected in any of the genes and the distribution of haplotypes was similar between cases and controls. Our results suggest that RAD51, XRCC3, and XRCC2 do not substantially contribute to breast cancer predisposition in the Finnish population.
Published: 2015

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