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1. PIK3CA mutation analysis in circulating tumor cells of patients with hormone receptor positive metastatic breast cancer

Author: Elena Marino, Cristian Mauro, Elena Belloni, Marco Picozzi, Valentina Favalli, Maria Cristina Cassatella, Laura Zorzino, Luciano Giacò, Pier Giuseppe Pelicci, Massimo Barberis, Maria Teresa Sandri, and Loris Bernard
Subjects: Circulating tumor cells, (CTCs), Liquid biopsy, Next generation sequencing, (NGS), Biology (General), QH301-705.5, Biochemistry, QD415-436
Abstract: In metastatic breast cancer (MBC), blood is a source of circulating tumor cells (CTCs). CTCs may serve as a ‘‘real-time liquid biopsy” as they represent metastatic tumor genetics better than primary tumor. PIK3CA is one of the most important oncogenes in treatment-unresponsive breast cancers. The aim of this study was to detect PIK3CA mutations and hereditary cancer variants in CTCs from MBC patients. Forty-seven blood samples were obtained from 20 MBC patients from at least 1/3 consecutive time points. CTCs were quantified using the CellSearch system and isolated from 11/20 patients with ≥5/7.5 ml CTCs (14/47 blood samples) using the DEPArray system. DNA was extracted and amplified to perform Sanger sequencing on PIK3CA gene. Sequencing revealed a pathogenic PIK3CA mutation in 2/11 (18 %) cases. Subsequently, we evaluated a 26-target hereditary gene panel by Next Generation Sequencing and identified a concomitant pathogenic mutation in the TP53 gene in a patient with a PIK3CA mutation. No pathogenic germline variants were found. Our data support the conclusion that CTCs analysis may be used to identify mutations in patients to identify those more likely to metastasize.
Published: 2024
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2. Hereditary Gastric Cancer: Single-Gene or Multigene Panel Testing? A Mono-Institutional Experience

Author: Mariarosaria Calvello, Monica Marabelli, Sara Gandini, Elena Marino, Loris Bernard, Matteo Dal Molin, Giulia Di Cola, Cristina Zanzottera, Giovanni Corso, Nicola Fazio, Lorenzo Gervaso, Uberto Fumagalli Romario, Massimo Barberis, Aliana Guerrieri-Gonzaga, Lucio Bertario, Davide Serrano, and Bernardo Bonanni
Subjects: gastric cancer, multigene panel testing, BRCA1, BRCA2, CDH1, MSH2, Genetics, QH426-470
Abstract: Gastric cancer (GC) has long been a ‘Cinderella’ among hereditary cancers. Until recently, single-gene testing (SGT) was the only approach to identify high-risk individuals. With the spread of multigene panel testing (MGPT), a debate arose on the involvement of other genes, particularly those pertaining to homologous recombination (HR) repair. We report our mono-institutional experience in genetic counseling and SGT for 54 GC patients, with the detection of nine pathogenic variants (PVs) (9/54:16.7%). Seven out of fifty (14%) patients who underwent SGT for unknown mutations were carriers of a PV in CDH1 (n = 3), BRCA2 (n = 2), BRCA1 (n = 1), and MSH2 (n = 1), while one patient (2%) carried two variants of unknown significance (VUSs). CDH1 and MSH2 emerged as genes involved in early-onset diffuse and later-onset intestinal GCs, respectively. We additionally conducted MGPT on 37 patients, identifying five PVs (13.5%), including three (3/5:60%) in an HR gene (BRCA2, ATM, RAD51D) and at least one VUS in 13 patients (35.1%). Comparing PV carriers and non-carriers, we observed a statistically significant difference in PVs between patients with and without family history of GC (p-value: 0.045) or Lynch-related tumors (p-value: 0.036). Genetic counseling remains central to GC risk assessment. MGPT appeared advantageous in patients with unspecific phenotypes, although it led to challenging results.
Published: 2023
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3. A knowledge-based framework for the discovery of cancer-predisposing variants using large-scale sequencing breast cancer data

Author: Giorgio E. M. Melloni, Luca Mazzarella, Loris Bernard, Margherita Bodini, Anna Russo, Lucilla Luzi, Pier Giuseppe Pelicci, and Laura Riva
Subjects: Breast cancer, Predisposition, Germline mutations, Somatic mutations, Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, RC254-282
Abstract: Abstract Background The landscape of cancer-predisposing genes has been extensively investigated in the last 30 years with various methodologies ranging from candidate gene to genome-wide association studies. However, sequencing data are still poorly exploited in cancer predisposition studies due to the lack of statistical power when comparing millions of variants at once. Method To overcome these power limitations, we propose a knowledge-based framework founded on the characteristics of known cancer-predisposing variants and genes. Under our framework, we took advantage of a combination of previously generated datasets of sequencing experiments to identify novel breast cancer-predisposing variants, comparing the normal genomes of 673 breast cancer patients of European origin against 27,173 controls matched by ethnicity. Results We detected several expected variants on known breast cancer-predisposing genes, like BRCA1 and BRCA2, and 11 variants on genes associated with other cancer types, like RET and AKT1. Furthermore, we detected 183 variants that overlap with somatic mutations in cancer and 41 variants associated with 38 possible loss-of-function genes, including PIK3CB and KMT2C. Finally, we found a set of 19 variants that are potentially pathogenic, negatively correlate with age at onset, and have never been associated with breast cancer. Conclusions In this study, we demonstrate the usefulness of a genomic-driven approach nested in a classic case-control study to prioritize cancer-predisposing variants. In addition, we provide a resource containing variants that may affect susceptibility to breast cancer.
Published: 2017
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4. Tumor BRCA Test for Patients with Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: The Role of Molecular Pathology in the Era of PARP Inhibitor Therapy

Author: Caterina Fumagalli, Federica Tomao, Ilaria Betella, Alessandra Rappa, Mariarosaria Calvello, Bernardo Bonanni, Loris Bernard, Fedro Peccatori, Nicoletta Colombo, Giuseppe Viale, Massimo Barberis, and Elena Guerini-Rocco
Subjects: brca1/2, ovarian cancer, next-generation sequencing, Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, RC254-282
Abstract: The PARP inhibitor olaparib has been approved in the maintenance setting of platinum-sensitive epithelial ovarian cancer patients with germline or somatic BRCA1/2 mutation. Therefore, the availability of a tumor BRCA test has become a clinical need. We report the results of the clinical implementation of a tumor BRCA test within the frame of an institutional workflow for the management of patients with nonmucinous and nonborderline epithelial ovarian cancer. In total, 223 patients with epithelial ovarian cancer were prospectively analyzed. BRCA1/2 status was evaluated on formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tumor specimens using next-generation sequencing technology. The tumor BRCA test had a success rate of 99.1% (221 of 223 successfully analyzed cases) and a median turnaround time of 17 calendar days. Among the 221 cases, BRCA1 or BRCA2 pathogenic/likely pathogenic mutations were found in 62 (28.1%) cases and variants of uncertain significance in 25 (11.3%) cases. The concordance rate between tumor BRCA test results and germline BRCA1/2 status was 87%, with five cases harboring pathogenic/likely pathogenic somatic-only mutations. The next-generation, sequencing-based tumor BRCA test showed a high success rate and a turnaround time compatible with clinical purposes. The tumor BRCA test could be implemented in a molecular diagnostic setting and it may guide the clinical management of patients with epithelial ovarian cancer.
Published: 2019
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5. Assessing associations between the AURKA-HMMR-TPX2-TUBG1 functional module and breast cancer risk in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers.

Author: Ignacio Blanco, Karoline Kuchenbaecker, Daniel Cuadras, Xianshu Wang, Daniel Barrowdale, Gorka Ruiz de Garibay, Pablo Librado, Alejandro Sánchez-Gracia, Julio Rozas, Núria Bonifaci, Lesley McGuffog, Vernon S Pankratz, Abul Islam, Francesca Mateo, Antoni Berenguer, Anna Petit, Isabel Català, Joan Brunet, Lidia Feliubadaló, Eva Tornero, Javier Benítez, Ana Osorio, Teresa Ramón y Cajal, Heli Nevanlinna, Kristiina Aittomäki, Banu K Arun, Amanda E Toland, Beth Y Karlan, Christine Walsh, Jenny Lester, Mark H Greene, Phuong L Mai, Robert L Nussbaum, Irene L Andrulis, Susan M Domchek, Katherine L Nathanson, Timothy R Rebbeck, Rosa B Barkardottir, Anna Jakubowska, Jan Lubinski, Katarzyna Durda, Katarzyna Jaworska-Bieniek, Kathleen Claes, Tom Van Maerken, Orland Díez, Thomas V Hansen, Lars Jønson, Anne-Marie Gerdes, Bent Ejlertsen, Miguel de la Hoya, Trinidad Caldés, Alison M Dunning, Clare Oliver, Elena Fineberg, Margaret Cook, Susan Peock, Emma McCann, Alex Murray, Chris Jacobs, Gabriella Pichert, Fiona Lalloo, Carol Chu, Huw Dorkins, Joan Paterson, Kai-Ren Ong, Manuel R Teixeira, Teixeira, Frans B L Hogervorst, Annemarie H van der Hout, Caroline Seynaeve, Rob B van der Luijt, Marjolijn J L Ligtenberg, Peter Devilee, Juul T Wijnen, Matti A Rookus, Hanne E J Meijers-Heijboer, Marinus J Blok, Ans M W van den Ouweland, Cora M Aalfs, Gustavo C Rodriguez, Kelly-Anne A Phillips, Marion Piedmonte, Stacy R Nerenstone, Victoria L Bae-Jump, David M O'Malley, Elena S Ratner, Rita K Schmutzler, Barbara Wappenschmidt, Kerstin Rhiem, Christoph Engel, Alfons Meindl, Nina Ditsch, Norbert Arnold, Hansjoerg J Plendl, Dieter Niederacher, Christian Sutter, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Doris Steinemann, Sabine Preisler-Adams, Karin Kast, Raymonda Varon-Mateeva, Andrea Gehrig, Anders Bojesen, Inge Sokilde Pedersen, Lone Sunde, Uffe Birk Jensen, Mads Thomassen, Torben A Kruse, Lenka Foretova, Paolo Peterlongo, Loris Bernard, Bernard Peissel, Giulietta Scuvera, Siranoush Manoukian, Paolo Radice, Laura Ottini, Marco Montagna, Simona Agata, Christine Maugard, Jacques Simard, Penny Soucy, Andreas Berger, Anneliese Fink-Retter, Christian F Singer, Christine Rappaport, Daphne Geschwantler-Kaulich, Muy-Kheng Tea, Georg Pfeiler, BCFR, Esther M John, Alex Miron, Susan L Neuhausen, Mary Beth Terry, Wendy K Chung, Mary B Daly, David E Goldgar, Ramunas Janavicius, Cecilia M Dorfling, Elisabeth J van Rensburg, Florentia Fostira, Irene Konstantopoulou, Judy Garber, Andrew K Godwin, Edith Olah, Steven A Narod, Gad Rennert, Shani Shimon Paluch, Yael Laitman, Eitan Friedman, SWE-BRCA, Annelie Liljegren, Johanna Rantala, Marie Stenmark-Askmalm, Niklas Loman, Evgeny N Imyanitov, Ute Hamann, kConFab Investigators, Amanda B Spurdle, Sue Healey, Jeffrey N Weitzel, Josef Herzog, David Margileth, Chiara Gorrini, Manel Esteller, Antonio Gómez, Sergi Sayols, Enrique Vidal, Holger Heyn, GEMO, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Melanie Léoné, Laure Barjhoux, Marion Fassy-Colcombet, Antoine de Pauw, Christine Lasset, Sandra Fert Ferrer, Laurent Castera, Pascaline Berthet, François Cornelis, Yves-Jean Bignon, Francesca Damiola, Sylvie Mazoyer, Olga M Sinilnikova, Christopher A Maxwell, Joseph Vijai, Mark Robson, Noah Kauff, Marina J Corines, Danylko Villano, Julie Cunningham, Adam Lee, Noralane Lindor, Conxi Lázaro, Douglas F Easton, Kenneth Offit, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Fergus J Couch, Antonis C Antoniou, and Miguel Angel Pujana
Subjects: Medicine, Science
Abstract: While interplay between BRCA1 and AURKA-RHAMM-TPX2-TUBG1 regulates mammary epithelial polarization, common genetic variation in HMMR (gene product RHAMM) may be associated with risk of breast cancer in BRCA1 mutation carriers. Following on these observations, we further assessed the link between the AURKA-HMMR-TPX2-TUBG1 functional module and risk of breast cancer in BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation carriers. Forty-one single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were genotyped in 15,252 BRCA1 and 8,211 BRCA2 mutation carriers and subsequently analyzed using a retrospective likelihood approach. The association of HMMR rs299290 with breast cancer risk in BRCA1 mutation carriers was confirmed: per-allele hazard ratio (HR) = 1.10, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.04-1.15, p = 1.9 x 10(-4) (false discovery rate (FDR)-adjusted p = 0.043). Variation in CSTF1, located next to AURKA, was also found to be associated with breast cancer risk in BRCA2 mutation carriers: rs2426618 per-allele HR = 1.10, 95% CI 1.03-1.16, p = 0.005 (FDR-adjusted p = 0.045). Assessment of pairwise interactions provided suggestions (FDR-adjusted pinteraction values > 0.05) for deviations from the multiplicative model for rs299290 and CSTF1 rs6064391, and rs299290 and TUBG1 rs11649877 in both BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. Following these suggestions, the expression of HMMR and AURKA or TUBG1 in sporadic breast tumors was found to potentially interact, influencing patients' survival. Together, the results of this study support the hypothesis of a causative link between altered function of AURKA-HMMR-TPX2-TUBG1 and breast carcinogenesis in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers.
Published: 2015
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6. Characterization of an Italian founder mutation in the RING-finger domain of BRCA1.

Author: Laura Caleca, Anna Laura Putignano, Mara Colombo, Caterina Congregati, Mohosin Sarkar, Thomas J Magliery, Carla B Ripamonti, Claudia Foglia, Bernard Peissel, Daniela Zaffaroni, Siranoush Manoukian, Carlo Tondini, Monica Barile, Valeria Pensotti, Loris Bernard, Laura Papi, and Paolo Radice
Subjects: Medicine, Science
Abstract: The identification of founder mutations in cancer predisposing genes is important to improve risk assessment in geographically defined populations, since it may provide specific targets resulting in cost-effective genetic testing. Here, we report the characterization of the BRCA1 c.190T>C (p.Cys64Arg) mutation, mapped to the RING-finger domain coding region, that we detected in 43 hereditary breast/ovarian cancer (HBOC) families, for the large part originating from the province of Bergamo (Northern Italy). Haplotype analysis was performed in 21 families, and led to the identification of a shared haplotype extending over three BRCA1-associated marker loci (0.4 cM). Using the DMLE+2.2 software program and regional population demographic data, we were able to estimate the age of the mutation to vary between 3,100 and 3,350 years old. Functional characterization of the mutation was carried out at both transcript and protein level. Reverse transcriptase-PCR analysis on lymphoblastoid cells revealed expression of full length mRNA from the mutant allele. A green fluorescent protein (GFP)-fragment reassembly assay showed that the p.Cys64Arg substitution prevents the binding of the BRCA1 protein to the interacting protein BARD1, in a similar way as proven deleterious mutations in the RING-domain. Overall, 55 of 83 (66%) female mutation carriers had a diagnosis of breast and/or ovarian cancer. Our observations indicate that the BRCA1 c.190T>C is a pathogenic founder mutation present in the Italian population. Further analyses will evaluate whether screening for this mutation can be suggested as an effective strategy for the rapid identification of at-risk individuals in the Bergamo area.
Published: 2014
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7. Sequencing analysis of SLX4/FANCP gene in Italian familial breast cancer cases.

Author: Irene Catucci, Mara Colombo, Paolo Verderio, Loris Bernard, Filomena Ficarazzi, Frederique Mariette, Monica Barile, Bernard Peissel, Elisa Cattaneo, Siranoush Manoukian, Paolo Radice, and Paolo Peterlongo
Subjects: Medicine, Science
Abstract: Breast cancer can be caused by germline mutations in several genes that are responsible for different hereditary cancer syndromes. Some of the genes causing the Fanconi anemia (FA) syndrome, such as BRCA2, BRIP1, PALB2, and RAD51C, are associated with high or moderate risk of developing breast cancer. Very recently, SLX4 has been established as a new FA gene raising the question of its implication in breast cancer risk. This study aimed at answering this question sequencing the entire coding region of SLX4 in 526 familial breast cancer cases from Italy. We found 81 different germline variants and none of these were clearly pathogenic. The statistical power of our sample size allows concluding that in Italy the frequency of carriers of truncating mutations of SLX4 may not exceed 0.6%. Our results indicate that testing for SLX4 germline mutations is unlikely to be relevant for the identification of individuals at risk of breast cancer, at least in the Italian population.
Published: 2012
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8. Interplay between BRCA1 and RHAMM regulates epithelial apicobasal polarization and may influence risk of breast cancer.

Author: Christopher A Maxwell, Javier Benítez, Laia Gómez-Baldó, Ana Osorio, Núria Bonifaci, Ricardo Fernández-Ramires, Sylvain V Costes, Elisabet Guinó, Helen Chen, Gareth J R Evans, Pooja Mohan, Isabel Català, Anna Petit, Helena Aguilar, Alberto Villanueva, Alvaro Aytes, Jordi Serra-Musach, Gad Rennert, Flavio Lejbkowicz, Paolo Peterlongo, Siranoush Manoukian, Bernard Peissel, Carla B Ripamonti, Bernardo Bonanni, Alessandra Viel, Anna Allavena, Loris Bernard, Paolo Radice, Eitan Friedman, Bella Kaufman, Yael Laitman, Maya Dubrovsky, Roni Milgrom, Anna Jakubowska, Cezary Cybulski, Bohdan Gorski, Katarzyna Jaworska, Katarzyna Durda, Grzegorz Sukiennicki, Jan Lubiński, Yin Yao Shugart, Susan M Domchek, Richard Letrero, Barbara L Weber, Frans B L Hogervorst, Matti A Rookus, J Margriet Collee, Peter Devilee, Marjolijn J Ligtenberg, Rob B van der Luijt, Cora M Aalfs, Quinten Waisfisz, Juul Wijnen, Cornelis E P van Roozendaal, HEBON, EMBRACE, Douglas F Easton, Susan Peock, Margaret Cook, Clare Oliver, Debra Frost, Patricia Harrington, D Gareth Evans, Fiona Lalloo, Rosalind Eeles, Louise Izatt, Carol Chu, Diana Eccles, Fiona Douglas, Carole Brewer, Heli Nevanlinna, Tuomas Heikkinen, Fergus J Couch, Noralane M Lindor, Xianshu Wang, Andrew K Godwin, Maria A Caligo, Grazia Lombardi, Niklas Loman, Per Karlsson, Hans Ehrencrona, Anna von Wachenfeldt, SWE-BRCA, Rosa Bjork Barkardottir, Ute Hamann, Muhammad U Rashid, Adriana Lasa, Trinidad Caldés, Raquel Andrés, Michael Schmitt, Volker Assmann, Kristen Stevens, Kenneth Offit, João Curado, Hagen Tilgner, Roderic Guigó, Gemma Aiza, Joan Brunet, Joan Castellsagué, Griselda Martrat, Ander Urruticoechea, Ignacio Blanco, Laima Tihomirova, David E Goldgar, Saundra Buys, Esther M John, Alexander Miron, Melissa Southey, Mary B Daly, BCFR, Rita K Schmutzler, Barbara Wappenschmidt, Alfons Meindl, Norbert Arnold, Helmut Deissler, Raymonda Varon-Mateeva, Christian Sutter, Dieter Niederacher, Evgeny Imyamitov, Olga M Sinilnikova, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonne, Sylvie Mazoyer, Carole Verny-Pierre, Laurent Castera, Antoine de Pauw, Yves-Jean Bignon, Nancy Uhrhammer, Jean-Philippe Peyrat, Philippe Vennin, Sandra Fert Ferrer, Marie-Agnès Collonge-Rame, Isabelle Mortemousque, GEMO Study Collaborators, Amanda B Spurdle, Jonathan Beesley, Xiaoqing Chen, Sue Healey, kConFab, Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff, Marc Vidal, Stephen B Gruber, Conxi Lázaro, Gabriel Capellá, Lesley McGuffog, Katherine L Nathanson, Antonis C Antoniou, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Markus C Fleisch, Víctor Moreno, and Miguel Angel Pujana
Subjects: Biology (General), QH301-705.5
Abstract: Differentiated mammary epithelium shows apicobasal polarity, and loss of tissue organization is an early hallmark of breast carcinogenesis. In BRCA1 mutation carriers, accumulation of stem and progenitor cells in normal breast tissue and increased risk of developing tumors of basal-like type suggest that BRCA1 regulates stem/progenitor cell proliferation and differentiation. However, the function of BRCA1 in this process and its link to carcinogenesis remain unknown. Here we depict a molecular mechanism involving BRCA1 and RHAMM that regulates apicobasal polarity and, when perturbed, may increase risk of breast cancer. Starting from complementary genetic analyses across families and populations, we identified common genetic variation at the low-penetrance susceptibility HMMR locus (encoding for RHAMM) that modifies breast cancer risk among BRCA1, but probably not BRCA2, mutation carriers: n = 7,584, weighted hazard ratio ((w)HR) = 1.09 (95% CI 1.02-1.16), p(trend) = 0.017; and n = 3,965, (w)HR = 1.04 (95% CI 0.94-1.16), p(trend) = 0.43; respectively. Subsequently, studies of MCF10A apicobasal polarization revealed a central role for BRCA1 and RHAMM, together with AURKA and TPX2, in essential reorganization of microtubules. Mechanistically, reorganization is facilitated by BRCA1 and impaired by AURKA, which is regulated by negative feedback involving RHAMM and TPX2. Taken together, our data provide fundamental insight into apicobasal polarization through BRCA1 function, which may explain the expanded cell subsets and characteristic tumor type accompanying BRCA1 mutation, while also linking this process to sporadic breast cancer through perturbation of HMMR/RHAMM.
Published: 2011
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9. Ultradeep sequencing of a human ultraconserved region reveals somatic and constitutional genomic instability.

Author: Anna De Grassi, Cinzia Segala, Fabio Iannelli, Sara Volorio, Lucio Bertario, Paolo Radice, Loris Bernard, and Francesca D Ciccarelli
Subjects: Biology (General), QH301-705.5
Abstract: Early detection of cancer-associated genomic instability is crucial, particularly in tumour types in which this instability represents the essential underlying mechanism of tumourigenesis. Currently used methods require the presence of already established neoplastic cells because they only detect clonal mutations. In principle, parallel sequencing of single DNA filaments could reveal the early phases of tumour initiation by detecting low-frequency mutations, provided an adequate depth of coverage and an effective control of the experimental error. We applied ultradeep sequencing to estimate the genomic instability of individuals with hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC). To overcome the experimental error, we used an ultraconserved region (UCR) of the human genome as an internal control. By comparing the mutability outside and inside the UCR, we observed a tendency of the ultraconserved element to accumulate significantly fewer mutations than the flanking segments in both neoplastic and nonneoplastic HNPCC samples. No difference between the two regions was detectable in cells from healthy donors, indicating that all three HNPCC samples have mutation rates higher than the healthy genome. This is the first, to our knowledge, direct evidence of an intrinsic genomic instability of individuals with heterozygous mutations in mismatch repair genes, and constitutes the proof of principle for the development of a more sensitive molecular assay of genomic instability.
Published: 2010
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10. Supplementary Table 2 from 9q31.2-rs865686 as a Susceptibility Locus for Estrogen Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer: Evidence from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium

Author: Isabel dos-Santos-Silva, Julian Peto, Qin Wang, Manjeet Humphreys, Douglas F. Easton, Minouk Schoemaker, Michael Jones, Anthony Swerdlow, Alan Ashworth, Maya Ghoussaini, Alison M. Dunning, Fiona M. Blows, Paul Pharoah, Malcolm W.R. Reed, Ian W. Brock, Simon S. Cross, Angela Cox, Jingmei Li, Jianjun Liu, Kamila Czene, Per Hall, Madeleine M.A. Tilanus-Linthorst, Agnes Jager, Antoinette Hollestelle, Maartje J. Hooning, Caroline M. Seynaeve, John W.M. Martens, Robert A.E.M. Tollenaar, Peter Devilee, Nayana Weerasooriya, Anna Marie Mulligan, Julia A. Knight, Irene L. Andrulis, Mervi Grip, Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen, Katri Pylkäs, Robert Winqvist, Alexander Miron, Esther M. John, Gianluca Severi, Cariona A. McLean, Laura Baglietto, Graham Giles, Janet Olson, Xianshu Wang, Celine Vachon, Fergus J. Couch, Paolo Radice, Siranoush Manoukian, Loris Bernard, Paolo Peterlongo, Sabine Behrens, Katharina Buck, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Caroline Weltens, Robert Paridaens, Ann Smeets, Diether Lambrechts, Xiaoqing Chen, Jonathan Beesley, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Vesa Kataja, Jaana M. Hartikainen, Veli-Matti Kosma, Arto Mannermaa, Sara Margolin, Annika Lindblom, Elza Khusnutdinova, Guzel Zinnatullina, Darya Prokofyeva, Marina Bermisheva, Yuriy Rogov, Natalia Antonenkova, Natalia Bogdanova, Carl Blomqvist, Kristiina Aittomäki, Taru A. Muranen, Heli Nevanlinna, Peter Hillemanns, Michael Bremer, Peter Schürmann, Thilo Dörk, Ursula Eilber, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Jenny Chang-Claude, Thomas Brüning, Christina Justenhoven, Hiltrud Brauch, Rita K. Schmutzler, Claus R. Bartram, Michael Golatta, Alfons Meindl, Anne Langheinz, Volker Arndt, Heiko Müller, Hermann Brenner, Christina Clarke Dur, Leslie Bernstein, Argyrios Ziogas, Hoda Anton-Culver, M. Pilar Zamora, José-Ignacio Arias-Pérez, Javier Benítez, Roger L. Milne, Børge G Nordestgaard, Henrik Flyger, Sune F. Nielsen, Stig E Bojesen, Claire Mulot, Pierre Laurent-Puig, Thérèse Truong, Pascal Guénel, Christof Sohn, Andreas Schneeweiss, Frederik Marme, Barbara Burwinkel, Michael Kerin, Ian Tomlinson, Elinor J. Sawyer, Ruediger Schulz-Wendtland, Arif B. Ekici, Matthias W. Beckmann, Peter A. Fasching, Surapon Wiangnon, Arkom Chaiwerawattana, Artitaya Lophatananon, Kenneth R. Muir, Linda M. Braaf, Sten Cornelissen, Annegien Broeks, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Maryam Mahmoodi, Melissa C. Southey, Carmel Apicella, John L. Hopper, Nichola Johnson, Nick Orr, Olivia Fletcher, Frank Dudbridge, and Helen Warren
Abstract: PDF file, 70K, Availability of information on tumor morphology and receptor status for Europeans, by each included BCAC study.
Published: 2023

11. Supplementary Tables 1-4 from Common Variants at the 19p13.1 and ZNF365 Loci Are Associated with ER Subtypes of Breast Cancer and Ovarian Cancer Risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers

Author: Jacques Simard, Kenneth Offit, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Douglas F. Easton, Phuong L. Mai, Mark H. Greene, Paolo Radice, Liliana Varesco, Giuseppe Giannini, Alessandra Viel, Loris Bernard, Monica Barile, Daniela Zaffaroni, Bernard Peissel, Siranoush Manoukian, Paolo Peterlongo, V. Shane Pankratz, Zachary Fredericksen, Noralane M. Lindor, Yuan Chun Ding, Susan L. Neuhausen, Amanda B. Spurdle, Marc D. Tischkowitz, Heli Nevanlinna, Taru A. Muranen, Miguel de la Hoya, Trinidad Caldes, Wolfram Heinritz, Britta Fiebig, Karin Kast, Christian Sutter, Andrea Gehrig, Helmut Deissler, Raymonda Varon-Mateeva, Dorothea Gadzicki, Sabine Preisler-Adams, Dieter Niederacher, Simone Heidemann, Norbert Arnold, Nina Ditsch, Alfons Meindl, Christoph Engel, Barbara Wappenschmidt, Rita K. Schmutzler, Ava Kwong, Orland Diez, Cecelia M. Dorfling, Elizabeth J. van Rensburg, Mary S. Beattie, Patricia A. Ganz, Soo Hwang Teo, Edith Olah, Christine S. Walsh, Beth Y. Karlan, Kunle O. Odunsi, Paul P.D. Pharoah, Simon A. Gayther, Joan Brunet, Lidia Feliubadalo, Ignacio Blanco, Conxi Lazaro, Ramunas Janavicius, Claudine Isaacs, Evgeny N. Imyanitov, Simona Agata, Marco Montagna, Amanda Ewart-Toland, Katie Wakeley, John Boggess, Wendy S. Rubinstein, Jack Basil, Kelly Phillips, Marion Piedmonte, Mark E. Robson, Kara Sarrel, Sohela Shah, Joseph Vijai, Aðalgeir Arason, Finn C. Nielsen, Thomas V.O. Hansen, Anneliese Fink-Retter, Muy-Kheng M. Tea, Christine Rappaport, Christian F. Singer, David E. Goldgar, John L. Hopper, Melissa C. Southey, Alexander Miron, Esther M. John, Wendy K. Chung, MaryBeth Terry, Mary B. Daly, Saundra S. Buys, Carrie L. Snyder, Henry T. Lynch, Linda Akloul, Capucine Delnatte, Isabelle Coupier, Pascal Pujol, Olivier Caron, Brigitte Bressac-de Paillerets, Nadia Boutry-Kryza, Mélanie Léoné, Sylvie Mazoyer, François Cornelis, Laurent Castera, Marion Fassy-Colcombet, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Andrew K. Godwin, Betsy Bove, Lucy E. Side, M. John Kennedy, Mary E. Porteous, Lisa Walker, Patrick J. Morrison, Shirley V. Hodgson, Fiona Douglas, Carole Brewer, Joan Paterson, Jackie Cook, Trevor Cole, Diana M. Eccles, Rosemarie Davidson, Julian Adlard, Rosalind A. Eeles, Chris Jacobs, D. Gareth Evans, Elena Fineberg, Radka Platte, Steve D. Ellis, Debra Frost, Susan Peock, Margreet G.E.M. Ausems, Rogier A. Oldenburg, Maartje J. Hooning, Marleen Kets, Marinus J. Blok, Juul Wijnen, Hanne E.J. Meijers-Heijboer, Flora E. van Leeuwen, Theo A. van Os, Frans B.L. Hogervorst, Ute Hamann, Javier Benitez, María Isabel Tejada, Mercedes Durán, Ana Osorio, Bohdan Górski, Cezary Cybulski, Jacek Gronwald, Tomasz Byrski, Tomasz Huzarski, Elżbieta Złowocka, Katarzyna Durda, Katarzyna Jaworska, Jan Lubinski, Ania Jakubowska, Susan M. Domchek, Timothy R. Rebbeck, Katherine L. Nathanson, Per Karlsson, Hans Ehrencrona, Maria Soller, Niklas Loman, Gisela Barbany-Bustinza, Anna von Wachenfeldt, Maria A. Caligo, Torben A. Kruse, Anne-Bine Skytte, Uffe Birk Jensen, Anne-Marie Gerdes, Mads Thomassen, Anna Marie Mulligan, Hilmi Ozcelik, Irene L. Andrulis, Olga M. Sinilnikova, Sue Healey, Andrew Lee, Daniel Barrowdale, Lesley McGuffog, Tomas Kirchhoff, Xianshu Wang, Xiaoqing Chen, Jonathan Beesley, Penny Soucy, Karoline B. Kuchenbaecker, Susan J. Ramus, Antonis C. Antoniou, Mia M. Gaudet, and Fergus J. Couch
Abstract: PDF file - 90K
Published: 2023

12. Data from Common Variants at the 19p13.1 and ZNF365 Loci Are Associated with ER Subtypes of Breast Cancer and Ovarian Cancer Risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers

Author: Jacques Simard, Kenneth Offit, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Douglas F. Easton, Phuong L. Mai, Mark H. Greene, Paolo Radice, Liliana Varesco, Giuseppe Giannini, Alessandra Viel, Loris Bernard, Monica Barile, Daniela Zaffaroni, Bernard Peissel, Siranoush Manoukian, Paolo Peterlongo, V. Shane Pankratz, Zachary Fredericksen, Noralane M. Lindor, Yuan Chun Ding, Susan L. Neuhausen, Amanda B. Spurdle, Marc D. Tischkowitz, Heli Nevanlinna, Taru A. Muranen, Miguel de la Hoya, Trinidad Caldes, Wolfram Heinritz, Britta Fiebig, Karin Kast, Christian Sutter, Andrea Gehrig, Helmut Deissler, Raymonda Varon-Mateeva, Dorothea Gadzicki, Sabine Preisler-Adams, Dieter Niederacher, Simone Heidemann, Norbert Arnold, Nina Ditsch, Alfons Meindl, Christoph Engel, Barbara Wappenschmidt, Rita K. Schmutzler, Ava Kwong, Orland Diez, Cecelia M. Dorfling, Elizabeth J. van Rensburg, Mary S. Beattie, Patricia A. Ganz, Soo Hwang Teo, Edith Olah, Christine S. Walsh, Beth Y. Karlan, Kunle O. Odunsi, Paul P.D. Pharoah, Simon A. Gayther, Joan Brunet, Lidia Feliubadalo, Ignacio Blanco, Conxi Lazaro, Ramunas Janavicius, Claudine Isaacs, Evgeny N. Imyanitov, Simona Agata, Marco Montagna, Amanda Ewart-Toland, Katie Wakeley, John Boggess, Wendy S. Rubinstein, Jack Basil, Kelly Phillips, Marion Piedmonte, Mark E. Robson, Kara Sarrel, Sohela Shah, Joseph Vijai, Aðalgeir Arason, Finn C. Nielsen, Thomas V.O. Hansen, Anneliese Fink-Retter, Muy-Kheng M. Tea, Christine Rappaport, Christian F. Singer, David E. Goldgar, John L. Hopper, Melissa C. Southey, Alexander Miron, Esther M. John, Wendy K. Chung, MaryBeth Terry, Mary B. Daly, Saundra S. Buys, Carrie L. Snyder, Henry T. Lynch, Linda Akloul, Capucine Delnatte, Isabelle Coupier, Pascal Pujol, Olivier Caron, Brigitte Bressac-de Paillerets, Nadia Boutry-Kryza, Mélanie Léoné, Sylvie Mazoyer, François Cornelis, Laurent Castera, Marion Fassy-Colcombet, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Andrew K. Godwin, Betsy Bove, Lucy E. Side, M. John Kennedy, Mary E. Porteous, Lisa Walker, Patrick J. Morrison, Shirley V. Hodgson, Fiona Douglas, Carole Brewer, Joan Paterson, Jackie Cook, Trevor Cole, Diana M. Eccles, Rosemarie Davidson, Julian Adlard, Rosalind A. Eeles, Chris Jacobs, D. Gareth Evans, Elena Fineberg, Radka Platte, Steve D. Ellis, Debra Frost, Susan Peock, Margreet G.E.M. Ausems, Rogier A. Oldenburg, Maartje J. Hooning, Marleen Kets, Marinus J. Blok, Juul Wijnen, Hanne E.J. Meijers-Heijboer, Flora E. van Leeuwen, Theo A. van Os, Frans B.L. Hogervorst, Ute Hamann, Javier Benitez, María Isabel Tejada, Mercedes Durán, Ana Osorio, Bohdan Górski, Cezary Cybulski, Jacek Gronwald, Tomasz Byrski, Tomasz Huzarski, Elżbieta Złowocka, Katarzyna Durda, Katarzyna Jaworska, Jan Lubinski, Ania Jakubowska, Susan M. Domchek, Timothy R. Rebbeck, Katherine L. Nathanson, Per Karlsson, Hans Ehrencrona, Maria Soller, Niklas Loman, Gisela Barbany-Bustinza, Anna von Wachenfeldt, Maria A. Caligo, Torben A. Kruse, Anne-Bine Skytte, Uffe Birk Jensen, Anne-Marie Gerdes, Mads Thomassen, Anna Marie Mulligan, Hilmi Ozcelik, Irene L. Andrulis, Olga M. Sinilnikova, Sue Healey, Andrew Lee, Daniel Barrowdale, Lesley McGuffog, Tomas Kirchhoff, Xianshu Wang, Xiaoqing Chen, Jonathan Beesley, Penny Soucy, Karoline B. Kuchenbaecker, Susan J. Ramus, Antonis C. Antoniou, Mia M. Gaudet, and Fergus J. Couch
Abstract: Background: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) identified variants at 19p13.1 and ZNF365 (10q21.2) as risk factors for breast cancer among BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers, respectively. We explored associations with ovarian cancer and with breast cancer by tumor histopathology for these variants in mutation carriers from the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA).Methods: Genotyping data for 12,599 BRCA1 and 7,132 BRCA2 mutation carriers from 40 studies were combined.Results: We confirmed associations between rs8170 at 19p13.1 and breast cancer risk for BRCA1 mutation carriers [HR, 1.17; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.07–1.27; P = 7.42 × 10−4] and between rs16917302 at ZNF365 (HR, 0.84; 95% CI, 0.73–0.97; P = 0.017) but not rs311499 at 20q13.3 (HR, 1.11; 95% CI, 0.94–1.31; P = 0.22) and breast cancer risk for BRCA2 mutation carriers. Analyses based on tumor histopathology showed that 19p13 variants were predominantly associated with estrogen receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer for both BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers, whereas rs16917302 at ZNF365 was mainly associated with ER-positive breast cancer for both BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. We also found for the first time that rs67397200 at 19p13.1 was associated with an increased risk of ovarian cancer for BRCA1 (HR, 1.16; 95% CI, 1.05–1.29; P = 3.8 × 10−4) and BRCA2 mutation carriers (HR, 1.30; 95% CI, 1.10–1.52; P = 1.8 × 10−3).Conclusions: 19p13.1 and ZNF365 are susceptibility loci for ovarian cancer and ER subtypes of breast cancer among BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.Impact: These findings can lead to an improved understanding of tumor development and may prove useful for breast and ovarian cancer risk prediction for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev; 21(4); 645–57. ©2012 AACR.
Published: 2023

13. Supplementary Table Legend from 9q31.2-rs865686 as a Susceptibility Locus for Estrogen Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer: Evidence from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium

Author: Isabel dos-Santos-Silva, Julian Peto, Qin Wang, Manjeet Humphreys, Douglas F. Easton, Minouk Schoemaker, Michael Jones, Anthony Swerdlow, Alan Ashworth, Maya Ghoussaini, Alison M. Dunning, Fiona M. Blows, Paul Pharoah, Malcolm W.R. Reed, Ian W. Brock, Simon S. Cross, Angela Cox, Jingmei Li, Jianjun Liu, Kamila Czene, Per Hall, Madeleine M.A. Tilanus-Linthorst, Agnes Jager, Antoinette Hollestelle, Maartje J. Hooning, Caroline M. Seynaeve, John W.M. Martens, Robert A.E.M. Tollenaar, Peter Devilee, Nayana Weerasooriya, Anna Marie Mulligan, Julia A. Knight, Irene L. Andrulis, Mervi Grip, Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen, Katri Pylkäs, Robert Winqvist, Alexander Miron, Esther M. John, Gianluca Severi, Cariona A. McLean, Laura Baglietto, Graham Giles, Janet Olson, Xianshu Wang, Celine Vachon, Fergus J. Couch, Paolo Radice, Siranoush Manoukian, Loris Bernard, Paolo Peterlongo, Sabine Behrens, Katharina Buck, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Caroline Weltens, Robert Paridaens, Ann Smeets, Diether Lambrechts, Xiaoqing Chen, Jonathan Beesley, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Vesa Kataja, Jaana M. Hartikainen, Veli-Matti Kosma, Arto Mannermaa, Sara Margolin, Annika Lindblom, Elza Khusnutdinova, Guzel Zinnatullina, Darya Prokofyeva, Marina Bermisheva, Yuriy Rogov, Natalia Antonenkova, Natalia Bogdanova, Carl Blomqvist, Kristiina Aittomäki, Taru A. Muranen, Heli Nevanlinna, Peter Hillemanns, Michael Bremer, Peter Schürmann, Thilo Dörk, Ursula Eilber, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Jenny Chang-Claude, Thomas Brüning, Christina Justenhoven, Hiltrud Brauch, Rita K. Schmutzler, Claus R. Bartram, Michael Golatta, Alfons Meindl, Anne Langheinz, Volker Arndt, Heiko Müller, Hermann Brenner, Christina Clarke Dur, Leslie Bernstein, Argyrios Ziogas, Hoda Anton-Culver, M. Pilar Zamora, José-Ignacio Arias-Pérez, Javier Benítez, Roger L. Milne, Børge G Nordestgaard, Henrik Flyger, Sune F. Nielsen, Stig E Bojesen, Claire Mulot, Pierre Laurent-Puig, Thérèse Truong, Pascal Guénel, Christof Sohn, Andreas Schneeweiss, Frederik Marme, Barbara Burwinkel, Michael Kerin, Ian Tomlinson, Elinor J. Sawyer, Ruediger Schulz-Wendtland, Arif B. Ekici, Matthias W. Beckmann, Peter A. Fasching, Surapon Wiangnon, Arkom Chaiwerawattana, Artitaya Lophatananon, Kenneth R. Muir, Linda M. Braaf, Sten Cornelissen, Annegien Broeks, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Maryam Mahmoodi, Melissa C. Southey, Carmel Apicella, John L. Hopper, Nichola Johnson, Nick Orr, Olivia Fletcher, Frank Dudbridge, and Helen Warren
Abstract: PDF file, 45K.
Published: 2023

14. Supplementary Table 3 from 9q31.2-rs865686 as a Susceptibility Locus for Estrogen Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer: Evidence from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium

Author: Isabel dos-Santos-Silva, Julian Peto, Qin Wang, Manjeet Humphreys, Douglas F. Easton, Minouk Schoemaker, Michael Jones, Anthony Swerdlow, Alan Ashworth, Maya Ghoussaini, Alison M. Dunning, Fiona M. Blows, Paul Pharoah, Malcolm W.R. Reed, Ian W. Brock, Simon S. Cross, Angela Cox, Jingmei Li, Jianjun Liu, Kamila Czene, Per Hall, Madeleine M.A. Tilanus-Linthorst, Agnes Jager, Antoinette Hollestelle, Maartje J. Hooning, Caroline M. Seynaeve, John W.M. Martens, Robert A.E.M. Tollenaar, Peter Devilee, Nayana Weerasooriya, Anna Marie Mulligan, Julia A. Knight, Irene L. Andrulis, Mervi Grip, Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen, Katri Pylkäs, Robert Winqvist, Alexander Miron, Esther M. John, Gianluca Severi, Cariona A. McLean, Laura Baglietto, Graham Giles, Janet Olson, Xianshu Wang, Celine Vachon, Fergus J. Couch, Paolo Radice, Siranoush Manoukian, Loris Bernard, Paolo Peterlongo, Sabine Behrens, Katharina Buck, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Caroline Weltens, Robert Paridaens, Ann Smeets, Diether Lambrechts, Xiaoqing Chen, Jonathan Beesley, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Vesa Kataja, Jaana M. Hartikainen, Veli-Matti Kosma, Arto Mannermaa, Sara Margolin, Annika Lindblom, Elza Khusnutdinova, Guzel Zinnatullina, Darya Prokofyeva, Marina Bermisheva, Yuriy Rogov, Natalia Antonenkova, Natalia Bogdanova, Carl Blomqvist, Kristiina Aittomäki, Taru A. Muranen, Heli Nevanlinna, Peter Hillemanns, Michael Bremer, Peter Schürmann, Thilo Dörk, Ursula Eilber, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Jenny Chang-Claude, Thomas Brüning, Christina Justenhoven, Hiltrud Brauch, Rita K. Schmutzler, Claus R. Bartram, Michael Golatta, Alfons Meindl, Anne Langheinz, Volker Arndt, Heiko Müller, Hermann Brenner, Christina Clarke Dur, Leslie Bernstein, Argyrios Ziogas, Hoda Anton-Culver, M. Pilar Zamora, José-Ignacio Arias-Pérez, Javier Benítez, Roger L. Milne, Børge G Nordestgaard, Henrik Flyger, Sune F. Nielsen, Stig E Bojesen, Claire Mulot, Pierre Laurent-Puig, Thérèse Truong, Pascal Guénel, Christof Sohn, Andreas Schneeweiss, Frederik Marme, Barbara Burwinkel, Michael Kerin, Ian Tomlinson, Elinor J. Sawyer, Ruediger Schulz-Wendtland, Arif B. Ekici, Matthias W. Beckmann, Peter A. Fasching, Surapon Wiangnon, Arkom Chaiwerawattana, Artitaya Lophatananon, Kenneth R. Muir, Linda M. Braaf, Sten Cornelissen, Annegien Broeks, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Maryam Mahmoodi, Melissa C. Southey, Carmel Apicella, John L. Hopper, Nichola Johnson, Nick Orr, Olivia Fletcher, Frank Dudbridge, and Helen Warren
Abstract: PDF file, 57K, Genotyping characteristics of each BCAC participating study.
Published: 2023

15. Data from 9q31.2-rs865686 as a Susceptibility Locus for Estrogen Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer: Evidence from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium

Author: Isabel dos-Santos-Silva, Julian Peto, Qin Wang, Manjeet Humphreys, Douglas F. Easton, Minouk Schoemaker, Michael Jones, Anthony Swerdlow, Alan Ashworth, Maya Ghoussaini, Alison M. Dunning, Fiona M. Blows, Paul Pharoah, Malcolm W.R. Reed, Ian W. Brock, Simon S. Cross, Angela Cox, Jingmei Li, Jianjun Liu, Kamila Czene, Per Hall, Madeleine M.A. Tilanus-Linthorst, Agnes Jager, Antoinette Hollestelle, Maartje J. Hooning, Caroline M. Seynaeve, John W.M. Martens, Robert A.E.M. Tollenaar, Peter Devilee, Nayana Weerasooriya, Anna Marie Mulligan, Julia A. Knight, Irene L. Andrulis, Mervi Grip, Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen, Katri Pylkäs, Robert Winqvist, Alexander Miron, Esther M. John, Gianluca Severi, Cariona A. McLean, Laura Baglietto, Graham Giles, Janet Olson, Xianshu Wang, Celine Vachon, Fergus J. Couch, Paolo Radice, Siranoush Manoukian, Loris Bernard, Paolo Peterlongo, Sabine Behrens, Katharina Buck, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Caroline Weltens, Robert Paridaens, Ann Smeets, Diether Lambrechts, Xiaoqing Chen, Jonathan Beesley, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Vesa Kataja, Jaana M. Hartikainen, Veli-Matti Kosma, Arto Mannermaa, Sara Margolin, Annika Lindblom, Elza Khusnutdinova, Guzel Zinnatullina, Darya Prokofyeva, Marina Bermisheva, Yuriy Rogov, Natalia Antonenkova, Natalia Bogdanova, Carl Blomqvist, Kristiina Aittomäki, Taru A. Muranen, Heli Nevanlinna, Peter Hillemanns, Michael Bremer, Peter Schürmann, Thilo Dörk, Ursula Eilber, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Jenny Chang-Claude, Thomas Brüning, Christina Justenhoven, Hiltrud Brauch, Rita K. Schmutzler, Claus R. Bartram, Michael Golatta, Alfons Meindl, Anne Langheinz, Volker Arndt, Heiko Müller, Hermann Brenner, Christina Clarke Dur, Leslie Bernstein, Argyrios Ziogas, Hoda Anton-Culver, M. Pilar Zamora, José-Ignacio Arias-Pérez, Javier Benítez, Roger L. Milne, Børge G Nordestgaard, Henrik Flyger, Sune F. Nielsen, Stig E Bojesen, Claire Mulot, Pierre Laurent-Puig, Thérèse Truong, Pascal Guénel, Christof Sohn, Andreas Schneeweiss, Frederik Marme, Barbara Burwinkel, Michael Kerin, Ian Tomlinson, Elinor J. Sawyer, Ruediger Schulz-Wendtland, Arif B. Ekici, Matthias W. Beckmann, Peter A. Fasching, Surapon Wiangnon, Arkom Chaiwerawattana, Artitaya Lophatananon, Kenneth R. Muir, Linda M. Braaf, Sten Cornelissen, Annegien Broeks, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Maryam Mahmoodi, Melissa C. Southey, Carmel Apicella, John L. Hopper, Nichola Johnson, Nick Orr, Olivia Fletcher, Frank Dudbridge, and Helen Warren
Abstract: Background: Our recent genome-wide association study identified a novel breast cancer susceptibility locus at 9q31.2 (rs865686).Methods: To further investigate the rs865686–breast cancer association, we conducted a replication study within the Breast Cancer Association Consortium, which comprises 37 case–control studies (48,394 cases, 50,836 controls).Results: This replication study provides additional strong evidence of an inverse association between rs865686 and breast cancer risk [study-adjusted per G-allele OR, 0.90; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.88; 0.91, P = 2.01 × 10−29] among women of European ancestry. There were ethnic differences in the estimated minor (G)-allele frequency among controls [0.09, 0.30, and 0.38 among, respectively, Asians, Eastern Europeans, and other Europeans; P for heterogeneity (Phet) = 1.3 × 10−143], but no evidence of ethnic differences in per allele OR (Phet = 0.43). rs865686 was associated with estrogen receptor–positive (ER+) disease (per G-allele OR, 0.89; 95% CI, 0.86–0.91; P = 3.13 × 10−22) but less strongly, if at all, with ER-negative (ER−) disease (OR, 0.98; 95% CI, 0.94–1.02; P = 0.26; Phet = 1.16 × 10−6), with no evidence of independent heterogeneity by progesterone receptor or HER2 status. The strength of the breast cancer association decreased with increasing age at diagnosis, with case-only analysis showing a trend in the number of copies of the G allele with increasing age at diagnosis (P for linear trend = 0.0095), but only among women with ER+ tumors.Conclusions: This study is the first to show that rs865686 is a susceptibility marker for ER+ breast cancer.Impact: The findings further support the view that genetic susceptibility varies according to tumor subtype. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev; 21(10); 1783–. ©2012 AACR.
Published: 2023

16. Supplementary Table 1 from 9q31.2-rs865686 as a Susceptibility Locus for Estrogen Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer: Evidence from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium

Author: Isabel dos-Santos-Silva, Julian Peto, Qin Wang, Manjeet Humphreys, Douglas F. Easton, Minouk Schoemaker, Michael Jones, Anthony Swerdlow, Alan Ashworth, Maya Ghoussaini, Alison M. Dunning, Fiona M. Blows, Paul Pharoah, Malcolm W.R. Reed, Ian W. Brock, Simon S. Cross, Angela Cox, Jingmei Li, Jianjun Liu, Kamila Czene, Per Hall, Madeleine M.A. Tilanus-Linthorst, Agnes Jager, Antoinette Hollestelle, Maartje J. Hooning, Caroline M. Seynaeve, John W.M. Martens, Robert A.E.M. Tollenaar, Peter Devilee, Nayana Weerasooriya, Anna Marie Mulligan, Julia A. Knight, Irene L. Andrulis, Mervi Grip, Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen, Katri Pylkäs, Robert Winqvist, Alexander Miron, Esther M. John, Gianluca Severi, Cariona A. McLean, Laura Baglietto, Graham Giles, Janet Olson, Xianshu Wang, Celine Vachon, Fergus J. Couch, Paolo Radice, Siranoush Manoukian, Loris Bernard, Paolo Peterlongo, Sabine Behrens, Katharina Buck, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Caroline Weltens, Robert Paridaens, Ann Smeets, Diether Lambrechts, Xiaoqing Chen, Jonathan Beesley, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Vesa Kataja, Jaana M. Hartikainen, Veli-Matti Kosma, Arto Mannermaa, Sara Margolin, Annika Lindblom, Elza Khusnutdinova, Guzel Zinnatullina, Darya Prokofyeva, Marina Bermisheva, Yuriy Rogov, Natalia Antonenkova, Natalia Bogdanova, Carl Blomqvist, Kristiina Aittomäki, Taru A. Muranen, Heli Nevanlinna, Peter Hillemanns, Michael Bremer, Peter Schürmann, Thilo Dörk, Ursula Eilber, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Jenny Chang-Claude, Thomas Brüning, Christina Justenhoven, Hiltrud Brauch, Rita K. Schmutzler, Claus R. Bartram, Michael Golatta, Alfons Meindl, Anne Langheinz, Volker Arndt, Heiko Müller, Hermann Brenner, Christina Clarke Dur, Leslie Bernstein, Argyrios Ziogas, Hoda Anton-Culver, M. Pilar Zamora, José-Ignacio Arias-Pérez, Javier Benítez, Roger L. Milne, Børge G Nordestgaard, Henrik Flyger, Sune F. Nielsen, Stig E Bojesen, Claire Mulot, Pierre Laurent-Puig, Thérèse Truong, Pascal Guénel, Christof Sohn, Andreas Schneeweiss, Frederik Marme, Barbara Burwinkel, Michael Kerin, Ian Tomlinson, Elinor J. Sawyer, Ruediger Schulz-Wendtland, Arif B. Ekici, Matthias W. Beckmann, Peter A. Fasching, Surapon Wiangnon, Arkom Chaiwerawattana, Artitaya Lophatananon, Kenneth R. Muir, Linda M. Braaf, Sten Cornelissen, Annegien Broeks, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Maryam Mahmoodi, Melissa C. Southey, Carmel Apicella, John L. Hopper, Nichola Johnson, Nick Orr, Olivia Fletcher, Frank Dudbridge, and Helen Warren
Abstract: PDF file, 107K, Summary characteristics of the participating BCAC case-control studies.
Published: 2023

17. Germline pathogenic variants in metaplastic breast cancer patients: a monocentric study and literature review

Author: Giovanni Corso, Monica Marabelli, Mariarosaria Calvello, Matilde Risti, Irene Feroce, Sara Mannucci, Antonia Girardi, Alessandra De Scalzi, Francesca Magnoni, Elena Marino, Loris Bernard, Paolo Veronesi, Elena Guerini Rocco, Massimo Barberis, Aliana Guerrieri-Gonzaga, and Bernardo Bonanni
Abstract: Metaplastic breast cancer (MpBC) is a rare, aggressive type of breast cancer, often classified as triple negative (TN). Scarce information is available about germline testing in MpBC. We retrospectively reviewed MpBC patients counseled at our Institute and found to harbor germline pathogenic variants (PVs), and we revised literature data. We identified a germline PV in 15 MpBC patients: 13 in BRCA1 (86.7%), one in TP53 (6.7%), one in MLH1 (6.7%) genes. Eight MpBC PV carriers in BRCA1 have been previously described, including a patient with a PV in both BRCA1 and TP53. MpBC histological subtype in PV carriers was heterogeneous. All MpBCs were TN but 13.3% in our series showed HER2 overexpression. We described the largest series of MpBCs with germline PVs. As previously reported, we observed that BRCA1 is the mainly involved gene in MpBC patients who underwent germline testing according to specific selection criteria. Additional studies on unselected patients are required to assess the authentic role of germline BRCA1 PVs in MpBCs and to explore the possible involvement of other genes in MpBC predisposition. Unraveling a specific MpBC molecular landscape is a starting point for the definition of new therapeutic strategies, since these tumors have a poor prognosis.
Published: 2023

18. Abstract P6-02-11: Implementation of multigene panel testing in triple-negative breast cancer. The PERSONA-breast trial

Author: sabrina K. kahler ribeiro fontana, emanuele bonetti, loris bernard, mariarosaria calvello, Bernardo Bonanni, ppina Bonizzi, Paolo Veronesi, Luca Mazzarella, Viviana Galimberti, and claudia sangalli
Subjects: Cancer Research, Oncology
Abstract: Kahler Ribeiro Fontana S1, Bonetti E2, Bernard L3, Calvello M4, Bonanni B4, Bonizzi G 5, Veronesi P1,6, Mazzarella L 2, Galimberti V1 Introduction Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is frequently associated with germline genetic variants associated with cancer predisposition. Approximately 20% of TNBC carry a germline BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation. Germline mutations in other genes involved in DNA repair, specifically Homologous Recombination (HRR), including ATM, BARD1, BRIP1, CHEK2, PALB2, RAD50, RAD51C, RAD51D may be associated with TNBC however remain imprecise in several populations as in Italy. In recent years, there has been an increase in multigenic panel testing thanks to better technology and the fact that genetic testing is no longer done just for prevention but they have become relevant in the clinical setting and this is especially true for triple negative disease. At the European Institute of Oncology, we conducted a prospective clinical trial, the PERSONA Breast trial, aimed at providing a more comprehensive picture of the mutational landscape and cancer risk in patients with TNBC by multigene germline genetic testing. Methods PERSONA is a prospective observational trial conducted between June 2018 and January 2022 on 313 patients with a diagnosis of TNBC ≤ 60 years and able to undergo surgery (primary or post-neoadjuvant). Peripheral blood DNA was sequenced with the Illumina TruSight Cancer panel (94 cancer predisposition genes). Genes were classified as germline actionable (n. 15) or non-actionable (n. 79) according to their associated relative risk of cancer. Genetic variants were classified according to the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) guidelines and the databases of genetic variants (ClinVar, LOVD, BRCA-Exchange,). All enrolled patients were followed up six-monthly for 10 years from informed consent or to death or withdrawal of consent. Results We present preliminary germline results from a 94-gene panel testing performed on a cohort of 313 TNBC patients. The clinical data of these patients was considered for a descriptive analysis of the cohort. Data on outcome such as overall survival and disease-free survival were not yet available. Germline multigene testing detected 62 unique (i.e., n. 49 in actionable, n. 13 in non-actionable genes) pathogenic (C5) and likely pathogenic (C4) variants in 25.2% of TNBC patients (79/313). As expected, 53.2% (42/79) of TNBC patients were carriers of a C5/C4 in BRCA1. C4/C5 were identified also in other actionable genes: 13.9% (11/79) in BRCA2, 8.9% (7/79) in MUTYH, 3.8% (3/79) in PALB2, 2.5% (2/79) in MSH2, 1.3% (1/79) in PMS2, and 1.3% (1/79) in TP53. In addition, 12 TNBC patients had C4/C5 variants in non-actionable genes, and 4 were carriers of both C4/C5 variants in actionable and non-actionable genes. Multigene testing resulted in the identification of 655 (i.e., n.82 in actionable, n. 573 in non-actionable genes) variants of uncertain significance (C3 or VUS) in 89.8% (281/313) of patients. Of the 281 C3 carriers, 60 had other variants (C4 and/or C5), of an uncertain result (in whom C3 was the highest class of variant) only in 70.6% (221/313) of TNBC patients. In 13 patients (13/313; 4.1%) only benign (C1) or likely benign (C2) variants were identified. Regarding family history, 67% of BRCA1 carriers versus 30% of BRCA2 carriers were familial. Conclusion Germline multigene testing in TNBC can identify C4/C5 in actionable genes providing information for a more tailored management of TNBC. Our study showed that the rate of VUS remains high using multigene testing. Of note, VUS were mainly identified in non-actionable genes supporting the rationale of the use in the clinical setting of phenotype-specific multigene panels, including a minor, but more appropriate, number of genes. Citation Format: sabrina K. kahler ribeiro fontana, emanuele bonetti, loris bernard, mariarosaria calvello, Bernardo Bonanni, ppina Bonizzi, Paolo Veronesi, Luca Mazzarella, Viviana Galimberti, claudia sangalli. Implementation of multigene panel testing in triple-negative breast cancer. The PERSONA-breast trial [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 2022 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; 2022 Dec 6-10; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2023;83(5 Suppl):Abstract nr P6-02-11.
Published: 2023

19. Integrated molecular profiling of patient-derived ovarian cancer models identifies clinically relevant signatures and tumor vulnerabilities

Author: Michela Lupia, Valentina Melocchi, Francesca Bizzaro, Pietro Lo Riso, Elisa Dama, Micol Baronio, Alberto Ranghiero, Massimo Barberis, Loris Bernard, Giovanni Bertalot, Raffaella Giavazzi, Giuseppe Testa, Fabrizio Bianchi, Ugo Cavallaro, Lupia, M, Melocchi, V, Bizzaro, F, Lo Riso, P, Dama, E, Baronio, M, Ranghiero, A, Barberis, M, Bernard, L, Bertalot, G, Giavazzi, R, Testa, G, Bianchi, F, and Cavallaro, U
Subjects: Ovarian Neoplasms, Cancer Research, cancer stem cell, Ascites, Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial, Prognosis, Cystadenocarcinoma, Serous, genomic, Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases, ascite, ovarian cancer, Oncology, Humans, Female, xenograft, prognosi
Abstract: High-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) is a highly aggressive and intractable neoplasm, mainly because of its rapid dissemination into the abdominal cavity, a process that is favored by tumor-associated peritoneal ascites. The precise molecular alterations involved in HGSOC onset and progression remain largely unknown due to the high biological and genetic heterogeneity of this tumor. We established a set of different tumor samples (termed the As11-set) derived from a single HGSOC patient, consisting of peritoneal ascites, primary tumor cells, ovarian cancer stem cells (OCSC) and serially propagated tumor xenografts. The As11-set was subjected to an integrated RNA-seq and DNA-seq analysis which unveiled molecular alterations that marked the different types of samples. Our profiling strategy yielded a panel of signatures relevant in HGSOC and in OCSC biology. When such signatures were used to interrogate the TCGA dataset from HGSOC patients, they exhibited prognostic and predictive power. The molecular alterations also identified potential vulnerabilities associated with OCSC, which were then tested functionally in stemness-related assays. As a proof of concept, we defined PI3K signaling as a novel druggable target in OCSC.
Published: 2021

20. Tumor BRCA Test for Patients with Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: The Role of Molecular Pathology in the Era of PARP Inhibitor Therapy

Author: Giuseppe Viale, Mariarosaria Calvello, Loris Bernard, Nicoletta Colombo, Fedro A. Peccatori, Ilaria Betella, Bernardo Bonanni, Elena Guerini-Rocco, Massimo Barberis, Federica Tomao, Alessandra Rappa, Caterina Fumagalli, Fumagalli, C, Tomao, F, Betella, I, Rappa, A, Calvello, M, Bonanni, B, Bernard, L, Peccatori, F, Colombo, N, Viale, G, Barberis, M, and Guerini-Rocco, E
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Oncology, Cancer Research, medicine.medical_specialty, endocrine system diseases, Somatic cell, Concordance, medicine.disease_cause, lcsh:RC254-282, Article, Germline, Olaparib, 03 medical and health sciences, chemistry.chemical_compound, 0302 clinical medicine, BRCA1/2, Internal medicine, Medicine, skin and connective tissue diseases, Mutation, business.industry, Molecular pathology, medicine.disease, lcsh:Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, female genital diseases and pregnancy complications, 030104 developmental biology, ovarian cancer, chemistry, next-generation sequencing, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, PARP inhibitor, brca1/2, business, Ovarian cancer
Abstract: The PARP inhibitor olaparib has been approved in the maintenance setting of platinum-sensitive epithelial ovarian cancer patients with germline or somatic BRCA1/2 mutation. Therefore, the availability of a tumor BRCA test has become a clinical need. We report the results of the clinical implementation of a tumor BRCA test within the frame of an institutional workflow for the management of patients with nonmucinous and nonborderline epithelial ovarian cancer. In total, 223 patients with epithelial ovarian cancer were prospectively analyzed. BRCA1/2 status was evaluated on formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tumor specimens using next-generation sequencing technology. The tumor BRCA test had a success rate of 99.1% (221 of 223 successfully analyzed cases) and a median turnaround time of 17 calendar days. Among the 221 cases, BRCA1 or BRCA2 pathogenic/likely pathogenic mutations were found in 62 (28.1%) cases and variants of uncertain significance in 25 (11.3%) cases. The concordance rate between tumor BRCA test results and germline BRCA1/2 status was 87%, with five cases harboring pathogenic/likely pathogenic somatic-only mutations. The next-generation, sequencing-based tumor BRCA test showed a high success rate and a turnaround time compatible with clinical purposes. The tumor BRCA test could be implemented in a molecular diagnostic setting and it may guide the clinical management of patients with epithelial ovarian cancer.
Published: 2019

21. The role of genetic breast cancer susceptibility variants as prognostic factors

Author: Fasching, Peter A., Pharoah, Paul D.P., Cox, Angela, Nevanlinna, Heli, Bojesen, Stig E., Karn, Thomas, Broeks, Annegien, van Leeuwen, Flora E., van ʼt Veer, Laura J., Udo, Renate, Dunning, Alison M., Greco, Dario, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Blomqvist, Carl, Shah, Mitul, Nordestgaard, Børge G., Flyger, Henrik, Hopper, John L., Southey, Melissa C., Apicella, Carmel, Garcia-Closas, Montserrat, Sherman, Mark, Lissowska, Jolanta, Seynaeve, Caroline, Huijts, Petra E.A., Tollenaar, Rob A.E.M., Ziogas, Argyrios, Ekici, Arif B., Rauh, Claudia, Mannermaa, Arto, Kataja, Vesa, Kosma, Veli-Matti, Hartikainen, Jaana M., Andrulis, Irene L., Ozcelik, Hilmi, Mulligan, Anna-Marie, Glendon, Gord, Hall, Per, Czene, Kamila, Liu, Jianjun, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Wang-Gohrke, Shan, Eilber, Ursula, Nickels, Stefan, Dörk, Thilo, Schiekel, Maria, Bremer, Michael, Park-Simon, Tjoung-Won, Giles, Graham G., Severi, Gianluca, Baglietto, Laura, Hooning, Maartje J., Martens, John W.M., Jager, Agnes, Kriege, Mieke, Lindblom, Annika, Margolin, Sara, Couch, Fergus J., Stevens, Kristen N., Olson, Janet E., Kosel, Matthew, Cross, Simon S., Balasubramanian, Sabapathy P., Reed, Malcolm W.R., Miron, Alexander, John, Esther M., Winqvist, Robert, Pylkäs, Katri, Jukkola-Vuorinen, Arja, Kauppila, Saila, Burwinkel, Barbara, Marme, Frederik, Schneeweiss, Andreas, Sohn, Christof, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Lambrechts, Diether, Dieudonne, Anne-Sophie, Hatse, Sigrid, van Limbergen, Erik, Benitez, Javier, Milne, Roger L., Zamora, M. Pilar, Pérez, José Ignacio Arias, Bonanni, Bernardo, Peissel, Bernard, Loris, Bernard, Peterlongo, Paolo, Rajaraman, Preetha, Schonfeld, Sara J., Anton-Culver, Hoda, Devilee, Peter, Beckmann, Matthias W., Slamon, Dennis J., Phillips, Kelly-Anne, Figueroa, Jonine D., Humphreys, Manjeet K., Easton, Douglas F., and Schmidt, Marjanka K.
Published: 2012
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22. Association of Type and Location of BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations With Risk of Breast and Ovarian Cancer

Author: Caroline Seynaeve, Katja Harbst, Eric A. Ross, Nandita Mitra, Elisa Alducci, Marco Montagna, Janusz Menkiszak, Marion Gauthier-Villars, Javier Benitez, Carole Brewer, Etienne Rouleau, Inge Søkilde Pedersen, Orland Diez, Anya Kushnir, Antonis C. Antoniou, Christine Rappaport, Florentia Fostira, Maurizio Genuardi, Simona Agata, Mark H. Greene, Mary Beth Terry, Nicola Dikow, David E. Goldgar, Anna Jakubowska, Min Hyuk Lee, Sylvie Mazoyer, Diana Eccles, Shirley Hodgson, Anne-Marie Gerdes, Alexander Miron, Laima Tihomirova, Alan Donaldson, Adalgeir Arason, Rosalind A. Eeles, Fergus J. Couch, Hans Jörg Plendl, Francesca Vignolo-Lutati, Ute Hamann, Jackie Cook, Torben A Kruse, Shani Paluch-Shimon, Lisa Walker, Doris Steinemann, Dorothea Gadzicki, Juul T. Wijnen, Markus C. Fleisch, Kenneth Offit, Mary B. Daly, Jamal Zidan, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Stephanie V. Blank, Marc Tischkowitz, Esther Darder, Annette Fontaine, Louise Izatt, Elżbieta Złowocka-Perłowska, Nadia Boutry-Kryza, Frans B. L. Hogervorst, Stefanie Engert, Danièle Muller, Susan M. Domchek, Phuong L. Mai, Senno Verhoef, Bernhard H. F. Weber, Cecilia M. Dorfling, Kathleen Claes, Kristiina Aittomäki, Annemarie H. van der Hout, Sharon Sand, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Margreet G. E. M. Ausems, Aleksandra Tołoczko-Grabarek, Trevor Cole, Giulietta Scuvera, Ana Osorio, Niklas Loman, Timothy R. Rebbeck, Riccardo Dolcetti, Marit Beer, Harsh B. Pathak, Douglas F. Easton, Lone Sunde, Conxi Lázaro, Raanan Berger, Paolo Radice, Mads Thomassen, Ignacio Blanco, Joseph Vijai, Kristie Bobolis, János Papp, Jean-Pierre Fricker, Christine Walsh, Patricia A. Ganz, Marie Stenmark-Askmalm, Andrea Gehrig, Vernon S. Pankratz, Atocha Romero, Xianshu Wang, Loris Bernard, Viviana Gismondi, Mary Porteous, Muy-Kheng Tea, Karen H. Lu, Gustavo C. Rodriguez, Bernardo Bonanni, Christoph Mundhenke, Julian Adlard, Bent Ejlertsen, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Nadine Tung, Patrick J. Morrison, Dezheng Huo, Cezary Cybulski, Jack Basil, Georg Pfeiler, Daphne Gschwantler-Kaulich, Heli Nevanlinna, Anders Bojesen, Marion Piedmonte, Katherine L. Nathanson, Amanda E. Toland, Sung-Won Kim, Judy Garber, Amanda B. Spurdle, Noralane M. Lindor, Sanne Traasdahl Moeller, Hans Ehrencrona, Trinidad Caldés, Rosemarie Davidson, Karin Kast, Jenny Lester, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Norbert Arnold, Ana Peixoto, Christine Lasset, Andreas Berger, Olga M. Sinilnikova, Katie Wakely, Claude Houdayer, Mercedes Durán, Robert L. Nussbaum, Ramūnas Janavičius, Christina G. Selkirk, Paolo Aretini, Nina Ditsch, J. Margriet Collée, Rosa B. Barkardottir, Sue Healey, Tomasz Huzarski, Cora M. Aalfs, Gillian Mitchell, Peter J. Hulick, Encarna B. Gomez Garcia, Zakaria Einbeigi, Christian F. Singer, Leigha Senter, Yuan Chun Ding, Dieter Niederacher, Yael Laitman, Siranoush Manoukian, Christoph Engel, Anne De Paepe, Anneliese Fink-Retter, Irene L. Andrulis, Rachel Laframboise, Maria A. Caligo, Priyanka Sharma, Miguel de la Hoya, Teresa Ramón y Cajal, Bruce Poppe, Thomas Hansen, Francesca Damiola, Anne-Bine Skytte, Susan L. Neuhausen, Christian Sutter, Marie-Agnès Collonge-Rame, Johannes J. P. Gille, Barbara Pasini, Wendy K. Chung, Noah D. Kauff, M. John Kennedy, Diana Torres, Salina B. Chan, Mark E. Robson, Elizabeth J. van Rensburg, Eric Hahnen, Barbara Wappenschmidt, Grzegorz Sukiennicki, Esther M. John, Rohini Rau-Murthy, Alice S. Whittemore, Kunle Odunsi, Masoud Azodi, John F. Boggess, Sue K. Park, Rita K. Schmutzler, Muriel Belotti, Jeffrey N. Weitzel, Simon A. Gayther, Fei Wan, Andrew K. Godwin, Arjen R. Mensenkamp, Daniela Zaffaroni, Jacques Simard, Susan Peock, Soo Hwang Teo, Claus R. Bartram, Evgeny N. Imyanitov, Maria-Isabel Tejada, Giuseppe Giannini, Mónica Salinas, Banu Arun, Jan C. Oosterwijk, Jacek Gronwald, Alexandra Becker, Tara M. Friebel, Lenka Foretova, Catherine Noguès, Muhammad Usman Rashid, Valeria Pensotti, Antonella Savarese, Debra Frost, Beatrice Melin, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Steve Ellis, Jean-Philippe Peyrat, Hagay Sobol, Kim De Leeneer, Radka Platte, Jan Lubinski, Javier Godino, Lesley McGuffog, Tomasz Byrski, Claudine Isaacs, Johanna Rantala, Kelly-Anne Phillips, Carolien M. Kets, Uffe Birk Jensen, Katarzyna Durda, Linda Steele, Beth Y. Karlan, Ava Kwong, Alfons Meindl, Lucia Guidugli, Raymonda Varon-Mateeva, D. Gareth Evans, Edith Olah, Isabelle Mortemousque, Manuel R. Teixeira, Joyce Seldon, Katarzyna Jaworska-Bieniek, Bernard Peissel, Saundra S. Buys, Peter Devilee, Kerstin Rhiem, Eitan Friedman, RS: GROW - Oncology, RS: GROW - R4 - Reproductive and Perinatal Medicine, Damage and Repair in Cancer Development and Cancer Treatment (DARE), Targeted Gynaecologic Oncology (TARGON), Cancer Research UK, National Institutes of Health (US), University of Pennsylvania, Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Human Genetics, Human genetics, and Epidemiology and Data Science
Subjects: endocrine system diseases, Genes, BRCA2, MathematicsofComputing_GENERAL, Genes, BRCA1, cancer risk, Settore MED/03 - GENETICA MEDICA, medicine.disease_cause, MOUSE MODELS, Risk Factors, Tumours of the digestive tract Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences [Radboudumc 14], Age of Onset, POSITION, skin and connective tissue diseases, Adult, Breast Neoplasms, Female, Heterozygote, Humans, Middle Aged, Nucleotides, Ovarian Neoplasms, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Mutation, Medicine (all), MESSENGER-RNA DECAY, UNKNOWN CLINICAL-SIGNIFICANCE, BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, mutation type and position, cancer risk, TheoryofComputation_GENERAL, General Medicine, GERMLINE MUTATIONS, CARRIERS, 3. Good health, SUSCEPTIBILITY GENE, Medical genetics, Rare cancers Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 9], medicine.medical_specialty, PROTEINS, mutation type and position, BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, DNA-SEQUENCE VARIANTS, Article, REGION, Breast cancer, Germline mutation, medicine, BRCA1 or BRCA2, business.industry, Cancer, Heterozygote advantage, medicine.disease, Cancer research, Age of onset, Ovarian cancer, business
Abstract: CIMBA Consortium et al., PMID: 25849179, [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 ofwomen whowere 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%CI, 1.22-1.74; P = 2 × 10-6), c.4328 to c.4945 (BCCR2; RHR = 1.34; 95%CI, 1.01-1.78; P = .04), and c. 5261 to c.5563 (BCCR2', RHR = 1.38; 95%CI, 1.22-1.55; P = 6 × 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%CI, 0.56-0.70; P = 9 × 10-17). In BRCA2, we observed multiple BCCRs spanning c.1 to c.596 (BCCR1; RHR = 1.71; 95%CI, 1.06-2.78; P = .03), c.772 to c.1806 (BCCR1'; RHR = 1.63; 95%CI, 1.10-2.40; P = .01), and c.7394 to c.8904 (BCCR2; RHR = 2.31; 95%CI, 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%CI, 0.44-0.60; P = 6 × 10-17). The second OCCR spanned c.6645 to c.7471 (OCCR2; RHR = 0.57; 95%CI, 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., Dr Antoniou and the CIMBA data management are funded by Cancer Research UK. Dr Easton is a Principal Research Fellow of Cancer Research UK. Dr Rebbeck is supported by R01-CA083855, R01-CA102776, and P50-CA083638 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr Rebbeck, Dr Nathanson, Ms Friebel, and Dr Domchek are supported by the Basser Research Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr Nathanson is supported by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Drs Domchek and Nathanson are supported by the Rooney Family Foundation. Dr Poppe is supported by R01-CA112520 from NIH. Cancer Research UK provided financial support for this work. Dr Antoniou is a Senior Cancer Research UK Cancer Research Fellow. Dr Phillips is a National Breast Cancer Foundation (Australia) Practitioner Fellow.
Published: 2015

23. Whole exome sequencing identifies driver mutations in asymptomatic computed tomography-detected lung cancers with normal karyotype

Author: Pier Giuseppe Pelicci, Salvatore Pece, Domenico Sardella, Giulia Veronesi, Loris Bernard, Massimo Barberis, Sara Volorio, Caterina Fumagalli, Luca Rotta, Pier Paolo Di Fiore, Elena Belloni, Laura Riva, Lorenzo Spaggiari, Belloni, E, Veronesi, G, Rotta, L, Volorio, S, Sardella, D, Bernard, L, Pece, S, Di Fiore, Pp, Fumagalli, C, Barberis, M, Spaggiari, L, Pelicci, Pg, and Riva, L
Subjects: Cancer Research, Pathology, medicine.medical_specialty, Lung Neoplasms, Karyotype, Biology, Bioinformatics, Asymptomatic, DNA sequencing, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Exome, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Lung cancer, Molecular Biology, Exome sequencing, Kelch-Like ECH-Associated Protein 1, Lung, Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Sequence Analysis, DNA, medicine.disease, Neoplasm Proteins, DNA-Binding Proteins, MutL Proteins, medicine.anatomical_structure, MSH3, MutS Homolog 3 Protein, Mutation, Tumor Suppressor Protein p53, medicine.symptom, Tomography, X-Ray Computed, Lung cancer screening
Abstract: The efficacy of curative surgery for lung cancer could be largely improved by non-invasive screening programs, which can detect the disease at early stages. We previously showed that 18% of screening-identified lung cancers demonstrate a normal karyotype and, following high-density genome scanning, can be subdivided into samples with 1) numerous; 2) none; and 3) few copy number alterations. Whole exome sequencing was applied to the two normal karyotype, screening-detected lung cancers, constituting group 2, as well as normal controls. We identified mutations in both tumors, including KEAP1 (commonly mutated in lung cancers) in one, and TP53 , PMS1 , and MSH3 (well-characterized DNA-repair genes) in the other. The two normal karyotype screening-detected lung tumors displayed a typical lung cancer mutational profile that only next generation sequencing could reveal, which offered an additional contribution to the over-diagnosis bias concept hypothesized within lung cancer screening programs.
Published: 2015

24. Genome-wide association analysis of more than 120,000 individuals identifies 15 new susceptibility loci for breast cancer

Author: Vesa Kataja, Aida Karina Dieffenbach, Chia-Ni Hsiung, Catherine S. Healey, Gie Hooi Tan, Soo Hwang Teo, Domenico Palli, Frederik Marme, Katri Pylkäs, Roger L. Milne, Jaana M. Hartikainen, Gord Glendon, Susan L. Slager, Chen-Yang Shen, Fredrick R. Schumacher, Daniel F. Schmidt, Suleeporn Sangrajrang, Kee Seng Chia, Lorna Gibson, Pascal Guénel, Alice S. Whittemore, Jenny Chang-Claude, Yu Tang Gao, Hidemi Ito, Simon S. Cross, Sofia Khan, Marie Sanchez, Daniel Vincent, Daniel Herrero, Nicola Miller, Antoinette Hollestelle, Caroline M. Seynaeve, Christopher A. Haiman, Hermann Brenner, Kay-Tee Khaw, Loris Bernard, Habibul Ahsan, Melissa C. Southey, David Van Den Berg, Martha J. Shrubsole, Daniel O. Stram, William Blot, Mel Maranian, Robert Winqvist, Keitaro Matsuo, John W. M. Martens, Heli Nevanlinna, Mia M. Gaudet, Anna Jakubowska, Christine D. Berg, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Jacques Simard, Manjeet K. Bolla, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Mark S. Goldberg, Paul Brennan, Ching Wan Chan, Sune F. Nielsen, Sara Lindström, Mitul Shah, Matthias W. Beckmann, Craig Luccarini, Jonathan Beesley, Kyriaki Michailidou, Paolo Peterlongo, Marc J. Gunter, Anna González-Neira, Ji Yeob Choi, Per Hall, Sarah Stewart-Brown, Keith Humphreys, Hui Cai, Kathleen E. Malone, Elinor J. Sawyer, Louise A. Brinton, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Xiao-Ou Shu, Barbara Perkins, Lotte Maxild Mortensen, Chiu-Chen Tseng, Hanne Meijers-Heijboer, Minouk J. Schoemaker, Keun-Young Yoo, Julia A. Knight, Alan Ashworth, Stig E. Bojesen, Kamila Czene, Artitaya Lophatananon, Graham G. Giles, S. Ahmed, Kazuo Tajima, Douglas F. Easton, Maria Kabisch, Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen, Wei Lu, Peter A. Fasching, Irene L. Andrulis, Clare Turnbull, Caroline Baynes, Christine B. Ambrosone, Jan Lubinski, Muriel A. Adank, A. Meindl, Taru A. Muranen, Siranoush Manoukian, Susan M. Gapstur, Natalia Bogdanova, Alexander Hein, Annika Lindblom, Nazneen Rahman, Annegien Broeks, Lothar Haeberle, Federico Canzian, G Pita, Ming-Feng Hou, Hiroji Iwata, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Diana Torres, Vessela N. Kristensen, Peter Devilee, Qiuyin Cai, Christi J Asperen, John L. Hopper, Diether Lambrechts, Michael Lush, Hans Wildiers, Joe Dennis, Sandra L. Halverson, Carl Blomqvist, Erik Van Limbergen, Malin Sund, Daehee Kang, Grethe I. Grenaker Alnæs, Marilie D. Gammon, Ursula Eilber, Ian Tomlinson, Thérèse Truong, Amanda E. Toland, Anna Marie Mulligan, Kirsimari Aaltonen, Olivia Fletcher, Jonine D. Figueroa, Angela Cox, Pei Ei Wu, Maartje J. Hooning, Catriona McLean, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Pornthep Siriwanarangsan, Malcolm W.R. Reed, Emily Hallberg, Sara Margolin, Volker Arndt, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Francois Bacot, Rita K. Schmutzler, Julian Peto, David J. Hunter, Thomas Brüning, Katarzyna Jaworska, Christof Sohn, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Enes Makalic, Hatef Darabi, Barbara Burwinkel, Petra P.H. Peeters, J. Margriet Collée, Rongxi Yang, Robert N. Hoover, Eiliv Lund, Fergus J. Couch, Ute Hamann, Jirong Long, Wei Zheng, Sabine Behrens, Giske Ursin, Muhammad G. Kibriya, Claire Mulot, Laure Dossus, Helen Tsimiklis, Tomasz Huzarski, Peter Kraft, Anja Rudolph, Arto Mannermaa, Alison M. Dunning, Lisa B. Signorello, Valerie Gaborieau, Kenneth Muir, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Javier Benitez, Judith S. Brand, Sander Canisius, Hoda Anton-Culver, Veli-Matti Kosma, Thilo Dörk, Sten Cornelissen, Christa Stegmaier, Cheng Har Yip, Brian E. Henderson, Harald Surowy, Jingmei Li, Nur Aishah Taib, W. Ryan Diver, Carmel Apicella, Janet E. Olson, Kristiina Aittomäki, Celine M. Vachon, Regina M. Santella, Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Jianjun Liu, Nick Orr, Martine Dumont, Christian Sutter, Sue K. Park, Mikael Hartman, Susan L. Neuhausen, Hui Miao, M. Pilar Zamora, Anna H. Wu, Rob B. van der Luijt, Isabel dos-Santos-Silva, Graham Casey, Henrik Flyger, M. Rosario Alonso, Nuria Álvarez, Michael J. Kerin, Loic Le Marchand, Jose Ignacio Arias Perez, Mikael Eriksson, Esther M. John, Quinten Waisfisz, Qin Wang, Daniel C. Tessier, Paolo Radice, Robert A.E.M. Tollenaar, James McKay, Silje Nord, Hiltrud Brauch, José María Huerta, Stephen J. Chanock, Mervi Grip, Patrick Neven, Senno Verhoef, Clinical Genetics, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Medical Oncology, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Dennis, Joe [0000-0003-4591-1214], Wang, Jean [0000-0002-9139-0627], Khaw, Kay-Tee [0000-0002-8802-2903], Pharoah, Paul [0000-0001-8494-732X], Dunning, Alison [0000-0001-6651-7166], Easton, Douglas [0000-0003-2444-3247], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Human genetics, and CCA - Oncogenesis
Subjects: Breast Neoplasms, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Genome-wide association study, Biology, Research Support, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, N.I.H, Cohort Studies, brca1, Breast cancer, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural, Meta-Analysis as Topic, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, common variants, Journal Article, estrogen, chek2-asterisk-1100delc, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, 1000 Genomes Project, Non-U.S. Gov't, genotype imputation, risk, Genetic association, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Chromatin binding, Extramural, Cancer, Microarray Analysis, confer susceptibility, medicine.disease, 3. Good health, ovarian-cancer, Genetic Loci, Case-Control Studies, alleles, Female, Imputation (genetics), Genome-Wide Association Study, metaanalysis
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and large-scale replication studies have identified common variants in 79 loci associated with breast cancer, explaining ∼14% of the familial risk of the disease. To identify new susceptibility loci, we performed a meta-analysis of 11 GWAS, comprising 15,748 breast cancer cases and 18,084 controls together with 46,785 cases and 42,892 controls from 41 studies genotyped on a 211,155-marker custom array (iCOGS). Analyses were restricted to women of European ancestry. We generated genotypes for more than 11 million SNPs by imputation using the 1000 Genomes Project reference panel, and we identified 15 new loci associated with breast cancer at P < 5 × 10(-8). Combining association analysis with ChIP-seq chromatin binding data in mammary cell lines and ChIA-PET chromatin interaction data from ENCODE, we identified likely target genes in two regions: SETBP1 at 18q12.3 and RNF115 and PDZK1 at 1q21.1. One association appears to be driven by an amino acid substitution encoded in EXO1. ispartof: Nature Genetics vol:47 issue:4 pages:373-80 ispartof: location:United States status: published
Published: 2015

25. A knowledge-based framework for the discovery of cancer-predisposing variants using large-scale sequencing breast cancer data

Author: Pier Giuseppe Pelicci, Luca Mazzarella, Loris Bernard, Lucilla Luzi, Laura Riva, Margherita Bodini, Anna Di Russo, and Giorgio E. M. Melloni
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, Candidate gene, Multifactorial Inheritance, Genotype, Genes, BRCA2, Genes, BRCA1, Predisposition, Breast Neoplasms, Biology, Genome, lcsh:RC254-282, Workflow, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Germline mutation, Breast cancer, Gene Frequency, Somatic mutations, medicine, Biomarkers, Tumor, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Germline mutations, Gene, Alleles, Germ-Line Mutation, Genetic association, Genetics, Age Factors, Cancer, Genetic Variation, Epistasis, Genetic, medicine.disease, lcsh:Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, 030104 developmental biology, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Case-Control Studies, Mutation, Female, Large-Scale Sequencing, Research Article, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Background The landscape of cancer-predisposing genes has been extensively investigated in the last 30 years with various methodologies ranging from candidate gene to genome-wide association studies. However, sequencing data are still poorly exploited in cancer predisposition studies due to the lack of statistical power when comparing millions of variants at once. Method To overcome these power limitations, we propose a knowledge-based framework founded on the characteristics of known cancer-predisposing variants and genes. Under our framework, we took advantage of a combination of previously generated datasets of sequencing experiments to identify novel breast cancer-predisposing variants, comparing the normal genomes of 673 breast cancer patients of European origin against 27,173 controls matched by ethnicity. Results We detected several expected variants on known breast cancer-predisposing genes, like BRCA1 and BRCA2, and 11 variants on genes associated with other cancer types, like RET and AKT1. Furthermore, we detected 183 variants that overlap with somatic mutations in cancer and 41 variants associated with 38 possible loss-of-function genes, including PIK3CB and KMT2C. Finally, we found a set of 19 variants that are potentially pathogenic, negatively correlate with age at onset, and have never been associated with breast cancer. Conclusions In this study, we demonstrate the usefulness of a genomic-driven approach nested in a classic case-control study to prioritize cancer-predisposing variants. In addition, we provide a resource containing variants that may affect susceptibility to breast cancer. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13058-017-0854-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
Published: 2017

26. Complementary molecular approaches reveal heterogeneous CDH1 germline defects in Italian patients with hereditary diffuse gastric cancer (HDGC) syndrome

Author: Monica Marabelli, Simonetta Pozzi, Bernardo Bonanni, Luigi Laghi, Davide Serrano, Valeria Molinaro, Valeria Pensotti, Loris Bernard, Guglielmina Nadia Ranzani, Irene Feroce, and Monica Barile
Subjects: Cancer Research, Mutation, medicine.diagnostic_test, Genetic heterogeneity, Cancer, Biology, medicine.disease, Bioinformatics, medicine.disease_cause, Germline, Breast cancer, Germline mutation, Genetics, medicine, Cancer research, Hereditary diffuse gastric cancer, Genetic testing
Abstract: Germline inactivation of the E-cadherin gene (CDH1) is associated with hereditary diffuse gastric cancer (HDGC), a rare autosomal dominant syndrome predisposing to both diffuse gastric cancer (DGC) and lobular breast cancer (LBC). We searched for CDH1 germline defects in 32 HDGC Italian probands selected according to international consensus criteria and in 5 selected relatives. We used a series of molecular methods, including: DNA sequencing, multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification, single-nucleotide primer extension, bisulfite sequencing, reverse-transcription PCR, and bioinformatics tools. We identified pathogenic mutations in 6 out of 32 probands (19%): one truncating and two missense mutations, one large deletion, one allelic expression imbalance and one splicing defect. Three out of six CDH1 constitutive alterations were novel. Our data support the need for a multimethod approach for CDH1 genetic testing, demonstrating that both DNA and RNA analyses are required to increase the detection rate of pathogenic mutations, thus reducing the number of patients without a clear molecular diagnosis. On the whole, our results indicate that not only DGC patients, but also subjects with personal or family history of LBC might benefit from CDH1 genetic testing. Moreover, our findings support the notion that prophylactic gastrectomy should be offered to asymptomatic CDH1 mutation carriers; indeed, while endoscopic analysis with histological examination of random gastric biopsies can miss cancer foci, gastrectomy performed in these subjects always revealed foci of cancer cells.
Published: 2014

27. Fine-Scale Mapping of the FGFR2 Breast Cancer Risk Locus: Putative Functional Variants Differentially Bind FOXA1 and E2F1

Author: Per Hall, Hui Cai, Roger L. Milne, Douglas F. Easton, Anja Rudolph, José Ignacio Arias, Vessela N. Kristensen, Julia A. Knight, Lisa B. Signorello, Petra Seibold, Jonathan Tyrer, Arto Mannermaa, Alan Ashworth, Andreas Schneeweiss, Sandra Deming-Halverson, Katarzyna Durda, Kimael Eriksson, Thilo Dörk, Isabel dos Santos Silva, Alfons Meindl, Laura Baglietto, Fredrick R. Schumacher, Peter Devilee, Qiuyin Cai, Janet E. Olson, Keith Humphreys, Annegien Broeks, Soo Hwang Teo, Michael P. Lux, Sze Yee Phuah, Federick Marme, Pascal Guénel, Hidemi Ito, Irene L. Andrulis, Natalia Bogdanova, Christoph Engel, Juliet D. French, Nina Ditsch, Xianshu Wang, Susan L. Slager, Bernardo Bonanni, Hermann Brenner, Nick Orr, Marie Rose Christiaens, Martine Dumont, Martin O'Reilly, Annika Lindblom, Catriona McLean, Ans M.W. van den Ouweland, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Sara Margolin, Kerstin B. Meyer, Martha J. Shrubsole, Malcolm W.R. Reed, Hans Ulrich Ulmer, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Kyriaki Michailidou, Brian E. Henderson, Nicola Miller, Sandrine Tchatchou, Stig E. Bojesen, Pornthep Siriwanarangsan, Joe Dennis, Jaana M. Hartikainen, Matthias W. Beckmann, Fergus J. Couch, David Van Den Berg, Celine M. Vachon, Pierre Laurent-Puig, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Ian Tomlinson, Thomas Brüning, Maya Ghoussaini, Mikael Hartman, Kristiina Aittomäki, Thérèse Truong, Katarzyna Jaworska, Yon Ko, Yu Tang Gao, Paolo Peterlongo, Stacey L. Edwards, Saskia Carlebur, Hartef Darabi, Pei Ei Wu, Ute Hamann, M. Pilar Zamora, Taru A. Muranen, Jirong Long, Stephen J. Chanock, William Blot, Sonja Helbig, Heiko Müller, Christina Clarke Dur, Ji Yeob Choi, Melissa C. Southey, Olivia Fletcher, Ming-Feng Hou, Hiroji Iwata, Nichola Johnson, Wei Zheng, Robert Winqvist, Diether Lambrechts, Javier Benitez, Chen-Yang Shen, Suleeporn Sangrajrang, Chia-Ni Hsiung, James McKay, Kristen S. Purrington, Cheng Har Yip, Ann Smeets, Valerie Gaborieau, Keitaro Matsuo, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Anne Lise Børresen-Dale, Anna Jakubowska, Dong Young Noh, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Ines de Santiago, Hiltrud Brauch, Vesa Kataja, Yasushi Yatabe, Anna H. Wu, Grethe I. Grenaker Alnæs, Jonine D. Figueroa, Christopher A. Haiman, Florence Menegaux, Hoda Anton-Culver, Paul Brennan, Veli-Matti Kosma, Bruce A.J. Ponder, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Thomas Rüdiger, Shaik Ahmad Buhari, Katri Pylkäs, Gord Glendon, Rita K. Schmutzler, Julian Peto, Chiu-Chen Tseng, Sune F. Nielsen, Mark S. Goldberg, Angela Cox, Carolien H.M. van Deurzen, Artitaya Lophatananon, Radhika Prathalingham, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen, Wei Lu, Peter A. Fasching, Florentia Fostira, Wei-Yen Lim, Barbara Burwinkel, Jenny Chang-Claude, Michael J. Kerin, Maartje J. Hooning, Kamila Czene, Asta Försti, Loic Le Marchand, Gianluca Severi, Volker Arndt, John L. Hopper, Jan Lubinski, Jacques Simard, Frans B. L. Hogervorst, Alison M. Dunning, Kenneth Muir, Saila Kauppila, Laura J. van't Veer, John W.M. Martens, Helen Tsimiklis, Loris Bernard, Heli Nevanlinna, Jolanta Lissowska, Robert Pilarski, Qin Wang, Paolo Radice, Robert A.E.M. Tollenaar, Jianjun Liu, Graham G. Giles, Henrik Flyger, Arif B. Ekici, Xiao-Ou Shu, Manjeet K. Bolla, Carl Blomqvist, Daehee Kang, Argyrios Ziogas, Bernard Thienpont, Patricia Harrington, Sue K. Park, Christa Stegmaier, Sarah Stewart-Brown, Elinor J. Sawyer, Miao Hui, Susan L. Neuhausen, Daniel O. Stram, Christof Sohn, Minouk J. Schoemaker, Jingmei Li, Carmel Apicella, Caroline M. Seynaeve, Clinical Genetics, Medical Oncology, Pathology, and Cardiothoracic Surgery
Subjects: Fibroblast Growth Factor, african-american, Genome-wide association study, Medical and Health Sciences, Chromosome conformation capture, 0302 clinical medicine, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Genetics(clinical), Aetiology, Promoter Regions, Genetic, Genetics (clinical), Cancer, African Continental Ancestry Group, Genetics & Heredity, Genetics, 0303 health sciences, Tumor, Chromosome Mapping, Biological Sciences, 3. Good health, Chromatin, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, kConFab Investigators, Female, RNA Interference, women, GENICA Network, transcription, reveals, Type 2, Alleles, Asian Continental Ancestry Group, Binding Sites, Breast Neoplasms, Case-Control Studies, Cell Line, Tumor, Chromatin Immunoprecipitation, E2F1 Transcription Factor, European Continental Ancestry Group, Genetic Association Studies, Haplotypes, Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 3-alpha, Humans, Position-Specific Scoring Matrices, Protein Binding, Receptor, Fibroblast Growth Factor, Type 2, Genetic Loci, Receptor, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group, Black People, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Locus (genetics), Biology, determinant, White People, Article, Cell Line, estrogen-receptor binding, Promoter Regions, 03 medical and health sciences, Genetic, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Asian People, Breast Cancer, expression, ddc:610, Allele, 030304 developmental biology, Neoplastic, Prevention, Human Genome, Molecular biology, susceptibility loci, Gene Expression Regulation, genome-wide association, chromatin, Hypersensitive site, Chromatin immunoprecipitation
Abstract: The 10q26 locus in the second intron of FGFR2 is the locus most strongly associated with estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer in genome-wide association studies. We conducted fine-scale mapping in case-control studies genotyped with a custom chip (iCOGS), comprising 41 studies (n = 89,050) of European ancestry, 9 Asian ancestry studies (n = 13,983), and 2 African ancestry studies (n = 2,028) from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium. We identified three statistically independent risk signals within the locus. Within risk signals 1 and 3, genetic analysis identified five and two variants, respectively, highly correlated with the most strongly associated SNPs. By using a combination of genetic fine mapping, data on DNase hypersensitivity, and electrophoretic mobility shift assays to study protein-DNA binding, we identified rs35054928, rs2981578, and rs45631563 as putative functional SNPs. Chromatin immunoprecipitation showed that FOXA1 preferentially bound to the risk-associated allele (C) of rs2981578 and was able to recruit ERα to this site in an allele-specific manner, whereas E2F1 preferentially bound the risk variant of rs35054928. The risk alleles were preferentially found in open chromatin and bound by Ser5 phosphorylated RNA polymerase II, suggesting that the risk alleles are associated with changes in transcription. Chromatin conformation capture demonstrated that the risk region was able to interact with the promoter of FGFR2, the likely target gene of this risk region. A role for FOXA1 in mediating breast cancer susceptibility at this locus is consistent with the finding that the FGFR2 risk locus primarily predisposes to estrogen-receptor-positive disease. © 2013 The American Society of Human Genetics.
Published: 2013
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28. Genome-wide identification of actionable copy number alterations from targeted sequencing panels with Excavator2

Author: E Marino, Luca Mazzarella, Pier Giuseppe Pelicci, Loris Bernard, Gianmaria Frigè, R D'aurizio, Alessandro Guida, Elena Belloni, and Alberto Magi
Subjects: Oncology, business.industry, Genome-wide identification, Medicine, Identification (biology), Hematology, Computational biology, business, Bioinformatics, high-density SNP-array
Abstract: Background: Alterations of clinical interest, ("actionable") include Copy Number Alterations (CNA), but most sequencing panels and bioinformatic pipelines are opti- mised for detection of Single Nucleotide Variants, not informative for CNA-driven tumours. Furthermore, identifying CNA boundaries becomes clinically relevant when genes with opposing effects on drug sensitivity are involved on single CNAs. With hybridization-based enrichment methods, a sizeable fraction of reads align off-target. Our Excavator2 algorithm exploits off-target reads to call CNAs and outperforms standard, on-target read-based CNA-calling algorithms on Whole Exome Sequencing (NAR 2016 Nov 16;44(20):e154). We tested whether Excavator2 calls genome-wide CNAs using sequencing data from small, hybridization-based targeted enrichment panels. Methods: We compared CNA callers (EXCAVATOR2, CopywriteR and CNVkit) on simulated cancer genomes containing CNAs of varying size (100-5000 kb), on-target and off-target (both ¼ class1, on-target only ¼ class 2 in Fig. 1) with different tumour cellularity (10-90%), generated with Xome-Blender (Semeraro et al., Submitted).We then compared genome-wide CNA calls from targeted sequencing using the Agilent ClearSeq cancer panel (coding sequences of 46 genes) vs high-density SNP-array on 5 HER2-amplified breast cancer samples. Finally, we called CNAs involving 58 genes identified as actionable from literature search in a separate set of 7 lung tumours, ClearSeq-sequenced. Results: Precision/recall for Excavator2 was superior across the whole range of simula- tions (Fig. 1). Excavator2 and CopywriteR both showed comparable resolution with SNP array for on-target (True Positive Rate (TPR) ¼ 0.75 and 0.66 and False Positive Rate (FPR) ¼ 0 and 0.09 respectively) and, more interestingly, on off-target genes genome-wide (TPR ¼ 0.9 and 0.9 and FPR ¼ 0.21 and 0.1 respectively). As expected, pre- cision/recall increased with higher tumour cellularity and CNA size for both algorithms (Fig. 2, with representative sample). On lung tumours, Excavator2 identified multiple actionable alterations on both on-target and off-target genes (Fig. 3). Conclusions: Excavator2 calls actionable CNAs, otherwise unidentifiable with targeted sequencing panels, with comparable resolution to gold standard, significantly enlarging analytical capabilities and clinical usefulness of routine clinical sequencing. Additional validation with other sequencing panels is ongoing.
Published: 2017

29. Oxidative stress activates a specific p53 transcriptional response that regulates cellular senescence and aging

Author: Loris Bernard, Maria Agnese Della Fazia, Marco Giorgio, Pier Giuseppe Pelicci, Giuseppe Servillo, Valentina Dall'Olio, Oriella Venezia, Giulia De Michele, Enrica Migliaccio, Valentina Gambino, Simone Minardi, Lucilla Luzi, Daniela Bartoli, Pierluigi Migliaccio, Heidi Scrable, and Myriam Alcalay
Subjects: Senescence, Genetically modified mouse, p53, Aging, Src Homology 2 Domain-Containing, Transforming Protein 1, senescence, Transcription, Genetic, Longevity, Thymus Gland, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, Mice, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, medicine, Animals, Protein Isoforms, Transcription factor, Cells, Cultured, Cellular Senescence, 030304 developmental biology, Mice, Knockout, 0303 health sciences, aging genes, Cell Cycle, oxydative stress, Cell Biology, Original Articles, Cell cycle, Molecular biology, Peptide Fragments, Cell biology, Oxidative Stress, Physiological Aging, Shc Signaling Adaptor Proteins, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Hepatocytes, Tumor Suppressor Protein p53, Corrigendum, Carcinogenesis, Cell aging, Oxidative stress, Transcription Factors
Abstract: Oxidative stress is a determining factor of cellular senescence and aging and a potent inducer of the tumour-suppressor p53. Resistance to oxidative stress correlates with delayed aging in mammals, in the absence of accelerated tumorigenesis, suggesting inactivation of selected p53-downstream pathways. We investigated p53 regulation in mice carrying deletion of p66, a mutation that retards aging and confers cellular resistance and systemic resistance to oxidative stress. We identified a transcriptional network of ~200 genes that are repressed by p53 and encode for determinants of progression through mitosis or suppression of senescence. They are selectively down-regulated in cultured fibroblasts after oxidative stress, and, in vivo, in proliferating tissues and during physiological aging. Selectivity is imposed by p66 expression and activation of p44/p53 (also named Delta40p53), a p53 isoform that accelerates aging and prevents mitosis after protein damage. p66 deletion retards aging and increases longevity of p44/p53 transgenic mice. Thus, oxidative stress activates a specific p53 transcriptional response, mediated by p44/p53 and p66, which regulates cellular senescence and aging.
Published: 2013

30. 9q31.2-rs865686 as a susceptibility locus for estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer: evidence from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium

Author: Javier Benitez, Frederik Marmé, Nichola Johnson, Ian W. Brock, Fiona M. Blows, Natalia Bogdanova, Arto Mannermaa, Peter Hillemanns, Hoda Anton-Culver, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Roger L. Milne, Jonathan Beesley, Veli-Matti Kosma, Guzel Zinnatullina, Paolo Peterlongo, Irene L. Andrulis, Annika Lindblom, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Ann Smeets, Arif B. Ekici, Pascal Guénel, Vesa Kataja, Thomas Brüning, Graham G. Giles, Isabel dos-Santos-Silva, Douglas F. Easton, Yuriy Rogov, Ruediger Schulz-Wendtland, Pierre Laurent-Puig, Thilo Dörk, Malcolm W.R. Reed, Heiko Müller, Linda M. Braaf, Janet E. Olson, Cariona A. McLean, Leslie Bernstein, Elinor J. Sawyer, Jaana M. Hartikainen, Siranoush Manoukian, Robert Paridaens, Marina Bermisheva, Natalia Antonenkova, Ian Tomlinson, Thérèse Truong, Minouk J. Schoemaker, Anna Marie Mulligan, Elza Khusnutdinova, Xianshu Wang, Christof Sohn, Katri Pylkäs, Caroline M. Seynaeve, Christina Clarke Dur, Caroline Weltens, Sune F. Nielsen, Carl Blomqvist, Nick Orr, Hiltrud Brauch, Maryam Mahmoodi, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Melissa C. Southey, Fergus J. Couch, Olivia Fletcher, Mervi Grip, Nayana Weerasooriya, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Rita K. Schmutzler, Julian Peto, Jenny Chang-Claude, Peter Schürmann, Frank Dudbridge, John W.M. Martens, Robert Winqvist, Surapon Wiangnon, Celine M. Vachon, Arkom Chaiwerawattana, Hermann Brenner, Artitaya Lophatananon, Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen, Peter A. Fasching, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Manjeet K. Humphreys, Barbara Burwinkel, Kristiina Aittomäki, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Argyrios Ziogas, Michael Bremer, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Loris Bernard, Alexander Miron, Sara Margolin, Kamila Czene, Diether Lambrechts, Claus R. Bartram, Annegien Broeks, Maya Ghoussaini, John L. Hopper, Simon S. Cross, Matthias W. Beckmann, Per Hall, Agnes Jager, Stig E. Bojesen, Michael Jones, Darya Prokofyeva, Julia A. Knight, Alan Ashworth, Taru A. Muranen, Xiaoqing Chen, Esther M. John, Claire Mulot, Alfons Meindl, Ursula Eilber, Laura Baglietto, José Ignacio Arias-Perez, Peter Devilee, Henrik Flyger, Sten Cornelissen, Jingmei Li, Katharina Buck, Carmel Apicella, Michael J. Kerin, Gianluca Severi, Alison M. Dunning, Kenneth Muir, Anne Langheinz, Andreas Schneeweiss, Heli Nevanlinna, Michael Golatta, Christina Justenhoven, Antoinette Hollestelle, Jianjun Liu, Helen R. Warren, Sabine Behrens, Madeleine M.A. Tilanus-Linthorst, Angela Cox, Maartje J. Hooning, Qin Wang, Paolo Radice, Volker Arndt, Robert A.E.M. Tollenaar, M. Pilar Zamora, Medical Oncology, Surgery, and Clinical Genetics
Subjects: Oncology, Pathology, Epidemiology, Estrogen receptor, population, Genome-wide association study, genetic risk, 0302 clinical medicine, Receptors, common variants, Progesterone, 0303 health sciences, education.field_of_study, identifies 2, Chromosome Mapping, Single Nucleotide, Middle Aged, 5p12, 3. Good health, Receptors, Estrogen, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, alleles, Female, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9, Receptors, Progesterone, linkage, Human, Pair 9, medicine.medical_specialty, Population, Breast Neoplasms, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Chromosomes, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Breast cancer, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Internal medicine, medicine, Genetic predisposition, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Polymorphism, Allele, education, Aged, 030304 developmental biology, menarche, Case-control study, Cancer, medicine.disease, confer susceptibility, Estrogen, Case-Control Studies, genome-wide association, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Background: Our recent genome-wide association study identified a novel breast cancer susceptibility locus at 9q31.2 (rs865686). Methods: To further investigate the rs865686–breast cancer association, we conducted a replication study within the Breast Cancer Association Consortium, which comprises 37 case–control studies (48,394 cases, 50,836 controls). Results: This replication study provides additional strong evidence of an inverse association between rs865686 and breast cancer risk [study-adjusted per G-allele OR, 0.90; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.88; 0.91, P = 2.01 × 10−29] among women of European ancestry. There were ethnic differences in the estimated minor (G)-allele frequency among controls [0.09, 0.30, and 0.38 among, respectively, Asians, Eastern Europeans, and other Europeans; P for heterogeneity (Phet) = 1.3 × 10−143], but no evidence of ethnic differences in per allele OR (Phet = 0.43). rs865686 was associated with estrogen receptor–positive (ER+) disease (per G-allele OR, 0.89; 95% CI, 0.86–0.91; P = 3.13 × 10−22) but less strongly, if at all, with ER-negative (ER−) disease (OR, 0.98; 95% CI, 0.94–1.02; P = 0.26; Phet = 1.16 × 10−6), with no evidence of independent heterogeneity by progesterone receptor or HER2 status. The strength of the breast cancer association decreased with increasing age at diagnosis, with case-only analysis showing a trend in the number of copies of the G allele with increasing age at diagnosis (P for linear trend = 0.0095), but only among women with ER+ tumors. Conclusions: This study is the first to show that rs865686 is a susceptibility marker for ER+ breast cancer. Impact: The findings further support the view that genetic susceptibility varies according to tumor subtype. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev; 21(10); 1783–. ©2012 AACR.
Published: 2016

31. 11q13 is a susceptibility locus for hormone receptor positive breast cancer

Author: Dong Young Noh, Pascal Guénel, Graeme Elliott, Vesa Kataja, Shamil Gancev, Xianshu Wang, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Annegien Broeks, Florence Menegaux, Hans Wildiers, Richard van Hien, Natalia Bogdanova, Jean Wang, Puttisak Puttawibul, Betül T. Yesilyurt, Peter Devilee, Gord Glendon, Katri Pylkäs, Mark E. Sherman, Jenny Chang-Claude, Federik Marme, Michael Bremer, Katarzyna Durda, Sarah Schott, Vessela N. Kristensen, Paolo Radice, Teresa Selander, Kamila Czene, Alfons Meindl, Gianluca Severi, Angela Cox, Maartje J. Hooning, Claus R. Bartram, John L. Hopper, Ursel Eilber, Michael Jones, M. Pilar Zamora, Stephen J. Chanock, Laura Baglietto, Caroline M. Seynaeve, Daehee Kang, Thilo Dörk, Rita K. Schmutzler, Julian Peto, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Loris Bernard, Stig E. Bojesen, Barbara Burwinkel, Douglas F. Easton, Arif B. Ekici, kConFab Investigators, Mervi Grip, Robert A.E.M. Tollenaar, Argyrios Ziogas, Jonathan Beesley, Paolo Peterlongo, Volker Arndt, Xiaoqing Chen, Nichola Johnson, Jaana M. Hartikainen, Ming-Feng Hou, Diether Lambrechts, Ruediger Schulz-Wendtland, Jan Lubinski, Taru A. Muranen, Heli Nevanlinna, Esther M. John, Graham G. Giles, Chen-Yang Shen, Jolanta Lissowska, Ian W. Brock, Grethe I. Grenaker Alnæs, Gillian S. Dite, Charlotte Lanng, Hiltrud Brauch, Anthony J. Swerdlow, MC Southey, Christina Justenhoven, Manjeet K. Humphreys, Keun-Young Yoo, Elinor J. Sawyer, Emilie Cordina-Duverger, Jose Ignacio Arias Perez, Fergus J. Couch, Peter Schürmann, Stefan Nickels, Jianjun Liu, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Zachary S. Fredericksen, Yuri I. Rogov, Ute Hamann, Elza Khusnutdinova, Hermann Brenner, Sara Margolin, Natalia Antonenkova, Peter A. Fasching, Matthias W. Beckmann, Johann H. Karstens, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Patrick Neven, Thomas Brüning, Carl Blomqvist, Heiko Müller, Jyh Cherng Yu, Katarzyna Jaworska, Yon Ko, Pei Ei Wu, Arto Mannermaa, Rebecca Hein, Darya Prokofieva, Melissa C. Southey, Andreas Schneeweiss, Irene L. Andrulis, Christa Stegmaier, Robert Winqvist, Annika Lindblom, Anna Jakubowska, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Peter Hillemanns, Alexander Miron, Roger L. Milne, Marina Bermisheva, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Christof Sohn, Nicola Miller, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Kristiina Aittomäki, Ian Tomlinson, Thérèse Truong, Anna Marie Mulligan, Siranoush Manoukian, Robert Paridaens, Anne Lise Børresen-Dale, Suthee Rattanamongkongul, Olivia Fletcher, Simon S. Cross, Artitaya Lophatananon, Isabel dos Santos Silva, Janet E. Olson, Nick Orr, Per Hall, Alan Ashworth, Javier Benitez, Hoda Anton-Culver, Veli-Matti Kosma, Alison M. Dunning, Kenneth Muir, Sten Cornelissen, Carmel Apicella, Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen, Michael J. Kerin, ~, and Medical Oncology
Subjects: Oncology, hormone receptor status, Estrogen receptor, Genome-wide association study, 0302 clinical medicine, Risk Factors, Genotype, Receptors, single-nucleotide polymorphisms, common variants, Pair 11, Progesterone, Genetics (clinical), Genetics, 0303 health sciences, repair genes, Single Nucleotide, identifies 5, 11q13, Breast cancer susceptibility, Genome-wide association, Hormone receptor status, Polymorphisms, Risk factors, Breast Neoplasms, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11, European Continental Ancestry Group, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Receptors, Estrogen, Receptors, Progesterone, 3. Good health, ovarian-cancer, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Human, brca1 mutations, medicine.medical_specialty, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Biology, Chromosomes, Article, White People, 03 medical and health sciences, Breast cancer, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Internal medicine, Progesterone receptor, medicine, Polymorphism, 030304 developmental biology, breast cancer susceptibility, Odds ratio, tumor characteristics, medicine.disease, confer susceptibility, Estrogen, genome-wide association, family registry, Ovarian cancer, polymorphisms
Abstract: Journal article A recent two-stage genome-wide association study (GWAS) identified five novel breast cancer susceptibility loci on chromosomes 9, 10, and 11. To provide more reliable estimates of the relative risk associated with these loci and investigate possible heterogeneity by subtype of breast cancer, we genotyped the variants rs2380205, rs1011970, rs704010, rs614367, and rs10995190 in 39 studies from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC), involving 49,608 cases and 48,772 controls of predominantly European ancestry. Four of the variants showed clear evidence of association (P â ¤ 3 Ã 10(-9) ) and weak evidence was observed for rs2380205 (P = 0.06). The strongest evidence was obtained for rs614367, located on 11q13 (per-allele odds ratio 1.21, P = 4 Ã 10(-39) ). The association for rs614367 was specific to estrogen receptor (ER)-positive disease and strongest for ER plus progesterone receptor (PR)-positive breast cancer, whereas the associations for the other three loci did not differ by tumor subtype. EC Seventh Framework Programme - grant number HEALTH-F2-2009-223175 peer-reviewed
Published: 2016

32. Fine-Scale Mapping of the 4q24 Locus Identifies Two Independent Loci Associated with Breast Cancer Risk

Author: Martine Tranchant, Fergus J. Couch, Meeri Otsukka, Sabine Behrens, Jirong Long, Nadia Obi, Kamila Czene, John L. Hopper, Heather Thorne, Robert Pilarski, Anja Rudolph, Simon S. Cross, Volker Harth, Gabrielle Colleran, Hatef Darabi, Thomas Van Brussel, Eunjung Lee, Anne Lotz, E. Krol-Warmerdam, M. Pilar Zamora, Qin Wang, Andy C. H. Lee, Annie Fung, Kara Sargus, Melissa C. Southey, Katja Butterbach, Nuria Álvarez, Francois Bacot, Jeffrey G. Meyer, Ian W. Brock, Jessica Clague De Hart, Pierre Laurent-Puig, Irene L. Andrulis, Pei Chao, Arnaud Droit, Per Hall, Daniel C. Tessier, Paolo Radice, Frederic Robidoux, Don M. Conroy, Irja Erkkilä, Daniel Vincent, Antoinette Hollestelle, Christopher A. Hilker, Alicia Beeghly-Fadiel, Muhabbet Celik, Peggy Reynolds, Caroline Baynes, Sophia S. Wang, Katri Pylkäs, Kang In Nee, Robert Winqvist, Henrik Flyger, Annette Heemskerk, Sara Margolin, Hui Cai, Julie M. Cunningham, Prat Boonyawongviroj, Bernardo Bonanni, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Dan Connley, Huiyan Ma, Valerie Gaborieau, David O. Nelson, Keitaro Matsuo, Sylvie La Boissière, Pornthep Siriwanarungsan, Hidemi Ito, Ursula Eilber, Matthias W. Beckmann, Sylvia Rabstein, Natalia Bogdanova, Anna Jakubowska, Yves Raoul, Robert A.E.M. Tollenaar, Frans B. L. Hogervorst, Hannah L Park, Pierre Kerbrat, Ying Zheng, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Wanqing Wen, Judith Heinz, Annika Lindblom, Christa Stegmaier, Manjeet K. Bolla, Loris Bernard, Anna H. Wu, Alison M. Dunning, Hermann Brenner, A. Green, Thilo Dörk, Chia-Ni Hsiung, Dennis Deapen, Michael G. Schrauder, Gilian Peuteman, S.E. Higham, Sabapathy P. Balasubramanian, Irene Feroce, Christina Justenhoven, Angela Jones, William J. Blot, Nichola Johnson, Petra Seibold, D. Bowtell, Jiajun Shi, Wei Zheng, U Hamann, Pascal Guenel, P. Webb, Soo Hwang Teo, Daniela Zaffaroni, J. Blom, Rita K. Schmutzler, Douglas F. Easton, Yani Lu, Witold Zatonski, Phuah Sze Yee, Susan L. Neuhausen, Kenneth Muir, Sofia Khan, Daehee Kang, Silke Landrith, Helena Kemiläinen, Maggie Angelakos, Rich Pinder, Javier Benitez, Til Olchers, Senno Verhoef, Fred Schumacher, Martha J. Shrubsole, Teresa Selander, Teh Yew Ching, Christof Sohn, Patrick Arveux, Dorota M. Gertig, Saila Kauppila, Mervi Grip, Florentia Fostira, Jenny Chang-Claude, Michael Stagner, Kathleen Corthouts, Ellen Van Der Schoot, H Nevanlinna, Peter Bugert, Christian Baisch, Eija Myöhänen, Sonja Wolf, Hoda Anton-Culver, Nicola Miller, Cheng Har Yip, Neonila Szeszenia-Dabrowska, Nicholas K. Hayward, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Barbara Burwinkel, J. Molenaar, Eileen Williams, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Yon Ko, Anja Nieuwlaat, Chen-Yang Shen, Veli-Matti Kosma, Ian Tomlinson, Thérèse Truong, Amanda E. Toland, Artitaya Lophatananon, Mikael Hartman, Jonathan Beesley, Bernard Peissel, Paolo Peterlongo, Ji Yeob Choi, Craig Luccarini, Rosalind A. Eeles, Niall M. McInerney, Bernard Thienpont, Xiao-Ou Shu, Léa Héguy, Maya Ghoussaini, Sander Canisius, Wing-Yee Lo, Suleeporn Sangrajrang, Nur Aishah Taib, June Yashiki, Kirsimari Aaltonen, Louise A. Brinton, Elinor J. Sawyer, Alina Vrieling, Angela Cox, Frederik Marmé, Matthias Rübner, Graham G. Giles, Sonja Oeser, Hans Christiansen, Andrew Rowan, Ed Dicks, Andeas Schneeweiß, Catriona McLean, Antonis C. Antoniou, B. Pesch, Eveline Niedermayr, Volker Arndt, Janet E. Olson, Dominiek Smeets, Jingmei Li, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Claire Mulot, Siranoush Manoukian, Hans Fischer, Ellen Crepin, Arto Mannermaa, Ali Amin Al Olama, Helen Cramp, Ans M.W. van den Ouweland, Olivia Fletcher, Sharon A. Windebank, Peter Hillemanns, Nayana Weerasooriya, James V. Lacey, Leslie Bernstein, Romuald Le Scodan, Giulietta Scuvera, P. Parsons, Thomas C. Putti, Elaine Ryder-Mills, Sara Benlloch, Beata Peplonska, Stig E. Bojesen, Kimberley Chua, Stefan Nickels, Nick Orr, Roger L. Milne, Tuomas Heikkinen, Christopher A. Haiman, Natalia Antonenkova, Volker Hermann, Maria Kabisch, Kenneth Offit, Julia A. Knight, Angela Maniscalco, Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen, Hartwig Ziegler, Chenjie Zeng, Jacques Simard, Pamela L. Horn-Ross, Daphne S.C. Lee, Xingyi Guo, Jan Lubinski, Michael J. Kerin, Loic Le Marchand, Sune F. Nielsen, Peter Devilee, A. De Fazio, Qiuyin Cai, Annie Turgeon, Yoon Sook-Yee, Silje Nord, Petra Bos, Hiltrud Brauch, Kyriaki Michailidou, Shivaani Mariapun, Kari Mononen, Alfons Meindl, Peter B. Kang, Siddhartha Kar, Alessandra Rossi, G. Chenevix-Trench, Diether Lambrechts, Karl von Smitten, Zsofia Kote-Jarai, Emiel J. Th. Rutgers, Chiu-Chen Tseng, Peter A. Fasching, Lesley McGuffog, Annegien Broekss, Johann H. Karstens, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Thomas Brüning, David C. Whiteman, Judi Maskiell, Clinical Genetics, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical Oncology, and Obstetrics & Gynecology
Subjects: Genetic Markers, Linkage disequilibrium, Epidemiology, Locus (genetics), Genome-wide association study, Breast Neoplasms, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, Breast cancer, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Risk Factors, medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Gene, Genetics, Molecular epidemiology, Case-control study, Chromosome Mapping, medicine.disease, Logistic Models, Oncology, Genetic marker, Genetic Loci, Case-Control Studies, Female, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 4, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Background: A recent association study identified a common variant (rs9790517) at 4q24 to be associated with breast cancer risk. Independent association signals and potential functional variants in this locus have not been explored. Methods: We conducted a fine-mapping analysis in 55,540 breast cancer cases and 51,168 controls from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium. Results: Conditional analyses identified two independent association signals among women of European ancestry, represented by rs9790517 [conditional P = 2.51 × 10−4; OR, 1.04; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.02–1.07] and rs77928427 (P = 1.86 × 10−4; OR, 1.04; 95% CI, 1.02–1.07). Functional annotation using data from the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project revealed two putative functional variants, rs62331150 and rs73838678 in linkage disequilibrium (LD) with rs9790517 (r2 ≥ 0.90) residing in the active promoter or enhancer, respectively, of the nearest gene, TET2. Both variants are located in DNase I hypersensitivity and transcription factor–binding sites. Using data from both The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and Molecular Taxonomy of Breast Cancer International Consortium (METABRIC), we showed that rs62331150 was associated with level of expression of TET2 in breast normal and tumor tissue. Conclusion: Our study identified two independent association signals at 4q24 in relation to breast cancer risk and suggested that observed association in this locus may be mediated through the regulation of TET2. Impact: Fine-mapping study with large sample size warranted for identification of independent loci for breast cancer risk. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev; 24(11); 1680–91. ©2015 AACR.
Published: 2015

33. A serum circulating miRNA diagnostic test to identify asymptomatic high‐risk individuals with early stage lung cancer

Author: Fabrizio Bianchi, Valentina Dall'Olio, Patrick Maisonneuve, Elena Belloni, Pier Paolo Di Fiore, Francesco Nicassio, Matteo Jacopo Marzi, Giuseppe Pelosi, Loris Bernard, Giulia Veronesi, Bianchi, F, Nicassio, F, Marzi, M, Belloni, E, Dall'Olio, V, Bernard, L, Pelosi, G, Maisonneuve, P, Veronesi, G, and Di Fiore, Pp
Subjects: Male, Serum, Oncology, medicine.medical_specialty, Lung Neoplasms, diagnosis, Population, Disease, Asymptomatic, Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung, Internal medicine, Biomarkers, Tumor, Carcinoma, Humans, Medicine, Clinical significance, Stage (cooking), education, Lung cancer, miRNA, Aged, education.field_of_study, Cancer prevention, business.industry, Middle Aged, early stage, medicine.disease, lung cancer, MicroRNAs, Early Diagnosis, Molecular Diagnostic Techniques, Immunology, Molecular Medicine, Female, medicine.symptom, business, Research Article
Abstract: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11768/96454 Lung cancer is the first cause of cancer mortality worldwide, and its early detection is currently the main available strategy to improve disease prognosis. While early diagnosis can be successfully achieved through tomography-based population screenings in high-risk individuals, simple methodologies are needed for effective cancer prevention programs. We developed a test, based on the detection of 34 microRNAs (miRNAs) from serum, that could identify patients with early stage non-small cell lung carcinomas (NSCLCs) in a population of asymptomatic high-risk individuals with 80% accuracy. The signature could assign disease probability accurately either in asymptomatic or symptomatic patients, is able to distinguish between benign and malignant lesions, and to capture the onset of the malignant disease in individual patients over time. Thus, our test displays a number of features of clinical relevance that project its utility in programs for the early detection of NSCLC.
Published: 2011

34. Oral contraceptive use and breast or ovarian cancer risk in BRCA1/2 carriers: A meta-analysis

Author: Monica Barile, Loris Bernard, Bernardo Bonanni, Nicole Rotmensz, Paolo Radice, Irene Feroce, Sara Gandini, Simona Iodice, and Patrick Maisonneuve
Subjects: Adult, Oncology, Heterozygote, Cancer Research, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, endocrine system diseases, Genes, BRCA2, Genes, BRCA1, Breast Neoplasms, Gene mutation, Risk Assessment, Breast cancer, Risk Factors, Internal medicine, Humans, Medicine, Risk factor, skin and connective tissue diseases, Ovarian Neoplasms, Gynecology, business.industry, Cancer, medicine.disease, Relative risk, Mutation, Female, Breast disease, business, Risk assessment, Ovarian cancer, Contraceptives, Oral
Abstract: Women with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations are at increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Oral contraceptives (OC) use has been associated with a reduction in ovarian cancer risk and with a moderately increased breast cancer risk, which tends to level off in the few years after stopping. The association between oral contraceptive and BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutations carriers is unclear.We performed a comprehensive literature search updated to March 2010 of studies on the associations between OC users and breast or ovarian cancer for ascertained BRCA1/2 carriers. We obtained summary risk estimated for ever OC users, for duration of use and time since stopping.A total of 2855 breast cancer cases and 1503 ovarian cancer cases, carrying an ascertained BRCA1/2 mutation, were included in our meta-analyses, based on overall 18 studies. Use of OC was associated with a significant reduced risk of ovarian cancer for BRCA1/2 carriers (summary relative risk (SRR)=0.50; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.33-0.75). We also observed a significant 36% risk reduction for each additional 10 years of OC use (SRR: 0.64; 95% CI, 0.53-0.78; P trend0.01). We found no evidence of a significant association between OC and breast cancer risk in carriers (SRR: 1.13; 95% CI, 0.88-1.45) and with duration of use. OC formulations used before 1975 were associated with a significant increased risk of breast cancer (SRR: 1.47; 95% 1.06, 2.04), but no evidence of a significant association was found with use of more recent formulations (SRR: 1.17; 95% 0.74, 1.86).OC users carrying an ascertained BRCA1/2 mutation have a reduced risk of ovarian cancer, proportional to the duration of use. There is no evidence that recent OC formulations increase breast cancer risk in carriers.
Published: 2010

35. FANCM c.5791C > T nonsense mutation (rs144567652) induces exon skipping, affects DNA repair activity and is a familial breast cancer risk factor

Author: Laura Ottini, Bernard Peissel, Carmen J Tartari, Peter Devilee, Silvia Tognazzo, Anders Kvist, Lara Della Puppa, Mara Colombo, Isabella Marchi, Conxi Lázaro, Caterina Vivanet, Jordi Surrallés, Valeria Viassolo, Joseph Vijai, Kenneth Offit, Paolo Radice, Veronica Medici, Ana Osorio, Francesca Spina, Stefania Tommasi, Carlo Tondini, Marina Marchetti, Chiara Corna, Eliseos J. Mucaki, Gabriele Lorenzo Capone, Piera Rizzolo, Maurizio Genuardi, Alessandra Renieri, Jan Hauke, Laura Cortesi, Laura Caleca, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Paolo Peterlongo, Christi J. van Asperen, Hans Ehrencrona, Fergus J. Couch, Ian G. Campbell, Valeria Pensotti, Irene Catucci, Miguel Angel Pujana, Sylvie Mazoyer, Massimo Federico, Paolo Verderio, Alfons Meindl, Brunella Pilato, Claus R. Bartram, Valentina Dall'Olio, Paul A. James, Massimo Bogliolo, Loris Bernard, Maria Marín, Valérie Sornin, Luisa Balestrino, Gaia Roversi, Judith Balmaña, Marie-Gabrielle Dondon, Simona Agata, Rita K. Schmutzler, Barbara Burwinkel, Viviana Gismondi, Giulia Cini, Ella R. Thompson, Nadine Andrieu, Sara Volorio, Maria Grazia Tibiletti, Francesca Damiola, Harald Surowy, Alessandra Viel, Peter K. Rogan, Laura Matricardi, Anna Laura Putignano, Cristina Verzeroli, Anna Falanga, Chiara Perfumo, Marco Montagna, Margherita Baldassarri, Monica Barile, Riccardo Dolcetti, Florentine Hilbers, Javier Benitez, Laura Papi, Maria Antonietta Mencarelli, Séverine Eon-Marchais, Gillian Mitchell, Orland Diez, Siranoush Manoukian, Maria A. Caligo, Christian Sutter, Gaetana Gambino, Xianshu Wang, Marco A. Pierotti, Bernardo Bonanni, Sara Pizzamiglio, Liliana Varesco, Valentina Silvestri, Olga M. Sinilnikova, Peterlongo, P, Catucci, I, Colombo, M, Caleca, L, Mucaki, E, Bogliolo, M, Marin, M, Damiola, F, Bernard, L, Pensotti, V, Volorio, S, Dall'Olio, V, Meindl, A, Bartram, C, Sutter, C, Surowy, H, Sornin, V, Dondon, M, Eon-Marchais, S, Stoppa-Lyonnet, D, Andrieu, N, Sinilnikova, O, Mitchell, G, James, P, Thompson, E, Kconfab, Marchetti, M, Verzeroli, C, Tartari, C, Capone, G, Putignano, A, Genuardi, M, Medici, V, Marchi, I, Federico, M, Tognazzo, S, Matricardi, L, Agata, S, Dolcetti, R, Della Puppa, L, Cini, G, Gismondi, V, Viassolo, V, Perfumo, C, Mencarelli, M, Baldassarri, M, Peissel, B, Roversi, G, Silvestri, V, Rizzolo, P, Spina, F, Vivanet, C, Tibiletti, M, Caligo, M, Gambino, G, Tommasi, S, Pilato, B, Tondini, C, Corna, C, Bonanni, B, Barile, M, Osorio, A, Benitez, J, Balestrino, L, Ottini, L, Manoukian, S, Pierotti, M, Renieri, A, Varesco, L, Couch, F, Wang, X, Devilee, P, Hilbers, F, van Asperen, C, Viel, A, Montagna, M, Cortesi, L, Diez, O, Balmaña, J, Hauke, J, Schmutzler, R, Papi, L, Pujana, M, Lázaro, C, Falanga, A, Offit, K, Vijai, J, Campbell, I, Burwinkel, B, Kvist, A, Ehrencrona, H, Mazoyer, S, Pizzamiglio, S, Verderio, P, Surralles, J, Rogan, P, and Radice, P
Subjects: DNA Repair, Heterogeneous Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein A1, DNA Mutational Analysis, Gene Expression, medicine.disease_cause, Settore MED/03 - GENETICA MEDICA, 0302 clinical medicine, Gene Frequency, Risk Factors, Genetics, Genetics (clinical), Molecular Biology, Genotype, Heterogeneous-Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein Group A-B, FANCM, Age of Onset, 0303 health sciences, Mutation, Association Studies Articles, General Medicine, Exons, Middle Aged, 3. Good health, ddc, Codon, Nonsense, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Female, Protein Binding, Adult, Alleles, Binding Sites, Breast Neoplasms, Case-Control Studies, DNA Helicases, Genetic Association Studies, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Humans, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Nucleotide Motifs, Position-Specific Scoring Matrices, Young Adult, Alternative Splicing, PALB2, Nonsense mutation, Biology, breast cancer, risk factor, 03 medical and health sciences, Breast cancer, T+nonsense+mutation+%28rs144567652%22">FANCM c.5791C>T nonsense mutation (rs144567652, medicine, Risk factor, Codon, 030304 developmental biology, medicine.disease, Exon skipping, FANCM, familial breast cancer, Nonsense, Cancer research
Abstract: © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Numerous genetic factors that influence breast cancer risk are known. However, approximately two-thirds of the overall familial risk remain unexplained. To determine whether some of the missing heritability is due to rare variants conferring high to moderate risk, we tested for an association between the c.5791C>T nonsense mutation (p. Arg1931*; rs144567652) in exon 22 of FANCM gene and breast cancer. An analysis of genotyping data from 8635 familial breast cancer cases and 6625 controls from different countries yielded an association between the c.5791C>T mutation and breast cancer risk [odds ratio (OR) = 3.93 (95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.28-12.11; P = 0.017)]. Moreover, we performed two meta-analyses of studies from countries with carriers in both cases and controls and of all available data. These analyses showed breast cancer associations with OR = 3.67 (95% CI = 1.04-12.87; P = 0.043) and OR = 3.33 (95% CI = 1.09-13.62; P = 0.032), respectively. Based on information theory-based prediction, we established that the mutation caused an out-of-frame deletion of exon 22, due to the creation of a binding site for the pre-mRNA processing protein hnRNP A1. Furthermore, genetic complementation analyses showed that the mutation influenced the DNA repair activity of the FANCM protein. In summary, we provide evidence for the first time showing that the common p. Arg1931* loss-of-function variant in FANCM is a risk factor for familial breast cancer.
Published: 2015

36. The hidden genomic landscape of acute myeloid leukemia: Subclonal structure revealed by undetected mutations

Author: Corrado Tarella, Ilaria Iacobucci, Alessandro Cignetti, Pier Giuseppe Pelicci, Domenico Sardella, Giovanni Martinelli, Giorgio E. M. Melloni, Chiara Ronchini, Lucilla Luzi, Loris Bernard, Anna Di Russo, Anna Candoni, Francesco Lo-Coco, Luciano Giacò, Renato Fanin, Syed Khizer Hasan, Margherita Bodini, Serena Lavorgna, Laura Riva, Eleonora Toffoletti, Tiziana Ottone, Sara Volorio, Bodini, Margherita, Ronchini, Chiara, Giacò, Luciano, Russo, Anna, Melloni, Giorgio E. M., Luzi, Lucilla, Sardella, Domenico, Volorio, Sara, Hasan, Syed K., Ottone, Tiziana, Lavorgna, Serena, Lo-Coco, Francesco, Candoni, Anna, Fanin, Renato, Toffoletti, Eleonora, Iacobucci, Ilaria, Martinelli, Giovanni, Cignetti, Alessandro, Tarella, Corrado, Bernard, Lori, Pelicci, Pier Giuseppe, and Riva, Laura
Subjects: Myeloid, Immunology, DNA Mutational Analysis, Genomics, Biology, Acute, Genome, Biochemistry, DNA sequencing, DNA Mutational Analysi, Databases, Gene Frequency, medicine, Humans, Allele frequency, Genetics, Leukemia, Nucleic Acid, Genome, Human, Medicine (all), Myeloid leukemia, Computational Biology, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Hematology, Cell Biology, medicine.disease, Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute, Databases, Nucleic Acid, Mutation, medicine.anatomical_structure, Genomic, Human genome, Settore MED/15 - Malattie del Sangue, Perspectives, Human
Abstract: The analyses carried out using 2 different bioinformatics pipelines (SomaticSniper and MuTect) on the same set of genomic data from 133 acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients, sequenced inside the Cancer Genome Atlas project, gave discrepant results. We subsequently tested these 2 variant-calling pipelines on 20 leukemia samples from our series (19 primary AMLs and 1 secondary AML). By validating many of the predicted somatic variants (variant allele frequencies ranging from 100% to 5%), we observed significantly different calling efficiencies. In particular, despite relatively high specificity, sensitivity was poor in both pipelines resulting in a high rate of false negatives. Our findings raise the possibility that landscapes of AML genomes might be more complex than previously reported and characterized by the presence of hundreds of genes mutated at low variant allele frequency, suggesting that the application of genome sequencing to the clinic requires a careful and critical evaluation. We think that improvements in technology and workflow standardization, through the generation of clear experimental and bioinformatics guidelines, are fundamental to translate the use of next-generation sequencing from research to the clinic and to transform genomic information into better diagnosis and outcomes for the patient.
Published: 2015

37. Myc-binding-site recognition in the human genome is determined by chromatin context

Author: Loris Bernard, Laura Tizzoni, Clara Nervi, Giuseppe Zardo, Bruno Amati, Valentina Dall' Olio, Lucilla Luzi, Francesca Martinato, Ernesto Guccione, and Giacomo Finocchiaro
Subjects: Genetic Markers, Biology, Methylation, Chromatin remodeling, Cell Line, Histones, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc, Histone H1, Histone methylation, Animals, Cluster Analysis, Humans, Histone code, Promoter Regions, Genetic, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Cell Nucleus, Binding Sites, Genome, Human, Gene Expression Profiling, Pioneer factor, Acetylation, DNA, Cell Biology, ChIP-on-chip, Chromatin, Rats, Cell biology, Chromatin immunoprecipitation, Protein Binding, Transcription Factors
Abstract: Large-scale chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) studies have been effective in unravelling the distribution of DNA-binding transcription factors along eukaryotic genomes, but specificity determinants remain elusive. Gene-regulatory regions display distinct histone variants and modifications (or marks). An attractive hypothesis is that these marks modulate protein recognition, but whether or not this applies to transcription factors remains unknown. Based on large-scale datasets and quantitative ChIP, we dissect the correlations between 35 histone marks and genomic binding by the transcription factor Myc. Our data reveal a relatively simple combinatorial organization of histone marks in human cells, with a few main groups of marks clustering on distinct promoter populations. A stretch of chromatin bearing high H3 K4/K79 methylation and H3 acetylation (or 'euchromatic island'), which is generally associated with a pre-engaged basal transcription machinery, is a strict pre-requisite for recognition of any target site by Myc (whether the consensus CACGTG or an alternative sequence). These data imply that tethering of a transcription factor to restricted chromatin domains is rate-limiting for sequence-specific DNA binding in vivo.
Published: 2006

38. Characterization of an Italian founder mutation in the RING-finger domain of BRCA1

Author: Paolo Radice, Mohosin Sarkar, Claudia Foglia, Laura Caleca, Monica Barile, Caterina Congregati, Carla B. Ripamonti, Loris Bernard, Daniela Zaffaroni, Anna Laura Putignano, Siranoush Manoukian, Thomas J. Magliery, Laura Papi, Mara Colombo, Carlo Tondini, Valeria Pensotti, and Bernard Peissel
Subjects: Mutation rate, Heredity, lcsh:Medicine, Mutation Rate, Chromosome Segregation, Breast Tumors, Protein Isoforms, Coding region, lcsh:Science, Ovarian Neoplasms, Genetics, education.field_of_study, Multidisciplinary, Geography, BRCA1 Protein, Cancer Risk Factors, Age Factors, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Exons, Middle Aged, Founder Effect, Ovarian Cancer, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Italy, Oncology, Mutation (genetic algorithm), Medicine, Female, RING Finger Domains, Protein Binding, Research Article, Adult, Cancer-Predisposing Gene, Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases, Green Fluorescent Proteins, Population, Breast Neoplasms, Biology, Molecular Genetics, Genetic Mutation, BARD1, Breast Cancer, Cancer Genetics, Humans, Family, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, RNA, Messenger, education, Tumor Suppressor Proteins, Haplotype, lcsh:R, Cancers and Neoplasms, Human Genetics, BRCA1, Molecular biology, Haplotypes, Mutation, Genetics of Disease, lcsh:Q, Gynecological Tumors, Founder effect
Abstract: The identification of founder mutations in cancer predisposing genes is important to improve risk assessment in geographically defined populations, since it may provide specific targets resulting in cost-effective genetic testing. Here, we report the characterization of the BRCA1 c.190T>C (p.Cys64Arg) mutation, mapped to the RING-finger domain coding region, that we detected in 43 hereditary breast/ovarian cancer (HBOC) families, for the large part originating from the province of Bergamo (Northern Italy). Haplotype analysis was performed in 21 families, and led to the identification of a shared haplotype extending over three BRCA1-associated marker loci (0.4 cM). Using the DMLE+2.2 software program and regional population demographic data, we were able to estimate the age of the mutation to vary between 3,100 and 3,350 years old. Functional characterization of the mutation was carried out at both transcript and protein level. Reverse transcriptase-PCR analysis on lymphoblastoid cells revealed expression of full length mRNA from the mutant allele. A green fluorescent protein (GFP)-fragment reassembly assay showed that the p.Cys64Arg substitution prevents the binding of the BRCA1 protein to the interacting protein BARD1, in a similar way as proven deleterious mutations in the RING-domain. Overall, 55 of 83 (66%) female mutation carriers had a diagnosis of breast and/or ovarian cancer. Our observations indicate that the BRCA1 c.190T>C is a pathogenic founder mutation present in the Italian population. Further analyses will evaluate whether screening for this mutation can be suggested as an effective strategy for the rapid identification of at-risk individuals in the Bergamo area.
Published: 2014

39. PALB2 sequencing in Italian familial breast cancer cases reveals a high-risk mutation recurrent in the province of Bergamo

Author: Monica Barile, Paolo Peterlongo, Mara Colombo, Anna Falanga, Chiara Corna, Paolo Radice, Fernando Ravagnani, Tiziana Bianchi, Domenico Sardella, Irene Catucci, Sara Ciceri, Paolo Verderio, Bernard Peissel, Graziella Pasquini, Giulietta Scuvera, Laura Galastri, Stefano Fortuzzi, Bernardo Bonanni, Claudia Foglia, Sara Pizzamiglio, Siranoush Manoukian, Loris Bernard, Carlo Tondini, Marina Marchetti, Catucci, I, Peterlongo, P, Ciceri, S, Colombo, M, Pasquini, G, Barile, M, Bonanni, B, Verderio, P, Pizzamiglio, S, Foglia, C, Falanga, A, Marchetti, M, Galastri, L, Bianchi, T, Corna, C, Ravagnani, F, Bernard, L, Fortuzzi, S, Sardella, D, Scuvera, G, Peissel, B, Manoukian, S, and Tondini, C
Subjects: Oncology, medicine.medical_specialty, Genotype, PALB2, DNA Mutational Analysis, Breast Neoplasms, White People, breast cancer, Internal medicine, Medicine, Humans, Recurrent mutation, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, skin and connective tissue diseases, Genetics (clinical), Alleles, Polymorphism, Genetic, business.industry, Tumor Suppressor Proteins, Nuclear Proteins, Italy, Case-Control Studies, Mutation (genetic algorithm), Mutation, Female, Familial breast cancer, business, Fanconi Anemia Complementation Group N Protein
Abstract: Purpose:Monoallelic germ-line deleterious mutations of PALB2 (partner and localizer of BRCA2) are associated with breast cancer risk and have been found in several populations, with carrier frequencies of ∼1-2%. Initially, these mutations were considered to have moderate penetrance, but accumulating evidence now indicates that they are associated with much higher risk.Methods:In this study, we sequenced the PALB2 coding regions unlinked to BRCA (breast cancer) genes in 575 probands from Italian breast cancer families recruited in Milan.Results:We found 12 carriers (2.1%) of deleterious mutations, and none of the mutations was found in 784 controls collected in Milan. One of these mutations, the c.1027C>T (p.Gln343X), was found to be recurrent in the province of Bergamo in northern Italy, being detected in 6/113 (5.3%) familial breast cancer cases and 2/477 (0.4%) controls recruited in this area (Fisher's exact test: P < 0.01).Conclusions:Our data provide confirmatory findings that, in the Italian population also, deleterious mutations of PALB2 are relatively frequent predisposing factors for breast cancer and may be associated with high risk of the disease.Genet Med 16 9, 688-694.
Published: 2013

40. EYA4, a novel vertebrate gene related to Drosophila eyes absent

Author: Kay Metcalfe, Alison Brown, Veronica van Heyningen, Robin M. Winter, Alessandro Bulfone, Marie Robertson, Alessandro DeGrandi, Sandro Banfi, Dian Donnai, Andrea Ballabio, Giuseppe Borsani, Isabel M. Hanson, Loris Bernard, Claudio Gattuso, Richard Axton, Margherita Mariani, Michael J. Dixon, Borsani, G, Degrandi, A, Ballabio, A, Bulfone, A, Bernard, L, Banfi, Sandro, Gattuso, C, Mariani, M, Dixon, M, Donnai, D, Metcalfe, K, Winter, R, Robertson, M, Axton, R, Brown, A, van Heyningen, V, and Hanson, I.
Subjects: DNA, Complementary, Molecular Sequence Data, Sequence Homology, Genes, Insect, Biology, Eye, Homology (biology), Mice, Species Specificity, Gene mapping, Complementary, Centromere, Gene expression, Genetics, Animals, Humans, Drosophila Proteins, Amino Acid Sequence, Eye Abnormalities, Eye Proteins, Molecular Biology, Gene, Peptide sequence, In Situ Hybridization, Genetics (clinical), Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, Base Sequence, Alternative splicing, Alternative Splicing, Chromosome Mapping, Drosophila, Mutation, Trans-Activators, DNA, General Medicine, Amino Acid, Genes, Insect, Drosophila Protein
Abstract: We have isolated a family of four vertebrate genes homologous to eyes absent (eya), a key regulator of ocular development in Drosophila. Here we present the detailed characterization of the EYA4 gene in human and mouse. EYA4 encodes a 640 amino acid protein containing a highly conserved C-terminal domain of 271 amino acids which in Drosophila eya is known to mediate developmentally important protein-protein interactions. Human EYA4 maps to 6q23 and mouse Eya4 maps to the predicted homology region near the centromere of chromosome 10. In the developing mouse embryo, Eya4 is expressed primarily in the craniofacial mesenchyme, the dermamyotome and the limb. On the basis of map position and expression pattern, EYA4 is a candidate for oculo-dento-digital (ODD) syndrome, but no EYA4 mutations were found in a panel of ODD patients.
Published: 1999

41. X-linked recessive chondrodysplasia punctata due to a new point mutation of the ARSE gene

Author: Nicola Brunetti-Pierri, Andrea Ballabio, Maria Grazia Rizzolo, Giancarlo Parenti, Generoso Andria, Loris Bernard, Brunella Franco, Piera Buttitta, Germana Meroni, G., Parenti, P., Buttitta, G., Meroni, Franco, Brunella, L., Bernard, Mg, Rizzolo, BRUNETTI PIERRI, Nicola, Ballabio, Andrea, G. A. N. D. R. I., A., Parenti, Giancarlo, Buttitta, Piera, Meroni, Germana, Bernard, Lori, Rizzolo, Maria Grazia, Brunetti Pierri, Nicola, and Andria, Generoso
Subjects: Male, X Chromosome, Genetic Linkage, DNA Mutational Analysis, Chondrodysplasia punctata, ARSE gene, arylsulfatase E, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, Chondrodysplasia punctata, Peroxisomal disorder, X-linked recessive chondrodysplasia punctata, medicine, Humans, Point Mutation, Arylsulfatase E, Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational, Genetics (clinical), Arylsulfatases, Genetics, Mutation, ARSE gene, Point mutation, Infant, Newborn, Single-strand conformation polymorphism, arylsulfatase E, medicine.disease, Osteochondrodysplasia, Radiography, sense organs
Abstract: Chondrodysplasia punctata (CP) is a heterogeneous group of bone dysplasias that are characterized by abnormal calcium deposition in areas of enchondral bone formation. The existence of an X-linked recessive form of chondrodysplasia punctata (CDPX) has been recognized in patients who are nullisomic for the Xp22.3 region, presenting with complex phenotypes. The gene of CDPX has been identified recently, and five point mutations of the gene, named ARSE, have been described. Here, we report on the clinical and molecular characterization of a patient with CDPX. The patient presented at birth with cranial and facial anomalies and short stature; an x-ray skeletal survey showed punctate calcifications and striking hand and foot abnormalities. Single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) and sequence analysis of the patient's DNA allowed the identification of a new mutation of the ARSE gene; this mutation causes an amino acid substitution from cysteine to tyrosine at position 492 of the ARSE predicted protein product. The clinical description of patients with CDPX due to known mutation of the ARSE is of interest for the precise delineation of the clinical spectrum of the disease.
Published: 1997

42. Complementary molecular approaches reveal heterogeneous CDH1 germline defects in Italian patients with hereditary diffuse gastric cancer (HDGC) syndrome

Author: Valeria, Molinaro, Valeria, Pensotti, Monica, Marabelli, Irene, Feroce, Monica, Barile, Simonetta, Pozzi, Luigi, Laghi, Davide, Serrano, Loris, Bernard, Bernardo, Bonanni, and Guglielmina Nadia, Ranzani
Subjects: Adult, Breast Neoplasms, Allelic Imbalance, Middle Aged, Cadherins, Pedigree, Carcinoma, Lobular, Genetic Heterogeneity, Italy, Antigens, CD, Stomach Neoplasms, Humans, Female, Promoter Regions, Genetic, Gene Deletion, Germ-Line Mutation
Abstract: Germline inactivation of the E-cadherin gene (CDH1) is associated with hereditary diffuse gastric cancer (HDGC), a rare autosomal dominant syndrome predisposing to both diffuse gastric cancer (DGC) and lobular breast cancer (LBC). We searched for CDH1 germline defects in 32 HDGC Italian probands selected according to international consensus criteria and in 5 selected relatives. We used a series of molecular methods, including: DNA sequencing, multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification, single-nucleotide primer extension, bisulfite sequencing, reverse-transcription PCR, and bioinformatics tools. We identified pathogenic mutations in 6 out of 32 probands (19%): one truncating and two missense mutations, one large deletion, one allelic expression imbalance and one splicing defect. Three out of six CDH1 constitutive alterations were novel. Our data support the need for a multimethod approach for CDH1 genetic testing, demonstrating that both DNA and RNA analyses are required to increase the detection rate of pathogenic mutations, thus reducing the number of patients without a clear molecular diagnosis. On the whole, our results indicate that not only DGC patients, but also subjects with personal or family history of LBC might benefit from CDH1 genetic testing. Moreover, our findings support the notion that prophylactic gastrectomy should be offered to asymptomatic CDH1 mutation carriers; indeed, while endoscopic analysis with histological examination of random gastric biopsies can miss cancer foci, gastrectomy performed in these subjects always revealed foci of cancer cells.
Published: 2013

43. An autoinflammatory neurological disease due to interleukin 6 hypersecretion

Author: Mario Savoiardo, Gloria Bedini, Laura Farina, Isabella Ceccherini, Loris Bernard, Monica Lazzaroni, Davide Cittaro, Francesca L. Sciacca, Ambra Rizzo, Sara Volorio, Ettore Salsano, Rosina Paterra, Valentina Dall'Olio, Dejan Lazarevic, Davide Pareyson, and Elia Stupka
Subjects: Adult, Male, Pathology, medicine.medical_specialty, Immunology, MEFV, Case Report, Disease, Monocytes, Leukoencephalopathy, Young Adult, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, chemistry.chemical_compound, Aseptic meningitis, Tocilizumab, NLRP3 (CIAS1), medicine, Humans, Meningitis, Cells, Cultured, Exome sequencing, Anakinra, Interleukin-6, business.industry, General Neuroscience, Hereditary Autoinflammatory Diseases, Hearing loss, medicine.disease, Neurology, chemistry, Chronic Disease, Nervous System Diseases, business, Interleukin-1, medicine.drug
Abstract: Autoinflammatory diseases are rare illnesses characterized by apparently unprovoked inflammation without high-titer auto-antibodies or antigen-specific T cells. They may cause neurological manifestations, such as meningitis and hearing loss, but they are also characterized by non-neurological manifestations. In this work we studied a 30-year-old man who had a chronic disease characterized by meningitis, progressive hearing loss, persistently raised inflammatory markers and diffuse leukoencephalopathy on brain MRI. He also suffered from chronic recurrent osteomyelitis of the mandible. The hypothesis of an autoinflammatory disease prompted us to test for the presence of mutations in interleukin-1-pathway genes and to investigate the function of this pathway in the mononuclear cells obtained from the patient. Search for mutations in genes associated with interleukin-1-pathway demonstrated a novel NLRP3 (CIAS1) mutation (p.I288M) and a previously described MEFV mutation (p.R761H), but their combination was found to be non-pathogenic. On the other hand, we uncovered a selective interleukin-6 hypersecretion within the central nervous system as the likely pathogenic mechanism. This is also supported by the response to the anti-interleukin-6-receptor monoclonal antibody tocilizumab, but not to the recombinant interleukin-1-receptor antagonist anakinra. Exome sequencing failed to identify mutations in other genes known to be involved in autoinflammatory diseases. We propose that the disease described in this patient might be a prototype of a novel category of autoinflammatory diseases characterized by prominent neurological involvement.
Published: 2013

44. Multiple independent variants at the TERT locus are associated with telomere length and risks of breast and ovarian cancer

Author: Michael Lush, Hans Wildiers, Christopher A. Haiman, Nils Schoof, Per Hall, Beatrice Melin, Hiltrud Brauch, Liisa M. Pelttari, Angela Brooks-Wilson, Laima Tihomirova, Ingo B. Runnebaum, Hui Cai, Kenneth Offit, Michael P. Lux, Robert Edwards, Julia A. Knight, Ignace Vergote, Arto Leminen, Alan Ashworth, Kyriaki Michailidou, Martha J. Shrubsole, Sophie Giraud, Nadeem Siddiqui, Katri Pylkäs, Sune F. Nielsen, Vernon S. Pankratz, Lenka Foretova, Anna González-Neira, Ian Tomlinson, Thérèse Truong, Anna Marie Mulligan, Andreas du Bois, Christi J. van Asperen, Nuria Álvarez, M. Pilar Zamora, Theo A. Mvan Os, Susan J. Ramus, Olivia Fletcher, Usha Menon, Olivier Caron, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Sara H. Olson, Ellen L. Goode, Yael Laitman, Jingmei Li, Lynne R. Wilkens, Carmel Apicella, Brooke L. Fridley, Robert Luben, Mark S. Goldberg, Mary Anne Rossing, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Jonathan Beesley, Jan Lubinski, Paolo Peterlongo, Phuong L. Mai, Henrik Flyger, Thilo Dörk, Douglas A. Levine, Rob B. van der Luijt, Stig E. Bojesen, Javier Benitez, Natalia Bogdanova, Stephen J. Chanock, Andrew K. Godwin, Sharon E. Johnatty, Helga B. Salvesen, Juliet D. French, Daphne Gschwantler Kaulich, Rod Karevan, Arif B. Ekici, Marc Frenay, Taru A. Muranen, Jirong Long, Catherine S. Healey, Craig Luccarini, Chen-Yang Shen, Lorna Gibson, Pascal Guénel, Hidemi Ito, Nicholas T. Woods, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Thomas Hansen, Francesca Damiola, Valérie Bonadona, Satoyo Hosono, Marion Piedmonte, Steve Ellis, Suleeporn Sangrajrang, Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj, James McKay, Olga M. Sinilnikova, Jennifer A. Doherty, Xiao-Ou Shu, Curtis Olswold, Nhu D. Le, Michael J. Kerin, Malcolm C. Pike, Jenny Chang-Claude, Gianluca Severi, Michael Jones, Linda E. Kelemen, Loic Le Marchand, Maureen E. Hoatlin, Fredrick R. Schumacher, Dieter Niederacher, Michael E. Carney, Angela Cox, Attila Teoman, Hannah P. Yang, Graham G. Giles, Jianjun Liu, Xiaoqing Chen, Elisa V. Bandera, Tanja Pejovic, Galina Lurie, Karoline Kuchenbaecker, Mariusz Bidziński, Chanel E. Smart, Maartje J. Hooning, Jose Ignacio Arias Perez, Anne-Marie Gerdes, L. Rogmann, Christoph Engel, Harvey A. Risch, Ignacio Blanco, Isabel dos Santos Silva, Hoda Anton-Culver, Camilla Krakstad, Volker Arndt, Foluso O. Ademuyiwa, Frans B. L. Hogervorst, Stacey L. Edwards, Florian Heitz, Veli-Matti Kosma, Beth Y. Karlan, Robert A. Vierkant, Irene L. Andrulis, Agnieszka Dansonka-Mieszkowska, Hanne Meijers-Heijboer, Alison M. Dunning, Sabapathy P. Balasubramanian, Penny Soucy, Edwin S. Iversen, Heli Nevanlinna, Celeste Leigh Pearce, Melissa C. Southey, Howard C. Shen, Kenneth Muir, Jolanta Lissowska, Clareann H. Bunker, Judy Garber, David Van Den Berg, Yin Ling Woo, Brigitte Bressac-de Paillerets, Rebecca Hein, Norbert Arnold, Saila Kauppila, Lisa Walker, Cezary Cybulski, Estrid Høgdall, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Robert Winqvist, Susanne K. Kjaer, Christa Stegmaier, Kazuo Tajima, Caroline Baynes, Valerie Gaborieau, Keitaro Matsuo, Ed Dicks, Irene Orlow, Torben A Kruse, Rachel Palmieri Weber, David E. Goldgar, Anna Jakubowska, Honglin Song, Antonis C. Antoniou, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Katja K.H. Aben, Lambertus A. Kiemeney, Laurence Faivre, Stefan Nickels, Joellen M. Schildkraut, Yu Tang Gao, Valerie McGuire, Charles L. Shapiro, Sebastian M. Armasu, Katherine L. Nathanson, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Susan L. Neuhausen, Jolanta Kupryjanczyk, Janet E. Olson, Nicolas Wentzensen, Dong Young Noh, Maya Ghoussaini, Ian G. Campbell, Annegien Broeks, Gustavo C. Rodriguez, Rebecca L. Johnston, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Monica Barile, Vesa Kataja, Melanie Maranian, Shahana Ahmed, Christof Sohn, Julie M. Cunningham, Weiva Sieh, Shani Shimon Paluch, Riccardo Dolcetti, John W.M. Martens, Manjeet K. Bolla, Shelley S. Tworoger, Robert S. Brown, Allan Jensen, Hui Miao, Boris Winterhoff, Mari K. Halle, Arndt Hartmann, Loris Bernard, Brian E. Henderson, Els Wauters, Carl Blomqvist, Daniel O. Stram, Karen A. Pooley, Roberta B. Ness, James Paul, Hilda A. Pickett, Wei Zheng, Sandra Deming-Halverson, Soo Hwang Teo, Andrew Lee, Thomas A. Sellers, Philip Iau, D. Gareth Evans, Françis Bacot, Sunil R. Lakhani, Qin Wang, Nick Orr, Celine M. Vachon, Edith Olah, Gong Yang, Svend Aage Engelholm, Martine Dumont, Linda S. Cook, Daniel C. Tessier, Evgeny N. Imyanitov, Paolo Radice, Mikael Hartman, Annika Lindblom, John R. McLaughlin, Radka Platte, Jenny Permuth-Wey, Keun-Young Yoo, Andrew Berchuck, Roger R. Reddel, M. John Kennedy, Toru Nakanishi, Allison F. Vitonis, Melissa C. Larson, Anna H. Wu, Helmut Deissler, Giuseppe Giannini, Barbara Wappenschmidt, Tomasz Byrski, M. Kamran Ikram, Natalia Antonenkova, Banu Arun, Peter Hillemanns, William Blot, Siti Zawiah Omar, Sue Healey, Trevor Cole, Cheng Har Yip, Matthias Dürst, Mark E. Robson, Roger L. Milne, Timothy R. Rebbeck, Jaana M. Hartikainen, Mieke Kriege, C. Ellen van der Schoot, Hansjoerg Plendl, Yasushi Yatabe, Jan C. Oosterwijk, Claus Høgdall, Rob A. E. M. Tollenaar, Jacek Gronwald, Yi Lu, Kate Lawrenson, Michael D. Stutz, Chia-Ni Hsiung, Alvaro N.A. Monteiro, Maren Weischer, Philipp Harter, Nicola Miller, Lisa B. Signorello, Katarzyna Durda, Peter Lichtner, Ritu Salani, Alfons Meindl, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, George Fountzilas, Uffe Birk Jensen, Thomas Brüning, Laura Baglietto, Anne M. van Altena, Kristine M. Hillman, Bernard Peissel, Trinidad Caldés, Rosemarie Davidson, Julian Barwell, Peter Devilee, Jenny Lester, Qiuyin Cai, Heiko Müller, Jyh Cherng Yu, Kerstin Rhiem, Muy Kheng Tea, Sharon A. Savage, Åke Borg, Daniel Vincent, Antoinette Hollestelle, Katarzyna Jaworska, Mat Adenan Noor Azmi, Yon Ko, Kimberly R. Kalli, Debra Frost, Martin Gore, Chiu-Chen Tseng, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Pornthep Siriwanarangsan, Evelyn Despierre, Fergus J. Couch, Vijayalakshmi Shridhar, Artitaya Lophatananon, Amanda B. Spurdle, Joe Dennis, Ute Hamann, Vessela N. Kristensen, Frederik Marmé, Jonathan Tyrer, Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen, Wei Lu, Peter A. Fasching, Bruno Buecher, Kristiina Aittomäki, Kirsten B. Moysich, Lesley McGuffog, Mine S. Cicek, Guillermo Pita, Arjen R. Mensenkamp, Agnes Jager, Catherine M. Phelan, Jacques Simard, Ming-Feng Hou, Hiroji Iwata, James M. Flanagan, Elena Fineberg, Susan M. Domchek, Csilla Szabo, Diether Lambrechts, Anja Rudolph, Daehee Kang, Gottfried E. Konecny, Eitan Friedman, Argyrios Ziogas, Arto Mannermaa, Susan Peock, Matti A. Rookus, Christian F. Singer, Claire Mulot, Siranoush Manoukian, Johanna Rantala, Helen Tsimiklis, Gord Glendon, Pierre Laurent-Puig, Barbara Brouwers, Filomena Ficarazzi, Jonine D. Figueroa, Anne-Bine Skytte, Caroline Seynaeve, Christian Sutter, Rita K. Schmutzler, Julian Peto, Jeffrey N. Weitzel, Kathryn L. Terry, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Simon A. Gayther, Barbara Burwinkel, Ira Schwaab, Steven A. Narod, Elisabeth Wik, Ralf Bützow, Marco Montagna, Mark H. Greene, Linde M. Braaf, Janusz Menkiszak, Kamila Czene, Sarah Stewart-Brown, Kees E. P. van Roozendaal, Andreas Schneeweiss, Daniel Barrowdale, Elinor J. Sawyer, Alice S. Whittemore, Marc T. Goodman, Judith E. Brown, Kunle Odunsi, John L. Hopper, Nina Ditsch, Leon F.A.G. Massuger, Hermann Brenner, Joaquin J. Garcia, Xianshu Wang, Susan L. Slager, Aleksandra Tołoczko-Grabarek, Sylvie Mazoyer, Diana Eccles, Yik Ying Teo, Iwona K. Rzepecka, Bernardo Bonanni, Sara Margolin, Daniela Zaffaroni, Yew Ching Teh, Ans M Wvan Den Ouweland, Bent Ejlertsen, Maria Soller, Mitul Shah, Matthias W. Beckmann, Elizabeth M. Poole, J. Margriet Collée, Lorna Rodriguez-Rodriguez, Sandrina Lambrechts, Daniel W. Cramer, Douglas F. Easton, Virginie Caux-Moncoutier, Mads Thomassen, Keith Humphreys, ~, Landsteiner Laboratory, Clinical Haematology, CCA -Cancer Center Amsterdam, ARD - Amsterdam Reproduction and Development, Human Genetics, MUMC+: DA KG Lab Centraal Lab (9), Genetica & Celbiologie, RS: GROW - School for Oncology and Reproduction, Human genetics, CCA - Oncogenesis, Damage and Repair in Cancer Development and Cancer Treatment (DARE), Targeted Gynaecologic Oncology (TARGON), Clinical Genetics, Cardiothoracic Surgery, and Medical Oncology
Subjects: Telomerase, Messenger, Càncer d'ovari, Estrogen receptor, Aetiology, screening and detection [ONCOL 5], 0302 clinical medicine, Breast cancer, Risk Factors, Alternative Splicing, Biomarkers, Tumor, Breast Neoplasms, Case-Control Studies, Chromatin, DNA Methylation, Female, Gene Expression Profiling, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Luciferases, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Ovarian Neoplasms, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, RNA, Messenger, Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Telomere, Genetics, BUCCAL CELLS, 0303 health sciences, Tumor, Telòmer, GENETIC-VARIATION, COMMON VARIANTS, Single Nucleotide, tert-clptm1l locus, genome-wide association, genetic-variation, susceptibility loci, buccal cells, fibroblasts, common variants, carcinoma, reverse-transcriptase htert, metaanalysis, Aetiology, screening and detection Immune Regulation [ONCOL 5], 3. Good health, Tumor Markers, Biological, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, FIBROBLASTS, SUSCEPTIBILITY LOCI, CARCINOMA, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Biology, Article, Càncer de mama, 03 medical and health sciences, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Translational research [ONCOL 3], Ovarian cancer, medicine, Polymorphism, Allele, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, METAANALYSIS, 030304 developmental biology, Molecular epidemiology Aetiology, screening and detection [NCEBP 1], Breast cancer susceptibility, Hereditary cancer and cancer-related syndromes [ONCOL 1], Translational research Genomic disorders and inherited multi-system disorders [ONCOL 3], medicine.disease, Molecular biology, TERT-CLPTM1L LOCUS, Minor allele frequency, RNA, Biomarkers, REVERSE-TRANSCRIPTASE HTERT
Abstract: Journal article TERT-locus SNPs and leukocyte telomere measures are reportedly associated with risks of multiple cancers. Using the Illumina custom genotyping array iCOGs, we analyzed ~480 SNPs at the TERT locus in breast (n = 103,991), ovarian (n = 39,774) and BRCA1 mutation carrier (n = 11,705) cancer cases and controls. Leukocyte telomere measurements were also available for 53,724 participants. Most associations cluster into three independent peaks. The minor allele at the peak 1 SNP rs2736108 associates with longer telomeres (P = 5.8 × 10!-7), lower risks for estrogen receptor (ER)-negative (P = 1.0 × 10!-8) and BRCA1 mutation carrier (P = 1.1 × 10!-5) breast cancers and altered promoter assay signal. The minor allele at the peak 2 SNP rs7705526 associates with longer telomeres (P = 2.3 × 10!-14), higher risk of low-malignant-potential ovarian cancer (P = 1.3 × 10!-15) and greater promoter activity. The minor alleles at the peak 3 SNPs rs10069690 and rs2242652 increase ER-negative (P = 1.2 × 10!-12) and BRCA1 mutation carrier (P = 1.6 × 10!-14) breast and invasive ovarian (P = 1.3 × 10!-11) cancer risks but not via altered telomere length. The cancer risk alleles of rs2242652 and rs10069690, respectively, increase silencing and generate a truncated TERT splice variant. European Commission Seventh Framework Programme (agreement 223175-HEALTH-F2-2009-223175); Cancer Research UK (C1287/A10118 and C1287/A12014) peer-reviewed
Published: 2013

45. Identification and mapping of human cDNAs homologous to Drosophila mutant genes through EST database searching

Author: Anna Marchitiello, Elisabetta Coluccia, Alessandro Guffanti, Orsetta Zuffardi, Massimo Zollo, Sabrina Giglio, Francesca Rubboli, Loris Bernard, Andrea Ballabio, Elena Rossi, Giuseppe Borsani, Sandro Banfi, Banfi, Sandro, Borsani, G, Rossi, E, Bernard, L, Guffanti, A, Rubboli, F, Marchitiello, A, Giglio, S, Coluccia, E, Zollo, M, Zuffardi, O, Ballabio, A., Banfi, S, Zollo, Massimo, and Ballabio, Andrea
Subjects: DNA, Complementary, Databases, Factual, Molecular Sequence Data, Genes, Insect, Hybrid Cells, Biology, computer.software_genre, Homology (biology), Computer Communication Networks, Gene mapping, Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid, Drosophilidae, Complementary DNA, Genetics, Animals, Humans, Radiation hybrid mapping, Amino Acid Sequence, Gene, In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence, Expressed sequence tag, Models, Genetic, Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, Database, Chromosome Mapping, biology.organism_classification, Drosophila melanogaster, Phenotype, Mutation, Human genome, Sequence Alignment, computer
Abstract: Cross-species comparison is an effective tool used to identify genes and study their function in both normal and pathological conditions. We have applied the power of Drosophila genetics to the vast resource of human cDNAs represented in the expressed sequence tag (EST) database (dbEST) to identify novel human genes of high biological interest. Sixty-six human cDNAs showing significant homology to genes causing Drosophila mutant phenotypes were identified by screening dbEST using the "text string' option, and their map position was determined using both fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and radiation hybrid mapping. Comparison between these genes and their putative partners in Drosophila may provide important insights into their function in mammals. Furthermore, integration of these genes into the transcription map of the human genome contributes to the positional candidate approach for disease gene identification.
Published: 1996

46. Differentiation-associated microRNAs antagonize the Rb-E2F pathway to restrict proliferation

Author: Gabriele Bucci, Valentina Dall'Olio, Marco Crescenzi, Eleonora M. R. Puggioni, Fabrizio Bianchi, Loris Bernard, Francesco Nicassio, Matteo Jacopo Marzi, and Pier Paolo Di Fiore
Subjects: Biology, Retinoblastoma Protein, Article, Myoblasts, Mice, microRNA, Gene silencing, Animals, Humans, RNA, Messenger, E2F, Cells, Cultured, Research Articles, Cell Proliferation, Oncogene, Myogenesis, Cell growth, Retinoblastoma protein, Cell Differentiation, Cell Biology, Cell cycle, Molecular biology, Cell biology, E2F Transcription Factors, MicroRNAs, HEK293 Cells, biology.protein, Adenovirus E1A Proteins
Abstract: Transcriptional regulation by Rb–E2F and posttranscriptional regulation by microRNAs control the expression of cell cycle and DNA replication genes and restrict cellular proliferation., The cancer-associated loss of microRNA (miRNA) expression leads to a proliferative advantage and aggressive behavior through largely unknown mechanisms. Here, we exploit a model system that recapitulates physiological terminal differentiation and its reversal upon oncogene expression to analyze coordinated mRNA/miRNA responses. The cell cycle reentry of myotubes, forced by the E1A oncogene, was associated with a pattern of mRNA/miRNA modulation that was largely reciprocal to that induced during the differentiation of myoblasts into myotubes. The E1A-induced mRNA response was preponderantly Retinoblastoma protein (Rb)-dependent. Conversely, the miRNA response was mostly Rb-independent and exerted through tissue-specific factors and Myc. A subset of these miRNAs (miR-1, miR-34, miR-22, miR-365, miR-29, miR-145, and Let-7) was shown to coordinately target Rb-dependent cell cycle and DNA replication mRNAs. Thus, a dual level of regulation—transcriptional regulation via Rb–E2F and posttranscriptional regulation via miRNAs—confers robustness to cell cycle control and provides a molecular basis to understand the role of miRNA subversion in cancer.
Published: 2012

47. Germline mutations in BRIP1 and PALB2 in Jewish high cancer risk families

Author: Paolo Peterlongo, Anya Kushnir, Paolo Radice, Sara Volorio, Irene Catucci, Yael Laitman, Shani Paluch-Shimon, Filomena Ficarazzi, Eitan Friedman, Loris Bernard, and Roni Milgrom
Subjects: Adult, Cancer Research, PALB2, Breast Neoplasms, Biology, High Resolution Melt, Breast cancer, Germline mutation, Genetics, medicine, Missense mutation, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, skin and connective tissue diseases, Genetics (clinical), Germ-Line Mutation, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Ovarian Neoplasms, Tumor Suppressor Proteins, BRIP1, Cancer, Nuclear Proteins, Exons, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Fanconi Anemia Complementation Group Proteins, DNA-Binding Proteins, Oncology, Case-Control Studies, Jews, Cancer research, Female, Ovarian cancer, Fanconi Anemia Complementation Group N Protein, RNA Helicases
Abstract: Germline mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 account for ~30 % of inherited breast cancer. BRIP1 and PALB2 are likely genes for breast cancer susceptibility, based on their roles in maintaining cellular integrity. Indeed, few pathogenic germline mutations in both genes are reported in ethnically diverse breast cancer families. There is a paucity of data on the putative contribution of both genes to inherited breast cancer in Jewish high risk families. High risk Jewish women, none of whom was a carrier of the predominant Jewish mutations in BRCA1/BRCA2, were screened for BRIP1 germline mutations by combined denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis, high resolution melting and sequencing. Direct sequencing of exons and flanking intronic sequences was used for PALB2 mutational analysis. Overall, 149 women, all of high risk, cancer prone families of Ashkenazi origin, were genotyped for BRIP1 mutations: 127 with breast cancer, 22 with ovarian cancer. No truncating mutations were noted and one novel (p.Ala745Thr) and two previously described missense mutations were detected. For PALB2, 93 women were genotyped (87 with breast cancer) of Ashkenazi (n = 32) and non Ashkenazi Jewish origin. Fifteen sequence variants were detected, of these, none was truncating, four were not previously reported, and two (p.Asp871Gly and p.Leu1119Pro) were seemingly pathogenic based on the PolyPhen2 protein prediction algorithm. These missense mutations were not detected in any of 113 healthy Ashkenazi and 109 Moroccan, cancer free controls. In conclusion, germline mutations in BRIP1 and PALB2 contribute marginally to breast cancer susceptibility in ethnically diverse, Jewish high risk families.
Published: 2012

48. Ovarian cancer susceptibility alleles and risk of ovarian cancer in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers

Author: Ramus, Susan J., Antoniou, Antonis C., Kuchenbaecker, Karoline B., Penny, Soucy, Jonathan, Beesley, Xiaoqing, Chen, Lesley, Mcguffog, Sinilnikova, Olga M., Sue, Healey, Daniel, Barrowdale, Andrew, Lee, Mads, Thomassen, Anne Marie Gerdes, Kruse, Torben A., Uffe Birk Jensen, Anne Bine Skytte, Caligo, Maria A., Annelie, Liljegren, Annika, Lindblom, Hakan, Olsson, Ulf, Kristoffersson, Marie Stenmark Askmalm, Swe Brca Melin, B., Swe, Brca, Domchek, Susan M., Domchek, Sm, Nathanson, Katherine L., Rebbeck, Timothy R., Anna, Jakubowska, Jan, Lubinski, Katarzyna, Jaworska, Katarzyna, Durda, Elzbieta, Złowocka, Jacek, Gronwald, Tomasz, Huzarski, Tomasz, Byrski, Cezary, Cybulski, Aleksandra Toloczko Grabarek, Ana, Osorio, Javier, Benitez, Mercedes, Duran, Maria Isabel Tejada, Ute, Hamann, Matti, Rookus, Van Leeuwen, Flora E., Aalfs, Cora M., Meijers Heijboer, Hanne E. J., Van Asperen, Christi J., Van Roozendaal, K. E. P., Nicoline, Hoogerbrugge, Collee, Margriet J., Margriet Collee, J., Mieke, Kriege, Hebon Van Der Luijt, R. B., Embrace, Embrace, Hebon, Susan, Peock, Debra, Frost, Ellis, Steve D., Radka, Platte, Elena, Fineberg, Gareth Evans, D., Fiona, Lalloo, Chris, Jacobs, Ros, Eeles, Julian, Adlard, Rosemarie, Davidson, Diana, Eccles, Trevor, Cole, Jackie, Cook, Joan, Paterson, Fiona, Douglas, Carole, Brewer, Shirley, Hodgson, Morrison, Patrick J., Lisa, Walker, Porteous, Mary E., John Kennedy, M., Harsh, Pathak, Godwin, Andrew K., Dominique Stoppa Lyonnet, Virginie Caux Moncoutier, Antoine Pauw, D. E., De Pauw, A., Marion Gauthier Villars, Sylvie, Mazoyer, Melanie, Leone, Alain, Calender, Christine, Lasset, Valerie, Bonadona, Agnes, Hardouin, Pascaline, Berthet, Yves Jean Bignon, Nancy, Uhrhammer, Laurence, Faivre, Catherine, Loustalot, Gemo, Saundra, Buys, Mary, Daly, Buys, Daly, S., Alex, Miron, Beth, Terry M., Mary Beth Terry, Terry, M. B., Chung, Wendy K., Esther, John M., John, Em, Melissa, Southey, David, Goldgar, Singer, Christian F., Muy Kheng Tea, Georg, Pfeiler, Anneliese Fink Retter, Hansen, Thomas V. O., Hansen, Tv, Bent, Ejlertsen, Oskar Th Johannsson, Kenneth, Offit, Tomas, Kirchhoff, Gaudet, Mia M., Joseph, Vijai, Mark, Robson, Marion, Piedmonte, Kelly Anne Phillips, Linda Van Le, Hoffman, James S., Amanda Ewart Toland, Ewart Toland, A., Marco, Montagna, Silvia, Tognazzo, Evgeny, Imyanitov, Claudine, Isaacs, Issacs, C., Ramunas, Janavicius, Conxi, Lazaro, Ignacio, Blanco, Eva, Tornero, Matilde, Navarro, Moysich, Kirsten B., Karlan, Beth Y., Jenny, Gross, Edith, Olah, Tibor, Vaszko, Soo Hwang Teo, Ganz, Patricia A., Beattie, Mary S., Dorfling, Cecelia M., Van Rensburg, Elizabeth J., Orland, Diez, Ava, Kwong, Schmutzler, Rita K., Barbara, Wappenschmidt, Christoph, Engel, Alfons, Meindl, Nina, Ditsch, Norbert, Arnold, Simone, Heidemann, Dieter, Niederacher, Sabine Preisler Adams, Dorotehea, Gadzicki, Raymonda Varon Mateeva, Helmut, Deissler, Andrea, Gehrig, Christian, Sutter, Karin, Kast, Britta, Fiebig, Dieter, Schafer, Trinidad, Caldes, Miguel De La Hoya, Heli, Nevanlinna, Kristiina, Aittomaki, Marie, Plante, Kconfab Spurdle, A. B., Kconfab, Neuhausen, Susan L., Neuhausen, Sl, Yuan Chun Ding, Xianshu, Wang, Noralane, Lindor, Zachary, Fredericksen, Shane Pankratz, V., Paolo, Peterlongo, Siranoush, Manoukian, Bernard, Peissel, Daniela, Zaffaroni, Bernardo, Bonanni, Loris, Bernard, Riccardo, Dolcetti, Laura, Papi, Ottini, Laura, Paolo, Radice, Greene, Mark H., Mai, Phuong L., Andrulis, Irene L., Gord, Glendon, Ocgn Ozcelik, H., Ocgn, Pharoah, Paul D. P., Pharoah, Pd, Gayther, Simon A., Jacques, Simard, Easton, Douglas F., Couch, Fergus J., Georgia Chenevix Trench, Behalf Of The Consortium Of Investigators Of Modifiers Of Brca1/2, O. N., 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), Human Genetics, CCA -Cancer Center Amsterdam, ARD - Amsterdam Reproduction and Development, Universitat de Barcelona, Genetica & Celbiologie, MUMC+: DA KG Lab Centraal Lab (9), RS: CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, RS: GROW - School for Oncology and Reproduction, and Clinical Genetics
Subjects: Oncology, endocrine system diseases, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Càncer d'ovari, DCN PAC - Perception action and control, Cohort Studies, Breast cancer, 0302 clinical medicine, brca1, brca2, Odds Ratio, Genetics (clinical), ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Ovarian Neoplasms, Genetics, 0303 health sciences, education.field_of_study, BRCA1 Protein, Hazard ratio, Middle Aged, 3. Good health, ovarian cancer, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Female, Adult, Heterozygote, medicine.medical_specialty, Hereditary cancer and cancer-related syndromes Genetics and epigenetic pathways of disease [ONCOL 1], Population, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Biology, Ovarian Neoplasms - genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, Càncer de mama, 03 medical and health sciences, Germline mutation, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Translational research [ONCOL 3], Ovarian cancer, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, ddc:610, Genetics and epigenetic pathways of disease Translational research [NCMLS 6], education, Retrospective Studies, 030304 developmental biology, BRCA2 Protein, Hereditary cancer and cancer-related syndromes [ONCOL 1], association, Retrospective cohort study, snp, Odds ratio, BRCA1 Protein - genetics, medicine.disease, BRCA2 Protein - genetics, Mutation
Abstract: Germline mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 are associated with increased risks of breast and ovarian cancer. A genome-wide association study (GWAS) identified six alleles associated with risk of ovarian cancer for women in the general population. We evaluated four of these loci as potential modifiers of ovarian cancer risk for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. Four single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), rs10088218 (at 8q24), rs2665390 (at 3q25), rs717852 (at 2q31), and rs9303542 (at 17q21), were genotyped in 12,599 BRCA1 and 7,132 BRCA2 carriers, including 2,678 ovarian cancer cases. Associations were evaluated within a retrospective cohort approach. All four loci were associated with ovarian cancer risk in BRCA2 carriers; rs10088218 per-allele hazard ratio (HR) = 0.81 (95% CI: 0.67-0.98) P-trend = 0.033, rs2665390 HR = 1.48 (95% CI: 1.21-1.83) P-trend = 1.8 x 10(-4), rs717852 HR = 1.25 (95% CI: 1.10-1.42) P-trend = 6.6 x 10(-4), rs9303542 HR = 1.16 (95% CI: 1.02-1.33) P-trend = 0.026. Two loci were associated with ovarian cancer risk in BRCA1 carriers; rs10088218 per-allele HR = 0.89 (95% CI: 0.81-0.99) P-trend = 0.029, rs2665390 HR = 1.25 (95% CI: 1.10-1.42) P-trend = 6.1 x 10(-4). The HR estimates for the remaining loci were consistent with odds ratio estimates for the general population. The identification of multiple loci modifying ovarian cancer risk may be useful for counseling women with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations regarding their risk of ovarian cancer., link_to_OA_fulltext
Published: 2012

49. The SNP rs895819 in miR-27a is not associated with familial breast cancer risk in Italians

Author: Monica Barile, Paolo Peterlongo, Laura Galastri, Loris Bernard, Sara Pizzamiglio, Domenico Sardella, Fernando Ravagnani, Siranoush Manoukian, Paolo Radice, Daniela Zaffaroni, Valentina Dall'Olio, Irene Catucci, Paolo Verderio, and Bernard Peissel
Subjects: Oncology, Risk, Cancer Research, medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, Breast Neoplasms, medicine.disease, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, White People, MicroRNAs, Breast cancer, Italy, Internal medicine, Medicine, SNP, Humans, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Familial breast cancer, business
Published: 2012

50. Common variants at 12p11, 12q24, 9p21, 9q31.2 and in ZNF365 are associated with breast cancer risk for BRCA1 and/or BRCA2 mutation carriers

Author: Antoniou, Antonis C., Kuchenbaecker, Karoline B., Penny, Soucy, Jonathan, Beesley, Xiaoqing, Chen, Lesley, Mcguffog, Andrew, Lee, Daniel, Barrowdale, Sue, Healey, Sinilnikova, Olga M., Caligo, Maria A., Niklas, Loman, Katja, Harbst, Annika, Lindblom, Brita, Arver, Richard, Rosenquist, Per, Karlsson, Kate, Nathanson, Susan, Domchek, Tim, Rebbeck, Anna, Jakubowska, Jan, Lubinski, Katarzyna, Jaworska, Katarzyna, Durda, Zlowocka Perlowska, E., Elzbieta Złowowcka Perłowska, Ana, Osorio, Mercedes, Duran, Raquel, Andres, Javier, Benitez, Ute, Hamann, Hogervorst, Frans B., Van, A., Van Os, Theo A., Senno, Verhoef, Meijers Heijboer, Hanne E. J., Juul, Wijnen, Gomez Garcia, Encarna B., Ligtenberg, Marjolijn J., Mieke, Kriege, Margriet Collee, J., Margreet Gem Ausems, Oosterwijk, Jan C., Susan, Peock, Debra, Frost, Ellis, Steve D., Radka, Platte, Elena, Fineberg, Gareth Evans, D., Fiona, Lalloo, Chris, Jacobs, Ros, Eeles, Julian, Adlard, Rosemarie, Davidson, Trevor, Cole, Jackie, Cook, Joan, Paterson, Fiona, Douglas, Carole, Brewer, Shirley, Hodgson, Morrison, Patrick J., Lisa, Walker, Rogers, Mark T., Alan, Donaldson, Huw, Dorkins, Godwin, Andrew K., Betsy, Bove, Dominique Stoppa Lyonnet, Claude, Houdayer, Bruno, Buecher, De Pauw, A., Antoine Pauw, D. E., Sylvie, Mazoyer, Alain, Calender, Melanie, Leone, Brigitte Bressac De Paillerets, Olivier, Caron, Hagay, Sobol, Marc, Frenay, Fabienne, Prieur, Sandra, Ferrer, Isabelle, Mortemousque, Saundra, Buys, Mary, Daly, Alexander, Miron, Terry, Mb, Terry, Mu, Mary, Terry, Hopper, John L., John, Em, Esther, John M., Melissa, Southey, David, Goldgar, Singer, Christian F., Anneliese Fink Retter, Muy Kheng Tea, Geschwantler Kaulich, D., Daphne, Kaulich, Hansen, Thomas V. O., Nielsen, Finn C., Barkardottir, Rosa B., Mia, Gaudet, Tomas, Kirchhoff, Joseph, V., Joseph, Vijai, Ana Dutra Clarke, Kenneth, Offit, Marion, Piedmonte, Judy, Kirk, David, Cohn, Jean, Hurteau, John, Byron, James, Fiorica, Toland, Amanda E., Marco, Montagna, Cristina, Oliani, Evgeny, Imyanitov, Claudine, Isaacs, Laima, Tihomirova, Ignacio, Blanco, Conxi, Lazaro, Alex, Teule, Del Valle, J., Gayther, Simon A., Kunle, Odunsi, Jenny, Gross, Karlan, Beth Y., Edith, Olah, Soo Hwang Teo, Ganz, Patricia A., Beattie, Mary S., Dorfling, Cecelia M., Jansen Van Rensburg, E., Elizabeth Van Rensburg, Orland, Diez, Ava, Kwong, Schmutzler, Rita K., Barbara, Wappenschmidt, Christoph, Engel, Alfons, Meindl, Nina, Ditsch, Norbert, Arnold, Simone, Heidemann, Dieter, Niederacher, Sabine Preisler Adams, Dorothea, Gadzicki, Raymonda Varon Mateeva, Helmut, Deissler, Andrea, Gehrig, Christian, Sutter, Karin, Kast, Britta, Fiebig, Dieter, Schafer, Trinidad, Caldes, Miguel De La Hoya, Heli, Nevanlinna, Muranen, Taru A., Bernard, Lesperance, Spurdle, Amanda B., Neuhausen, Susan L., Ding, Yuan C., Xianshu, Wang, Zachary, Fredericksen, Pankratz, Vernon S., Lindor, Noralane M., Paolo, Peterlongo, Siranoush, Manoukian, Bernard, Peissel, Daniela, Zaffaroni, Bernardo, Bonanni, Loris, Bernard, Riccardo, Dolcetti, Laura, Papi, Ottini, Laura, Paolo, Radice, Greene, Mark H., Loud, Jennifer T., Andrulis, Irene L., Hilmi, Ozcelik, Anna, Mulligan, Gord, Glendon, Mads, Thomassen, Anne Marie Gerdes, Jensen, Uffe B., Anne Bine Skytte, Kruse, Torben A., Georgia Chenevix Trench, Couch, Fergus J., Jacques, Simard, Easton, Douglas F., Swedish Breast, Cancer Study S. B., Facility, Research H., Study, E., Collaborators, Study G., Investigators, K., Swe Brca Cimba, Embrace, Hebon, Study Gemo Collaborators, Kconfab, Investigators, BMC, Ed., Collaborative Oncological Gene-environment Study - COGS - - EC:FP7:HEALTH2009-05-01 - 2014-01-31 - 223175 - VALID, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), Cancer Genomics Laboratory, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, Genetics and Population Health Division, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Unité Mixte de Génétique Constitutionnelle des Cancers Fréquents, Centre Léon Bérard [Lyon]-Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), 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), Section of Genetic Oncology, University of Pisa - Università di Pisa, Department of Oncology, Lund University Hospital, Department of Clinical Genetics, Karolinska University Hospital [Stockholm], Department of Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University-Rudbeck Laboratory, Sahlgrenska University Hospital [Gothenburg], Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania-Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, International Hereditary Cancer Centre-Pomeranian Medical University [Szczecin] (PUM), Postgraduate School of Molecular Medicine, Warsaw Medical University, Human Genetics Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Biomedical Research Centre Network for Rare Diseases, CIBER de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Institute of Biology and Molecular Genetics, Universidad de Valladolid [Valladolid] (UVa), Medical Oncology Division, Hospital Clínico de Zaragoza, Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, German Cancer Research Center - Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum [Heidelberg] (DKFZ), Family Cancer Clinic, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Academic Medical Center - Academisch Medisch Centrum [Amsterdam] (AMC), University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (UvA)-University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (UvA), VU Medical Center, Department of Clinical Genetics and GROM, School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University [Nijmegen], Erasmus University Medical Center [Rotterdam] (Erasmus MC)-Family Cancer Clinic, Department of Clinical Molecular Genetics, University Medical Center [Utrecht], Department of Genetics, VU University Medical Center [Amsterdam], Genetic Medicine, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre-Central Manchester University Hospitals, Clinical Genetics, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Oncogenetics Team, The Institute of Cancer Research-Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Addenbrookes Hospital, Institute of Human Genetics, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Medical Genetics Unit, University College of London [London] (UCL), Northern Ireland Regional Genetics Centre, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Department of Medical Genetics, Queen's University [Belfast] (QUB), Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital Oxford Centre for Haematology, All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Clinical Genetics Department, St Michael's Hospital, North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center [Kansas City, KS, USA], Clinical Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Service de Génétique Oncologique, Institut Curie [Paris], 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), Service de génétique, Institut Gustave Roussy (IGR), Variabilité Génétique et Maladies Humaines, Institut Universitaire d'Hématologie (IUH), Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Consultation de génétique, Hôpital Sainte-Marguerite [CHU - APHM] (Hôpitaux Sud ), Service d'Oncologie Génétique, de Prévention et Dépistage, Centre de Lutte contre le Cancer Antoine Lacassagne [Nice] (UNICANCER/CAL), UNICANCER-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA), Service de Génétique Clinique Chromosomique et Moléculaire, CHU Saint-Etienne, Laboratoire de Génétique Chromosomique, CH Chambéry, Service de génétique [Tours], Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Tours (CHRU Tours)-Hôpital Bretonneau, Department of Internal Medicine, Huntsman Cancer Institute, Division of Population Science, Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute [Boston], Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School [Boston] (HMS), Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University [New York], Centre for Molecular , Environmental, Genetic and Analytic (MEGA) Epidemiology, University of Melbourne-Centre for Molecular, Melbourne School of Population Health, Cancer Prevention Institute of California, entre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic (MEGA) Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Department of Dermatology, University of Utah School of Medicine [Salt Lake City], Dept of OB/GYN and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medizinische Universität Wien = Medical University of Vienna, Center for Genomic Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital-Rigshospitalet [Copenhagen], Copenhagen University Hospital, Department of Pathology, University of Iceland [Reykjavik]-Landspitali - University Hospital, Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, NYU System (NYU)-NYU System (NYU)-NYU Cancer Institute, Clinical Genetics Service, Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center [New York], Statistical and Data Center, Roswell Park Cancer Institute [Buffalo], Australia New Zealand (ANZGOG), Westmead Hospital [Sydney], Ohio State University [Columbus] (OSU), Evanston CCOP - NorthShore University Health System, University of Chicago, Southern Pines Women's Health Center, University of North Carolina [Chapel Hill] (UNC), University of North Carolina System (UNC)-University of North Carolina System (UNC), Sarasota Memorial Healthcare, Tufts Medical Center, Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics [Colombus], Ohio State University [Columbus] (OSU)-College of Medicine and Public Health [Colombus], Immunology and Molecular Oncology Unit, Istituto Oncologico Veneto IOV - IRCCS, U.O.C. di Oncologia, Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, N.N. Petrov Institute of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University [Washington] (GU), Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre [Rīga], Genetic Counselling Unit, IDIBELL-Catalan Institute of Oncology, Molecular Diagnostic Unit, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California (USC)-Keck School of Medicine [Los Angeles], University of Southern California (USC), Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Women's Cancer Program, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Department of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Oncology, Cancer Research Initiatives Foundation, Sime Darby Medical Centre-Malaysia and University Malaya Cancer Research Institute-University Malaya Medical Centre, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCSF Cancer Risk Program, University of California (UC), Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics, UCSF, Cancer Genetics Laboratory, University of Pretoria [South Africa], Oncogenetics Laboratory, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), The Hong Kong Hereditary Breast Cancer Family Registry, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital of Cologne [Cologne]-Centre of Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer-Centre for Integrated Oncology (CIO), Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology [Leipzig] (IMISE), Universität Leipzig [Leipzig], Technische Universität Munchen - Université Technique de Munich [Munich, Allemagne] (TUM), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein-Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU), University Hospital Düsseldorf-Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf = Heinrich Heine University [Düsseldorf], Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster = University of Münster (WWU), Institute of Cell and Molecular Pathology, Hannover Medical School [Hannover] (MHH), Charité - UniversitätsMedizin = Charité - University Hospital [Berlin], Universitätsklinikum Ulm - University Hospital of Ulm, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU)-Centre of Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Heidelberg University Hospital [Heidelberg], University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Universität Regensburg (UR), University Hospital Frankfurt a.M., Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Hemato-oncology service, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Unit of Molecular Bases of Genetic Risk and Genetic Testing, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumouri (INT)-Fondazione Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare, Unit of Medical Genetics, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumouri (INT), Division of Cancer Prevention and Genetics, Department of Experimental Oncology, Istituto Europeo di Oncologia-Consortium for Genomics Technology (Cogentech), Cancer Bioimmunotherapy Unit, IRCCS-Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence (UniFI), Department of Molecular Medicine, Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome] (UNIROMA), Clinical Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute [Bethesda] (NCI-NIH), National Institutes of Health [Bethesda] (NIH)-National Institutes of Health [Bethesda] (NIH), Departments of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto-Cancer Care Ontario, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital [Toronto, Canada] (MSH), Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Department of Laboratory Medicine, St Michael's Hospital-Keenan Research Centre of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute [Toronto], Ontario Cancer Genetics Network, Cancer Care Ontario, Odense University Hospital, Department of Clinical Genetics [Copenhagen], Rigshospitalet [Copenhagen], Copenhagen University Hospital-Copenhagen University Hospital, Skejby Hospital, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and Health Sciences Research, This work was supported by Cancer Research UK grants C12292/A11174 and C1287/A10118. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement n° 223175 (HEALTH-F2-2009-223175), from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for the 'CIHR Team in Familial Risks of Breast Cancer' program and by the Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance-grant #019511. This research was also supported by NIH grant CA128978, an NCI Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Breast Cancer (CA116201), a U.S. Department of Defence Ovarian Cancer Idea award (W81XWH-10-1-0341) and grants from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and the Komen Foundation for the Cure. ACA is a CR-UK Senior Cancer Research Fellow, DFE is CR-UK Principal Research Fellow, GCT is a NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, J.S. is Chairholder of the Canada Research Chair in Oncogenetics, on behalf of CIMBA, SWE-BRCA, HEBON, EMBRACE, GEMO Study Collaborators and kConFab Investigators, European Project: 223175,EC:FP7:HEALTH,FP7-HEALTH-2007-B,COGS(2009), Pediatric Surgery, Neurology, Medical Oncology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint-Etienne [CHU Saint-Etienne] (CHU ST-E), Roswell Park Cancer Institute [Buffalo] (RPCI), Universität Leipzig, Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), University of Pennsylvania [Philadelphia]-Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania [Philadelphia], Pomeranian Medical University-International Hereditary Cancer Centre, Radboud university [Nijmegen], University of Kansas Medical Center [Lawrence], Institut Curie [Paris]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5), Georgetown University, University of California, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU), Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg [Wurtzbourg, Allemagne] (JMU)-Centre of Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence [Firenze] (UNIFI), Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome], RS: GROW - School for Oncology and Reproduction, Genetica & Celbiologie, Hôpital Bretonneau-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Tours (CHRU Tours), Human Genetics, CCA -Cancer Center Amsterdam, ARD - Amsterdam Reproduction and Development, Human genetics, and CCA - Oncogenesis
Subjects: Oncology, Medicin och hälsovetenskap, Estrogen receptor, Genome-wide association study, HORMONE-RELATED PROTEIN, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9 - genetics, Medical and Health Sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, 610 Medical sciences Medicine, CDKN2A, Risk Factors, Genotype, INVESTIGATORS, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 12 - genetics, skin and connective tissue diseases, MAMMOGRAPHIC DENSITY, Medicine(all), 0303 health sciences, BRCA1 Protein, Middle Aged, BRCA2 Protein, 3. Good health, DNA-Binding Proteins, Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome - genetics, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome, TUMOR SUBTYPES, Female, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9, Research Article, Adult, Breast cancer, BRCA1, BRCA2, medicine.medical_specialty, Heterozygote, SUSCEPTIBILITY LOCI, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, [SDV.CAN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cancer, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, OVARIAN-CANCER, 03 medical and health sciences, [SDV.CAN] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cancer, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, ddc:610, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, ddc:611, Genetic Association Studies, 030304 developmental biology, Aged, Gynecology, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 12, CONSORTIUM, BRCA1 Protein - genetics, ALLELES, medicine.disease, BRCA2 Protein - genetics, Cancer and Oncology, GENETIC MODIFIERS, Ovarian cancer, Transcription Factors
Abstract: INTRODUCTION: Several common alleles have been shown to be associated with breast and/or ovarian cancer risk for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. Recent genome-wide association studies of breast cancer have identified eight additional breast cancer susceptibility loci: rs1011970 (9p21, CDKN2A/B), rs10995190 (ZNF365), rs704010 (ZMIZ1), rs2380205 (10p15), rs614367 (11q13), rs1292011 (12q24), rs10771399 (12p11 near PTHLH) and rs865686 (9q31.2). METHODS: To evaluate whether these single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are associated with breast cancer risk for BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers, we genotyped these SNPs in 12,599 BRCA1 and 7,132 BRCA2 mutation carriers and analysed the associations with breast cancer risk within a retrospective likelihood framework. RESULTS: Only SNP rs10771399 near PTHLH was associated with breast cancer risk for BRCA1 mutation carriers (per-allele hazard ratio (HR) = 0.87, 95% CI: 0.81 to 0.94, P-trend = 3 x 10-4). The association was restricted to mutations proven or predicted to lead to absence of protein expression (HR = 0.82, 95% CI: 0.74 to 0.90, P-trend = 3.1 x 10-5, P-difference = 0.03). Four SNPs were associated with the risk of breast cancer for BRCA2 mutation carriers: rs10995190, P-trend = 0.015; rs1011970, P-trend = 0.048; rs865686, 2df-P = 0.007; rs1292011 2df-P = 0.03. rs10771399 (PTHLH) was predominantly associated with estrogen receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer for BRCA1 mutation carriers (HR = 0.81, 95% CI: 0.74 to 0.90, P-trend = 4 x 10-5) and there was marginal evidence of association with ER-negative breast cancer for BRCA2 mutation carriers (HR = 0.78, 95% CI: 0.62 to 1.00, P-trend = 0.049). CONCLUSIONS: The present findings, in combination with previously identified modifiers of risk, will ultimately lead to more accurate risk prediction and an improved understanding of the disease etiology in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers., published_or_final_version
Published: 2012

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