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BREAST CANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT
卷 113, 期 3, 页码 545-551出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-008-9945-0
关键词
FANCN/PALB2; FANCB; Fanconi Anemia; Genotypic-phenotypic correlation; Hereditary breast cancer; PALB2 tumor
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- Centro de Investigacion Biomedica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER)
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain
- Fancogene Project (Fundacion Genoma Espana) Pharmamar
- Spanish Network of Cancer [RTICC 06/0020/0021]
Recent reports have shown that mutations in the FANCJ/BRIP1 and FANCN/PALB2 Fanconi Anemia (FA) genes confer a moderate breast cancer risk. Discussion has been raised on the phenotypic characteristics of the PALB2-associated families and tumors. The role of FANCB in breast cancer susceptibility has not been tested to date. Likewise PALB2 mutation frequency has not been studied in Spanish population. We analyzed the complete coding sequence and splicing sites of FANCB and PALB2 in 95 index cases of BRCA1/2-negative Spanish breast cancer families. We also performed an exhaustive screening of three previously described rare but recurrent PALB2 mutations in 725 additional probands. Pathogenic changes were not detected in FANCB. We found a novel PALB2 truncating mutation c.1056_1057delGA (p.K353IfsX7) in one of the 95 screened patients, accounting for a mutation frequency of 1% in our series. Further comprehensive screening of the novel mutation and of previously reported rare but recurrent PALB2 mutations did not reveal any carrier patient. We report the first example of LOH occurring in a PALB2-associated tumor. Our results rule out a major contribution of FANCB to hereditary breast cancer. Our data are consistent with the notion of individually rare PALB2 mutations, lack of mutational hot-spots in the gene and existence of between-population disease-allele heterogeneity. We show evidence that PALB2 loss of function might also conform to the inactivation model of a classic tumor-suppressor gene and present data that adds to the clinically relevant discussion about the existence of a PALB2-breast cancer phenotype.
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