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Pelletier D, Rath A, Sabbaghian N, Pelmus M, Hudon C, Jacob K, Witowski L, Saskin A, Heinen CD, Foulkes WD. Functional and phenotypic consequences of an unusual inversion in MSH2. Fam Cancer 2024; 23:1-7. [PMID: 37957483 DOI: 10.1007/s10689-023-00350-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2023] [Accepted: 10/27/2023] [Indexed: 11/15/2023]
Abstract
Lynch syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder that usually results from a pathogenic germline variant in one of four genes (MSH2, MSH6, MLH1, PMS2) involved in DNA mismatch repair. Carriers of such variants are at risk of developing numerous cancers during adulthood. Here we report on a family suspected of having Lynch syndrome due to a history of endometrial adenocarcinoma, ovarian clear cell carcinoma, and adenocarcinoma of the duodenum in whom we identified a germline 29 nucleotide in-frame inversion in exon 3 of MSH2. We further show that this variant is almost completely absent at the protein level, and that the associated cancers have complete loss of MSH2 and MSH6 expression by immunohistochemistry. Functional investigation of this inversion in a laboratory setting revealed a resultant abnormal protein function. Thus, we have identified an unusual, small germline inversion in a mismatch repair gene that does not lead to a premature stop codon yet appears likely to be causal for the observed cancers.
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- Dylan Pelletier
- Department of Human Genetics, Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Cancer Axis, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Center for Molecular Oncology, UConn Health, Farmington, CT, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Cancer Axis, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Pathology, Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Human Genetics, Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Division of Medical Genetics, Dept of Specialized Medicine, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Service de Médecine Génique, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Human Genetics, Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Service de Médecine Génique, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Human Genetics, Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
- Cancer Axis, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada.
- Division of Medical Genetics, Dept of Specialized Medicine, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada.
- Cancer Research Program, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, Montreal, QC, Canada.
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Pelletier D, Sabbaghian N, Chong AL, Priest JR, Elsheikh Ahmed Y, Fox GP, Fabian MR, Foulkes WD. Extraskeletal chondroma of the toe in a child with DICER1 tumor predisposition syndrome: support for a dominant negative mechanism. Virchows Arch 2024:10.1007/s00428-024-03759-y. [PMID: 38355738 DOI: 10.1007/s00428-024-03759-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2024] [Revised: 01/31/2024] [Accepted: 02/02/2024] [Indexed: 02/16/2024]
Abstract
DICER1 tumor predisposition syndrome is a pleiotropic disorder that gives rise to various mainly pediatric-onset lesions. We report an extraskeletal chondroma (EC) of the great toe occurring in a child who, unusually, carries a germline "hotspot" missense DICER1 variant rather than the more usual loss-of-function (LOF) variant. No heterozygous LOF allele was identified in the EC. We demonstrate this variant impairs 5p cleavage of precursor-miRNA (pre-miRNA) and competes with wild-type (WT) DICER1 protein for pre-miRNA processing. These results suggest a mechanism through which a germline RNase IIIb variant could impair pre-miRNA processing without complete LOF of the WT DICER1 allele.
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- Dylan Pelletier
- Department of Human Genetics, Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Cancer Axis, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Human Genetics, Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Cancer Axis, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Human Genetics, Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Cancer Axis, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Medical University of Bahrain, Busaiteen, Bahrain
- King Hamad University Hospital, Al Sayh, Bahrain
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- Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Medical University of Bahrain, Busaiteen, Bahrain
- King Hamad University Hospital, Al Sayh, Bahrain
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- Cancer Axis, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Human Genetics, Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
- Cancer Axis, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada.
- Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
- Cancer Research Program, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, Montreal, QC, Canada.
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Apellaniz-Ruiz M, Sabbaghian N, Chong AL, de Kock L, Cetinkaya S, Bayramoğlu E, Dinjens WNM, McCluggage WG, Wagner A, Yilmaz AA, Foulkes WD. Reclassification of two germline DICER1 splicing variants leads to DICER1 syndrome diagnosis. Fam Cancer 2023; 22:487-493. [PMID: 37248399 PMCID: PMC10541835 DOI: 10.1007/s10689-023-00336-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2023] [Accepted: 05/04/2023] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
Abstract
DICER1 syndrome is an inherited condition associated with an increased risk of developing hamartomatous and neoplastic lesions in diverse organs, mainly at early ages. Germline pathogenic variants in DICER1 cause this condition. Detecting a variant of uncertain significance in DICER1 or finding uncommon phenotypes complicate the diagnosis and can negatively impact patient care. We present two unrelated patients suspected to have DICER1 syndrome. Both females (aged 13 and 15 years) presented with multinodular goiter (thyroid follicular nodular disease) and ovarian tumours. One was diagnosed with an ovarian Sertoli-Leydig cell tumour (SLCT) and the other, with an ovarian juvenile granulosa cell tumour, later reclassified as a retiform variant of SLCT. Genetic screening showed no germline pathogenic variants in DICER1. However, two potentially splicing variants were found, DICER1 c.5365-4A>G and c.5527+3A>G. Also, typical somatic DICER1 RNase IIIb hotspot mutations were detected in the thyroid and ovarian tissues. In silico splicing algorithms predicted altered splicing for both germline variants and skipping of exon 25 was confirmed by RNA assays for both variants. The reclassification of the ovarian tumour, leading to recognition of the association with DICER1 syndrome and the characterization of the germline intronic variants were all applied to recently described DICER1 variant classification rules. This ultimately resulted in confirmation of DICER1 syndrome in the two teenage girls.
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- Maria Apellaniz-Ruiz
- Genomics Medicine Unit, Navarrabiomed, Hospital Universitario de Navarra (HUN), Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA), IdiSNA, Calle Irunlarrea 3, 31008, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain.
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- Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Health Science University, Dr Sami Ulus Obstetrics and Gynecology, Children's Health and Disease Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Health Science University, Dr Sami Ulus Obstetrics and Gynecology, Children's Health and Disease Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Pathology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pathology, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Belfast, UK
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Health Science University, Dr Sami Ulus Obstetrics and Gynecology, Children's Health and Disease Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
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- Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Program in Cancer Genetics, Department of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Department of Medical Genetics, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada
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Pelletier D, Chong AL, Wu M, Witkowski L, Albert S, Sabbaghian N, Fabian M, Foulkes W. DICER1 platform domain missense variants inhibit miRNA biogenesis and lead to tumor susceptibility. NAR Cancer 2023; 5:zcad030. [PMID: 37333613 PMCID: PMC10273190 DOI: 10.1093/narcan/zcad030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2023] [Revised: 05/10/2023] [Accepted: 05/31/2023] [Indexed: 06/20/2023] Open
Abstract
The endoribonuclease DICER1 plays an essential role in the microRNA (miRNA) biogenesis pathway, cleaving precursor miRNA (pre-miRNA) stem-loops to generate mature single-stranded miRNAs. Germline pathogenic variants (GPVs) in DICER1 result in DICER1 tumor predisposition syndrome (DTPS), a mainly childhood-onset tumor susceptibility disorder. Most DTPS-causing GPVs are nonsense or frameshifting, with tumor development requiring a second somatic missense hit that impairs the DICER1 RNase IIIb domain. Interestingly, germline DICER1 missense variants that cluster in the DICER1 Platform domain have been identified in some persons affected by tumors that also associate with DTPS. Here, we demonstrate that four of these Platform domain variants prevent DICER1 from producing mature miRNAs and as a result impair miRNA-mediated gene silencing. Importantly, we show that in contrast to canonical somatic missense variants that alter DICER1 cleavage activity, DICER1 proteins harboring these Platform variants fail to bind to pre-miRNA stem-loops. Taken together, this work sheds light upon a unique subset of GPVs causing DTPS and provides new insights into how alterations in the DICER1 Platform domain can impact miRNA biogenesis.
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- Dylan Pelletier
- Department of Human Genetics, Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Cancer Axis, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Human Genetics, Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Cancer Axis, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Human Genetics, Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Cancer Axis, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Human Genetics, Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Cancer Axis, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Human Genetics, Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Cancer Axis, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Cancer Axis, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Division of Experimental Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Human Genetics, Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Cancer Axis, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Cancer Research Program, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Niedziela M, Sabbaghian N, de Kock L, Foulkes WD. Intrathyroidal Thymus (Incidentaloma) Mimicking Thyroid Neoplasia in DICER1 Syndrome. Eur Thyroid J 2021; 10:257-261. [PMID: 34178712 PMCID: PMC8215947 DOI: 10.1159/000510004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2020] [Accepted: 07/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
INTRODUCTION With the use of ultrasonography for the evaluation of thyroid and nonthyroid neck diseases, the incidental discovery of previously unsuspected thyroid nodules/nonpalpable lesions has increased. Intrathyroidal thymus arises due to aberrant thymic migration during embryogenesis. It is thought to be rare, fulfils the classiccriteria for diagnosis of an incidentaloma and it can be mistaken for a thyroid nodule. Multinodular goiter is the main endocrine manifestation of DICER1 syndrome, a tumor predisposition syndrome. Careful thyroid examination including ultrasound is thus necessary for DICER1 syndrome patients. CASE REPORT A 4-year-old prepubertal boy was referred to the pediatric endocrinology department following an earlier diagnosis of pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB) type III, which is a hallmark component of DICER1 syndrome. The patient underwent surgery followed by chemotherapy. Genetic analysis identified a germline DICER1 pathogenic variant (c.2062C>T, p.R688*)in the child and in 5 relatives. A second somatic DICER1 RNase IIIb hotspot mutation(c.5438A>G, p.E1813G) was identified in DNA extracted from the proband's PPB. He had no goiter on clinical examination, but a heterogenous, well-delineated, avascular, solid and hypoechogenic lesion with pseudomicrocalcifications was observed in the right lobe (4.1 × 3.1 × 2.6 mm), suggestive of thyroid neoplasia. Diagnostic work-up and a 3-year follow-up excluded thyroid neoplasia and confirmed the diagnosis of an intrathyroid benign thymic lesion. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION This case exemplifies that thyroid incidentalomas in DICER1 syndrome patients should be viewed with great suspicion, but that not all thyroid disorders are indeed DICER1-related in these patients.
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- Marek Niedziela
- Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Rheumatology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
- *Marek Niedziela, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Rheumatology, 2nd Chair of Pediatrics, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 27/33 Szpitalna Street, PL–60-572 Poznan (Poland),
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Québec, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Québec, Canada
- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Québec, Canada
- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada
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Liu APY, Kelsey MM, Sabbaghian N, Park SH, Deal CL, Esbenshade AJ, Ploner O, Peet A, Traunecker H, Ahmed YHE, Zacharin M, Tiulpakov A, Lapshina AM, Walter AW, Dutta P, Rai A, Korbonits M, de Kock L, Nichols KE, Foulkes WD, Priest JR. Clinical Outcomes and Complications of Pituitary Blastoma. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2021; 106:351-363. [PMID: 33236116 PMCID: PMC7823240 DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgaa857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
CONTEXT Pituitary blastoma is a rare, dysontogenetic hypophyseal tumor of infancy first described in 2008, strongly suggestive of DICER1 syndrome. OBJECTIVE This work aims to describe genetic alterations, clinical courses, outcomes, and complications in all known pituitary blastoma cases. DESIGN AND SETTING A multi-institutional case series is presented from tertiary pediatric oncology centers. PATIENTS Patients included children with pituitary blastoma. INTERVENTIONS Genetic testing, surgery, oncologic therapy, endocrine support are reported. OUTCOME MEASURES Outcome measures included survival, long-term morbidities, and germline and tumor DICER1 genotypes. RESULTS Seventeen pituitary blastoma cases were studied (10 girls and 7 boys); median age at diagnosis was 11 months (range, 2-24 months). Cushing syndrome was the most frequent presentation (n = 10). Cushingoid stigmata were absent in 7 children (2 with increased adrenocorticotropin [ACTH]; 5 with normal/unmeasured ACTH). Ophthalmoplegia and increased intracranial pressure were also observed. Surgical procedures included gross/near-total resection (n = 7), subtotal resection (n = 9), and biopsy (n = 1). Six children received adjuvant therapy. At a median follow-up of 6.7 years, 9 patients were alive; 8 patients died of the following causes: early medical/surgical complications (n = 3), sepsis (n = 1), catheter-related complication (n = 1), aneurysmal bleeding (n = 1), second brain tumor (n = 1), and progression (n = 1). Surgery was the only intervention for 5 of 9 survivors. Extent of resection, but neither Ki67 labeling index nor adjuvant therapy, was significantly associated with survival. Chronic complications included neuroendocrine (n = 8), visual (n = 4), and neurodevelopmental (n = 3) deficits. Sixteen pituitary blastomas were attributed to DICER1 abnormalities. CONCLUSIONS Pituitary blastoma is a locally destructive tumor associated with high mortality. Surgical resection alone provides long-term disease control for some patients. Quality survival is possible with long-term neuroendocrine management.
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- Anthony P Y Liu
- Division of Neuro-Oncology, Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
- Correspondence and Reprint Requests: Anthony P.Y. Liu, MBBS, MMedSc; MS 260, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Pl, Memphis, TN 38105, USA. E-mail:
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Endocrinology, Children’s Hospital Colorado and University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Medical Genetics, The Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Pathology, Seoul National University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Endocrinology and Diabetes Service, CHU-Sainte Justine and Department of Pediatrics, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
- Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
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- Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department and Laboratory of Inherited Endocrine Disorders, Endocrinology Research Centre, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Fundamental Pathomorphology, Endocrinology Research Centre, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Endocrinology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Endocrinology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Endocrinology, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, QEII Medical Centre and UWA Centre for Medical Research, the University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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- Division of Cancer Predisposition, Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
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- Department of Medical Genetics, The Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Department of Medical Genetics and Cancer Research Program, Research Institute McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Apellaniz-Ruiz M, Colón-González G, Perlman EJ, Bouron-Dal Soglio D, Sabbaghian N, Oehl-Huber K, Siebert R, Foulkes WD. A child with neuroblastoma and metachronous anaplastic sarcoma of the kidney: Underlying DICER1 syndrome? Pediatr Blood Cancer 2020; 67:e28488. [PMID: 32568472 DOI: 10.1002/pbc.28488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2020] [Revised: 05/17/2020] [Accepted: 05/22/2020] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Maria Apellaniz-Ruiz
- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.,Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Pathology, CHU Sainte Justine, Montréal, Québec, Canada.,Department of Pathology and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Ulm University and Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Ulm University and Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm, Germany
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- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.,Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.,Program in Cancer Genetics, Department of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.,Department of Medical Genetics, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Rivera B, Nadaf J, Fahiminiya S, Apellaniz-Ruiz M, Saskin A, Chong AS, Sharma S, Wagener R, Revil T, Condello V, Harra Z, Hamel N, Sabbaghian N, Muchantef K, Thomas C, de Kock L, Hébert-Blouin MN, Bassenden AV, Rabenstein H, Mete O, Paschke R, Pusztaszeri MP, Paulus W, Berghuis A, Ragoussis J, Nikiforov YE, Siebert R, Albrecht S, Turcotte R, Hasselblatt M, Fabian MR, Foulkes WD. DGCR8 microprocessor defect characterizes familial multinodular goiter with schwannomatosis. J Clin Invest 2020; 130:1479-1490. [PMID: 31805011 DOI: 10.1172/jci130206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2019] [Accepted: 11/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUNDDICER1 is the only miRNA biogenesis component associated with an inherited tumor syndrome, featuring multinodular goiter (MNG) and rare pediatric-onset lesions. Other susceptibility genes for familial forms of MNG likely exist.METHODSWhole-exome sequencing of a kindred with early-onset MNG and schwannomatosis was followed by investigation of germline pathogenic variants that fully segregated with the disease. Genome-wide analyses were performed on 13 tissue samples from familial and nonfamilial DGCR8-E518K-positive tumors, including MNG, schwannomas, papillary thyroid cancers (PTCs), and Wilms tumors. miRNA profiles of 4 tissue types were compared, and sequencing of miRNA, pre-miRNA, and mRNA was performed in a subset of 9 schwannomas, 4 of which harbor DGCR8-E518K.RESULTSWe identified c.1552G>A;p.E518K in DGCR8, a microprocessor component located in 22q, in the kindred. The variant identified is a somatic hotspot in Wilms tumors and has been identified in 2 PTCs. Copy number loss of chromosome 22q, leading to loss of heterozygosity at the DGCR8 locus, was found in all 13 samples harboring c.1552G>A;p.E518K. miRNA profiling of PTCs, MNG, schwannomas, and Wilms tumors revealed a common profile among E518K hemizygous tumors. In vitro cleavage demonstrated improper processing of pre-miRNA by DGCR8-E518K. MicroRNA and RNA profiling show that this variant disrupts precursor microRNA production, impacting populations of canonical microRNAs and mirtrons.CONCLUSIONWe identified DGCR8 as the cause of an unreported autosomal dominant mendelian tumor susceptibility syndrome: familial multinodular goiter with schwannomatosis.FUNDINGCanadian Institutes of Health Research, Compute Canada, Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, the Mia Neri Foundation for Childhood Cancer, Cassa di Sovvenzioni e Risparmio fra il Personale della Banca d'Italia, and the KinderKrebsInitiative Buchholz/Holm-Seppensen.
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- Barbara Rivera
- Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research and.,Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research and.,Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Cancer Research Program, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research and.,Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Cancer Research Program, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre and Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research and.,Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Ulm and University of Ulm Medical Center, Ulm, Germany
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- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Génome Québec Innovation Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research and.,Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Cancer Research Program, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research and.,Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Pediatric Radiology, Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research and.,Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Ulm and University of Ulm Medical Center, Ulm, Germany
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Pathology, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Medicine.,Department of Oncology.,Department of Pathology.,Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Institute, and.,Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Pathology, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Cancer Research Program, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Génome Québec Innovation Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Ulm and University of Ulm Medical Center, Ulm, Germany
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- Department of Pathology, Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Division of Orthopedic Surgery (Experimental Surgery), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Department of Surgical Oncology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany
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- Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research and.,Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Department of Experimental Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research and.,Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Cancer Research Program, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre and Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Apellaniz-Ruiz M, Segni M, Kettwig M, Glüer S, Pelletier D, Nguyen VH, Wagener R, López C, Muchantef K, Bouron-Dal Soglio D, Sabbaghian N, Wu MK, Zannella S, Fabian MR, Siebert R, Menke J, Priest JR, Foulkes WD. Mesenchymal Hamartoma of the Liver and DICER1 Syndrome. N Engl J Med 2019; 380:1834-1842. [PMID: 31067372 DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa1812169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
Abstract
Mesenchymal hamartoma of the liver (MHL) is a benign tumor affecting children that is characterized by a primitive myxoid stroma with cystically dilated bile ducts. Alterations involving chromosome 19q13 are a recurrent underlying cause of MHL; these alterations activate the chromosome 19 microRNA cluster (C19MC). Other cases remain unexplained. We describe two children with MHLs that harbored germline DICER1 pathogenic variants. Analysis of tumor tissue from one of the children revealed two DICER1 "hits." Mutations in DICER1 dysregulate microRNAs, mimicking the effect of the activation of C19MC. Our data suggest that MHL is a new phenotype of DICER1 syndrome. (Funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and others.).
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Affiliation(s)
- Maria Apellaniz-Ruiz
- From the Departments of Human Genetics (M.A.-R., M.K.W., W.D.F.), Pharmacology (D.P.), Oncology (M.R.F., W.D.F.), and Biochemistry (M.R.F.), and the Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital (M.A.-R., D.P., N.S., M.K.W., M.R.F., W.D.F.), McGill University, the Department of Pathology, Montreal Children's Hospital (V.-H.N.), the Department of Radiology (K.M.), and the Cancer Research Program, Research Institute (W.D.F.), McGill University Health Centre, and the Department of Pathology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine (D.B.-D.S.) - all in Montreal; the Department of Pediatrics, Endocrinology Unit, Sapienza University, Rome (M.S.), and Centro Diagnostico Italiano, Milan (S.Z.) - both in Italy; the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Faculty of Medicine (M.K.), and the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine (J.M.), Georg-August University, Göttingen, the Department of Pediatric Surgery, St. Bernward Krankenhaus Hildesheim, Hildesheim (S.G.), and the Institute of Human Genetics, Ulm University and Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm (R.W., C.L., R.S.) - all in Germany; and Minneapolis (J.R.P.)
| | - Maria Segni
- From the Departments of Human Genetics (M.A.-R., M.K.W., W.D.F.), Pharmacology (D.P.), Oncology (M.R.F., W.D.F.), and Biochemistry (M.R.F.), and the Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital (M.A.-R., D.P., N.S., M.K.W., M.R.F., W.D.F.), McGill University, the Department of Pathology, Montreal Children's Hospital (V.-H.N.), the Department of Radiology (K.M.), and the Cancer Research Program, Research Institute (W.D.F.), McGill University Health Centre, and the Department of Pathology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine (D.B.-D.S.) - all in Montreal; the Department of Pediatrics, Endocrinology Unit, Sapienza University, Rome (M.S.), and Centro Diagnostico Italiano, Milan (S.Z.) - both in Italy; the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Faculty of Medicine (M.K.), and the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine (J.M.), Georg-August University, Göttingen, the Department of Pediatric Surgery, St. Bernward Krankenhaus Hildesheim, Hildesheim (S.G.), and the Institute of Human Genetics, Ulm University and Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm (R.W., C.L., R.S.) - all in Germany; and Minneapolis (J.R.P.)
| | - Matthias Kettwig
- From the Departments of Human Genetics (M.A.-R., M.K.W., W.D.F.), Pharmacology (D.P.), Oncology (M.R.F., W.D.F.), and Biochemistry (M.R.F.), and the Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital (M.A.-R., D.P., N.S., M.K.W., M.R.F., W.D.F.), McGill University, the Department of Pathology, Montreal Children's Hospital (V.-H.N.), the Department of Radiology (K.M.), and the Cancer Research Program, Research Institute (W.D.F.), McGill University Health Centre, and the Department of Pathology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine (D.B.-D.S.) - all in Montreal; the Department of Pediatrics, Endocrinology Unit, Sapienza University, Rome (M.S.), and Centro Diagnostico Italiano, Milan (S.Z.) - both in Italy; the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Faculty of Medicine (M.K.), and the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine (J.M.), Georg-August University, Göttingen, the Department of Pediatric Surgery, St. Bernward Krankenhaus Hildesheim, Hildesheim (S.G.), and the Institute of Human Genetics, Ulm University and Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm (R.W., C.L., R.S.) - all in Germany; and Minneapolis (J.R.P.)
| | - Sylvia Glüer
- From the Departments of Human Genetics (M.A.-R., M.K.W., W.D.F.), Pharmacology (D.P.), Oncology (M.R.F., W.D.F.), and Biochemistry (M.R.F.), and the Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital (M.A.-R., D.P., N.S., M.K.W., M.R.F., W.D.F.), McGill University, the Department of Pathology, Montreal Children's Hospital (V.-H.N.), the Department of Radiology (K.M.), and the Cancer Research Program, Research Institute (W.D.F.), McGill University Health Centre, and the Department of Pathology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine (D.B.-D.S.) - all in Montreal; the Department of Pediatrics, Endocrinology Unit, Sapienza University, Rome (M.S.), and Centro Diagnostico Italiano, Milan (S.Z.) - both in Italy; the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Faculty of Medicine (M.K.), and the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine (J.M.), Georg-August University, Göttingen, the Department of Pediatric Surgery, St. Bernward Krankenhaus Hildesheim, Hildesheim (S.G.), and the Institute of Human Genetics, Ulm University and Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm (R.W., C.L., R.S.) - all in Germany; and Minneapolis (J.R.P.)
| | - Dylan Pelletier
- From the Departments of Human Genetics (M.A.-R., M.K.W., W.D.F.), Pharmacology (D.P.), Oncology (M.R.F., W.D.F.), and Biochemistry (M.R.F.), and the Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital (M.A.-R., D.P., N.S., M.K.W., M.R.F., W.D.F.), McGill University, the Department of Pathology, Montreal Children's Hospital (V.-H.N.), the Department of Radiology (K.M.), and the Cancer Research Program, Research Institute (W.D.F.), McGill University Health Centre, and the Department of Pathology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine (D.B.-D.S.) - all in Montreal; the Department of Pediatrics, Endocrinology Unit, Sapienza University, Rome (M.S.), and Centro Diagnostico Italiano, Milan (S.Z.) - both in Italy; the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Faculty of Medicine (M.K.), and the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine (J.M.), Georg-August University, Göttingen, the Department of Pediatric Surgery, St. Bernward Krankenhaus Hildesheim, Hildesheim (S.G.), and the Institute of Human Genetics, Ulm University and Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm (R.W., C.L., R.S.) - all in Germany; and Minneapolis (J.R.P.)
| | - Van-Hung Nguyen
- From the Departments of Human Genetics (M.A.-R., M.K.W., W.D.F.), Pharmacology (D.P.), Oncology (M.R.F., W.D.F.), and Biochemistry (M.R.F.), and the Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital (M.A.-R., D.P., N.S., M.K.W., M.R.F., W.D.F.), McGill University, the Department of Pathology, Montreal Children's Hospital (V.-H.N.), the Department of Radiology (K.M.), and the Cancer Research Program, Research Institute (W.D.F.), McGill University Health Centre, and the Department of Pathology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine (D.B.-D.S.) - all in Montreal; the Department of Pediatrics, Endocrinology Unit, Sapienza University, Rome (M.S.), and Centro Diagnostico Italiano, Milan (S.Z.) - both in Italy; the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Faculty of Medicine (M.K.), and the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine (J.M.), Georg-August University, Göttingen, the Department of Pediatric Surgery, St. Bernward Krankenhaus Hildesheim, Hildesheim (S.G.), and the Institute of Human Genetics, Ulm University and Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm (R.W., C.L., R.S.) - all in Germany; and Minneapolis (J.R.P.)
| | - Rabea Wagener
- From the Departments of Human Genetics (M.A.-R., M.K.W., W.D.F.), Pharmacology (D.P.), Oncology (M.R.F., W.D.F.), and Biochemistry (M.R.F.), and the Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital (M.A.-R., D.P., N.S., M.K.W., M.R.F., W.D.F.), McGill University, the Department of Pathology, Montreal Children's Hospital (V.-H.N.), the Department of Radiology (K.M.), and the Cancer Research Program, Research Institute (W.D.F.), McGill University Health Centre, and the Department of Pathology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine (D.B.-D.S.) - all in Montreal; the Department of Pediatrics, Endocrinology Unit, Sapienza University, Rome (M.S.), and Centro Diagnostico Italiano, Milan (S.Z.) - both in Italy; the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Faculty of Medicine (M.K.), and the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine (J.M.), Georg-August University, Göttingen, the Department of Pediatric Surgery, St. Bernward Krankenhaus Hildesheim, Hildesheim (S.G.), and the Institute of Human Genetics, Ulm University and Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm (R.W., C.L., R.S.) - all in Germany; and Minneapolis (J.R.P.)
| | - Cristina López
- From the Departments of Human Genetics (M.A.-R., M.K.W., W.D.F.), Pharmacology (D.P.), Oncology (M.R.F., W.D.F.), and Biochemistry (M.R.F.), and the Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital (M.A.-R., D.P., N.S., M.K.W., M.R.F., W.D.F.), McGill University, the Department of Pathology, Montreal Children's Hospital (V.-H.N.), the Department of Radiology (K.M.), and the Cancer Research Program, Research Institute (W.D.F.), McGill University Health Centre, and the Department of Pathology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine (D.B.-D.S.) - all in Montreal; the Department of Pediatrics, Endocrinology Unit, Sapienza University, Rome (M.S.), and Centro Diagnostico Italiano, Milan (S.Z.) - both in Italy; the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Faculty of Medicine (M.K.), and the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine (J.M.), Georg-August University, Göttingen, the Department of Pediatric Surgery, St. Bernward Krankenhaus Hildesheim, Hildesheim (S.G.), and the Institute of Human Genetics, Ulm University and Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm (R.W., C.L., R.S.) - all in Germany; and Minneapolis (J.R.P.)
| | - Karl Muchantef
- From the Departments of Human Genetics (M.A.-R., M.K.W., W.D.F.), Pharmacology (D.P.), Oncology (M.R.F., W.D.F.), and Biochemistry (M.R.F.), and the Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital (M.A.-R., D.P., N.S., M.K.W., M.R.F., W.D.F.), McGill University, the Department of Pathology, Montreal Children's Hospital (V.-H.N.), the Department of Radiology (K.M.), and the Cancer Research Program, Research Institute (W.D.F.), McGill University Health Centre, and the Department of Pathology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine (D.B.-D.S.) - all in Montreal; the Department of Pediatrics, Endocrinology Unit, Sapienza University, Rome (M.S.), and Centro Diagnostico Italiano, Milan (S.Z.) - both in Italy; the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Faculty of Medicine (M.K.), and the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine (J.M.), Georg-August University, Göttingen, the Department of Pediatric Surgery, St. Bernward Krankenhaus Hildesheim, Hildesheim (S.G.), and the Institute of Human Genetics, Ulm University and Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm (R.W., C.L., R.S.) - all in Germany; and Minneapolis (J.R.P.)
| | - Dorothée Bouron-Dal Soglio
- From the Departments of Human Genetics (M.A.-R., M.K.W., W.D.F.), Pharmacology (D.P.), Oncology (M.R.F., W.D.F.), and Biochemistry (M.R.F.), and the Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital (M.A.-R., D.P., N.S., M.K.W., M.R.F., W.D.F.), McGill University, the Department of Pathology, Montreal Children's Hospital (V.-H.N.), the Department of Radiology (K.M.), and the Cancer Research Program, Research Institute (W.D.F.), McGill University Health Centre, and the Department of Pathology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine (D.B.-D.S.) - all in Montreal; the Department of Pediatrics, Endocrinology Unit, Sapienza University, Rome (M.S.), and Centro Diagnostico Italiano, Milan (S.Z.) - both in Italy; the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Faculty of Medicine (M.K.), and the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine (J.M.), Georg-August University, Göttingen, the Department of Pediatric Surgery, St. Bernward Krankenhaus Hildesheim, Hildesheim (S.G.), and the Institute of Human Genetics, Ulm University and Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm (R.W., C.L., R.S.) - all in Germany; and Minneapolis (J.R.P.)
| | - Nelly Sabbaghian
- From the Departments of Human Genetics (M.A.-R., M.K.W., W.D.F.), Pharmacology (D.P.), Oncology (M.R.F., W.D.F.), and Biochemistry (M.R.F.), and the Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital (M.A.-R., D.P., N.S., M.K.W., M.R.F., W.D.F.), McGill University, the Department of Pathology, Montreal Children's Hospital (V.-H.N.), the Department of Radiology (K.M.), and the Cancer Research Program, Research Institute (W.D.F.), McGill University Health Centre, and the Department of Pathology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine (D.B.-D.S.) - all in Montreal; the Department of Pediatrics, Endocrinology Unit, Sapienza University, Rome (M.S.), and Centro Diagnostico Italiano, Milan (S.Z.) - both in Italy; the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Faculty of Medicine (M.K.), and the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine (J.M.), Georg-August University, Göttingen, the Department of Pediatric Surgery, St. Bernward Krankenhaus Hildesheim, Hildesheim (S.G.), and the Institute of Human Genetics, Ulm University and Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm (R.W., C.L., R.S.) - all in Germany; and Minneapolis (J.R.P.)
| | - Mona K Wu
- From the Departments of Human Genetics (M.A.-R., M.K.W., W.D.F.), Pharmacology (D.P.), Oncology (M.R.F., W.D.F.), and Biochemistry (M.R.F.), and the Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital (M.A.-R., D.P., N.S., M.K.W., M.R.F., W.D.F.), McGill University, the Department of Pathology, Montreal Children's Hospital (V.-H.N.), the Department of Radiology (K.M.), and the Cancer Research Program, Research Institute (W.D.F.), McGill University Health Centre, and the Department of Pathology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine (D.B.-D.S.) - all in Montreal; the Department of Pediatrics, Endocrinology Unit, Sapienza University, Rome (M.S.), and Centro Diagnostico Italiano, Milan (S.Z.) - both in Italy; the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Faculty of Medicine (M.K.), and the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine (J.M.), Georg-August University, Göttingen, the Department of Pediatric Surgery, St. Bernward Krankenhaus Hildesheim, Hildesheim (S.G.), and the Institute of Human Genetics, Ulm University and Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm (R.W., C.L., R.S.) - all in Germany; and Minneapolis (J.R.P.)
| | - Stefano Zannella
- From the Departments of Human Genetics (M.A.-R., M.K.W., W.D.F.), Pharmacology (D.P.), Oncology (M.R.F., W.D.F.), and Biochemistry (M.R.F.), and the Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital (M.A.-R., D.P., N.S., M.K.W., M.R.F., W.D.F.), McGill University, the Department of Pathology, Montreal Children's Hospital (V.-H.N.), the Department of Radiology (K.M.), and the Cancer Research Program, Research Institute (W.D.F.), McGill University Health Centre, and the Department of Pathology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine (D.B.-D.S.) - all in Montreal; the Department of Pediatrics, Endocrinology Unit, Sapienza University, Rome (M.S.), and Centro Diagnostico Italiano, Milan (S.Z.) - both in Italy; the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Faculty of Medicine (M.K.), and the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine (J.M.), Georg-August University, Göttingen, the Department of Pediatric Surgery, St. Bernward Krankenhaus Hildesheim, Hildesheim (S.G.), and the Institute of Human Genetics, Ulm University and Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm (R.W., C.L., R.S.) - all in Germany; and Minneapolis (J.R.P.)
| | - Marc R Fabian
- From the Departments of Human Genetics (M.A.-R., M.K.W., W.D.F.), Pharmacology (D.P.), Oncology (M.R.F., W.D.F.), and Biochemistry (M.R.F.), and the Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital (M.A.-R., D.P., N.S., M.K.W., M.R.F., W.D.F.), McGill University, the Department of Pathology, Montreal Children's Hospital (V.-H.N.), the Department of Radiology (K.M.), and the Cancer Research Program, Research Institute (W.D.F.), McGill University Health Centre, and the Department of Pathology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine (D.B.-D.S.) - all in Montreal; the Department of Pediatrics, Endocrinology Unit, Sapienza University, Rome (M.S.), and Centro Diagnostico Italiano, Milan (S.Z.) - both in Italy; the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Faculty of Medicine (M.K.), and the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine (J.M.), Georg-August University, Göttingen, the Department of Pediatric Surgery, St. Bernward Krankenhaus Hildesheim, Hildesheim (S.G.), and the Institute of Human Genetics, Ulm University and Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm (R.W., C.L., R.S.) - all in Germany; and Minneapolis (J.R.P.)
| | - Reiner Siebert
- From the Departments of Human Genetics (M.A.-R., M.K.W., W.D.F.), Pharmacology (D.P.), Oncology (M.R.F., W.D.F.), and Biochemistry (M.R.F.), and the Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital (M.A.-R., D.P., N.S., M.K.W., M.R.F., W.D.F.), McGill University, the Department of Pathology, Montreal Children's Hospital (V.-H.N.), the Department of Radiology (K.M.), and the Cancer Research Program, Research Institute (W.D.F.), McGill University Health Centre, and the Department of Pathology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine (D.B.-D.S.) - all in Montreal; the Department of Pediatrics, Endocrinology Unit, Sapienza University, Rome (M.S.), and Centro Diagnostico Italiano, Milan (S.Z.) - both in Italy; the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Faculty of Medicine (M.K.), and the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine (J.M.), Georg-August University, Göttingen, the Department of Pediatric Surgery, St. Bernward Krankenhaus Hildesheim, Hildesheim (S.G.), and the Institute of Human Genetics, Ulm University and Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm (R.W., C.L., R.S.) - all in Germany; and Minneapolis (J.R.P.)
| | - Jan Menke
- From the Departments of Human Genetics (M.A.-R., M.K.W., W.D.F.), Pharmacology (D.P.), Oncology (M.R.F., W.D.F.), and Biochemistry (M.R.F.), and the Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital (M.A.-R., D.P., N.S., M.K.W., M.R.F., W.D.F.), McGill University, the Department of Pathology, Montreal Children's Hospital (V.-H.N.), the Department of Radiology (K.M.), and the Cancer Research Program, Research Institute (W.D.F.), McGill University Health Centre, and the Department of Pathology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine (D.B.-D.S.) - all in Montreal; the Department of Pediatrics, Endocrinology Unit, Sapienza University, Rome (M.S.), and Centro Diagnostico Italiano, Milan (S.Z.) - both in Italy; the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Faculty of Medicine (M.K.), and the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine (J.M.), Georg-August University, Göttingen, the Department of Pediatric Surgery, St. Bernward Krankenhaus Hildesheim, Hildesheim (S.G.), and the Institute of Human Genetics, Ulm University and Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm (R.W., C.L., R.S.) - all in Germany; and Minneapolis (J.R.P.)
| | - John R Priest
- From the Departments of Human Genetics (M.A.-R., M.K.W., W.D.F.), Pharmacology (D.P.), Oncology (M.R.F., W.D.F.), and Biochemistry (M.R.F.), and the Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital (M.A.-R., D.P., N.S., M.K.W., M.R.F., W.D.F.), McGill University, the Department of Pathology, Montreal Children's Hospital (V.-H.N.), the Department of Radiology (K.M.), and the Cancer Research Program, Research Institute (W.D.F.), McGill University Health Centre, and the Department of Pathology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine (D.B.-D.S.) - all in Montreal; the Department of Pediatrics, Endocrinology Unit, Sapienza University, Rome (M.S.), and Centro Diagnostico Italiano, Milan (S.Z.) - both in Italy; the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Faculty of Medicine (M.K.), and the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine (J.M.), Georg-August University, Göttingen, the Department of Pediatric Surgery, St. Bernward Krankenhaus Hildesheim, Hildesheim (S.G.), and the Institute of Human Genetics, Ulm University and Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm (R.W., C.L., R.S.) - all in Germany; and Minneapolis (J.R.P.)
| | - William D Foulkes
- From the Departments of Human Genetics (M.A.-R., M.K.W., W.D.F.), Pharmacology (D.P.), Oncology (M.R.F., W.D.F.), and Biochemistry (M.R.F.), and the Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital (M.A.-R., D.P., N.S., M.K.W., M.R.F., W.D.F.), McGill University, the Department of Pathology, Montreal Children's Hospital (V.-H.N.), the Department of Radiology (K.M.), and the Cancer Research Program, Research Institute (W.D.F.), McGill University Health Centre, and the Department of Pathology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine (D.B.-D.S.) - all in Montreal; the Department of Pediatrics, Endocrinology Unit, Sapienza University, Rome (M.S.), and Centro Diagnostico Italiano, Milan (S.Z.) - both in Italy; the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Faculty of Medicine (M.K.), and the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine (J.M.), Georg-August University, Göttingen, the Department of Pediatric Surgery, St. Bernward Krankenhaus Hildesheim, Hildesheim (S.G.), and the Institute of Human Genetics, Ulm University and Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm (R.W., C.L., R.S.) - all in Germany; and Minneapolis (J.R.P.)
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Kock L, Hillmer M, Wagener R, Soglio DB, Sabbaghian N, Siebert R, Priest JR, Miller M, Foulkes WD. Further evidence that full gene deletions of
DICER1
predispose to DICER1 syndrome. Genes Chromosomes Cancer 2019; 58:602-604. [DOI: 10.1002/gcc.22728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2018] [Revised: 12/11/2018] [Accepted: 12/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Leanne Kock
- Department of Human GeneticsMcGill University Montréal Québec Canada
- Lady Davis InstituteSegal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital Montréal Québec Canada
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- Institute of Human GeneticsUlm University and Ulm University Medical Centre Ulm Germany
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- Institute of Human GeneticsUlm University and Ulm University Medical Centre Ulm Germany
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- Department of PathologyCHU Sainte Justine Montréal Québec Canada
- Department of Pathology and Cellular Biology, Faculty of MedicineUniversité de Montréal Montréal Québec Canada
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- Lady Davis InstituteSegal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital Montréal Québec Canada
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- Institute of Human GeneticsUlm University and Ulm University Medical Centre Ulm Germany
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- Department of PediatricsGeisinger Medical Centre Danville Pennsylvania
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- Department of Human GeneticsMcGill University Montréal Québec Canada
- Lady Davis InstituteSegal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital Montréal Québec Canada
- Department of Medical GeneticsResearch Institute of the McGill University Health Centre Montreal Québec Canada
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Caimari F, Kumar AV, Kurzawinski T, Butler G, Sabbaghian N, Foulkes WD, Korbonits M. A novel DICER1 mutation in familial multinodular goitre. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 2018; 89:110-112. [PMID: 29633305 DOI: 10.1111/cen.13613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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- Francisca Caimari
- Centre for Endocrinology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- Department of Endocrinology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Clinical Genetics Department, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
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- Pancreatic and Endocrine Surgery Department, University College London Hospitals, London, UK
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- Department of Paediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology, University College London Hospitals, London, UK
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- Lady Davis Institute of the Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute of the Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Department of Medical Genetics, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Centre for Endocrinology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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Wasserman JD, Sabbaghian N, Fahiminiya S, Chami R, Mete O, Acker M, Wu MK, Shlien A, de Kock L, Foulkes WD. DICER1 Mutations Are Frequent in Adolescent-Onset Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2018; 103:2009-2015. [PMID: 29474644 DOI: 10.1210/jc.2017-02698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2017] [Accepted: 02/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Abstract
CONTEXT Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is a common malignancy in adolescence and is molecularly and clinically distinct from adult PTC. Mutations in the DICER1 gene are associated with thyroid abnormalities, including multinodular goiter and differentiated thyroid carcinoma. OBJECTIVE In this study, we sought to characterize the prevalence of DICER1 variants in pediatric PTC, specifically in tumors without conventional PTC oncogenic alterations. PATIENTS Patients (N = 40) who underwent partial or total thyroidectomy and who were <18 years of age at the time of surgery were selected. DESIGN The 40 consecutive thyroidectomy specimens (30 malignant, 10 benign) underwent genotyping for 17 PTC-associated variants, as well as full sequencing of the exons and exon-intron boundaries of DICER1. RESULTS Conventional alterations were found in 12 of 30 (40%) PTCs (five BRAFV600E, three RET/PTC1, four RET/PTC3). Pathogenic DICER1 variants were identified in 3 of 30 (10%) PTCs and in 2 of 10 (20%) benign nodules, all of which lacked conventional alterations and did not recur during follow-up. DICER1 alterations thus constituted 3 of 18 (16.7%) PTCs without conventional alterations. The three DICER1-mutated carcinomas each had two somatic DICER1 alterations, whereas two follicular-nodular lesions arose in those with germline DICER1 mutations and harbored characteristic second somatic RNase IIIb "hotspot" mutations. CONCLUSIONS DICER1 is a driver of pediatric thyroid nodules, and DICER1-mutated PTC may represent a distinct class of low-risk malignancies. Given the prevalence of variants in children, we advocate for inclusion of DICER1 sequencing and gene dosage determination in molecular analysis of pediatric thyroid specimens.
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- Jonathan D Wasserman
- Division of Endocrinology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Division of Pathology, Department of Pediatric Laboratory Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Pathology, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Endocrinology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Division of Pathology, Department of Pediatric Laboratory Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Program in Genetics and Genome Biology, SickKids Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Department of Medical Genetics, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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de Kock L, Geoffrion D, Rivera B, Wagener R, Sabbaghian N, Bens S, Ellezam B, Bouron-Dal Soglio D, Ordóñez J, Sacharow S, Polo Nieto JF, Guillerman RP, Vujanic GM, Priest JR, Siebert R, Foulkes WD. Multiple DICER1-related tumors in a child with a large interstitial 14q32 deletion. Genes Chromosomes Cancer 2018; 57:223-230. [DOI: 10.1002/gcc.22523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2017] [Revised: 01/04/2018] [Accepted: 01/04/2018] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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- Leanne de Kock
- Department of Human Genetics; McGill University; Montréal Québec Canada
- Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital; Montréal Québec Canada
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- Department of Human Genetics; McGill University; Montréal Québec Canada
- Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital; Montréal Québec Canada
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- Department of Human Genetics; McGill University; Montréal Québec Canada
- Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital; Montréal Québec Canada
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Ulm and University of Ulm Medical Center; Ulm Germany
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- Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital; Montréal Québec Canada
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Ulm and University of Ulm Medical Center; Ulm Germany
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- Department of Pathology; CHU Sainte Justine; Quebec Canada
- Department of Pathology and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Medicine; Université de Montréal; Montréal Québec Canada
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- Department of Pathology; CHU Sainte Justine; Quebec Canada
- Department of Pathology and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Medicine; Université de Montréal; Montréal Québec Canada
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- The Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics; University of Miami; Miami Florida USA
- Division of Clinical Genetics; Center for Genomic Medicine, Miami Cancer Institute; Miami Florida USA
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- The Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics; University of Miami; Miami Florida USA
- Division of Genetics and Genomics; Boston Children's Hospital; Boston Massachusetts USA
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- Department of Pediatric Radiology; Texas Children's Hospital; Houston Texas USA
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Ulm and University of Ulm Medical Center; Ulm Germany
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- Department of Human Genetics; McGill University; Montréal Québec Canada
- Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital; Montréal Québec Canada
- Department of Medical Genetics; Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre; Montreal Quebec Canada
- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics; McGill University; Montreal Quebec Canada
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Sabbaghian N, Digilio MC, Blue GM, Revil T, Winlaw DS, Foulkes WD. Analysis of DICER1
in familial and sporadic cases of transposition of the great arteries. CONGENIT HEART DIS 2018; 13:401-406. [DOI: 10.1111/chd.12578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2017] [Revised: 11/22/2017] [Accepted: 12/22/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Nelly Sabbaghian
- Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital; Montréal Quebec Canada
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- Department of Medical Genetics; Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital; Rome Italy
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- Heart Centre for Children, The Children's Hospital at Westmead; Westmead New South Wales Australia
- University of Sydney; Sydney New South Wales Australia
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- McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre; Montréal Quebec Canada
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- Heart Centre for Children, The Children's Hospital at Westmead; Westmead New South Wales Australia
- University of Sydney; Sydney New South Wales Australia
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- Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital; Montréal Quebec Canada
- Cancer Research Program; Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, McGill University; Montréal Quebec Canada
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Apellaniz-Ruiz M, de Kock L, Sabbaghian N, Guaraldi F, Ghizzoni L, Beccuti G, Foulkes WD. Familial multinodular goiter and Sertoli-Leydig cell tumors associated with a large intragenic in-frame DICER1 deletion. Eur J Endocrinol 2018; 178:K11-K19. [PMID: 29187512 DOI: 10.1530/eje-17-0904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2017] [Revised: 11/15/2017] [Accepted: 11/29/2017] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Familial multinodular goiter (MNG), with or without ovarian Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor (SLCT), has been linked to DICER1 syndrome. We aimed to search for the presence of a germline DICER1 mutation in a large family with a remarkable history of MNG and SLCT, and to further explore the relevance of the identified mutation. DESIGN AND METHODS Sanger sequencing, Fluidigm Access Array and multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) techniques were used to screen for DICER1 mutations in germline DNA from 16 family members. Where available, tumor DNA was also studied. mRNA and protein extracted from carriers' lymphocytes were used to characterize the expression of the mutant DICER1. RESULTS Nine of 16 tested individuals carried a germline, in-frame DICER1 deletion (c.4207-41_5364+1034del), which resulted in the loss of exons 23 and 24 from the cDNA. The mutant transcript does not undergo nonsense-mediated decay and the protein is devoid of specific metal ion-binding amino acids (p.E1705 and p.D1709) in the RNase IIIb domain. In addition, characteristic somatic 'second hit' mutations in this region were found on the other allele in tumors. CONCLUSIONS Patients with DICER1 syndrome usually present a combination of a typically truncating germline DICER1 mutation and a tumor-specific hotspot missense mutation within the sequence encoding the RNase IIIb domain. The in-frame deletion found in this family suggests that the germline absence of p.E1705 and p.D1709, which are crucial for RNase IIIb activity, may be enough to permit DICER1 syndrome to occur.
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- Maria Apellaniz-Ruiz
- Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences (DIBINEM), Pituitary Unit, IRCCS Institute of Neurological Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Department of Oncology and Human Genetics, Program in Cancer Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Department of Medical Genetics, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Saskin A, de Kock L, Sabbaghian N, Apellaniz-Ruiz M, Bozkurt C, Bouron-Dal Soglio D, Foulkes WD. A case of neuroblastoma in DICER1 syndrome: Chance finding or noncanonical causation? Pediatr Blood Cancer 2018; 65. [PMID: 28766837 DOI: 10.1002/pbc.26715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2017] [Revised: 06/13/2017] [Accepted: 06/14/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
Abstract
DICER1 syndrome is an inherited disorder associated with at least a dozen rare, mainly pediatric-onset tumors. Its characterization remains incomplete. Some studies suggested that neuroblastoma (NB) may be involved in this syndrome. Here, we describe the case of a 14-year-old female presenting with a multinodular goiter (MNG) and a collision tumor composed of NB and cystic nephroma (CN). She is a carrier of a deleterious germline mutation in exon 23 of DICER1 and harbored different somatic mutations in the CN and MNG. However, no second hit was found in the NB, questioning its status as a DICER1-related tumor.
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- Avi Saskin
- Department of Medical Genetics, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Québec, Canada.,Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada.,Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada.,Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada.,Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Paediatric Oncology, Dr. Sami Ulus Children's Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Québec, Canada.,Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada.,Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.,Program in Cancer Genetics, Department of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Bouron-Dal Soglio D, de Kock L, Gauci R, Sabbaghian N, Thomas E, Atkinson HC, Pachter N, Ryan S, Walsh JP, Kumarasinghe MP, Carpenter K, Aydoğan A, Stewart CJ, Foulkes WD, Choong CS. A Case Report of Syndromic Multinodular Goitre in Adolescence: Exploring the Phenotype Overlap between Cowden and DICER1 Syndromes. Eur Thyroid J 2018; 7:44-50. [PMID: 29594054 PMCID: PMC5836238 DOI: 10.1159/000481620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2017] [Revised: 09/16/2017] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Hereditary tumour predisposition syndromes may increase the risk for development of thyroid nodules at a young age. We present the case of an adolescent female with Cowden syndrome who had some atypical phenotypic features which overlapped with the DICER1 syndrome. MATERIAL AND METHODS A 17-year-old female presented with a 3-month history of progressive right neck swelling. Fine needle cytology of the thyroid revealed a follicular neoplasm with features suggestive of follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma and she underwent a hemithyroidectomy. Enlarging nodules in the remaining thyroid led to a completion thyroidectomy at 19 years of age. The patient's past medical history included an ovarian mixed malignant germ cell tumour, pulmonary nodules and cysts, renal cysts, mucocutaneous lesions, an arachnoid cyst, and a fibrous breast lesion. Macrocephaly was noted on physical examination. RESULTS Based on the patient's complex phenotype and young age, a hereditary predisposition syndrome was suspected and genetic testing of PTEN and DICER1 was undertaken. A heterozygous truncating germ-line PTEN mutation was identified, which combined with clinical findings, met criteria for the diagnosis of Cowden syndrome. Additional loss of heterozygosity of the wild-type PTEN allele was detected in the right thyroid lesion and ovarian tumour. No DICER1 mutations were identified. CONCLUSIONS Genetic testing was crucial in elucidating this patient's predisposition to the early development of neoplastic and non-neoplastic conditions. Our report also highlights the phenotypic overlap between the Cowden and DICER1 syndromes and illustrates the importance of recognising the variable phenotypic features of hereditary syndromes in order to enable timely implementation of appropriate care.
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- The Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Québec, Canada
- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada
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- Nuclear Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Washington, Australia
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- The Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Québec, Canada
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- Nuclear Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Washington, Australia
- Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Subiaco, Washington, Australia
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- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, School<bold></bold> of Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Washington, Australia
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- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, School<bold></bold> of Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Washington, Australia
- King Edward Memorial Hospital, Perth, Washington, Australia
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- Department of General Surgery, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Washington, Australia
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- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, School<bold></bold> of Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Washington, Australia
- Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Washington, Australia
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- Department of Diagnostic Genomics, PathWest Laboratory Medicine, QEII Medical Centre, Nedlands, Washington, Australia
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
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- The Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Québec, Canada
- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada
- Department of Medical Genetics,<bold></bold> Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Subiaco, Washington, Australia
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, School<bold></bold> of Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Washington, Australia
- *Dr. Catherine S. Choong, Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Princess Margaret Hospital, Child and Adolescent Health Service Western Australia, Roberts Road, Subiaco, WA 6008 (Australia), E-Mail
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de Kock L, Bah I, Revil T, Bérubé P, Wu MK, Sabbaghian N, Priest JR, Ragoussis J, Foulkes WD. Deep Sequencing Reveals Spatially Distributed Distinct Hot Spot Mutations in DICER1-Related Multinodular Goiter. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2016; 101:3637-3645. [PMID: 27459524 DOI: 10.1210/jc.2016-1328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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CONTEXT Nontoxic multinodular goiter (MNG) occurs frequently, but its genetic etiology is not well established. Familial MNG and MNG occurring with ovarian Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor are associated with germline DICER1 mutations. We recently identified second somatic DICER1 ribonuclease (RNase) IIIb mutations in two MNGs. OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to investigate the occurrence of somatic DICER1 mutations and mutational clonality in MNG. PATIENTS MNGs from 15 patients (10 with and five without germline DICER1 mutations) were selected based on tissue availability. DESIGN Core biopsies/scrapings (n = 70) were obtained, sampling areas of follicular hyperplasia, hyperplasia within colloid pools, unremarkable thyroid parenchyma, and areas of thyroid parenchyma, not classified. After capture with a Fluidigm access array, the coding sequence of DICER1 was deep sequenced using DNA from each core/scraping. RESULTS All germline DICER1-mutated cases were found to harbor at least one RNase III mutation. Specifically, we identified 12 individually distinct DICER1 RNase IIIb hot spot mutations in 32 of the follicular hyperplasia or hyperplasia within colloid pools cores/scrapings. These mutations are predicted to affect the metal-ion binding residues at positions p.Glu1705, p.Asp1709, p.Gly1809, p.Asp1810, and p.Glu1813. Somatic RNase IIIb mutations were identified in the 10 DICER1 germline mutated MNGs as follows: two cases contained one somatic mutation, five cases contained two mutations, and three cases contained three distinct somatic hot spot mutations. No RNase IIIb mutations were identified in the MNGs from individuals without germline DICER1 mutations. CONCLUSIONS This study demonstrates that nodules within MNG occurring in DICER1 syndrome are associated with spatially distributed somatic DICER1 RNase IIIb mutations.
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- Leanne de Kock
- Departments of Human Genetics (L.d.K., M.K.W., W.D.F.), Pathology (I.B.), Oncology (W.D.F.), McGill University; Department of Medical Genetics, Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital (L.d.K., M.K.W., N.S., W.D.F.); Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (L.d.K., W.D.F.); McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Centre (T.R., P.B., J.R.), Montréal, Québec, Canada; and (J.R.P.), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Departments of Human Genetics (L.d.K., M.K.W., W.D.F.), Pathology (I.B.), Oncology (W.D.F.), McGill University; Department of Medical Genetics, Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital (L.d.K., M.K.W., N.S., W.D.F.); Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (L.d.K., W.D.F.); McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Centre (T.R., P.B., J.R.), Montréal, Québec, Canada; and (J.R.P.), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Departments of Human Genetics (L.d.K., M.K.W., W.D.F.), Pathology (I.B.), Oncology (W.D.F.), McGill University; Department of Medical Genetics, Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital (L.d.K., M.K.W., N.S., W.D.F.); Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (L.d.K., W.D.F.); McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Centre (T.R., P.B., J.R.), Montréal, Québec, Canada; and (J.R.P.), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Departments of Human Genetics (L.d.K., M.K.W., W.D.F.), Pathology (I.B.), Oncology (W.D.F.), McGill University; Department of Medical Genetics, Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital (L.d.K., M.K.W., N.S., W.D.F.); Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (L.d.K., W.D.F.); McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Centre (T.R., P.B., J.R.), Montréal, Québec, Canada; and (J.R.P.), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Departments of Human Genetics (L.d.K., M.K.W., W.D.F.), Pathology (I.B.), Oncology (W.D.F.), McGill University; Department of Medical Genetics, Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital (L.d.K., M.K.W., N.S., W.D.F.); Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (L.d.K., W.D.F.); McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Centre (T.R., P.B., J.R.), Montréal, Québec, Canada; and (J.R.P.), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Departments of Human Genetics (L.d.K., M.K.W., W.D.F.), Pathology (I.B.), Oncology (W.D.F.), McGill University; Department of Medical Genetics, Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital (L.d.K., M.K.W., N.S., W.D.F.); Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (L.d.K., W.D.F.); McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Centre (T.R., P.B., J.R.), Montréal, Québec, Canada; and (J.R.P.), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Departments of Human Genetics (L.d.K., M.K.W., W.D.F.), Pathology (I.B.), Oncology (W.D.F.), McGill University; Department of Medical Genetics, Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital (L.d.K., M.K.W., N.S., W.D.F.); Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (L.d.K., W.D.F.); McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Centre (T.R., P.B., J.R.), Montréal, Québec, Canada; and (J.R.P.), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Departments of Human Genetics (L.d.K., M.K.W., W.D.F.), Pathology (I.B.), Oncology (W.D.F.), McGill University; Department of Medical Genetics, Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital (L.d.K., M.K.W., N.S., W.D.F.); Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (L.d.K., W.D.F.); McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Centre (T.R., P.B., J.R.), Montréal, Québec, Canada; and (J.R.P.), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Departments of Human Genetics (L.d.K., M.K.W., W.D.F.), Pathology (I.B.), Oncology (W.D.F.), McGill University; Department of Medical Genetics, Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital (L.d.K., M.K.W., N.S., W.D.F.); Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (L.d.K., W.D.F.); McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Centre (T.R., P.B., J.R.), Montréal, Québec, Canada; and (J.R.P.), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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Wu MK, de Kock L, Conwell LS, Stewart CJR, King BR, Choong CS, Hussain K, Sabbaghian N, MacRae IJ, Fabian MR, Foulkes WD. Functional characterization of multiple DICER1 mutations in an adolescent. Endocr Relat Cancer 2016; 23:L1-5. [PMID: 26545620 DOI: 10.1530/erc-15-0460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2015] [Accepted: 11/06/2015] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- M K Wu
- Department of Medical Genetics, Lady Davis Institute Jewish General Hospital, McGill UniversityMontréal, QuebecCanadaDepartment Endocrinology and Diabetes, Lady Cilento Children's HospitalBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaSchool of Medicine, University of QueenslandBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaQueensland Children's Medical Research InstituteBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaDepartment of Histopathology, King Edward Memorial HospitalPerthAustraliaJohn Hunter Children's HospitalLookout Road, Newcastle, New South WalesAustraliaSchool of Medicine and Public Health, Hunter Medical Research Institute, University of NewcastleRankin Park, New South WalesAustraliaSchool of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Western AustraliaCrawley, Western AustraliaAustraliaDepartment of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Child and Adolescent Health ServiceSubiaco, Western AustraliaAustraliaGenetics and Epigenetics in Health and Disease Genetics and Genomic Medicine Programme UCL Institute of Child Health Great Ormond Street Hospital for ChildrenLondonUKThe Scripps Research Institute3215 Merryfield Row, San Diego, CaliforniaUSADepartments of Oncology and Experimental Medicine, McGill UniversityMontréal, QuebecCanadaProgram in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill UniversityMontréal, Quebec, H3T 1E2Canada
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Lady Davis Institute Jewish General Hospital, McGill UniversityMontréal, QuebecCanadaDepartment Endocrinology and Diabetes, Lady Cilento Children's HospitalBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaSchool of Medicine, University of QueenslandBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaQueensland Children's Medical Research InstituteBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaDepartment of Histopathology, King Edward Memorial HospitalPerthAustraliaJohn Hunter Children's HospitalLookout Road, Newcastle, New South WalesAustraliaSchool of Medicine and Public Health, Hunter Medical Research Institute, University of NewcastleRankin Park, New South WalesAustraliaSchool of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Western AustraliaCrawley, Western AustraliaAustraliaDepartment of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Child and Adolescent Health ServiceSubiaco, Western AustraliaAustraliaGenetics and Epigenetics in Health and Disease Genetics and Genomic Medicine Programme UCL Institute of Child Health Great Ormond Street Hospital for ChildrenLondonUKThe Scripps Research Institute3215 Merryfield Row, San Diego, CaliforniaUSADepartments of Oncology and Experimental Medicine, McGill UniversityMontréal, QuebecCanadaProgram in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill UniversityMontréal, Quebec, H3T 1E2Canada
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Lady Davis Institute Jewish General Hospital, McGill UniversityMontréal, QuebecCanadaDepartment Endocrinology and Diabetes, Lady Cilento Children's HospitalBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaSchool of Medicine, University of QueenslandBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaQueensland Children's Medical Research InstituteBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaDepartment of Histopathology, King Edward Memorial HospitalPerthAustraliaJohn Hunter Children's HospitalLookout Road, Newcastle, New South WalesAustraliaSchool of Medicine and Public Health, Hunter Medical Research Institute, University of NewcastleRankin Park, New South WalesAustraliaSchool of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Western AustraliaCrawley, Western AustraliaAustraliaDepartment of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Child and Adolescent Health ServiceSubiaco, Western AustraliaAustraliaGenetics and Epigenetics in Health and Disease Genetics and Genomic Medicine Programme UCL Institute of Child Health Great Ormond Street Hospital for ChildrenLondonUKThe Scripps Research Institute3215 Merryfield Row, San Diego, CaliforniaUSADepartments of Oncology and Experimental Medicine, McGill UniversityMontréal, QuebecCanadaProgram in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill UniversityMontréal, Quebec, H3T 1E2Canada Department of Medical Genetics, Lady Davis Institute Jewish General Hospital, McGill UniversityMontréal, QuebecCanadaDepartment Endocrinology and Diabetes, Lady Cilento Children's HospitalBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaSchool of Medicine, University of QueenslandBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaQueensland Children's Medical Research InstituteBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaDepartment of Histopathology, King Edward Memorial HospitalPerthAustraliaJohn Hunter Children's HospitalLookout Road, Newcastle, New South WalesAustraliaSchool of Medicine and Public Health, Hunter Medical Research Institute, University of NewcastleRanki
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Lady Davis Institute Jewish General Hospital, McGill UniversityMontréal, QuebecCanadaDepartment Endocrinology and Diabetes, Lady Cilento Children's HospitalBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaSchool of Medicine, University of QueenslandBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaQueensland Children's Medical Research InstituteBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaDepartment of Histopathology, King Edward Memorial HospitalPerthAustraliaJohn Hunter Children's HospitalLookout Road, Newcastle, New South WalesAustraliaSchool of Medicine and Public Health, Hunter Medical Research Institute, University of NewcastleRankin Park, New South WalesAustraliaSchool of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Western AustraliaCrawley, Western AustraliaAustraliaDepartment of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Child and Adolescent Health ServiceSubiaco, Western AustraliaAustraliaGenetics and Epigenetics in Health and Disease Genetics and Genomic Medicine Programme UCL Institute of Child Health Great Ormond Street Hospital for ChildrenLondonUKThe Scripps Research Institute3215 Merryfield Row, San Diego, CaliforniaUSADepartments of Oncology and Experimental Medicine, McGill UniversityMontréal, QuebecCanadaProgram in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill UniversityMontréal, Quebec, H3T 1E2Canada
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Lady Davis Institute Jewish General Hospital, McGill UniversityMontréal, QuebecCanadaDepartment Endocrinology and Diabetes, Lady Cilento Children's HospitalBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaSchool of Medicine, University of QueenslandBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaQueensland Children's Medical Research InstituteBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaDepartment of Histopathology, King Edward Memorial HospitalPerthAustraliaJohn Hunter Children's HospitalLookout Road, Newcastle, New South WalesAustraliaSchool of Medicine and Public Health, Hunter Medical Research Institute, University of NewcastleRankin Park, New South WalesAustraliaSchool of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Western AustraliaCrawley, Western AustraliaAustraliaDepartment of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Child and Adolescent Health ServiceSubiaco, Western AustraliaAustraliaGenetics and Epigenetics in Health and Disease Genetics and Genomic Medicine Programme UCL Institute of Child Health Great Ormond Street Hospital for ChildrenLondonUKThe Scripps Research Institute3215 Merryfield Row, San Diego, CaliforniaUSADepartments of Oncology and Experimental Medicine, McGill UniversityMontréal, QuebecCanadaProgram in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill UniversityMontréal, Quebec, H3T 1E2Canada Department of Medical Genetics, Lady Davis Institute Jewish General Hospital, McGill UniversityMontréal, QuebecCanadaDepartment Endocrinology and Diabetes, Lady Cilento Children's HospitalBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaSchool of Medicine, University of QueenslandBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaQueensland Children's Medical Research InstituteBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaDepartment of Histopathology, King Edward Memorial HospitalPerthAustraliaJohn Hunter Children's HospitalLookout Road, Newcastle, New South WalesAustraliaSchool of Medicine and Public Health, Hunter Medical Research Institute, University of NewcastleRanki
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Lady Davis Institute Jewish General Hospital, McGill UniversityMontréal, QuebecCanadaDepartment Endocrinology and Diabetes, Lady Cilento Children's HospitalBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaSchool of Medicine, University of QueenslandBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaQueensland Children's Medical Research InstituteBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaDepartment of Histopathology, King Edward Memorial HospitalPerthAustraliaJohn Hunter Children's HospitalLookout Road, Newcastle, New South WalesAustraliaSchool of Medicine and Public Health, Hunter Medical Research Institute, University of NewcastleRankin Park, New South WalesAustraliaSchool of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Western AustraliaCrawley, Western AustraliaAustraliaDepartment of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Child and Adolescent Health ServiceSubiaco, Western AustraliaAustraliaGenetics and Epigenetics in Health and Disease Genetics and Genomic Medicine Programme UCL Institute of Child Health Great Ormond Street Hospital for ChildrenLondonUKThe Scripps Research Institute3215 Merryfield Row, San Diego, CaliforniaUSADepartments of Oncology and Experimental Medicine, McGill UniversityMontréal, QuebecCanadaProgram in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill UniversityMontréal, Quebec, H3T 1E2Canada Department of Medical Genetics, Lady Davis Institute Jewish General Hospital, McGill UniversityMontréal, QuebecCanadaDepartment Endocrinology and Diabetes, Lady Cilento Children's HospitalBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaSchool of Medicine, University of QueenslandBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaQueensland Children's Medical Research InstituteBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaDepartment of Histopathology, King Edward Memorial HospitalPerthAustraliaJohn Hunter Children's HospitalLookout Road, Newcastle, New South WalesAustraliaSchool of Medicine and Public Health, Hunter Medical Research Institute, University of NewcastleRanki
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Lady Davis Institute Jewish General Hospital, McGill UniversityMontréal, QuebecCanadaDepartment Endocrinology and Diabetes, Lady Cilento Children's HospitalBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaSchool of Medicine, University of QueenslandBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaQueensland Children's Medical Research InstituteBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaDepartment of Histopathology, King Edward Memorial HospitalPerthAustraliaJohn Hunter Children's HospitalLookout Road, Newcastle, New South WalesAustraliaSchool of Medicine and Public Health, Hunter Medical Research Institute, University of NewcastleRankin Park, New South WalesAustraliaSchool of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Western AustraliaCrawley, Western AustraliaAustraliaDepartment of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Child and Adolescent Health ServiceSubiaco, Western AustraliaAustraliaGenetics and Epigenetics in Health and Disease Genetics and Genomic Medicine Programme UCL Institute of Child Health Great Ormond Street Hospital for ChildrenLondonUKThe Scripps Research Institute3215 Merryfield Row, San Diego, CaliforniaUSADepartments of Oncology and Experimental Medicine, McGill UniversityMontréal, QuebecCanadaProgram in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill UniversityMontréal, Quebec, H3T 1E2Canada
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Lady Davis Institute Jewish General Hospital, McGill UniversityMontréal, QuebecCanadaDepartment Endocrinology and Diabetes, Lady Cilento Children's HospitalBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaSchool of Medicine, University of QueenslandBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaQueensland Children's Medical Research InstituteBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaDepartment of Histopathology, King Edward Memorial HospitalPerthAustraliaJohn Hunter Children's HospitalLookout Road, Newcastle, New South WalesAustraliaSchool of Medicine and Public Health, Hunter Medical Research Institute, University of NewcastleRankin Park, New South WalesAustraliaSchool of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Western AustraliaCrawley, Western AustraliaAustraliaDepartment of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Child and Adolescent Health ServiceSubiaco, Western AustraliaAustraliaGenetics and Epigenetics in Health and Disease Genetics and Genomic Medicine Programme UCL Institute of Child Health Great Ormond Street Hospital for ChildrenLondonUKThe Scripps Research Institute3215 Merryfield Row, San Diego, CaliforniaUSADepartments of Oncology and Experimental Medicine, McGill UniversityMontréal, QuebecCanadaProgram in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill UniversityMontréal, Quebec, H3T 1E2Canada
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Lady Davis Institute Jewish General Hospital, McGill UniversityMontréal, QuebecCanadaDepartment Endocrinology and Diabetes, Lady Cilento Children's HospitalBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaSchool of Medicine, University of QueenslandBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaQueensland Children's Medical Research InstituteBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaDepartment of Histopathology, King Edward Memorial HospitalPerthAustraliaJohn Hunter Children's HospitalLookout Road, Newcastle, New South WalesAustraliaSchool of Medicine and Public Health, Hunter Medical Research Institute, University of NewcastleRankin Park, New South WalesAustraliaSchool of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Western AustraliaCrawley, Western AustraliaAustraliaDepartment of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Child and Adolescent Health ServiceSubiaco, Western AustraliaAustraliaGenetics and Epigenetics in Health and Disease Genetics and Genomic Medicine Programme UCL Institute of Child Health Great Ormond Street Hospital for ChildrenLondonUKThe Scripps Research Institute3215 Merryfield Row, San Diego, CaliforniaUSADepartments of Oncology and Experimental Medicine, McGill UniversityMontréal, QuebecCanadaProgram in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill UniversityMontréal, Quebec, H3T 1E2Canada
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Lady Davis Institute Jewish General Hospital, McGill UniversityMontréal, QuebecCanadaDepartment Endocrinology and Diabetes, Lady Cilento Children's HospitalBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaSchool of Medicine, University of QueenslandBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaQueensland Children's Medical Research InstituteBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaDepartment of Histopathology, King Edward Memorial HospitalPerthAustraliaJohn Hunter Children's HospitalLookout Road, Newcastle, New South WalesAustraliaSchool of Medicine and Public Health, Hunter Medical Research Institute, University of NewcastleRankin Park, New South WalesAustraliaSchool of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Western AustraliaCrawley, Western AustraliaAustraliaDepartment of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Child and Adolescent Health ServiceSubiaco, Western AustraliaAustraliaGenetics and Epigenetics in Health and Disease Genetics and Genomic Medicine Programme UCL Institute of Child Health Great Ormond Street Hospital for ChildrenLondonUKThe Scripps Research Institute3215 Merryfield Row, San Diego, CaliforniaUSADepartments of Oncology and Experimental Medicine, McGill UniversityMontréal, QuebecCanadaProgram in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill UniversityMontréal, Quebec, H3T 1E2Canada
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Lady Davis Institute Jewish General Hospital, McGill UniversityMontréal, QuebecCanadaDepartment Endocrinology and Diabetes, Lady Cilento Children's HospitalBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaSchool of Medicine, University of QueenslandBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaQueensland Children's Medical Research InstituteBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaDepartment of Histopathology, King Edward Memorial HospitalPerthAustraliaJohn Hunter Children's HospitalLookout Road, Newcastle, New South WalesAustraliaSchool of Medicine and Public Health, Hunter Medical Research Institute, University of NewcastleRankin Park, New South WalesAustraliaSchool of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Western AustraliaCrawley, Western AustraliaAustraliaDepartment of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Child and Adolescent Health ServiceSubiaco, Western AustraliaAustraliaGenetics and Epigenetics in Health and Disease Genetics and Genomic Medicine Programme UCL Institute of Child Health Great Ormond Street Hospital for ChildrenLondonUKThe Scripps Research Institute3215 Merryfield Row, San Diego, CaliforniaUSADepartments of Oncology and Experimental Medicine, McGill UniversityMontréal, QuebecCanadaProgram in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill UniversityMontréal, Quebec, H3T 1E2Canada Department of Medical Genetics, Lady Davis Institute Jewish General Hospital, McGill UniversityMontréal, QuebecCanadaDepartment Endocrinology and Diabetes, Lady Cilento Children's HospitalBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaSchool of Medicine, University of QueenslandBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaQueensland Children's Medical Research InstituteBrisbane, QueenslandAustraliaDepartment of Histopathology, King Edward Memorial HospitalPerthAustraliaJohn Hunter Children's HospitalLookout Road, Newcastle, New South WalesAustraliaSchool of Medicine and Public Health, Hunter Medical Research Institute, University of NewcastleRanki
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de Kock L, Wang YC, Revil T, Badescu D, Rivera B, Sabbaghian N, Wu M, Weber E, Sandoval C, Hopman SMJ, Merks JHM, van Hagen JM, Bouts AHM, Plager DA, Ramasubramanian A, Forsmark L, Doyle KL, Toler T, Callahan J, Engelenberg C, Bouron-Dal Soglio D, Priest JR, Ragoussis J, Foulkes WD. High-sensitivity sequencing reveals multi-organ somatic mosaicism causing DICER1 syndrome. J Med Genet 2015; 53:43-52. [DOI: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2015-103428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2015] [Accepted: 09/18/2015] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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de Kock L, Rivera Polo B, Wu M, Weber E, Sandoval C, Hopman SMJ, Merks JHM, van Hagen A, Plager DA, Sabbaghian N, Hamel N, Bouron-Dal Soglio D, Priest JR, Foulkes WD. Abstract 4934: Mosaic RNase IIIb domain DICER1 mutations in children with multiple primary tumors. Cancer Res 2015. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2015-4934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The DICER1 syndrome or pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB) familial tumor and dysplasia syndrome (PPB FTDS) (OMIM #601200) is caused by heterozygous germ-line mutations in the microRNA maturation pathway gene, DICER1. Several rare phenotypes constitute the syndrome including PPB, cystic nephroma (CN), ovarian Sertoli-Leydig cell tumors (SLCT), intra-ocular medulloepithelioma, nasal chondromesenchymal hamartoma (NCMH), pineoblastoma, pituitary blastoma, multinodular goitre (MNG) and other rare childhood sarcomas and dysplasias. Highly characteristic second somatic mutations have been identified in DICER1-associated tumors, affecting amino acid residues central to the catalytic activity of the RNase IIIb domain.
We describe four children with multiple primary tumours associated with the DICER1 syndrome. Sanger sequencing of constitutional DNA obtained from peripheral blood lymphocytes and/or saliva revealed no likely deleterious germ-line DICER1 mutations. We subsequently sequenced the region encoding the DICER1 RNase IIIa and RNase IIIb domains in gDNA extracted from the tumor samples, and noted the presence of the same RNase IIIb missense mutation in multiple tumors from each patient (Patient A: c.5437G>C; Patient B: c.5125G>A; Patient C: c.5439G>C; Patient D: c.5425G>A). We performed targeted capture followed by deep sequencing on DNA extracted from both normal and tumor tissue, which revealed the presence of the respective RNase IIIb mutations in a low percentage of sequencing reads (0.2 - 13%) in constitutional DNA from three of the four patients (Patients A, B and C). The relative abundance of the allele harboring the DICER1 RNase IIIb mutation was significantly higher in the tumors compared to normal tissue from the surrounding organ and/or distant sites. Taken together, these findings indicate a mosaic origin of the DICER1 RNase IIIb missense mutations. The mosaic origin of Patient D's mutation remains to be unequivocally established.
We further hypothesized that, in the setting of a mosaic DICER1 RNase IIIb mutations, we might discover second somatic mutations outside of the RNase IIIb domain which initiate two-hit tumorigenesis as seen in most DICER1-related tumors. Sequencing data identified individually distinct second somatic, likely-deleterious DICER1 mutations in Patient A's left ovary SLCT and sinonasal inflammatory polyp, in Patient C's NCMH, and in Patient D's Type II PPB which arose in a pre-existing lung cyst. Each of these second somatic mutations are predicted to prematurely truncate the DICER1 protein.
We demonstrate that mosaic DICER1 RNase IIIb missense mutations are an occasional and important genetic cause of the DICER1 syndrome in patients presenting with multiple primary tumors associated with the syndrome, and that for tumor initiation, they appear to be accompanied by second somatic truncating non-RNase IIIb DICER1 mutations.
Citation Format: Leanne de Kock, Barbara Rivera Polo, Mona Wu, Evan Weber, Claudio Sandoval, Saskia M. J. Hopman, J. Hans M. Merks, Annet van Hagen, D. A. Plager, Nelly Sabbaghian, Nancy Hamel, Dorothée Bouron-Dal Soglio, John R. Priest, William D. Foulkes. Mosaic RNase IIIb domain DICER1 mutations in children with multiple primary tumors. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2015 Apr 18-22; Philadelphia, PA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2015;75(15 Suppl):Abstract nr 4934. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2015-4934
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- Leanne de Kock
- 1Lady Davis Institute and Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital; McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- 1Lady Davis Institute and Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital; McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- 1Lady Davis Institute and Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital; McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- 2Department of Medical Genetics, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- 3Department of Pediatrics, New York Medical College and Maria Fareri Children's Hospital, Valhalla, NY
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- 4Department of Pediatric Oncology, Emma Children's Hospital, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- 4Department of Pediatric Oncology, Emma Children's Hospital, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- 5Department of Clinical Genetics, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- 6Glick Eye Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
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- 7Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- 2Department of Medical Genetics, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- 10Program in Cancer Genetics, Department of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Foulkes WD, Wu M, Kock LD, Witkowski L, Sabbaghian N, Weber E, Hamel N, Priest JR. Abstract IA03: DICER1: From ontogenesis to oncogenesis. Cancer Res 2014. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.cansusc14-ia03] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The DICER1 syndrome, also known as the pleuropulmonary blastoma familial tumor dysplasia syndrome (PPB-FTDS) (OMIM #601200), is a recently described entity comprising a number of rare to ultra-rare tumors arising mainly in childhood or adolescence. The most frequent and characteristic disorders are pleuropulmonary blastoma, cystic nephroma and ovarian Sertoli-Leydig cell tumors. Some aspects of the syndrome were identified in the 1970s and 1990s, but discovery in 2009 by Hill et al of heterozygous disease-associated germ-line DICER1 mutations in affected kindred brought the syndrome into focus. Several studies since 2009 have extended the phenotypes to include more common conditions such as multinodular goiter and Wilms tumor, as well as much rarer entities such as cervical embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma, pineoblastoma and pituitary blastoma. The critical molecular defect appears to be impairment of DICER1's RNase III endonuclease function, which normally would cleave precursor microRNAs to their final mature length. These microRNAs function by targeted silencing and/or degradation of specific messenger RNAs. DICER1 may be considered an unusual type of tumor suppressor gene, in that the first inherited “hit” usually cripples one allele completely, whereas a second somatic “hit” is nearly always limited to the RNase III domains (and is in fact often even more focused on the metal-binding domains of RNase IIIb). These second hits are most commonly a single base substitution leading to an amino acid change, which functionally impairs the protein without overall protein loss. In this presentation I will summarize the current knowledge on the role of DICER1 mutations in cancer and will describe the edges of the known associated phenotypes.
Citation Format: William D. Foulkes, Mona Wu, Leanne De Kock, Leora Witkowski, Nelly Sabbaghian, Evan Weber, Nancy Hamel, John R. Priest. DICER1: From ontogenesis to oncogenesis. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the AACR Special Conference: Cancer Susceptibility and Cancer Susceptibility Syndromes; Jan 29-Feb 1, 2014; San Diego, CA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2014;74(23 Suppl):Abstract nr IA03. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.CANSUSC14-IA03
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- 1McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada,
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- 2Lady Davis Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada,
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- 3Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada,
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de Kock L, Sabbaghian N, Druker H, Weber E, Hamel N, Miller S, Choong CS, Gottardo NG, Kees UR, Rednam SP, van Hest LP, Jongmans MC, Jhangiani S, Lupski JR, Zacharin M, Bouron-Dal Soglio D, Huang A, Priest JR, Perry A, Mueller S, Albrecht S, Malkin D, Grundy RG, Foulkes WD. Germ-line and somatic DICER1 mutations in pineoblastoma. Acta Neuropathol 2014; 128:583-95. [PMID: 25022261 DOI: 10.1007/s00401-014-1318-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2014] [Revised: 06/26/2014] [Accepted: 06/28/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Germ-line RB-1 mutations predispose to pineoblastoma (PinB), but other predisposing genetic factors are not well established. We recently identified a germ-line DICER1 mutation in a child with a PinB. This was accompanied by loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of the wild-type allele within the tumour. We set out to establish the prevalence of DICER1 mutations in an opportunistically ascertained series of PinBs. Twenty-one PinB cases were studied: Eighteen cases had not undergone previous testing for DICER1 mutations; three patients were known carriers of germ-line DICER1 mutations. The eighteen PinBs were sequenced by Sanger and/or Fluidigm-based next-generation sequencing to identify DICER1 mutations in blood gDNA and/or tumour gDNA. Testing for somatic DICER1 mutations was also conducted on one case with a known germ-line DICER1 mutation. From the eighteen PinBs, we identified four deleterious DICER1 mutations, three of which were germ line in origin, and one for which a germ line versus somatic origin could not be determined; in all four, the second allele was also inactivated leading to complete loss of DICER1 protein. No somatic DICER1 RNase IIIb mutations were identified. One PinB arising in a germ-line DICER1 mutation carrier was found to have LOH. This study suggests that germ-line DICER1 mutations make a clinically significant contribution to PinB, establishing DICER1 as an important susceptibility gene for PinB and demonstrates PinB to be a manifestation of a germ-line DICER1 mutation. The means by which the second allele is inactivated may differ from other DICER1-related tumours.
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- Leanne de Kock
- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Hartley T, Cavallone L, Sabbaghian N, Silva-Smith R, Hamel N, Aleynikova O, Smith E, Hastings V, Pinto P, Tischkowitz M, Tomiak E, Foulkes WD. Mutation analysis of PALB2 in BRCA1 and BRCA2-negative breast and/or ovarian cancer families from Eastern Ontario, Canada. Hered Cancer Clin Pract 2014; 12:19. [PMID: 25225577 PMCID: PMC4163678 DOI: 10.1186/1897-4287-12-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2014] [Accepted: 08/14/2014] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND PALB2 has emerged as a breast cancer susceptibility gene. Mutations in PALB2 have been identified in almost all breast cancer populations studied to date, but the rarity of these mutations and lack of information regarding their penetrance makes genetic counseling for these families challenging. We studied BRCA1/2 -negative breast and/or ovarian cancer families to a) assess the contribution of PALB2 mutations in this series and b) identify clinical, pathological and family history characteristics that might make PALB2 screening more efficient. METHODS The coding region of the PALB2 gene was analyzed in 175 probands with family histories of breast and/or ovarian cancer ascertained from a single Canadian institution in Eastern Ontario. RESULTS We identified 2 probands with PALB2 mutations that are known or strongly considered to be pathogenic and 3 probands with missense mutations that are possibly pathogenic. One of the identified truncating mutations [c.3113G > A (p.Gly1000_Trp1038del - major product)], has been previously described while the other four mutations [c.3507_3508delTC (p.H1170Ffs*19), c.1846G > C (p.D616H), c.3418 T > G (p.W1140G), c.3287A > G (p.N1096S)] have not been previously reported. Loss of heterozygosity was detected in two breast tumors from one c.3507_3508delTC mutation carrier but not in other available tumors from that family or in tumors from carriers of other mutations. CONCLUSIONS PALB2 mutation screening identifies a small, but significant number of mutations in BRCA1/2 -negative breast and/or ovarian cancer families. We show that mutations are more likely to be found in families with three or more breast cancers as well as other BRCA2-related cancers. In our cohort, both clearly pathogenic mutations were identified in premenopausal breast cancer cases (2/77, 2.6%). Testing should be preferentially offered to affected women from such families.
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- Taila Hartley
- Department of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, 401 Smyth Rd, K1H 8 L1 Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, Gerald Bronfman Centre for Clinical Research in Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada ; Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, Gerald Bronfman Centre for Clinical Research in Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada ; Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, Gerald Bronfman Centre for Clinical Research in Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada ; Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, Gerald Bronfman Centre for Clinical Research in Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada ; Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada ; Department of Pathology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, 401 Smyth Rd, K1H 8 L1 Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Department of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, 401 Smyth Rd, K1H 8 L1 Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute, Porto, Portugal
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, Gerald Bronfman Centre for Clinical Research in Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada ; Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada ; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, 401 Smyth Rd, K1H 8 L1 Ottawa, ON, Canada ; Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, Gerald Bronfman Centre for Clinical Research in Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada ; Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada ; Department of Medical Genetics, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
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de Kock L, Sabbaghian N, Soglio DBD, Guillerman RP, Park BK, Chami R, Deal CL, Priest JR, Foulkes WD. Exploring the association Between DICER1 mutations and differentiated thyroid carcinoma. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2014; 99:E1072-7. [PMID: 24617712 DOI: 10.1210/jc.2013-4206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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CONTEXT Carriers of germline DICER1 mutations are predisposed to a rare cancer syndrome, the DICER1 syndrome. Thyroid abnormalities are a common finding in DICER1 syndrome with multinodular goiter frequently present in many families in which a germline DICER1 mutation is segregating. Differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) is infrequently seen in such pedigrees. In addition to germline DICER1 mutations, specific somatic mutations have been identified in the DICER1 ribonuclease IIIb catalytic domain in several tumor types. OBJECTIVE We aimed to determine whether such characteristic somatic DICER1 mutations are present in DTCs that arise within germline DICER1 mutation carriers. DESIGN AND SETTING The study involved an opportunistic collection of 3 cases of DTC arising in individuals suspected to have DICER1 syndrome and hospital-based ascertainment and testing was implemented. RESULTS We identified somatic DICER1 mutations in 3 DTCs arising in unrelated germline DICER1 mutation carriers, all of whom had been diagnosed in infancy with pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB), were treated with chemotherapy, exposed frequently to diagnostic radiation, and subsequently developed DTC. The somatic mutations occurred within the DICER1 ribonuclease IIIb domain, affecting highly conserved amino acid residues central to the catalytic activity of the domain. CONCLUSION This report of somatic DICER1 mutations in DTC strengthens the association between DTC and the DICER1 syndrome. The possible association between germline DICER1 mutations, PPB treatment, and the risk of subsequent DTC must be considered by clinicians when treating PPB.
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- Leanne de Kock
- Department of Human Genetics (L.d.K.) and Program in Cancer Genetics, Department of Oncology and Human Genetics (W.D.F.), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H2W 1S6, Canada; Lady Davis Institute (L.d.K., N.S.), Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E2, Canada; Department of Pathology (D.B.-D.S., R.C.) and Endocrine Service (C.L.D.), CHU-Sainte Justine and University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1C5, Canada; Department of Pediatric Radiology (R.P.G.), Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas 77030; Center for Pediatric Oncology (B.-K.P.), National Cancer Center, Goyang-si, South Korea 410-769; and (J.R.P.) Minneapolis, Minnesota 55454
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Nguyen-Dumont T, Teo ZL, Pope BJ, Hammet F, Mahmoodi M, Tsimiklis H, Sabbaghian N, Tischkowitz M, Foulkes WD, Giles GG, Hopper JL, Southey MC, Park DJ. Hi-Plex for high-throughput mutation screening: application to the breast cancer susceptibility gene PALB2. BMC Med Genomics 2013; 6:48. [PMID: 24206657 PMCID: PMC3829211 DOI: 10.1186/1755-8794-6-48] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2013] [Accepted: 11/05/2013] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Background Massively parallel sequencing (MPS) has revolutionised biomedical research and offers enormous capacity for clinical application. We previously reported Hi-Plex, a streamlined highly-multiplexed PCR-MPS approach, allowing a given library to be sequenced with both the Ion Torrent and TruSeq chemistries. Comparable sequencing efficiency was achieved using material derived from lymphoblastoid cell lines and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tumour. Methods Here, we report high-throughput application of Hi-Plex by performing blinded mutation screening of the coding regions of the breast cancer susceptibility gene PALB2 on a set of 95 blood-derived DNA samples that had previously been screened using Sanger sequencing and high-resolution melting curve analysis (n = 90), or genotyped by Taqman probe-based assays (n = 5). Hi-Plex libraries were prepared simultaneously using relatively inexpensive, readily available reagents in a simple half-day protocol followed by MPS on a single MiSeq run. Results We observed that 99.93% of amplicons were represented at ≥10X coverage. All 56 previously identified variant calls were detected and no false positive calls were assigned. Four additional variant calls were made and confirmed upon re-analysis of previous data or subsequent Sanger sequencing. Conclusions These results support Hi-Plex as a powerful approach for rapid, cost-effective and accurate high-throughput mutation screening. They further demonstrate that Hi-Plex methods are suitable for and can meet the demands of high-throughput genetic testing in research and clinical settings.
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- Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia.
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Sabbaghian N, Srivastava A, Hamel N, Plourde F, Gajtko-Metera M, Niedziela M, Foulkes WD. Germ-line deletion in DICER1 revealed by a novel MLPA assay using synthetic oligonucleotides. Eur J Hum Genet 2013; 22:564-7. [PMID: 24065110 DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2013.215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2013] [Revised: 07/30/2013] [Accepted: 08/22/2013] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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DICER1 is an endoribonuclease responsible for the production of mature microRNAs which are small, single-stranded RNA molecules that regulate gene expression post-transcriptionally by binding to mRNA and repressing the expression of target genes. Germ-line mutations in DICER1 are responsible for a rare cancer syndrome, including tumors that can co-occur with multinodular goiter (MNG). Using Sanger sequencing, we screened all DICER1 exons and intron boundaries in 20 suspected mutation carriers: nine with ovarian sex cord-stromal tumors (including Sertoli-Leydig cell tumors (SLCTs)), five with pleuropulmonary blastoma, one with cystic nephroma, one with nasal chondromesenchymal hamartoma and four with more than one manifestation suggestive of a germ-line DICER1 mutation. All were negative for any apparently deleterious variants. We developed a Multiplex Ligation-based Probe Amplification assay for DICER1 to screen for large deletions or duplications. Synthetic oligonucleotides were designed to cover all exons in three probe-mixes. In a child with a SLCT and MNG, and in her mother and brother (both diagnosed with MNG), we identified a heterozygous germ-line deletion of approximately 3 kilobases that eliminates exon 21 of DICER1 and two-thirds of intron 21, accompanied by an insertion of a G nucleotide at the 3' end of the deletion (c.3270-6_4051-1280delinsG). This allele is expressed in the patient's cDNA, creating an out-of-frame deletion predicted to result in a truncated protein (r.3270_4050del; p.Tyr1091Ser*28). Our novel finding of a disease-causing large deletion in DICER1 emphasizes the need to include assays that can detect rearrangements, duplications and deletions in any DICER1 screening protocol.
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- Nelly Sabbaghian
- 1] Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada [2] Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- 1] Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada [2] Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- 1] Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada [2] The Research Institute, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- 1] Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada [2] Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Out-Patient Pediatric Endocrine Clinic, Children's Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Rheumatology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- 1] Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada [2] Lady Davis Institute, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada [3] The Research Institute, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Wu MK, Sabbaghian N, Xu B, Addidou-Kalucki S, Bernard C, Zou D, Reeve AE, Eccles MR, Cole C, Choong CS, Charles A, Tan TY, Iglesias DM, Goodyer PR, Foulkes WD. Biallelic DICER1 mutations occur in Wilms tumours. J Pathol 2013; 230:154-64. [PMID: 23620094 DOI: 10.1002/path.4196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2013] [Revised: 03/20/2013] [Accepted: 03/29/2013] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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DICER1 is an endoribonuclease central to the generation of microRNAs (miRNAs) and short interfering RNAs (siRNAs). Germline mutations in DICER1 have been associated with a pleiotropic tumour predisposition syndrome and Wilms tumour (WT) is a rare manifestation of this syndrome. Three WTs, each in a child with a deleterious germline DICER1 mutation, were screened for somatic DICER1 mutations and were found to bear specific mutations in either the RNase IIIa (n = 1) or the RNase IIIb domain (n = 2). In the two latter cases, we demonstrate that the germline and somatic DICER1 mutations were in trans, suggesting that the two-hit hypothesis of tumour formation applies for these examples of WT. Among 191 apparently sporadic WTs, we identified five different missense or deletion somatic DICER1 mutations (2.6%) in four individual WTs; one tumour had two very likely deleterious somatic mutations in trans in the RNase IIIb domain (c.5438A>G and c.5452G>A). In vitro studies of two somatic single-base substitutions (c.5429A>G and c.5438A>G) demonstrated exon 25 skipping from the transcript, a phenomenon not previously reported in DICER1. Further we show that DICER1 transcripts lacking exon 25 can be translated in vitro. This study has demonstrated that a subset of WTs exhibits two 'hits' in DICER1, suggesting that these mutations could be key events in the pathogenesis of these tumours.
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- M K Wu
- Department of Medical Genetics, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Sabbaghian N, Bahubeshi A, Shuen AY, Kanetsky PA, Tischkowitz MD, Nathanson KL, Foulkes WD. Germ-line DICER1 mutations do not make a major contribution to the etiology of familial testicular germ cell tumours. BMC Res Notes 2013; 6:127. [PMID: 23547758 PMCID: PMC3642033 DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-6-127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2012] [Accepted: 03/26/2013] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Background The RNase III enzyme DICER1 plays a central role in maturation of microRNAs. Identification of neoplasia-associated germ-line and somatic mutations in DICER1 indicates that mis-expression of miRNAs in cancer may result from defects in their processing. As part of a recent study of DICER1 RNase III domains in 96 testicular germ cell tumors, a single RNase IIIb domain mutation was identified in a seminoma. To further explore the importance of DICER1 mutations in the etiology of testicular germ cell tumors (TGCT), we studied germ-line DNA samples from 43 probands diagnosed with familial TGCT. Findings We carried out High Resolution Melting Curve Analysis of DICER1 exons 2–12, 14–19, 21 and 24–27. All questionable melt curves were subjected to confirmatory Sanger sequencing. Sanger sequencing was used for exons 13, 20, 22 and 23. Intron-exon boundaries were included in all analyses. We identified 12 previously reported single nucleotide polymorphisms and two novel single nucleotide variants. No likely deleterious variants were identified; notably no mutations that were predicted to truncate the protein were identified. Conclusions Taken together with previous studies, the findings reported here suggest a very limited role for either germ-line or somatic DICER1 mutations in the etiology of TGCT.
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- Nelly Sabbaghian
- Program in Cancer Genetics, Department of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Wark L, Novak D, Sabbaghian N, Amrein L, Jangamreddy JR, Cheang M, Pouchet C, Aloyz R, Foulkes WD, Mai S, Tischkowitz M. Heterozygous mutations in the PALB2 hereditary breast cancer predisposition gene impact on the three-dimensional nuclear organization of patient-derived cell lines. Genes Chromosomes Cancer 2013; 52:480-94. [PMID: 23341105 DOI: 10.1002/gcc.22045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2012] [Revised: 12/14/2012] [Accepted: 12/17/2012] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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PALB2/FANCN is a BRCA1- and BRCA2-interacting Fanconi Anemia (FA) protein crucial for key BRCA2 genome caretaker functions. Heterozygous germline mutations in PALB2 predispose to breast cancer and biallelic mutations cause FA. FA proteins play a critical role in the telomere maintenance pathway, with telomeric shortening observed in FA cells. Less is known about telomere maintenance in the heterozygous state. Here, we investigate the roles of PALB2 heterozygous mutations in genomic instability, an important carcinogenesis precursor. Patient-derived lymphoblastoid (LCL) and fibroblast (FCL) cell lines with monoallelic truncating PALB2 mutations were investigated using a combination of molecular imaging techniques including centromeric FISH, telomeric Q-FISH and spectral karyotyping (SKY). Mitomycin C and Cisplatin sensitivity was assayed via cellular metabolism of WST-1. The PALB2 c.229delT FCL showed increases in telomere counts associated with increased mean intensity compared with two wild-type FCLs generated from first-degree relatives (P =1.04E-10 and P =9.68E-15) and it showed evidence of chromosomal rearrangements. Significant differences in centromere distribution were observed in one of three PALB2 heterozygous FCLs analyzed when compared with PALB2 wild-type, BRCA1 and BRCA2 heterozygous FCLs. No significant consistently increased sensitivity to Mitomycin C or Cisplatin was observed in LCLs. Our results are suggestive of an altered centromere distribution profile and a telomere instability phenotype. Together, these may indicate critical nuclear organization defects associated with the predisposition to transformation and early stage development of PALB2-related cancers.
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- Landon Wark
- The Genomic Centre for Cancer Research and Diagnosis, Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology, CancerCare Manitoba, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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Tischkowitz M, Sabbaghian N, Hamel N, Pouchet C, Foulkes WD, Mes-Masson AM, Provencher DM, Tonin PN. Contribution of the PALB2 c.2323C>T [p.Q775X] founder mutation in well-defined breast and/or ovarian cancer families and unselected ovarian cancer cases of French Canadian descent. BMC Med Genet 2013; 14:5. [PMID: 23302520 PMCID: PMC3549741 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2350-14-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2012] [Accepted: 01/03/2013] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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BACKGROUND The PALB2 c.2323C>T [p.Q775X] mutation has been reported in at least three breast cancer families and breast cancer cases of French Canadian descent and this has been attributed to common ancestors. The number of mutation-positive cases reported varied based on criteria of ascertainment of index cases tested. Although inherited PALB2 mutations are associated with increased risks of developing breast cancer, risk to ovarian cancer has not been fully explored in this demographically unique population. METHODS We screened the PALB2 p.Q775X variant in 71 families with at least three cases of breast cancer (n=48) or breast and ovarian cancers (n=23) that have previously been found negative for at least the most common BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations reported in the French Canadian population and in 491 women of French Canadian descent who had invasive ovarian cancer and/or low malignant potential tumors of the major histopathological subtypes. RESULTS We identified a PALB2 p.Q775X carrier in a breast cancer family, who had invasive ductal breast carcinomas at 39 and 42 years of age. We also identified a PALB2 p.Q775X carrier who had papillary serous ovarian cystadenocarcinoma at age 58 among the 238 serous subtype ovarian cancer cases investigated, who also had breast cancer at age 52. CONCLUSION Our findings, taken together with previous reports, support adding PALB2 c.2323C>T p.Q775X to the list of cancer susceptibility genes for which founder mutations have been identified in the French Canadian population.
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- Marc Tischkowitz
- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Bakker JL, van Mil SE, Crossan G, Sabbaghian N, De Leeneer K, Poppe B, Adank M, Gille H, Verheul H, Meijers-Heijboer H, de Winter JP, Claes K, Tischkowitz M, Waisfisz Q. Analysis of the novel fanconi anemia gene SLX4/FANCP in familial breast cancer cases. Hum Mutat 2012; 34:70-3. [PMID: 22911665 DOI: 10.1002/humu.22206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2012] [Accepted: 08/08/2012] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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SLX4/FANCP is a recently discovered novel disease gene for Fanconi anemia (FA), a rare recessive disorder characterized by chromosomal instability and increased cancer susceptibility. Three of the 15 FA genes are breast cancer susceptibility genes in heterozygous mutation carriers--BRCA2, PALB2, and BRIP1. To investigate if defects in SLX4 also predispose to breast cancer, the gene was sequenced in a cohort of 729 BRCA1/BRCA2-negative familial breast cancer cases. We identified a single splice site mutation (c.2013+2T>A), which causes a frameshift by skipping of exon 8. We also identified 39 missense variants, four of which were selected for functional testing in a Mitomycin C-induced growth inhibition assay, and appeared indistinguishable from wild type. Although this is the first study that describes a truncating SLX4 mutation in breast cancer patients, our data indicate that germline mutations in SLX4 are very rare and are unlikely to make a significant contribution to familial breast cancer.
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- Janine L Bakker
- Department of Clinical Genetics, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Sabbaghian N, Hamel N, Srivastava A, Albrecht S, Priest JR, Foulkes WD. Germline DICER1 mutation and associated loss of heterozygosity in a pineoblastoma. J Med Genet 2012; 49:417-9. [PMID: 22717647 DOI: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2012-100898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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- Nelly Sabbaghian
- Program in Cancer Genetics, Department of Oncology and Human Genetics, Gerald Bronfman Centre for Clinical Research in Cancer, McGill University 546 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, Quebec H2W 1S6, Canada.
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De Leeneer K, Van Bockstal M, De Brouwer S, Swietek N, Schietecatte P, Sabbaghian N, Van den Ende J, Willocx S, Storm K, Blaumeiser B, Van Asperen CJ, Wijnen JT, Leunen K, Legius E, Michils G, Matthijs G, Blok MJ, Gomez-Garcia E, De Paepe A, Tischkowitz M, Poppe B, Claes K. Evaluation of RAD51C as cancer susceptibility gene in a large breast-ovarian cancer patient population referred for genetic testing. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2012; 133:393-8. [PMID: 22370629 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-012-1998-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2012] [Accepted: 02/13/2012] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Despite extensive analysis of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, germline mutations are detected in <20% of families with a presumed genetic predisposition for breast and ovarian cancer. Recent literature reported RAD51C as a new breast cancer susceptibility gene. In this study, we report the analysis of 410 patients from 351 unrelated pedigrees. All were referred for genetic testing and we selected families with at least one reported case of ovarian cancer in which BRCA1&2 mutations were previously ruled out. We analyzed the coding exons, intron-exons boundaries, and UTRs of RAD51C. Our mutation analysis did not reveal any unequivocal deleterious mutation. In total 12 unique sequence variations were identified of which two were novel. Our study and others suggest a low prevalence of RAD51C mutations with an exception for some founder populations. This observation is in favor of the rare allele hypothesis in the debate over the nature of the genetic contribution to individual susceptibility to breast and ovarian cancer and further genome-wide studies in high risk families are warranted.
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- K De Leeneer
- Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
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Tischkowitz M, Capanu M, Sabbaghian N, Li L, Liang X, Vallée MP, Tavtigian SV, Concannon P, Foulkes WD, Bernstein L, Bernstein JL, Begg CB. Rare germline mutations in PALB2 and breast cancer risk: a population-based study. Hum Mutat 2012; 33:674-80. [PMID: 22241545 DOI: 10.1002/humu.22022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2011] [Accepted: 12/22/2011] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Germline mutations in the PALB2 gene are associated with an increased risk of developing breast cancer but little is known about the frequencies of rare variants in PALB2 and the nature of the variants that influence risk. We selected participants recruited to the Women's Environment, Cancer, and Radiation Epidemiology (WECARE) Study and screened lymphocyte DNA from cases with contralateral breast cancer (n = 559) and matched controls with unilateral breast cancer (n = 565) for PALB2 mutations. Five pathogenic PALB2 mutations were identified among the cases (0.9%) versus none among the controls (P = 0.04). The first-degree female relatives of these five carriers demonstrated significantly higher incidence of breast cancer than relatives of noncarrier cases, indicating that pathogenic PALB2 mutations confer an estimated 5.3-fold increase in risk (95% CI: 1.8-13.2). The frequency of rare (<1% MAF) missense mutations was similar in both groups (23 vs. 21). Our findings confirm in a population-based study setting of women with breast cancer the strong risk associated with truncating mutations in PALB2 that has been reported in family studies. Conversely, there is no evidence from this study that rare PALB2 missense mutations strongly influence breast cancer risk.
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- Marc Tischkowitz
- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Foulkes WD, Bahubeshi A, Hamel N, Pasini B, Asioli S, Baynam G, Choong CS, Charles A, Frieder RP, Dishop MK, Graf N, Ekim M, Bouron-Dal Soglio D, Arseneau J, Young RH, Sabbaghian N, Srivastava A, Tischkowitz MD, Priest JR. Extending the phenotypes associated with DICER1 mutations. Hum Mutat 2011; 32:1381-4. [PMID: 21882293 DOI: 10.1002/humu.21600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 151] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2011] [Accepted: 08/24/2011] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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DICER1 is crucial for embryogenesis and early development. Forty different heterozygous germline DICER1 mutations have been reported worldwide in 42 probands that developed as children or young adults, pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB), cystic nephroma (CN), ovarian sex cord-stromal tumors (especially Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor [SLCT]), and/or multinodular goiter (MNG). We report DICER1 mutations in seven additional families that manifested uterine cervix embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma (cERMS, four cases) and primitive neuroectodermal tumor (cPNET, one case), Wilms tumor (WT, three cases), pulmonary sequestration (PS, one case), and juvenile intestinal polyp (one case). One carrier developed (age 25 years) a pleomorphic sarcoma of the thigh; another carrier had transposition of great arteries (TGA). These observations show that cERMS, cPNET, WT, PS, and juvenile polyps fall within the spectrum of DICER1-related diseases. DICER1 appears to be the first gene implicated in the etiology of cERMS, cPNET, and PS. Young adulthood sarcomas and perhaps congenital malformations such as TGA may also be associated.
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- William D Foulkes
- Program in Cancer Genetics, Department of Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Stadler ZK, Salo-Mullen E, Sabbaghian N, Simon JA, Zhang L, Olson SH, Kurtz R, Offit K, Foulkes WD, Robson ME, Tischkowitz M. Germline PALB2 mutation analysis in breast-pancreas cancer families. J Med Genet 2011; 48:523-5. [PMID: 21415078 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.2010.087379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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BACKGROUND Germline mutations in the PALB2 gene have been implicated in both breast cancer and pancreatic cancer susceptibility. The extent to which PALB2 mutations account for cancer susceptibility in breast-pancreas cancer families is unknown. METHODS High Resolution Melting analysis and Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification were performed to investigate the prevalence of PALB2 mutations in patients with either a personal history of both breast and pancreatic cancer or a personal history of breast cancer and a family history of a first degree relative with pancreatic cancer. RESULTS No PALB2 mutations were identified in 77 breast-pancreas cancer families, which included 22 probands with a personal history of both breast and pancreatic cancer. CONCLUSION Mutations within the PALB2 gene are rare events that do not account for a substantial proportion of cancer susceptibility in breast-pancreas cancer families. Routine screening of breast-pancreas cancer families for the presence of PALB2 mutations appears to be low yield.
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- Zsofia K Stadler
- Clinical Genetics and Gastroenterology Services, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA.
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Frio TR, Bahubeshi A, Kanellopoulou C, Hamel N, Niedziela M, Sabbaghian N, Pouchet C, Gilbert L, O’Brien PK, Serfas K, Broderick P, Houlston RS, Lesueur F, Bonora E, Muljo S, Schimke RN, Soglio DBD, Arseneau J, Schultz KA, Priest JR, Nguyen VH, Harach HR, Livingston DM, Foulkes WD, Tischkowitz M. DICER1 mutations in familial multinodular goiter with and without ovarian Sertoli-Leydig cell tumors. JAMA 2011; 305:68-77. [PMID: 21205968 PMCID: PMC3406486 DOI: 10.1001/jama.2010.1910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 217] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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CONTEXT Nontoxic multinodular goiter (MNG) is frequently observed in the general population, but little is known about the underlying genetic susceptibility to this disease. Familial cases of MNG have been reported, and published reports describe 5 families that also contain at least 1 individual with a Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor of the ovary (SLCT). Germline mutations in DICER1, a gene that codes for an RNase III endoribonuclease, have been identified in families affected by pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB), some of whom include cases of MNG and gonadal tumors such as SLCTs. OBJECTIVE To determine whether familial MNG with or without SLCT in the absence of PPB was associated with mutations in DICER1. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS From September 2009 to September 2010, we screened 53 individuals from 2 MNG and 3 MNG/SLCT families at McGill University for mutations in DICER1. We investigated blood lymphocytes and MNG and SLCT tissue from family members for loss of the wild-type DICER1 allele (loss of heterozygosity), DICER1 expression, and microRNA (miRNA) dysregulation. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Detection of germline DICER1 gene mutations in familial MNG with and without SLCT. RESULTS We identified and characterized germline DICER1 mutations in 37 individuals from 5 families. Two mutations were predicted to be protein truncating, 2 resulted in in-frame deletions, and 1 was a missense mutation. Molecular analysis of the 3 SLCTs showed no loss of heterozygosity of DICER1, and immunohistochemical analysis in 2 samples showed strong expression of DICER1 in Sertoli cells but weak staining of Leydig cells. miRNA profiling of RNA from lymphoblastoid cell lines from both affected and unaffected members of the familial MNG cases revealed miRNA perturbations in DICER1 mutation carriers. CONCLUSIONS DICER1 mutations are associated with both familial MNG and MNG with SLCT, independent of PPB. These germline DICER1 mutations are associated with dysregulation of miRNA expression patterns.
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- Thomas Rio Frio
- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada H2W 1S6
- Department of Medical Genetics and Research Institute, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada H2W 1S6
- Segal Cancer Centre, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3T 1E2
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- Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada H2W 1S6
- Department of Medical Genetics and Research Institute, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada H2W 1S6
- Segal Cancer Centre, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3T 1E2
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada H2W 1S6
- Segal Cancer Centre, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3T 1E2
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Pathology, Etobicoke General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario M9V 5B5
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- Hereditary Breast Health Clinic, Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg, 820 Sherbrook Street, Winnipeg, MB R3A 1R9
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- Section of Cancer Genetics, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, UK
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- Section of Cancer Genetics, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, UK
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- Genetic Cancer Susceptibility Group, International Agency for Research in Cancer, Lyon, France
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- U.O.Genetica Medica-Pad.11, Dipartimento di Scienze Ginecologiche, Ostetriche, Pediatriche, Policlinico S. Orsola-Malpighi, via Massarenti 9, 40138 Bologna, Italy
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- Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Genetics, Internal Medicine Department, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Department of Pathology, CHU Sainte-Justine, 3175 Chemin de la Côte-Ste-Catherine, Montréal, Québec H3T 1C5, Canada
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- Department of Pathology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Children’s Hospital and Clinics of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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- The International Pleuropulmonary Blastoma Registry, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Pathology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Sector Patología, Hospital “Dr. A. Oñativia”, Salta (CP 4400) Argentina
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada H2W 1S6
- Department of Medical Genetics and Research Institute, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Segal Cancer Centre, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3T 1E2
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada H2W 1S6
- Segal Cancer Centre, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3T 1E2
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Southey MC, Teo ZL, Dowty JG, Odefrey FA, Park DJ, Tischkowitz M, Sabbaghian N, Apicella C, Byrnes GB, Winship I, Baglietto L, Giles GG, Goldgar DE, Foulkes WD, Hopper JL. A PALB2 mutation associated with high risk of breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res 2010; 12:R109. [PMID: 21182766 PMCID: PMC3046454 DOI: 10.1186/bcr2796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2010] [Revised: 10/15/2010] [Accepted: 12/23/2010] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Introduction As a group, women who carry germline mutations in partner and localizer of breast cancer 2 susceptibility protein (PALB2) are at increased risk of breast cancer. Little is known about by how much or whether risk differs by mutation or family history, owing to the paucity of studies of cases unselected for family history. Methods We screened 1,403 case probands for PALB2 mutations in a population-based study of Australian women with invasive breast cancer stratified by age at onset. The age-specific risk of breast cancer was estimated from the cancer histories of first- and second-degree relatives of mutation-carrying probands using a modified segregation analysis that included a polygenic modifier and was conditioned on the carrier case proband. Further screening for PALB2 c.3113G > A (W1038X) was conducted for 779 families with multiple cases of breast cancer ascertained through family cancer clinics in Australia and New Zealand and 764 population-based controls. Results We found five independent case probands in the population-based sample with the protein-truncating mutation PALB2 c.3113G > A (W1038X); 2 of 695 were diagnosed before age 40 years and 3 of 708 were diagnosed when between ages 40 and 59 years. Both of the two early-onset carrier case probands had very strong family histories of breast cancer. Further testing found that the mutation segregated with breast cancer in these families. No c.3113G > A (W1038X) carriers were found in 764 population-based unaffected controls. The hazard ratio was estimated to be 30.1 (95% confidence interval (CI), 7.5 to 120; P < 0.0001), and the corresponding cumulative risk estimates were 49% (95% CI, 15 to 93) to age 50 and 91% (95% CI, 44 to 100) to age 70. We found another eight families carrying this mutation in 779 families with multiple cases of breast cancer ascertained through family cancer clinics. Conclusions The PALB2 c.3113G > A mutation appears to be associated with substantial risks of breast cancer that are of clinical relevance.
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- Melissa C Southey
- Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia.
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Sabbaghian N, Kyle R, Hao A, Hogg D, Tischkowitz M. Mutation analysis of the PALB2 cancer predisposition gene in familial melanoma. Fam Cancer 2010; 10:315-7. [DOI: 10.1007/s10689-010-9405-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Peixoto A, Santos C, Pinheiro M, Pinto P, Soares MJ, Rocha P, Gusmão L, Amorim A, van der Hout A, Gerdes AM, Thomassen M, Kruse TA, Cruger D, Sunde L, Bignon YJ, Uhrhammer N, Cornil L, Rouleau E, Lidereau R, Yannoukakos D, Pertesi M, Narod S, Royer R, Costa MM, Lazaro C, Feliubadaló L, Graña B, Blanco I, de la Hoya M, Caldés T, Maillet P, Benais-Pont G, Pardo B, Laitman Y, Friedman E, Velasco EA, Durán M, Miramar MD, Valle AR, Calvo MT, Vega A, Blanco A, Diez O, Gutiérrez-Enríquez S, Balmaña J, Ramon y Cajal T, Alonso C, Baiget M, Foulkes W, Tischkowitz M, Kyle R, Sabbaghian N, Ashton-Prolla P, Ewald IP, Rajkumar T, Mota-Vieira L, Giannini G, Gulino A, Achatz MI, Carraro DM, de Paillerets BB, Remenieras A, Benson C, Casadei S, King MC, Teugels E, Teixeira MR. International distribution and age estimation of the Portuguese BRCA2 c.156_157insAlu founder mutation. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2010; 127:671-9. [PMID: 20652400 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-010-1036-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2010] [Accepted: 07/01/2010] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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The c.156_157insAlu BRCA2 mutation has so far only been reported in hereditary breast/ovarian cancer (HBOC) families of Portuguese origin. Since this mutation is not detectable using the commonly used screening methodologies and must be specifically sought, we screened for this rearrangement in a total of 5,443 suspected HBOC families from several countries. Whereas the c.156_157insAlu BRCA2 mutation was detected in 11 of 149 suspected HBOC families from Portugal, representing 37.9% of all deleterious mutations, in other countries it was detected only in one proband living in France and in four individuals requesting predictive testing living in France and in the USA, all being Portuguese immigrants. After performing an extensive haplotype study in carrier families, we estimate that this founder mutation occurred 558 ± 215 years ago. We further demonstrate significant quantitative differences regarding the production of the BRCA2 full length RNA and the transcript lacking exon 3 in c.156_157insAlu BRCA2 mutation carriers and in controls. The cumulative incidence of breast cancer in carriers did not differ from that of other BRCA2 and BRCA1 pathogenic mutations. We recommend that all suspected HBOC families from Portugal or with Portuguese ancestry are specifically tested for this rearrangement.
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- Ana Peixoto
- Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute, Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, Porto 4200-072, Portugal
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Tischkowitz MD, Sabbaghian N, Hamel N, Borgida A, Rosner C, Taherian N, Srivastava A, Holter S, Rothenmund H, Ghadirian P, Foulkes WD, Gallinger S. Analysis of the gene coding for the BRCA2-interacting protein PALB2 in familial and sporadic pancreatic cancer. Gastroenterology 2009; 137:1183-6. [PMID: 19635604 PMCID: PMC3914669 DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2009.06.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2009] [Accepted: 06/16/2009] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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- Marc D. Tischkowitz
- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, and Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, and Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, and The Research Institute, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Dr Zane Cohen Digestive Diseases Clinical, Research Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, and Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, and Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, and The Research Institute, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Program in Cancer Genetics Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, and Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Dr Zane Cohen Digestive Diseases Clinical, Research Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Dr Zane Cohen Digestive Diseases Clinical, Research Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Epidemiology Research Unit, Research Centre, Centre Hospitalier Université de Montréal, (CRCHUM), Hôtel-Dieu, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, and Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, and The Research Institute, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Dr Zane Cohen Digestive Diseases Clinical, Research Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital, and Department of Surgery, University Health Network, University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Novak DJ, Sabbaghian N, Maillet P, Chappuis PO, Foulkes WD, Tischkowitz M. Analysis of the genes coding for the BRCA1-interacting proteins, RAP80 and Abraxas (CCDC98), in high-risk, non-BRCA1/2, multiethnic breast cancer cases. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2008; 117:453-9. [PMID: 18695986 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-008-0134-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2008] [Accepted: 07/11/2008] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Background Around half of familial breast cancer cases are caused by germ-line mutations in genes which are critically involved in the maintenance of genome stability. Mutations in related genes functioning in DNA repair may account for currently unattributed cases. Two such genes, RAP80 and Abraxas, have recently been identified to be in a complex with BRCA1, and are required for the localization of BRCA1 to DNA damage foci. Methods RAP80 and Abraxas variants were screened for in a cohort of 95 high risk, non-BRCA1/2 breast cancer cases of varying ethnicity: those of Ashkenazi Jewish (n = 35), mixed Canadian (n = 34) and Swiss descent (n = 26). Results We have identified four missense variants, four silent SNPs, three SNPs in the UTRs and seven intronic variants in RAP80. Two of the previously reported RAP80 variants were further investigated. In Abraxas, we have identified two missense, nine intronic and two variants in the 3' UTR. Conclusions Overall, it seems unlikely that moderate to highly penetrant alleles of either RAP80 or Abraxas, confer a significantly high relative risk of breast cancer.
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- David J Novak
- Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, Program in Cancer Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada H2W 1S6
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BACKGROUND The genetic basis of susceptibility to prostate cancer (PRCA) remains elusive. Mutations in BRCA2 have been associated with increased prostate cancer risk and account for around 2% of young onset (<56 years) prostate cancer cases. PALB2 is a recently identified breast cancer susceptibility gene whose protein is closely associated with BRCA2 and is essential for BRCA2 anchorage to nuclear structures. This functional relationship made PALB2 a candidate PRCA susceptibility gene. METHODS We sequenced PALB2 in probands from 95 PRCA families, 77 of which had two or more cases of early onset PRCA (age at diagnosis <55 years), and the remaining 18 had one case of early onset PRCA and five or more total cases of PRCA. RESULTS Two previously unreported variants, K18R and V925L were identified, neither of which is in a known PALB2 functional domain and both of which are unlikely to be pathogenic. No truncating mutations were identified. CONCLUSIONS These results indicate that deleterious PALB2 mutations are unlikely to play a significant role in hereditary prostate cancer.
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- Marc Tischkowitz
- Programin Cancer Genetics, Departmentsof Oncology, Human Geneticsand Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Segal Cancer Centre, Sir M.B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, Côte St-Catherine, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Programin Cancer Genetics, Departmentsof Oncology, Human Geneticsand Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Segal Cancer Centre, Sir M.B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, Côte St-Catherine, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Departments of Internal Medicine and Urology, Universityof Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Departmentsof Geneticsand Biostatistics, Universityof North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Programin Cancer Genetics, Departmentsof Oncology, Human Geneticsand Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Segal Cancer Centre, Sir M.B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, Côte St-Catherine, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Research Institute, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Correspondence to: Dr. William D. Foulkes, Cancer Prevention Centre, Segal Cancer Centre Sir M.B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, 3755 Côte St Catherine, Montréal, Quebec, Canada H3T 1E2. E-mail:
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- Departments of Internal Medicine and Urology, Universityof Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Foulkes WD, Ghadirian P, Akbari MR, Hamel N, Giroux S, Sabbaghian N, Darnel A, Royer R, Poll A, Fafard E, Robidoux A, Martin G, Bismar TA, Tischkowitz M, Rousseau F, Narod SA. Identification of a novel truncating PALB2 mutation and analysis of its contribution to early-onset breast cancer in French-Canadian women. Breast Cancer Res 2008; 9:R83. [PMID: 18053174 PMCID: PMC2246183 DOI: 10.1186/bcr1828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2007] [Revised: 10/23/2007] [Accepted: 12/03/2007] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background PALB2 has recently been identified as a breast cancer susceptibility gene. PALB2 mutations are rare causes of hereditary breast cancer but may be important in countries such as Finland where a founder mutation is present. We sought to estimate the contribution of PALB2 mutations to the burden of breast cancer in French Canadians from Quebec. Methods We screened all coding exons of PALB2 in a sample of 50 French-Canadian women diagnosed with either early-onset breast cancer or familial breast cancer at a single Montreal hospital. The genetic variants identified in this sample were then studied in 356 additional women with breast cancer diagnosed before age 50 and in 6,448 newborn controls. Results We identified a single protein-truncating mutation in PALB2 (c.2323 C>T, resulting in Q775X) in 1 of the 50 high-risk women. This variant was present in 2 of 356 breast cancer cases and in none of 6,440 newborn French-Canadian controls (P = 0.003). We also identified two novel new non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms in exon 4 of PALB2 (c.5038 A>G [I76V] and c.5156 G>T [G115V]). G115V was found in 1 of 356 cases and in 15 of 6,442 controls (P = 0.6). The I76V variant was not identified in either the extended case series or the controls. Conclusion We have identified a novel truncating mutation in PALB2. The mutation was found in approximately 0.5% of unselected French-Canadian women with early-onset breast cancer and appears to have a single origin. Although mutations are infrequent, PALB2 can be added to the list of breast cancer susceptibility genes for which founder mutations have been identified in the French-Canadian population.
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- William D Foulkes
- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, 546 Pine Ave West, Montréal, QC, Canada H2W 1S6.
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Tischkowitz M, Xia B, Sabbaghian N, Reis-Filho JS, Hamel N, Li G, van Beers EH, Li L, Khalil T, Quenneville LA, Omeroglu A, Poll A, Lepage P, Wong N, Nederlof PM, Ashworth A, Tonin PN, Narod SA, Livingston DM, Foulkes WD. Analysis of PALB2/FANCN-associated breast cancer families. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:6788-93. [PMID: 17420451 PMCID: PMC1871863 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0701724104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 170] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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No more than approximately 30% of hereditary breast cancer has been accounted for by mutations in known genes. Most of these genes, such as BRCA1, BRCA2, TP53, CHEK2, ATM, and FANCJ/BRIP1, function in DNA repair, raising the possibility that germ line mutations in other genes that contribute to this process also predispose to breast cancer. Given its close relationship with BRCA2, PALB2 was sequenced in affected probands from 68 BRCA1/BRCA2-negative breast cancer families of Ashkenazi Jewish, French Canadian, or mixed ethnic descent. The average BRCAPRO score was 0.58. A truncating mutation (229delT) was identified in one family with a strong history of breast cancer (seven breast cancers in three female mutation carriers). This mutation and its associated breast cancers were characterized with another recently reported but unstudied mutation (2521delA) that is also associated with a strong family history of breast cancer. There was no loss of heterozygosity in tumors with either mutation. Moreover, comparative genomic hybridization analysis showed major similarities to that of BRCA2 tumors but with some notable differences, especially loss of 18q, a change that was previously unknown in BRCA2 tumors and less common in sporadic breast cancer. This study supports recent observations that PALB2 mutations are present, albeit not frequently, in breast cancer families. The apparently high penetrance noted in this study suggests that at least some PALB2 mutations are associated with a substantially increased risk for the disease.
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- Marc Tischkowitz
- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics and
- Departments of Medicine and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada H2W 1S6
- Segal Cancer Centre and
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- Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics and
- Segal Cancer Centre and
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- The Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre, Institute of Cancer Research, Fulham Road, London SW3 6JB, United Kingdom
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics and
- The Research Institute, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada H3G 1A4
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- Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics and
- Segal Cancer Centre and
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics and
- Departments of Medicine and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada H2W 1S6
- Segal Cancer Centre and
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- Department of Pathology, McGill University Sir M. B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, 3755 Côte St-Catherine, Montréal, QC, Canada H3T 1E2
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- Department of Pathology, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada, H3A 2B4
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- Women's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1N9; and
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- McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada H3A 1A4
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics and
- Departments of Medicine and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada H2W 1S6
- Segal Cancer Centre and
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- Department of Pathology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- The Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre, Institute of Cancer Research, Fulham Road, London SW3 6JB, United Kingdom
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics and
- Departments of Medicine and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada H2W 1S6
- The Research Institute, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada H3G 1A4
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- Women's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1N9; and
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- Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115
- To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail:
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics and
- Departments of Medicine and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada H2W 1S6
- Segal Cancer Centre and
- The Research Institute, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada H3G 1A4
- To whom correspondence may be addressed at:
Cancer Prevention Centre, Segal Cancer Centre, Sir M. B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, 3755 Côte St-Catherine, Montréal, QC, Canada H3T 1E2. E-mail:
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Morin I, Devlin AM, Leclerc D, Sabbaghian N, Halsted CH, Finnell R, Rozen R. Evaluation of genetic variants in the reduced folate carrier and in glutamate carboxypeptidase II for spina bifida risk. Mol Genet Metab 2003; 79:197-200. [PMID: 12855225 DOI: 10.1016/s1096-7192(03)00086-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Genetic variants in folate metabolism have been reported to increase risk for neural tube defects (NTD). The first such sequence change was the 677C-->T substitution in methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR), but additional sequence changes have been identified in enzymes or transporters for folates. Two recently identified variants are the 1561C-->T (H475Y) mutation in glutamate carboxypeptidase II (GCPII) and the 80A-->G (H27R) change in the reduced folate carrier RFC-1. We examined a group of mothers of spina bifida offspring, and a group of control women, for the above polymorphisms to assess their impact on NTD risk as well as on homocysteine and nutrient (RBC folate, serum folate, and serum cobalamin) levels. The GCPII variant (in the heterozygous state) did not influence NTD risk or metabolite levels; homozygous mutant (YY) women were not observed in our study group. The homozygous mutant (RR) genotype for the RFC-1 gene was not associated with a significant difference in NTD risk (OR=1.39, 95% CI=0.55-3.54), but there was a borderline significant (p=0.065) decrease in RBC folate levels, compared with the HH genotype. However, the combination of the RR genotype for RFC-1 and low RBC folate was associated with a significant 4.6-fold increase in NTD risk (OR=4.6, 95% CI=1.47-14.37). Since this small study is the first to demonstrate increased risk for women with the RFC-1 variant for having a child with a NTD, additional larger studies are required to confirm this change as another potential genetic modifier for spina bifida risk.
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- Isabelle Morin
- Departments of Pediatrics and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal Children's Hospital Research Institute, 4060 Ste Catherine West, Room 200, Montreal, Canada H3Z 2Z3
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Morin I, Platt R, Weisberg I, Sabbaghian N, Wu Q, Garrow TA, Rozen R. Common variant in betaine-homocysteine methyltransferase (BHMT) and risk for spina bifida. Am J Med Genet A 2003; 119A:172-6. [PMID: 12749058 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.20115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Neural tube defects (NTD) are common malformations resulting from incomplete closure of the neural tube in the first month after conception. Since genetic deficiencies in folate-dependent homocysteine metabolism have been identified in NTD families, we investigated a common variant in betaine-homocysteine methyltransferase (BHMT), 742G-->A (R239Q), as a genetic modifier of NTD risk. Genotypes, nutrient levels, and plasma total homocysteine (tHcy) were assessed in 54 patients with spina bifida, 57 mothers of patients, 93 control children, and 86 mothers of controls. The QQ genotype (present in 17% and 7% of the control and case mothers, respectively, and in 12% and 6% of the control and case children, respectively) was associated with a decreased risk of NTD (odds ratios of 0.52 (95% CI 0.13-2.05) for children and 0.37 (95% CI 0.11-1.22) for mothers). The small sample size limited the statistical power of the analyses, but these decreases, although not statistically significant, are compatible with a protective effect. We did not observe statistically-significant genotype-dependent differences in plasma homocysteine, although women with the QQ genotype did have lower homocysteine; in children, the mean homocysteine level was higher in the QQ group. This inconsistency could be explained by the fact that age is a strong determinant of homocysteine in children and the QQ group was on average older than the other genotype groups. Our study suggests that the Q allele of the R239Q mutation may decrease risk of the condition. This warrants further investigation of its relationship with the development of NTD.
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- Isabelle Morin
- Department of Pediatrics, McGill University-Montreal Children's Hospital Research Institute, Montreal, Canada
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Cohen V, Panet-Raymond V, Sabbaghian N, Morin I, Batist G, Rozen R. Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase polymorphism in advanced colorectal cancer: a novel genomic predictor of clinical response to fluoropyrimidine-based chemotherapy. Clin Cancer Res 2003; 9:1611-5. [PMID: 12738713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/02/2023]
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PURPOSE Fluorouracil (5-FU) is widely used in the treatment of colorectal cancer. Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) could play an important role in the action of 5-FU, an inhibitor of thymidylate synthetase, by converting 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate, a substrate of thymidylate synthetase, to 5-methyltetrahydrofolate. A polymorphism in MTHFR (677 C-->T; A222V) reduces enzyme activity and presumably increases the level of 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate. This increase would be expected to correlate with an improved response to 5-FU. The aim of the present study was to investigate the association between the MTHFR polymorphism and response to 5-FU and other fluoropyrimidines in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Forty-three patients with metastatic colorectal adenocarcinoma were analyzed. All patients were treated with p.o. or i.v. fluoropyrimidine-based chemotherapy. A comprehensive chart examination was performed to determine tumor response rates. Genomic DNA was extracted from blood, and MTHFR genotypes were determined. RESULTS At least one copy of the mutant valine allele was present in 26 patients (21 heterozygotes and 5 homozygotes). The remaining 17 patients carried only the alanine allele. Exploration of the relationship between MTHFR alleles and response rates revealed a statistically significant difference in the frequency of the valine allele among responders versus nonresponders (P = 0.0351). This observation was associated with an odds ratio of 2.86 (95% confidence interval 1.06-7.73) for a response in individuals with a valine allele. CONCLUSIONS Our results show a link between the MTHFR polymorphism and tumor response to fluoropyrimidine-based chemotherapy and suggest that MTHFR genotyping may be of predictive benefit in selecting treatment regimens.
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- Victor Cohen
- Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Sekhon J, Pereira P, Sabbaghian N, Schievella AR, Rozen R. Antisense inhibition of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase reduces survival of methionine-dependent tumour lines. Br J Cancer 2002; 87:225-30. [PMID: 12107847 PMCID: PMC2376111 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6600459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2001] [Revised: 01/30/2002] [Accepted: 03/21/2002] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Transformed cells have been documented to be methionine-dependent, suggesting that inhibition of methionine synthesis might be useful for cancer therapy. Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase synthesises 5-methyltetrahydrofolate, the methyl donor utilised in methionine synthesis from homocysteine by vitamin B(12)-dependent methionine synthase. We hypothesised that methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase inhibition would affect cell viability through decreased methionine synthesis. Using medium lacking methionine, but containing homocysteine and vitamin B(12) (M-H+), we found that nontransformed human fibroblasts could maintain growth. In contrast, four transformed cell lines (one colon carcinoma, two neuroblastoma and one breast carcinoma) increased proliferation only slightly in the M-H+ medium. To downregulate methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase expression, two phosphorothioate antisense oligonucleotides, EX5 and 677T, were used to target methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase in the colon carcinoma line SW620; 400 nM of each antisense oligonucleotide decreased cell survival by approximately 80% (P<0.01) and 70% (P<0.0001), respectively, compared to cell survival after the respective control mismatched oligonucleotide. Western blotting and enzyme assays confirmed that methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase expression was decreased. Two neuroblastoma and two breast carcinoma lines also demonstrated decreased survival following EX5 treatment whereas nontransformed human fibroblasts were not affected. This study suggests that methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase may be required for tumour cell survival and that methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase inhibition should be considered for anti-tumour therapy.
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- J Sekhon
- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University Health Centre - Montreal Children's Hospital, 4060 Ste. Catherine West, Room 200, Montreal, Quebec H3Z 2Z3, Canada
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