In:
Cancer Discovery, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Vol. 2, No. 1 ( 2012-01-01), p. 41-46
Abstract:
Pancreatic cancers are the fourth most-common cause of cancer-related deaths in the Western world, with & gt;200,000 cases reported in 2010. Although up to 10% of these cases occur in familial patterns, the hereditary basis for predisposition in the vast majority of affected families is unknown. We used next-generation sequencing, including whole-genome and whole-exome analyses, and identified heterozygous, constitutional, ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) gene mutations in 2 kindreds with familial pancreatic cancer. Mutations segregated with disease in both kindreds and tumor analysis demonstrated LOH of the wild-type allele. By using sequence analysis of an additional 166 familial pancreatic cancer probands, we identified 4 additional patients with deleterious mutations in the ATM gene, whereas we identified no deleterious mutations in 190 spouse controls (P = 0.046). When we considered only the mostly severely affected families with 3 or more pancreatic cancer cases, 4 deleterious mutations were found in 87 families (P = 0.009). Our results indicate that inherited ATM mutations play an important role in familial pancreatic cancer predisposition. Significance: The genes responsible for the majority of cases of familial pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma are unknown. We here identify ATM as a predisposition gene for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Our results have important implications for the management of patients in affected families and illustrate the power of genome-wide sequencing to identify the basis of familial cancer syndromes. Cancer Discovery; 2(1): 41–6. ©2011 AACR. Read the Commentary on this article by Bakker and de Winter, p. 14 This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 1
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
2159-8274
,
2159-8290
DOI:
10.1158/2159-8290.CD-11-0194
Language:
English
Publisher:
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Publication Date:
2012
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2607892-2
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