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ABSTRACT: Introduction
Genetic factors predisposing individuals to cancer remain elusive in the majority of patients with a familial or clinical history suggestive of hereditary breast cancer. Germline DNA copy number variation (CNV) has recently been implicated in predisposition to cancers such as neuroblastomas as well as prostate and colorectal cancer. We evaluated the role of germline CNVs in breast cancer susceptibility, in particular those with low population frequencies (rare CNVs), which are more likely to cause disease."Methods
Using whole-genome comparative genomic hybridization on microarrays, we screened a cohort of women fulfilling criteria for hereditary breast cancer who did not carry BRCA1/BRCA2 mutations.Results
The median numbers of total and rare CNVs per genome were not different between controls and patients. A total of 26 rare germline CNVs were identified in 68 cancer patients, however, a proportion that was significantly different (P = 0.0311) from the control group (23 rare CNVs in 100 individuals). Several of the genes affected by CNV in patients and controls had already been implicated in cancer.Conclusions
This study is the first to explore the contribution of germline CNVs to BRCA1/2-negative familial and early-onset breast cancer. The data suggest that rare CNVs may contribute to cancer predisposition in this small cohort of patients, and this trend needs to be confirmed in larger population samples.
SUBMITTER: Krepischi AC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3496142 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Krepischi Ana Cv AC Achatz Maria Isabel W MI Santos Erika Mm EM Costa Silvia S SS Lisboa Bianca Cg BC Brentani Helena H Santos Tiago M TM Gonçalves Amanda A Nóbrega Amanda F AF Pearson Peter L PL Vianna-Morgante Angela M AM Carraro Dirce M DM Brentani Ricardo R RR Rosenberg Carla C
Breast cancer research : BCR 20120207 1
<h4>Introduction</h4>Genetic factors predisposing individuals to cancer remain elusive in the majority of patients with a familial or clinical history suggestive of hereditary breast cancer. Germline DNA copy number variation (CNV) has recently been implicated in predisposition to cancers such as neuroblastomas as well as prostate and colorectal cancer. We evaluated the role of germline CNVs in breast cancer susceptibility, in particular those with low population frequencies (rare CNVs), which a ...[more]