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Systematic discovery of germline cancer predisposition genes through the identification of somatic second hits.


ABSTRACT: The genetic causes of cancer include both somatic mutations and inherited germline variants. Large-scale tumor sequencing has revolutionized the identification of somatic driver alterations but has had limited impact on the identification of cancer predisposition genes (CPGs). Here we present a statistical method, ALFRED, that tests Knudson's two-hit hypothesis to systematically identify CPGs from cancer genome data. Applied to ~10,000 tumor exomes the approach identifies known and putative CPGs - including the chromatin modifier NSD1 - that contribute to cancer through a combination of rare germline variants and somatic loss-of-heterozygosity (LOH). Rare germline variants in these genes contribute substantially to cancer risk, including to ~14% of ovarian carcinomas, ~7% of breast tumors, ~4% of uterine corpus endometrial carcinomas, and to a median of 2% of tumors across 17 cancer types.

SUBMITTER: Park S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6031629 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Systematic discovery of germline cancer predisposition genes through the identification of somatic second hits.

Park Solip S   Supek Fran F   Lehner Ben B  

Nature communications 20180704 1


The genetic causes of cancer include both somatic mutations and inherited germline variants. Large-scale tumor sequencing has revolutionized the identification of somatic driver alterations but has had limited impact on the identification of cancer predisposition genes (CPGs). Here we present a statistical method, ALFRED, that tests Knudson's two-hit hypothesis to systematically identify CPGs from cancer genome data. Applied to ~10,000 tumor exomes the approach identifies known and putative CPGs  ...[more]

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