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Åke Borg

Åke Borg

Principal investigator

Åke Borg

A search for modifying genetic factors in CHEK2:c.1100delC breast cancer patients

Author

  • Camilla Wendt
  • Taru A Muranen
  • Lotta Mielikäinen
  • Jessada Thutkawkorapin
  • Carl Blomqvist
  • Xiang Jiao
  • Hans Ehrencrona
  • Emma Tham
  • Brita Arver
  • Beatrice Melin
  • Ekaterina Kuchinskaya
  • Marie Stenmark Askmalm
  • Ylva Paulsson-Karlsson
  • Zakaria Einbeigi
  • Anna von Wachenfeldt Väppling
  • Eija Kalso
  • Tiina Tasmuth
  • Anne Kallioniemi
  • Kristiina Aittomäki
  • Heli Nevanlinna
  • Åke Borg
  • Annika Lindblom
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Summary, in English

The risk of breast cancer associated with CHEK2:c.1100delC is 2-threefold but higher in carriers with a family history of breast cancer than without, suggesting that other genetic loci in combination with CHEK2:c.1100delC confer an increased risk in a polygenic model. Part of the excess familial risk has been associated with common low-penetrance variants. This study aimed to identify genetic loci that modify CHEK2:c.1100delC-associated breast cancer risk by searching for candidate risk alleles that are overrepresented in CHEK2:c.1100delC carriers with breast cancer compared with controls. We performed whole-exome sequencing in 28 breast cancer cases with germline CHEK2:c.1100delC, 28 familial breast cancer cases and 70 controls. Candidate alleles were selected for validation in larger cohorts. One recessive synonymous variant, rs16897117, was suggested, but no overrepresentation of homozygous CHEK2:c.1100delC carriers was found in the following validation. Furthermore, 11 non-synonymous candidate alleles were suggested for further testing, but no significant difference in allele frequency could be detected in the validation in CHEK2:c.1100delC cases compared with familial breast cancer, sporadic breast cancer and controls. With this method, we found no support for a CHEK2:c.1100delC-specific genetic modifier. Further studies of CHEK2:c.1100delC genetic modifiers are warranted to improve risk assessment in clinical practice.

Department/s

  • LUCC: Lund University Cancer Centre
  • Familial Breast Cancer

Publishing year

2021-07-20

Language

English

Pages

1-9

Publication/Series

Scientific Reports

Volume

11

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Nature Publishing Group

Topic

  • Cancer and Oncology

Keywords

  • Breast Neoplasms/genetics
  • Case-Control Studies
  • Checkpoint Kinase 2/genetics
  • Female
  • Genetic Predisposition to Disease
  • Germ-Line Mutation
  • Humans
  • Multifactorial Inheritance
  • Sequence Deletion
  • Exome Sequencing/methods

Status

Published

Research group

  • Familial Breast Cancer

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2045-2322