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Mutational Signature Analysis Reveals NTHL1 Deficiency to Cause a Multi-tumor Phenotype
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Biallelic germline mutations affecting NTHL1 predispose carriers to adenomatous polyposis and colorectal cancer, but the complete phenotype is unknown. We describe 29 individuals carrying biallelic germline NTHL1 mutations from 17 families, of which 26 developed one (n = 10) or multiple (n = 16) malignancies in 14 different tissues. An unexpected high breast cancer incidence was observed in female carriers (60%). Mutational signature analysis of 14 tumors from 7 organs revealed that NTHL1 deficiency underlies the main mutational process in all but one of the tumors (93%). These results reveal NTHL1 as a multi-tumor predisposition gene with a high lifetime risk for extracolonic cancers and a typical mutational signature observed across tumor types, which can assist in the recognition of this syndrome.
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- Grolleman, J. E., de Voer, R. M., Elsayed, F. A., Nielsen, M., Weren, R. D. A., Palles, C., Ligtenberg, M. J. L., Vos, J. R., ten Broeke, S. W., de Miranda, N. F. C. C., Kuiper, R. A., Kamping, E. J., Jansen, E. A. M., Vink-Börger, M. E., Popp, I., Lang, A., Spier, I., Hüneburg, R., James, P. A., Li, N., Staninova, M., Lindsay, H., Cockburn, D., Spasic-Boskovic, O., Clendenning, M., Sweet, K., Capellá, G., Sjursen, W., Høberg-Vetti, H., Jongmans, M. C., Neveling, K., Geurts van Kessel, A., Morreau, H., Hes, F. J., Sijmons, R. H., Schackert, H. K., Ruiz-Ponte, C., Dymerska, D., Lubinski, J., Rivera, B., Foulkes, W. D., Tomlinson, I. P., Valle, L., Buchanan, D. D., Kenwrick, S., Adlard, J., Dimovski, A. J., Campbell, I. G., Aretz, S., Schindler, D., van Wezel, T., Hoogerbrugge, N., & Kuiper, R. P.
- Venue
- Cancer Cell
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-02
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 256-266.e5
- ISSN
- 1535-6108
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- 174
- References
- 6
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- en
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- Funders
- COST (BM1206, CA17118)
- Dutch Cancer Society (KUN2015-7740)
- Sacha Swarttouw-Hijmans Foundation (KUN2014-6666)
- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
- Fondo de Investigacion Sanitaria
- Schroeder-Kurth Fund
- National Breast Cancer Foundation
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
- FEDER (SAF2016-80888-R, SAF2015-68016-R)
- Deutsche Krebshilfe
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- Grolleman, J. E., de Voer, R. M., Elsayed, F. A., Nielsen, M., Weren, R. D. A., Palles, C., Ligtenberg, M. J. L., Vos, J. R., ten Broeke, S. W., de Miranda, N. F. C. C., Kuiper, R. A., Kamping, E. J., Jansen, E. A. M., Vink-Börger, M. E., Popp, I., Lang, A., Spier, I., Hüneburg, R., James, P. A., . . . Kuiper, R. P. (2019). Mutational Signature Analysis Reveals NTHL1 Deficiency to Cause a Multi-tumor Phenotype. Cancer Cell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccell.2018.12.011