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13.12.2017 | Preclinical study

Assessment of the functional impact of germline BRCA1/2 variants located in non-coding regions in families with breast and/or ovarian cancer predisposition

verfasst von: E. Santana dos Santos, S. M. Caputo, L. Castera, M. Gendrot, A. Briaux, M. Breault, S. Krieger, P. K. Rogan, E. J. Mucaki, L. J. Burke, I. Bièche, C. Houdayer, D. Vaur, D. Stoppa-Lyonnet, M. A. Brown, F. Lallemand, E. Rouleau, ENIGMA consortium

Erschienen in: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment | Ausgabe 2/2018

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Abstract

Purpose

The molecular mechanism of breast and/or ovarian cancer susceptibility remains unclear in the majority of patients. While germline mutations in the regulatory non-coding regions of BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes have been described, screening has generally been limited to coding regions. The aim of this study was to evaluate the contribution of BRCA1/2 non-coding variants.

Methods

Four BRCA1/2 non-coding regions were screened using high-resolution melting analysis/Sanger sequencing or next-generation sequencing on DNA extracted from index cases with breast and ovarian cancer predisposition (3926 for BRCA1 and 3910 for BRCA2). The impact of a set of variants on BRCA1/2 gene regulation was evaluated by site-directed mutagenesis, transfection, followed by Luciferase gene reporter assay.

Results

We identified a total of 117 variants and tested twelve BRCA1 and 8 BRCA2 variants mapping to promoter and intronic regions. We highlighted two neighboring BRCA1 promoter variants (c.-130del; c.-125C > T) and one BRCA2 promoter variants (c.-296C > T) inhibiting significantly the promoter activity. In the functional assays, a regulating region within the intron 12 was found with the same enhancing impact as within the intron 2. Furthermore, the variants c.81-3980A > G and c.4186-2022C > T suppress the positive effect of the introns 2 and 12, respectively, on the BRCA1 promoter activity. We also found some variants inducing the promoter activities.

Conclusion

In this study, we highlighted some variants among many, modulating negatively the promoter activity of BRCA1 or 2 and thus having a potential impact on the risk of developing cancer. This selection makes it possible to conduct future validation studies on a limited number of variants.

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Titel: Assessment of the functional impact of germline BRCA1/2 variants located in non-coding regions in families with breast and/or ovarian cancer predisposition
verfasst von: E. Santana dos Santos
S. M. Caputo
L. Castera
M. Gendrot
A. Briaux
M. Breault
S. Krieger
P. K. Rogan
E. J. Mucaki
L. J. Burke
I. Bièche
C. Houdayer
D. Vaur
D. Stoppa-Lyonnet
M. A. Brown
F. Lallemand
E. Rouleau
ENIGMA consortium
Publikationsdatum: 13.12.2017
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment / Ausgabe 2/2018
Print ISSN: 0167-6806
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-7217
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-017-4602-0

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