Inheritance of deleterious mutations at both BRCA1 and BRCA2 in an international sample of 32,295 women

EMBRACE; Timothy R Rebbeck; Tara M Friebel; Nandita Mitra; Fei Wan; Stephanie Chen; Irene L Andrulis; Paraskevi Apostolou; Norbert Arnold; Banu K Arun; Daniel Barrowdale; Javier Benitez; Raanan Berger; Pascaline Berthet; Ake Borg; Saundra S Buys; Trinidad Caldes; Jonathan Carter; Jocelyne Chiquette; Kathleen B M Claes; Fergus J Couch; Cezary Cybulski; Mary B Daly; Miguel de la Hoya; Orland Diez; Susan M Domchek; Katherine L Nathanson; Katarzyna Durda; Steve Ellis; D Gareth Evans; Lenka Foretova; Eitan Friedman; Debra Frost; Patricia A Ganz; Judy Garber; Gord Glendon; Andrew K Godwin; Mark H Greene; Jacek Gronwald; Eric Hahnen; Emily Hallberg; Ute Hamann; Thomas V O Hansen; Evgeny N Imyanitov; Claudine Isaacs; Anna Jakubowska; Ramunas Janavicius; Katarzyna Jaworska-Bieniek; Esther M John; Beth Y Karlan; Bella Kaufman

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Inheritance of deleterious mutations at both BRCA1 and BRCA2 in an international sample of 32,295 women

EMBRACE, Timothy R Rebbeck, Tara M Friebel, Nandita Mitra, Fei Wan, Stephanie Chen, Irene L Andrulis, Paraskevi Apostolou, Norbert Arnold, Banu K Arun, Daniel Barrowdale, Javier Benitez, Raanan Berger, Pascaline Berthet, Ake Borg, Saundra S Buys, Trinidad Caldes, Jonathan Carter, Jocelyne Chiquette, Kathleen B M ClaesFergus J Couch, Cezary Cybulski, Mary B Daly, Miguel de la Hoya, Orland Diez, Susan M Domchek, Katherine L Nathanson, Katarzyna Durda, Steve Ellis, D Gareth Evans, Lenka Foretova, Eitan Friedman, Debra Frost, Patricia A Ganz, Judy Garber, Gord Glendon, Andrew K Godwin, Mark H Greene, Jacek Gronwald, Eric Hahnen, Emily Hallberg, Ute Hamann, Thomas V O Hansen, Evgeny N Imyanitov, Claudine Isaacs, Anna Jakubowska, Ramunas Janavicius, Katarzyna Jaworska-Bieniek, Esther M John, Beth Y Karlan, Bella Kaufman

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BACKGROUND: Most BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation carriers have inherited a single (heterozygous) mutation. Transheterozygotes (TH) who have inherited deleterious mutations in both BRCA1 and BRCA2 are rare, and the consequences of transheterozygosity are poorly understood.

METHODS: From 32,295 female BRCA1/2 mutation carriers, we identified 93 TH (0.3 %). "Cases" were defined as TH, and "controls" were single mutations at BRCA1 (SH1) or BRCA2 (SH2). Matched SH1 "controls" carried a BRCA1 mutation found in the TH "case". Matched SH2 "controls" carried a BRCA2 mutation found in the TH "case". After matching the TH carriers with SH1 or SH2, 91 TH were matched to 9316 SH1, and 89 TH were matched to 3370 SH2.

RESULTS: The majority of TH (45.2 %) involved the three common Jewish mutations. TH were more likely than SH1 and SH2 women to have been ever diagnosed with breast cancer (BC; p = 0.002). TH were more likely to be diagnosed with ovarian cancer (OC) than SH2 (p = 0.017), but not SH1. Age at BC diagnosis was the same in TH vs. SH1 (p = 0.231), but was on average 4.5 years younger in TH than in SH2 (p < 0.001). BC in TH was more likely to be estrogen receptor (ER) positive (p = 0.010) or progesterone receptor (PR) positive (p = 0.013) than in SH1, but less likely to be ER positive (p < 0.001) or PR positive (p = 0.012) than SH2. Among 15 tumors from TH patients, there was no clear pattern of loss of heterozygosity (LOH) for BRCA1 or BRCA2 in either BC or OC.

CONCLUSIONS: Our observations suggest that clinical TH phenotypes resemble SH1. However, TH breast tumor marker characteristics are phenotypically intermediate to SH1 and SH2.

Original language	English
Article number	112
Pages (from-to)	112
Journal	Breast Cancer Research
Volume	18
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13058-016-0768-3
State	Published - Oct 11 2016

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Alleles
Breast Neoplasms/genetics
Exons
Female
Genes, BRCA1
Genes, BRCA2
Germ-Line Mutation
Heterozygote
Humans
Loss of Heterozygosity
Phenotype
Population Surveillance
Promoter Regions, Genetic

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EMBRACE, Rebbeck, T. R., Friebel, T. M., Mitra, N., Wan, F., Chen, S., Andrulis, I. L., Apostolou, P., Arnold, N., Arun, B. K., Barrowdale, D., Benitez, J., Berger, R., Berthet, P., Borg, A., Buys, S. S., Caldes, T., Carter, J., Chiquette, J., ... Kaufman, B. (2016). Inheritance of deleterious mutations at both BRCA1 and BRCA2 in an international sample of 32,295 women. Breast Cancer Research, 18(1), 112. Article 112. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13058-016-0768-3

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AU - Wan, Fei

AU - Chen, Stephanie

AU - Andrulis, Irene L

AU - Apostolou, Paraskevi

AU - Arnold, Norbert

AU - Arun, Banu K

AU - Barrowdale, Daniel

AU - Benitez, Javier

AU - Berger, Raanan

AU - Berthet, Pascaline

AU - Borg, Ake

AU - Buys, Saundra S

AU - Caldes, Trinidad

AU - Carter, Jonathan

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AU - Claes, Kathleen B M

AU - Couch, Fergus J

AU - Cybulski, Cezary

AU - Daly, Mary B

AU - de la Hoya, Miguel

AU - Diez, Orland

AU - Domchek, Susan M

AU - Nathanson, Katherine L

AU - Durda, Katarzyna

AU - Ellis, Steve

AU - Evans, D Gareth

AU - Foretova, Lenka

AU - Friedman, Eitan

AU - Frost, Debra

AU - Ganz, Patricia A

AU - Garber, Judy

AU - Glendon, Gord

AU - Godwin, Andrew K

AU - Greene, Mark H

AU - Gronwald, Jacek

AU - Hahnen, Eric

AU - Hallberg, Emily

AU - Hamann, Ute

AU - Hansen, Thomas V O

AU - Imyanitov, Evgeny N

AU - Isaacs, Claudine

AU - Jakubowska, Anna

AU - Janavicius, Ramunas

AU - Jaworska-Bieniek, Katarzyna

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N2 - BACKGROUND: Most BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation carriers have inherited a single (heterozygous) mutation. Transheterozygotes (TH) who have inherited deleterious mutations in both BRCA1 and BRCA2 are rare, and the consequences of transheterozygosity are poorly understood.METHODS: From 32,295 female BRCA1/2 mutation carriers, we identified 93 TH (0.3 %). "Cases" were defined as TH, and "controls" were single mutations at BRCA1 (SH1) or BRCA2 (SH2). Matched SH1 "controls" carried a BRCA1 mutation found in the TH "case". Matched SH2 "controls" carried a BRCA2 mutation found in the TH "case". After matching the TH carriers with SH1 or SH2, 91 TH were matched to 9316 SH1, and 89 TH were matched to 3370 SH2.RESULTS: The majority of TH (45.2 %) involved the three common Jewish mutations. TH were more likely than SH1 and SH2 women to have been ever diagnosed with breast cancer (BC; p = 0.002). TH were more likely to be diagnosed with ovarian cancer (OC) than SH2 (p = 0.017), but not SH1. Age at BC diagnosis was the same in TH vs. SH1 (p = 0.231), but was on average 4.5 years younger in TH than in SH2 (p < 0.001). BC in TH was more likely to be estrogen receptor (ER) positive (p = 0.010) or progesterone receptor (PR) positive (p = 0.013) than in SH1, but less likely to be ER positive (p < 0.001) or PR positive (p = 0.012) than SH2. Among 15 tumors from TH patients, there was no clear pattern of loss of heterozygosity (LOH) for BRCA1 or BRCA2 in either BC or OC.CONCLUSIONS: Our observations suggest that clinical TH phenotypes resemble SH1. However, TH breast tumor marker characteristics are phenotypically intermediate to SH1 and SH2.

AB - BACKGROUND: Most BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation carriers have inherited a single (heterozygous) mutation. Transheterozygotes (TH) who have inherited deleterious mutations in both BRCA1 and BRCA2 are rare, and the consequences of transheterozygosity are poorly understood.METHODS: From 32,295 female BRCA1/2 mutation carriers, we identified 93 TH (0.3 %). "Cases" were defined as TH, and "controls" were single mutations at BRCA1 (SH1) or BRCA2 (SH2). Matched SH1 "controls" carried a BRCA1 mutation found in the TH "case". Matched SH2 "controls" carried a BRCA2 mutation found in the TH "case". After matching the TH carriers with SH1 or SH2, 91 TH were matched to 9316 SH1, and 89 TH were matched to 3370 SH2.RESULTS: The majority of TH (45.2 %) involved the three common Jewish mutations. TH were more likely than SH1 and SH2 women to have been ever diagnosed with breast cancer (BC; p = 0.002). TH were more likely to be diagnosed with ovarian cancer (OC) than SH2 (p = 0.017), but not SH1. Age at BC diagnosis was the same in TH vs. SH1 (p = 0.231), but was on average 4.5 years younger in TH than in SH2 (p < 0.001). BC in TH was more likely to be estrogen receptor (ER) positive (p = 0.010) or progesterone receptor (PR) positive (p = 0.013) than in SH1, but less likely to be ER positive (p < 0.001) or PR positive (p = 0.012) than SH2. Among 15 tumors from TH patients, there was no clear pattern of loss of heterozygosity (LOH) for BRCA1 or BRCA2 in either BC or OC.CONCLUSIONS: Our observations suggest that clinical TH phenotypes resemble SH1. However, TH breast tumor marker characteristics are phenotypically intermediate to SH1 and SH2.

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KW - Humans

KW - Loss of Heterozygosity

KW - Phenotype

KW - Population Surveillance

KW - Promoter Regions, Genetic

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