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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-4-4
pubmed:abstractText
Inherited susceptibility to breast cancer results from germline mutations in one of a number of genes including BRCA1. A significant number of BRCA1-linked familial breast cancer patients, however, have no detectable BRCA1 mutation. This could be due in part to the inability of commonly used mutation-detection techniques to identify mutations outside the BRCA1 coding region. This paper addresses the hypothesis that non-coding region mutations, specifically in the BRCA1 promoter, account for some of these cases. We describe a new and detailed restriction map of the 5' region of the BRCA1 gene including the nearby NBR2, psiBRCA1, and NBR1 genes and the isolation of a number of new informative hybridization probes suitable for Southern analysis. Using this information we screened DNA from lymphoblastoid cell-lines made from 114 UK familial breast cancer patients and detected one large deletion in the 5' region of BRCA1. We show that the breakpoints for this deletion are in BRCA1 intron 2 and between NBR2 and exon 2 of psiBRCA1, raising the possibility that this deletion arose via a novel mechanism involving BRCA1:psiBRCA1 recombination. We have also screened 60 familial breast cancer patients from the Australian population, using an amplification refractory mutation system (ARMS) technique described previously by our group, and found one patient with a genotype consistent with a BRCA1 promoter deletion. These findings indicate that germline BRCA1 promoter deletions are a rare and yet significant mutation event and that they could arise via a novel genetic mechanism.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1098-1004
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2002 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
19
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
435-42
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11933198-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:11933198-Alleles, pubmed-meshheading:11933198-Australia, pubmed-meshheading:11933198-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:11933198-Blotting, Southern, pubmed-meshheading:11933198-Breast Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:11933198-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:11933198-DNA Mutational Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:11933198-Exons, pubmed-meshheading:11933198-Female, pubmed-meshheading:11933198-Genes, BRCA1, pubmed-meshheading:11933198-Genetic Testing, pubmed-meshheading:11933198-Genotype, pubmed-meshheading:11933198-Germ-Line Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:11933198-Great Britain, pubmed-meshheading:11933198-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:11933198-Introns, pubmed-meshheading:11933198-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:11933198-Models, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:11933198-Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:11933198-Promoter Regions, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:11933198-Recombination, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:11933198-Restriction Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:11933198-Sequence Deletion
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Germline BRCA1 promoter deletions in UK and Australian familial breast cancer patients: Identification of a novel deletion consistent with BRCA1:psiBRCA1 recombination.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King's College London (Guy's Campus), Guy's Hospital, London, UK. melissa@biosci.uq.edu.au
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't