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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-4-29
pubmed:abstractText
Germline mutations in a number of genes involved in the recombinational repair of DNA double-strand breaks are associated with predisposition to breast and ovarian cancer. RAD51C is essential for homologous recombination repair, and a biallelic missense mutation can cause a Fanconi anemia-like phenotype. In index cases from 1,100 German families with gynecological malignancies, we identified six monoallelic pathogenic mutations in RAD51C that confer an increased risk for breast and ovarian cancer. These include two frameshift-causing insertions, two splice-site mutations and two nonfunctional missense mutations. The mutations were found exclusively within 480 pedigrees with the occurrence of both breast and ovarian tumors (BC/OC; 1.3%) and not in 620 pedigrees with breast cancer only or in 2,912 healthy German controls. These results provide the first unambiguous evidence of highly penetrant mutations associated with human cancer in a RAD51 paralog and support the 'common disease, rare allele' hypothesis.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1546-1718
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
42
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
410-4
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Germline mutations in breast and ovarian cancer pedigrees establish RAD51C as a human cancer susceptibility gene.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Tumor Genetics, Klinikum rechts der Isar der Technischen Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany. alfons.meindl@lrz.tu-muenchen.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't