TY  - JOUR
A1  - Blein, Sophie
A1  - Bardel, Claire
A1  - Danjean, Vincent
A1  - McGuffog, Lesley
A1  - Healay, Sue
A1  - Barrowdale, Daniel
A1  - Lee, Andrew
A1  - Dennis, Joe
A1  - Kuchenbaecker, Karoline B.
A1  - Soucy, Penny
A1  - Terry, Mary Beth
A1  - Chung, Wendy K.
A1  - Goldgar, David E.
A1  - Buys, Saundra S.
A1  - Janavicius, Ramunas
A1  - Tihomirova, Laima
A1  - Tung, Nadine
A1  - Dorfling, Cecilia M.
A1  - van Rensburg, Elizabeth J.
A1  - Neuhausen, Susan L.
A1  - Ding, Yuan Chun
A1  - Gerdes, Anne-Marie
A1  - Ejlertsen, Bent
A1  - Nielsen, Finn C.
A1  - Hansen, Thomas V. O.
A1  - Osorio, Ana
A1  - Benitez, Javier
A1  - Andreas Conejero, Raquel
A1  - Segota, Ena
A1  - Weitzel, Jeffrey N.
A1  - Thelander, Margo
A1  - Peterlongo, Paolo
A1  - Radice, Paolo
A1  - Pensotti, Valeria
A1  - Dolcetti, Riccardo
A1  - Bonanni, Bernardo
A1  - Peissel, Bernard
A1  - Zaffaroni, Daniela
A1  - Scuvera, Giulietta
A1  - Manoukian, Siranoush
A1  - Varesco, Liliana
A1  - Capone, Gabriele L.
A1  - Papi, Laura
A1  - Ottini, Laura
A1  - Yannoukakos, Drakoulis
A1  - Konstantopoulou, Irene
A1  - Garber, Judy
A1  - Hamann, Ute
A1  - Donaldson, Alan
A1  - Brady, Angela
A1  - Brewer, Carole
A1  - Foo, Claire
A1  - Evans, D. Gareth
A1  - Frost, Debra
A1  - Eccles, Diana
A1  - Douglas, Fiona
A1  - Cook, Jackie
A1  - Adlard, Julian
A1  - Barwell, Julian
A1  - Walker, Lisa
A1  - Izatt, Louise
A1  - Side, Lucy E.
A1  - Kennedy, M. John
A1  - Tischkowitz, Marc
A1  - Rogers, Mark T.
A1  - Porteous, Mary E.
A1  - Morrison, Patrick J.
A1  - Platte, Radka
A1  - Eeles, Ros
A1  - Davidson, Rosemarie
A1  - Hodgson, Shirley
A1  - Cole, Trevor
A1  - Godwin, Andrew K
A1  - Isaacs, Claudine
A1  - Claes, Kathleen
A1  - De Leeneer, Kim
A1  - Meindl, Alfons
A1  - Gehrig, Andrea
A1  - Wappenschmidt, Barbara
A1  - Sutter, Christian
A1  - Engel, Christoph
A1  - Niederacher, Dieter
A1  - Steinemann, Doris
A1  - Plendl, Hansjoerg
A1  - Kast, Karin
A1  - Rhiem, Kerstin
A1  - Ditsch, Nina
A1  - Arnold, Norbert
A1  - Varon-Mateeva, Raymonda
A1  - Schmutzler, Rita K.
A1  - Preisler-Adams, Sabine
A1  - Markov, Nadja Bogdanova
A1  - Wang-Gohrke, Shan
A1  - de Pauw, Antoine
A1  - Lefol, Cedrick
A1  - Lasset, Christine
A1  - Leroux, Dominique
A1  - Rouleau, Etienne
A1  - Damiola, Francesca
A1  - Dreyfus, Helene
A1  - Barjhoux, Laure
A1  - Golmard, Lisa
A1  - Uhrhammer, Nancy
A1  - Bonadona, Valerie
A1  - Sornin, Valerie
A1  - Bignon, Yves-Jean
A1  - Carter, Jonathan
A1  - Van Le, Linda
A1  - Piedmonte, Marion
A1  - DiSilvestro, Paul A.
A1  - de la Hoya, Miguel
A1  - Caldes, Trinidad
A1  - Nevanlinna, Heli
A1  - Aittomäki, Kristiina
A1  - Jager, Agnes
A1  - van den Ouweland, Ans M. W.
A1  - Kets, Carolien M.
A1  - Aalfs, Cora M.
A1  - van Leeuwen, Flora E.
A1  - Hogervorst, Frans B. L.
A1  - Meijers-Heijboer, Hanne E. J.
A1  - Oosterwijk, Jan C.
A1  - van Roozendaal, Kees E. P.
A1  - Rookus, Matti A.
A1  - Devilee, Peter
A1  - van der Luijt, Rob B.
A1  - Olah, Edith
A1  - Diez, Orland
A1  - Teule, Alex
A1  - Lazaro, Conxi
A1  - Blanco, Ignacio
A1  - Del Valle, Jesus
A1  - Jakubowska, Anna
A1  - Sukiennicki, Grzegorz
A1  - Gronwald, Jacek
A1  - Spurdle, Amanda B.
A1  - Foulkes, William
A1  - Olswold, Curtis
A1  - Lindor, Noralene M.
A1  - Pankratz, Vernon S.
A1  - Szabo, Csilla I.
A1  - Lincoln, Anne
A1  - Jacobs, Lauren
A1  - Corines, Marina
A1  - Robson, Mark
A1  - Vijai, Joseph
A1  - Berger, Andreas
A1  - Fink-Retter, Anneliese
A1  - Singer, Christian F.
A1  - Rappaport, Christine
A1  - Geschwantler Kaulich, Daphne
A1  - Pfeiler, Georg
A1  - Tea, Muy-Kheng
A1  - Greene, Mark H.
A1  - Mai, Phuong L.
A1  - Rennert, Gad
A1  - Imyanitov, Evgeny N.
A1  - Mulligan, Anna Marie
A1  - Glendon, Gord
A1  - Andrulis, Irene L.
A1  - Tchatchou, Andrine
A1  - Toland, Amanda Ewart
A1  - Pedersen, Inge Sokilde
A1  - Thomassen, Mads
A1  - Kruse, Torben A.
A1  - Jensen, Uffe Birk
A1  - Caligo, Maria A.
A1  - Friedman, Eitan
A1  - Zidan, Jamal
A1  - Laitman, Yael
A1  - Lindblom, Annika
A1  - Melin, Beatrice
A1  - Arver, Brita
A1  - Loman, Niklas
A1  - Rosenquist, Richard
A1  - Olopade, Olufunmilayo I.
A1  - Nussbaum, Robert L.
A1  - Ramus, Susan J.
A1  - Nathanson, Katherine L.
A1  - Domchek, Susan M.
A1  - Rebbeck, Timothy R.
A1  - Arun, Banu K.
A1  - Mitchell, Gillian
A1  - Karlan, Bethy Y.
A1  - Lester, Jenny
A1  - Orsulic, Sandra
A1  - Stoppa-Lyonnet, Dominique
A1  - Thomas, Gilles
A1  - Simard, Jacques
A1  - Couch, Fergus J.
A1  - Offit, Kenenth
A1  - Easton, Douglas F.
A1  - Chenevix-Trench, Georgia
A1  - Antoniou, Antonis C.
A1  - Mazoyer, Sylvie
A1  - Phelan, Catherine M.
A1  - Sinilnikova, Olga M.
A1  - Cox, David G.
T1  - An original phylogenetic approach identified mitochondrial haplogroup T1a1 as inversely associated with breast cancer risk in BRCA2 mutation carriers
JF  - Breast Cancer Research
N2  - Introduction: 
Individuals carrying pathogenic mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes have a high lifetime risk of breast cancer. BRCA1 and BRCA2 are involved in DNA double-strand break repair, DNA alterations that can be caused by exposure to reactive oxygen species, a main source of which are mitochondria. Mitochondrial genome variations affect electron transport chain efficiency and reactive oxygen species production. Individuals with different mitochondrial haplogroups differ in their metabolism and sensitivity to oxidative stress. Variability in mitochondrial genetic background can alter reactive oxygen species production, leading to cancer risk. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that mitochondrial haplogroups modify breast cancer risk in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers. 

Methods: 
We genotyped 22,214 (11,421 affected, 10,793 unaffected) mutation carriers belonging to the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 for 129 mitochondrial polymorphisms using the iCOGS array. Haplogroup inference and association detection were performed using a phylogenetic approach. ALTree was applied to explore the reference mitochondrial evolutionary tree and detect subclades enriched in affected or unaffected individuals. 

Results: 
We discovered that subclade T1a1 was depleted in affected BRCA2 mutation carriers compared with the rest of clade T (hazard ratio (HR) = 0.55; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.34 to 0.88; P = 0.01). Compared with the most frequent haplogroup in the general population (that is, H and T clades), the T1a1 haplogroup has a HR of 0.62 (95% CI, 0.40 to 0.95; P = 0.03). We also identified three potential susceptibility loci, including G13708A/rs28359178, which has demonstrated an inverse association with familial breast cancer risk. 

Conclusions:
This study illustrates how original approaches such as the phylogeny-based method we used can empower classical molecular epidemiological studies aimed at identifying association or risk modification effects.
KW  - single-nucleotide polymorphisms
KW  - genetic modifiers
KW  - oxidative stress
KW  - consortium
KW  - multiple diseases
KW  - DNA
KW  - haplogroups
KW  - susceptibility
KW  - Ovarian
KW  - variants
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-145458
VL  - 17
IS  - 61
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Blanco, Ignacio
A1  - Kuchenbaecker, Karoline
A1  - Cuadras, Daniel
A1  - Wang, Xianshu
A1  - Barrowdale, Daniel
A1  - Ruiz de Garibay, Gorka
A1  - Librado, Pablo
A1  - Sanchez-Gracia, Alejandro
A1  - Rozas, Julio
A1  - Bonifaci, Núria
A1  - McGuffog, Lesley
A1  - Pankratz, Vernon S.
A1  - Islam, Abul
A1  - Mateo, Francesca
A1  - Berenguer, Antoni
A1  - Petit, Anna
A1  - Català, Isabel
A1  - Brunet, Joan
A1  - Feliubadaló, Lidia
A1  - Tornero, Eva
A1  - Benítez, Javier
A1  - Osorio, Ana
A1  - Ramón y Cajal, Teresa
A1  - Nevanlinna, Heli
A1  - Aittomäki, Kristina
A1  - Arun, Banu K.
A1  - Toland, Amanda E.
A1  - Karlan, Beth Y.
A1  - Walsh, Christine
A1  - Lester, Jenny
A1  - Greene, Mark H.
A1  - Mai, Phuong L.
A1  - Nussbaum, Robert L.
A1  - Andrulis, Irene L.
A1  - Domchek, Susan M.
A1  - Nathanson, Katherine L.
A1  - Rebbeck, Timothy R.
A1  - Barkardottir, Rosa B.
A1  - Jakubowska, Anna
A1  - Lubinski, Jan
A1  - Durda, Katarzyna
A1  - Jaworska-Bieniek, Katarzyna
A1  - Claes, Kathleen
A1  - Van Maerken, Tom
A1  - Díez, Orland
A1  - Hansen, Thomas V.
A1  - Jønson, Lars
A1  - Gerdes, Anne-Marie
A1  - Ejlertsen, Bent
A1  - De la Hoya, Miguel
A1  - Caldés, Trinidad
A1  - Dunning, Alison M.
A1  - Oliver, Clare
A1  - Fineberg, Elena
A1  - Cook, Margaret
A1  - Peock, Susan
A1  - McCann, Emma
A1  - Murray, Alex
A1  - Jacobs, Chris
A1  - Pichert, Gabriella
A1  - Lalloo, Fiona
A1  - Chu, Carol
A1  - Dorkins, Huw
A1  - Paterson, Joan
A1  - Ong, Kai-Ren
A1  - Teixeira, Manuel R.
A1  - Hogervorst, Frans B. L.
A1  - Van der Hout, Annemarie H.
A1  - Seynaeve, Caroline
A1  - Van der Luijt, Rob B.
A1  - Ligtenberg, Marjolijn J. L.
A1  - Devilee, Peter
A1  - Wijnen, Juul T.
A1  - Rookus, Matti A.
A1  - Meijers-Heijboer, Hanne E. J.
A1  - Blok, Marinus J.
A1  - Van den Ouweland, Ans M. W.
A1  - Aalfs, Cora M.
A1  - Rodriguez, Gustavo C.
A1  - Phillips, Kelly-Anne A.
A1  - Piedmonte, Marion
A1  - Nerenstone, Stacy R.
A1  - Bae-Jump, Victoria L.
A1  - O'Malley, David M.
A1  - Schmutzler, Rita K.
A1  - Wappenschmidt, Barbara
A1  - Rhiem, Kerstin
A1  - Engel, Christoph
A1  - Meindl, Alfons
A1  - Ditsch, Nina
A1  - Arnold, Norbert
A1  - Plendl, Hansjoerg J.
A1  - Niederacher, Dieter
A1  - Sutter, Christian
A1  - Wang-Gohrke, Shan
A1  - Steinemann, Doris
A1  - Preisler-Adams, Sabine
A1  - Kast, Karin
A1  - Varon-Mateeva, Raymonda
A1  - Gehrig, Andrea
A1  - Bojesen, Anders
A1  - Pedersen, Inge Sokilde
A1  - Sunde, Lone
A1  - Birk Jensen, Uffe
A1  - Thomassen, Mads
A1  - Kruse, Torben A.
A1  - Foretova, Lenka
A1  - Peterlongo, Paolo
A1  - Bernard, Loris
A1  - Peissel, Bernard
A1  - Scuvera, Giulietta
A1  - Manoukian, Siranoush
A1  - Radice, Paolo
A1  - Ottini, Laura
A1  - Montagna, Marco
A1  - Agata, Simona
A1  - Maugard, Christine
A1  - Simard, Jacques
A1  - Soucy, Penny
A1  - Berger, Andreas
A1  - Fink-Retter, Anneliese
A1  - Singer, Christian F.
A1  - Rappaport, Christine
A1  - Geschwantler-Kaulich, Daphne
A1  - Tea, Muy-Kheng
A1  - Pfeiler, Georg
A1  - John, Esther M.
A1  - Miron, Alex
A1  - Neuhausen, Susan L.
A1  - Terry, Mary Beth
A1  - Chung, Wendy K.
A1  - Daly, Mary B.
A1  - Goldgar, David E.
A1  - Janavicius, Ramunas
A1  - Dorfling, Cecilia M.
A1  - Van Rensburg, Elisabeth J.
A1  - Fostira, Florentia
A1  - Konstantopoulou, Irene
A1  - Garber, Judy
A1  - Godwin, Andrew K.
A1  - Olah, Edith
A1  - Narod, Steven A.
A1  - Rennert, Gad
A1  - Paluch, Shani Shimon
A1  - Laitman, Yael
A1  - Friedman, Eitan
A1  - Liljegren, Annelie
A1  - Rantala, Johanna
A1  - Stenmark-Askmalm, Marie
A1  - Loman, Niklas
A1  - Imyanitov, Evgeny N.
A1  - Hamann, Ute
A1  - Spurdle, Amanda B.
A1  - Healey, Sue
A1  - Weitzel, Jeffrey N.
A1  - Herzog, Josef
A1  - Margileth, David
A1  - Gorrini, Chiara
A1  - Esteller, Manel
A1  - Gómez, Antonio
A1  - Sayols, Sergi
A1  - Vidal, Enrique
A1  - Heyn, Holger
A1  - Stoppa-Lyonnet, Dominique
A1  - Léoné, Melanie
A1  - Barjhoux, Laure
A1  - Fassy-Colcombet, Marion
A1  - Pauw, Antoine de
A1  - Lasset, Christine
A1  - Fert Ferrer, Sandra
A1  - Castera, Laurent
A1  - Berthet, Pascaline
A1  - Cornelis, François
A1  - Bignon, Yves-Jean
A1  - Damiola, Francesca
A1  - Mazoyer, Sylvie
A1  - Sinilnikova, Olga M.
A1  - Maxwell, Christopher A.
A1  - Vijai, Joseph
A1  - Robson, Mark
A1  - Kauff, Noah
A1  - Corines, Marina J.
A1  - Villano, Danylko
A1  - Cunningham, Julie
A1  - Lee, Adam
A1  - Lindor, Noralane
A1  - Lázaro, Conxi
A1  - Easton, Douglas F.
A1  - Offit, Kenneth
A1  - Chenevix-Trench, Georgia
A1  - Couch, Fergus J.
A1  - Antoniou, Antonis C.
A1  - Pujana, Miguel Angel
T1  - Assessing associations between the AURKA-HMMR-TPX2-TUBG1 functional module and breast cancer risk in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers
JF  - PLoS ONE
N2  - While interplay between BRCA1 and AURKA-RHAMM-TPX2-TUBG1 regulates mammary epithelial polarization, common genetic variation in HMMR (gene product RHAMM) may be associated with risk of breast cancer in BRCA1 mutation carriers. Following on these observations, we further assessed the link between the AURKA-HMMR-TPX2-TUBG1 functional module and risk of breast cancer in BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation carriers. Forty-one single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were genotyped in 15,252 BRCA1 and 8,211 BRCA2 mutation carriers and subsequently analyzed using a retrospective likelihood approach. The association of HMMR rs299290 with breast cancer risk in BRCA1 mutation carriers was confirmed: per-allele hazard ratio (HR) = 1.10, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.04 - 1.15, p = 1.9 x 10\(^{-4}\) (false discovery rate (FDR)-adjusted p = 0.043). Variation in CSTF1, located next to AURKA, was also found to be associated with breast cancer risk in BRCA2 mutation carriers: rs2426618 per-allele HR = 1.10, 95% CI 1.03 - 1.16, p = 0.005 (FDR-adjusted p = 0.045). Assessment of pairwise interactions provided suggestions (FDR-adjusted p\(_{interaction}\) values > 0.05) for deviations from the multiplicative model for rs299290 and CSTF1 rs6064391, and rs299290 and TUBG1 rs11649877 in both BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. Following these suggestions, the expression of HMMR and AURKA or TUBG1 in sporadic breast tumors was found to potentially interact, influencing patients' survival. Together, the results of this study support the hypothesis of a causative link between altered function of AURKA-HMMR-TPX2-TUBG1 and breast carcinogenesis in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers.
KW  - genetic interaction networks
KW  - genome-wide association
KW  - expression signature
KW  - susceptibility loci
KW  - survival
KW  - modifiers
KW  - polymorphism
KW  - cell
KW  - chip-seq
KW  - elements
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-143469
VL  - 10
IS  - 4
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Weber-Lassalle, Nana
A1  - Hauke, Jan
A1  - Ramser, Juliane
A1  - Richters, Lisa
A1  - Groß, Eva
A1  - Blümcke, Britta
A1  - Gehrig, Andrea
A1  - Kahlert, Anne-Karin
A1  - Müller, Clemens R.
A1  - Hackmann, Karl
A1  - Honisch, Ellen
A1  - Weber-Lassalle, Konstantin
A1  - Niederacher, Dieter
A1  - Borde, Julika
A1  - Thiele, Holger
A1  - Ernst, Corinna
A1  - Altmüller, Janine
A1  - Neidhardt, Guido
A1  - Nürnberg, Peter
A1  - Klaschik, Kristina
A1  - Schroeder, Christopher
A1  - Platzer, Konrad
A1  - Volk, Alexander E.
A1  - Wang-Gohrke, Shan
A1  - Just, Walter
A1  - Auber, Bernd
A1  - Kubisch, Christian
A1  - Schmidt, Gunnar
A1  - Horvath, Judit
A1  - Wappenschmidt, Barbara
A1  - Engel, Christoph
A1  - Arnold, Norbert
A1  - Dworniczak, Bernd
A1  - Rhiem, Kerstin
A1  - Meindl, Alfons
A1  - Schmutzler, Rita K.
A1  - Hahnen, Eric
T1  - BRIP1 loss-of-function mutations confer high risk for familial ovarian cancer, but not familial breast cancer
JF  - Breast Cancer Research
N2  - Background
Germline mutations in the BRIP1 gene have been described as conferring a moderate risk for ovarian cancer (OC), while the role of BRIP1 in breast cancer (BC) pathogenesis remains controversial.

Methods
To assess the role of deleterious BRIP1 germline mutations in BC/OC predisposition, 6341 well-characterized index patients with BC, 706 index patients with OC, and 2189 geographically matched female controls were screened for loss-of-function (LoF) mutations and potentially damaging missense variants. All index patients met the inclusion criteria of the German Consortium for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer for germline testing and tested negative for pathogenic BRCA1/2 variants.

Results
BRIP1 LoF mutations confer a high OC risk in familial index patients (odds ratio (OR) = 20.97, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 12.02–36.57, P < 0.0001) and in the subgroup of index patients with late-onset OC (OR = 29.91, 95% CI = 14.99–59.66, P < 0.0001). No significant association of BRIP1 LoF mutations with familial BC was observed (OR = 1.81 95% CI = 1.00–3.30, P = 0.0623). In the subgroup of familial BC index patients without a family history of OC there was also no apparent association (OR = 1.42, 95% CI = 0.70–2.90, P = 0.3030). In 1027 familial BC index patients with a family history of OC, the BRIP1 mutation prevalence was significantly higher than that observed in controls (OR = 3.59, 95% CI = 1.43–9.01; P = 0.0168). Based on the negative association between BRIP1 LoF mutations and familial BC in the absence of an OC family history, we conclude that the elevated mutation prevalence in the latter cohort was driven by the occurrence of OC in these families. Compared with controls, predicted damaging rare missense variants were significantly more prevalent in OC (P = 0.0014) but not in BC (P = 0.0693) patients.

Conclusions
To avoid ambiguous results, studies aimed at assessing the impact of candidate predisposition gene mutations on BC risk might differentiate between BC index patients with an OC family history and those without. In familial cases, we suggest that BRIP1 is a high-risk gene for late-onset OC but not a BC predisposition gene, though minor effects cannot be excluded.
KW  - breast cancer
KW  - ovarian cancer
KW  - BRIP1 gene
KW  - germline mutations
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-233433
VL  - 20
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Osorio, Ana
A1  - Milne, Roger L.
A1  - Kuchenbaecker, Karoline
A1  - Vaclová, Tereza
A1  - Pita, Guillermo
A1  - Alonso, Rosario
A1  - Peterlongo, Paolo
A1  - Blanco, Ignacio
A1  - de la Hoya, Miguel
A1  - Duran, Mercedes
A1  - Diez, Orland
A1  - Ramón y Cajal, Teresa
A1  - Konstantopoulou, Irene
A1  - Martínez-Bouzas, Christina
A1  - Conejero, Raquel Andrés
A1  - Soucy, Penny
A1  - McGuffog, Lesley
A1  - Barrowdale, Daniel
A1  - Lee, Andrew
A1  - Arver, Brita
A1  - Rantala, Johanna
A1  - Loman, Niklas
A1  - Ehrencrona, Hans
A1  - Olopade, Olufunmilayo I.
A1  - Beattie, Mary S.
A1  - Domchek, Susan M.
A1  - Nathanson, Katherine
A1  - Rebbeck, Timothy R.
A1  - Arun, Banu K.
A1  - Karlan, Beth Y.
A1  - Walsh, Christine
A1  - Lester, Jenny
A1  - John, Esther M.
A1  - Whittemore, Alice S.
A1  - Daly, Mary B.
A1  - Southey, Melissa
A1  - Hopper, John
A1  - Terry, Mary B.
A1  - Buys, Saundra S.
A1  - Janavicius, Ramunas
A1  - Dorfling, Cecilia M.
A1  - van Rensburg, Elizabeth J.
A1  - Steele, Linda
A1  - Neuhausen, Susan L.
A1  - Ding, Yuan Chun
A1  - Hansen, Thomas V. O.
A1  - Jønson, Lars
A1  - Ejlertsen, Bent
A1  - Gerdes, Anne-Marie
A1  - Infante, Mar
A1  - Herráez, Belén
A1  - Moreno, Leticia Thais
A1  - Weitzel, Jeffrey N.
A1  - Herzog, Josef
A1  - Weeman, Kisa
A1  - Manoukian, Siranoush
A1  - Peissel, Bernard
A1  - Zaffaroni, Daniela
A1  - Scuvera, Guilietta
A1  - Bonanni, Bernardo
A1  - Mariette, Frederique
A1  - Volorio, Sara
A1  - Viel, Alessandra
A1  - Varesco, Liliana
A1  - Papi, Laura
A1  - Ottini, Laura
A1  - Tibiletti, Maria Grazia
A1  - Radice, Paolo
A1  - Yannoukakos, Drakoulis
A1  - Garber, Judy
A1  - Ellis, Steve
A1  - Frost, Debra
A1  - Platte, Radka
A1  - Fineberg, Elena
A1  - Evans, Gareth
A1  - Lalloo, Fiona
A1  - Izatt, Louise
A1  - Eeles, Ros
A1  - Adlard, Julian
A1  - Davidson, Rosemarie
A1  - Cole, Trevor
A1  - Eccles, Diana
A1  - Cook, Jackie
A1  - Hodgson, Shirley
A1  - Brewer, Carole
A1  - Tischkowitz, Marc
A1  - Douglas, Fiona
A1  - Porteous, Mary
A1  - Side, Lucy
A1  - Walker, Lisa
A1  - Morrison, Patrick
A1  - Donaldson, Alan
A1  - Kennedy, John
A1  - Foo, Claire
A1  - Godwin, Andrew K.
A1  - Schmutzler, Rita Katharina
A1  - Wappenschmidt, Barbara
A1  - Rhiem, Kerstin
A1  - Engel, Christoph
A1  - Meindl, Alftons
A1  - Ditsch, Nina
A1  - Arnold, Norbert
A1  - Plendl, Hans Jörg
A1  - Niederacher, Dieter
A1  - Sutter, Christian
A1  - Wang-Gohrke, Shan
A1  - Steinemann, Doris
A1  - Preisler-Adams, Sabine
A1  - Kast, Karin
A1  - Varon-Mateeva, Raymonda
A1  - Gehrig, Andrea
A1  - Stoppa-Lyonnet, Dominique
A1  - Sinilnikova, Olga M.
A1  - Mazoyer, Sylvie
A1  - Damiola, Francesca
A1  - Poppe, Bruce
A1  - Claes, Kathleen
A1  - Piedmonte, Marion
A1  - Tucker, Kathy
A1  - Backes, Floor
A1  - Rodríguez, Gustavo
A1  - Brewster, Wendy
A1  - Wakeley, Katie
A1  - Rutherford, Thomas
A1  - Caldés, Trinidad
A1  - Nevanlinna, Heli
A1  - Aittomäki, Kristiina
A1  - Rookus, Matti A.
A1  - van Os, Theo A. M.
A1  - van der Kolk, Lizet
A1  - de Lange, J. L.
A1  - Meijers-Heijboer, Hanne E. J.
A1  - van der Hout, A. H.
A1  - van Asperen, Christi J.
A1  - Goméz Garcia, Encarna B.
A1  - Encarna, B.
A1  - Hoogerbrugge, Nicoline
A1  - Collée, J. Margriet
A1  - van Deurzen, Carolien H. M.
A1  - van der Luijt, Rob B.
A1  - Devilee, Peter
A1  - Olah, Edith
A1  - Lázaro, Conxi
A1  - Teulé, Alex
A1  - Menéndez, Mireia
A1  - Jakubowska, Anna
A1  - Cybulski, Cezary
A1  - Gronwald, Jecek
A1  - Lubinski, Jan
A1  - Durda, Katarzyna
A1  - Jaworska-Bieniek, Katarzyna
A1  - Johannsson, Oskar Th.
A1  - Maugard, Christine
A1  - Montagna, Marco
A1  - Tognazzo, Silvia
A1  - Teixeira, Manuel R.
A1  - Healey, Sue
A1  - Olswold, Curtis
A1  - Guidugli, Lucia
A1  - Lindor, Noralane
A1  - Slager, Susan
A1  - Szabo, Csilla I.
A1  - Vijai, Joseph
A1  - Robson, Mark
A1  - Kauff, Noah
A1  - Zhang, Liying
A1  - Rau-Murthy, Rohini
A1  - Fink-Retter, Anneliese
A1  - Singer, Christine F.
A1  - Rappaport, Christine
A1  - Kaulich, Daphne Geschwantler
A1  - Pfeiler, Georg
A1  - Tea, Muy-Kheng
A1  - Berger, Andreas
A1  - Phelan, Catherine M.
A1  - Greene, Mark H.
A1  - Mai, Phuong L.
A1  - Lejbkowicz, Flavio
A1  - Andrulis, Irene
A1  - Mulligan, Anna Marie
A1  - Glendon, Gord
A1  - Toland, Amanda Ewart
A1  - Bojesen, Anders
A1  - Pedersen, Inge Sokilde
A1  - Sunde, Lone
A1  - Thomassen, Mads
A1  - Kruse, Torben A.
A1  - Jensen, Uffe Birk
A1  - Friedman, Eitan
A1  - Laitman, Yeal
A1  - Shimon, Shanie Paluch
A1  - Simard, Jaques
A1  - Easton, Douglas F.
A1  - Offit, Kenneth
A1  - Couch, Fergus J.
A1  - Chenevix-Trench, Georgia
A1  - Antoniou, Antonis C.
A1  - Benitez, Javier
T1  - DNA Glycosylases Involved in Base Excision Repair May Be Associated with Cancer Risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers
JF  - PLOS Genetics
N2  - Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) in genes involved in the DNA Base Excision Repair (BER) pathway could be associated with cancer risk in carriers of mutations in the high-penetrance susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2, given the relation of synthetic lethality that exists between one of the components of the BER pathway, PARP1 (poly ADP ribose polymerase), and both BRCA1 and BRCA2. In the present study, we have performed a comprehensive analysis of 18 genes involved in BER using a tagging SNP approach in a large series of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. 144 SNPs were analyzed in a two stage study involving 23,463 carriers from the CIMBA consortium (the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1 and BRCA2). Eleven SNPs showed evidence of association with breast and/or ovarian cancer at p<0.05 in the combined analysis. Four of the five genes for which strongest evidence of association was observed were DNA glycosylases. The strongest evidence was for rs1466785 in the NEIL2 (endonuclease VIII-like 2) gene (HR: 1.09, 95% CI (1.03-1.16), p = 2.7x10(-3)) for association with breast cancer risk in BRCA2 mutation carriers, and rs2304277 in the OGG1 (8-guanine DNA glycosylase) gene, with ovarian cancer risk in BRCA1 mutation carriers (HR: 1.12 95% CI: 1.03-1.21, p = 4.8x10(-3)). DNA glycosylases involved in the first steps of the BER pathway may be associated with cancer risk in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers and should be more comprehensively studied.
KW  - single-nucleotide polymorphisms
KW  - breast cancer
KW  - ovarian cancer
KW  - genetic modifiers
KW  - common variants
KW  - NEIL2
KW  - OGG1
KW  - investigators
KW  - consortium
KW  - damage
Y1  - 2014
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-116820
SN  - 1553-7404
VL  - 4
IS  - e1004256
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rolfes, Muriel
A1  - Borde, Julika
A1  - Möllenhoff, Kathrin
A1  - Kayali, Mohamad
A1  - Ernst, Corinna
A1  - Gehrig, Andrea
A1  - Sutter, Christian
A1  - Ramser, Juliane
A1  - Niederacher, Dieter
A1  - Horváth, Judit
A1  - Arnold, Norbert
A1  - Meindl, Alfons
A1  - Auber, Bernd
A1  - Rump, Andreas
A1  - Wang-Gohrke, Shan
A1  - Ritter, Julia
A1  - Hentschel, Julia
A1  - Thiele, Holger
A1  - Altmüller, Janine
A1  - Nürnberg, Peter
A1  - Rhiem, Kerstin
A1  - Engel, Christoph
A1  - Wappenschmidt, Barbara
A1  - Schmutzler, Rita K.
A1  - Hahnen, Eric
A1  - Hauke, Jan
T1  - Prevalence of cancer predisposition germline variants in male breast cancer patients: results of the German Consortium for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer
JF  - Cancers
N2  - Male breast cancer (mBC) is associated with a high prevalence of pathogenic variants (PVs) in the BRCA2 gene; however, data regarding other BC predisposition genes are limited. In this retrospective multicenter study, we investigated the prevalence of PVs in BRCA1/2 and 23 non-BRCA1/2 genes using a sample of 614 patients with mBC, recruited through the centers of the German Consortium for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer. A high proportion of patients with mBC carried PVs in BRCA2 (23.0%, 142/614) and BRCA1 (4.6%, 28/614). The prevalence of BRCA1/2 PVs was 11.0% in patients with mBC without a family history of breast and/or ovarian cancer. Patients with BRCA1/2 PVs did not show an earlier disease onset than those without. The predominant clinical presentation of tumor phenotypes was estrogen receptor (ER)-positive, progesterone receptor (PR)-positive, and HER2-negative (77.7%); further, 10.2% of the tumors were triple-positive, and 1.2% were triple-negative. No association was found between ER/PR/HER2 status and BRCA1/2 PV occurrence. Comparing the prevalence of protein-truncating variants (PTVs) between patients with mBC and control data (ExAC, n = 27,173) revealed significant associations of PTVs in both BRCA1 and BRCA2 with mBC (BRCA1: OR = 17.04, 95% CI = 10.54–26.82, p < 10\(^{−5}\); BRCA2: OR = 77.71, 95% CI = 58.71–102.33, p < 10\(^{−5}\)). A case-control investigation of 23 non-BRCA1/2 genes in 340 BRCA1/2-negative patients and ExAC controls revealed significant associations of PTVs in CHEK2, PALB2, and ATM with mBC (CHEK2: OR = 3.78, 95% CI = 1.59–7.71, p = 0.002; PALB2: OR = 14.77, 95% CI = 5.02–36.02, p < 10\(^{−5}\); ATM: OR = 3.36, 95% CI = 0.89–8.96, p = 0.04). Overall, our findings support the benefit of multi-gene panel testing in patients with mBC irrespective of their family history, age at disease onset, and tumor phenotype.
KW  - breast neoplasms
KW  - male breast cancer
KW  - breast cancer predisposition genes
KW  - genetic testing
KW  - familial breast cancer
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-281758
SN  - 2072-6694
VL  - 14
IS  - 13
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dumont, Martine
A1  - Weber-Lassalle, Nana
A1  - Joly-Beauparlant, Charles
A1  - Ernst, Corinna
A1  - Droit, Arnaud
A1  - Feng, Bing-Jian
A1  - Dubois, Stéphane
A1  - Collin-Deschesnes, Annie-Claude
A1  - Soucy, Penny
A1  - Vallée, Maxime
A1  - Fournier, Frédéric
A1  - Lemaçon, Audrey
A1  - Adank, Muriel A.
A1  - Allen, Jamie
A1  - Altmüller, Janine
A1  - Arnold, Norbert
A1  - Ausems, Margreet G. E. M.
A1  - Berutti, Riccardo
A1  - Bolla, Manjeet K.
A1  - Bull, Shelley
A1  - Carvalho, Sara
A1  - Cornelissen, Sten
A1  - Dufault, Michael R.
A1  - Dunning, Alison M.
A1  - Engel, Christoph
A1  - Gehrig, Andrea
A1  - Geurts-Giele, Willemina R. R.
A1  - Gieger, Christian
A1  - Green, Jessica
A1  - Hackmann, Karl
A1  - Helmy, Mohamed
A1  - Hentschel, Julia
A1  - Hogervorst, Frans B. L.
A1  - Hollestelle, Antoinette
A1  - Hooning, Maartje J.
A1  - Horváth, Judit
A1  - Ikram, M. Arfan
A1  - Kaulfuß, Silke
A1  - Keeman, Renske
A1  - Kuang, Da
A1  - Luccarini, Craig
A1  - Maier, Wolfgang
A1  - Martens, John W. M.
A1  - Niederacher, Dieter
A1  - Nürnberg, Peter
A1  - Ott, Claus-Eric
A1  - Peters, Annette
A1  - Pharoah, Paul D. P.
A1  - Ramirez, Alfredo
A1  - Ramser, Juliane
A1  - Riedel-Heller, Steffi
A1  - Schmidt, Gunnar
A1  - Shah, Mitul
A1  - Scherer, Martin
A1  - Stäbler, Antje
A1  - Strom, Tim M.
A1  - Sutter, Christian
A1  - Thiele, Holger
A1  - van Asperen, Christi J.
A1  - van der Kolk, Lizet
A1  - van der Luijt, Rob B.
A1  - Volk, Alexander E.
A1  - Wagner, Michael
A1  - Waisfisz, Quinten
A1  - Wang, Qin
A1  - Wang-Gohrke, Shan
A1  - Weber, Bernhard H. F.
A1  - Devilee, Peter
A1  - Tavtigian, Sean
A1  - Bader, Gary D.
A1  - Meindl, Alfons
A1  - Goldgar, David E.
A1  - Andrulis, Irene L.
A1  - Schmutzler, Rita K.
A1  - Easton, Douglas F.
A1  - Schmidt, Marjanka K.
A1  - Hahnen, Eric
A1  - Simard, Jacques
T1  - Uncovering the contribution of moderate-penetrance susceptibility genes to breast cancer by whole-exome sequencing and targeted enrichment sequencing of candidate genes in women of European ancestry
JF  - Cancers
N2  - Rare variants in at least 10 genes, including BRCA1, BRCA2, PALB2, ATM, and CHEK2, are associated with increased risk of breast cancer; however, these variants, in combination with common variants identified through genome-wide association studies, explain only a fraction of the familial aggregation of the disease. To identify further susceptibility genes, we performed a two-stage whole-exome sequencing study. In the discovery stage, samples from 1528 breast cancer cases enriched for breast cancer susceptibility and 3733 geographically matched unaffected controls were sequenced. Using five different filtering and gene prioritization strategies, 198 genes were selected for further validation. These genes, and a panel of 32 known or suspected breast cancer susceptibility genes, were assessed in a validation set of 6211 cases and 6019 controls for their association with risk of breast cancer overall, and by estrogen receptor (ER) disease subtypes, using gene burden tests applied to loss-of-function and rare missense variants. Twenty genes showed nominal evidence of association (p-value < 0.05) with either overall or subtype-specific breast cancer. Our study had the statistical power to detect susceptibility genes with effect sizes similar to ATM, CHEK2, and PALB2, however, it was underpowered to identify genes in which susceptibility variants are rarer or confer smaller effect sizes. Larger sample sizes would be required in order to identify such genes.
KW  - breast cancer
KW  - genetic susceptibility
KW  - whole-exome sequencing
KW  - moderate-penetrance genes
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-281768
SN  - 2072-6694
VL  - 14
IS  - 14
ER  -