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Prevalence and Spectrum of BRCA1/2 Germline Mutations in Women with Breast Cancer in China Based on Next-Generation Sequencing.
| Content Provider | Europe PMC |
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| Author | Liang, Yi Yang, Xuexi Li, Hong Zhu, Anna Guo, Zhiwei Li, Ming |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | BackgroundBRCA1 and BRCA2 (BRCA1/2) play important roles in the development of breast cancer, but information regarding BRCA1/2 mutations in Chinese females remains limited. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and spectrum of BRCA1/2 mutations in China.Material/MethodsIn total, 595 breast cancer patients in China were screened with an amplicon-based panel for the detection of BRCA1/2 mutations in coding regions using next-generation sequencing (NGS) with a Personal Genome Machine. Every pathogenic mutation detected was confirmed by Sanger sequencing. The disease-causing potential of variants of uncertain significance (VUS) was predicted using PolyPhen-2, SIFT, PhyloP, and Grantham.ResultsThe prevalence of BRCA1/2 mutations was 8.07% in the Chinese population. Forty-two pathogenic mutations were identified in 48 cases (17 BRCA1 cases and 31 BRCA2 cases), including 19 novel mutations. Nine VUS were predicted to be deleterious by PolyPhen-2 and SIFT and subsequently predicted by PhyloP and Grantham for the evolutionary conservation.ConclusionsThese results suggest that NGS is useful as a rapid, high-throughput, and cost-effective screening tool for the analysis of BRCA1/2 mutations. Based on this panel, we found that BRCA1/2 germline mutations in China exhibit distinct characteristics compared to those in Western populations. |
| ISSN | 12341010 |
| Journal | Medical Science Monitor : International Medical Journal of Experimental and Clinical Research |
| Volume Number | 24 |
| PubMed Central reference number | PMC5936051 |
| PubMed reference number | 29681614 |
| e-ISSN | 16433750 |
| DOI | 10.12659/msm.905812 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | International Scientific Literature, Inc. |
| Publisher Date | 2018-04-23 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | This work is licensed under Creative Common Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) © Med Sci Monit, 2018 |
| Subject Keyword | Breast Neoplasms China Genes, BRCA1 Genes, BRCA2 Germ-Line Mutation High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Medicine |