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Huang KL, Mashl RJ, Wu Y, Ritter DI, Wang J, Oh C, Paczkowska M, Reynolds S, Wyczalkowski MA, Oak N, Scott AD, Krassowski M, Cherniack AD, Houlahan KE, Jayasinghe R, Wang LB, Zhou DC, Liu D, Cao S, Kim YW, Koire A, McMichael JF, Hucthagowder V, Kim TB, Hahn A, Wang C, McLellan MD, Al-Mulla F, Johnson KJ, Lichtarge O, Boutros PC, Raphael B, Lazar AJ, Zhang W, Wendl MC, Govindan R, Jain S, Wheeler D, Kulkarni S, Dipersio JF, Reimand J, Meric-Bernstam F, Chen K, Shmulevich I, Plon SE, Chen F, Ding L. Pathogenic Germline Variants in 10,389 Adult Cancers. Cell 2019; 173:355-370.e14. [PMID: 29625052 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.03.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 491] [Impact Index Per Article: 98.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2017] [Revised: 02/24/2018] [Accepted: 03/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Abstract
We conducted the largest investigation of predisposition variants in cancer to date, discovering 853 pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants in 8% of 10,389 cases from 33 cancer types. Twenty-one genes showed single or cross-cancer associations, including novel associations of SDHA in melanoma and PALB2 in stomach adenocarcinoma. The 659 predisposition variants and 18 additional large deletions in tumor suppressors, including ATM, BRCA1, and NF1, showed low gene expression and frequent (43%) loss of heterozygosity or biallelic two-hit events. We also discovered 33 such variants in oncogenes, including missenses in MET, RET, and PTPN11 associated with high gene expression. We nominated 47 additional predisposition variants from prioritized VUSs supported by multiple evidences involving case-control frequency, loss of heterozygosity, expression effect, and co-localization with mutations and modified residues. Our integrative approach links rare predisposition variants to functional consequences, informing future guidelines of variant classification and germline genetic testing in cancer.
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Affiliation(s)
- Kuan-Lin Huang
- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA
| | - Deborah I Ritter
- Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
| | - Jiayin Wang
- School of Management, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shanxi, China
| | - Clara Oh
- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA
| | - Marta Paczkowska
- Computational Biology Program, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA
| | - Ninad Oak
- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
| | - Adam D Scott
- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA
| | - Michal Krassowski
- Computational Biology Program, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | | | - Kathleen E Houlahan
- Computational Biology Program, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA
| | - Liang-Bo Wang
- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA
| | - Daniel Cui Zhou
- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA
| | - Di Liu
- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA
| | - Song Cao
- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
| | - Amanda Koire
- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
| | - Joshua F McMichael
- McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Departments of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences Research and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN 55905 USA
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- McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Dasman Diabetes Institute and Molecular Pathology Laboratory, Kuwait University, Kuwait
| | - Kimberly J Johnson
- Brown School Master of Public Health Program, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Computational Biology Program, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Lewis-Sigler Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Departments of Pathology and Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157 USA
| | - Michael C Wendl
- McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA; Department of Genetics, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA; Department of Mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Baylor Genetics, Houston, TX 77021, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA; Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Computational Biology Program, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Departments of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA; Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA.
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA; Department of Genetics, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA; Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA.
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