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Figlioli, Gisella; Bogliolo, Massimo; Catucci, Irene; Caleca, Laura; Lasheras, Sandra Viz; Pujol, Roser; Kiiski, Johanna I.; Muranen, Taru A.; Barnes, Daniel R.; & Dennis, Joe G., et al. (2019). The FANCM:p.Arg658* Truncating Variant is Associated with Risk of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. NPJ Breast Cancer, 5, 38. PMCID: PMC6825205Abstract
Breast cancer is a common disease partially caused by genetic risk factors. Germline pathogenic variants in DNA repair genes BRCA1, BRCA2, PALB2, ATM, and CHEK2 are associated with breast cancer risk. FANCM, which encodes for a DNA translocase, has been proposed as a breast cancer predisposition gene, with greater effects for the ER-negative and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) subtypes. We tested the three recurrent protein-truncating variants FANCM:p.Arg658*, p.Gln1701*, and p.Arg1931* for association with breast cancer risk in 67,112 cases, 53,766 controls, and 26,662 carriers of pathogenic variants of BRCA1 or BRCA2. These three variants were also studied functionally by measuring survival and chromosome fragility in FANCM (-/-) patient-derived immortalized fibroblasts treated with diepoxybutane or olaparib. We observed that FANCM:p.Arg658* was associated with increased risk of ER-negative disease and TNBC (OR = 2.44, P = 0.034 and OR = 3.79; P = 0.009, respectively). In a country-restricted analysis, we confirmed the associations detected for FANCM:p.Arg658* and found that also FANCM:p.Arg1931* was associated with ER-negative breast cancer risk (OR = 1.96; P = 0.006). The functional results indicated that all three variants were deleterious affecting cell survival and chromosome stability with FANCM:p.Arg658* causing more severe phenotypes. In conclusion, we confirmed that the two rare FANCM deleterious variants p.Arg658* and p.Arg1931* are risk factors for ER-negative and TNBC subtypes. Overall our data suggest that the effect of truncating variants on breast cancer risk may depend on their position in the gene. Cell sensitivity to olaparib exposure, identifies a possible therapeutic option to treat FANCM-associated tumors.URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41523-019-0127-5Reference Type
Journal ArticleYear Published
2019Journal Title
NPJ Breast CancerAuthor(s)
Figlioli, GisellaBogliolo, Massimo
Catucci, Irene
Caleca, Laura
Lasheras, Sandra Viz
Pujol, Roser
Kiiski, Johanna I.
Muranen, Taru A.
Barnes, Daniel R.
Dennis, Joe G.
Michailidou, Kyriaki
Bolla, Manjeet K.
Leslie, Goska
Aalfs, Cora M.
ABCTB Investigators,
Adank, Muriel A.
Adlard, Julian
Agata, Simona
Cadoo, Karen
Agnarsson, Bjarni A.
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Aittomäki, Kristiina
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