Author:
Ricks-Santi Luisel,McDonald J. Tyson,Gold Bert,Dean Michael,Thompson Nicole,Abbas Muneer,Wilson Bradford,Kanaan Yasmine,Naab Tammey J.,Dunston Georgia
Abstract
<p class="Pa7"><strong>Background: </strong>Variants of unknown significance (VUSs) have been identified in <em>BRCA1 </em>and <em>BRCA2 </em>and account for the majority of all identified sequence alterations. Notably, VUSs occur disproportionately in people of African descent hampering breast cancer (BCa) management and prevention efforts in the population. Our study sought to identify and characterize mutations associated with increased risk of BCa at young age.</p><p class="Pa7"><strong>Methods: </strong>In our study, the spectrum of mutations in <em>BRCA1 </em>and <em>BRCA2 </em>was enumerated in a cohort of 31 African American women of early age at onset breast cancer, with a family history of breast or cancer in general and/or with triple negative breast cancer. To improve the characterization of the <em>BRCA1 </em>and <em>BRCA2 </em>variants, bioinformatics tools were utilized to predict the potential function of each of the variants.</p><p class="Pa7"><strong>Results: </strong>Using next generation sequencing methods and <em>in silico </em>analysis of variants, a total of 197 <em>BRCA1 </em>and 266 <em>BRCA2 </em>variants comprising 77 unique variants were identified in 31 patients. Of the 77 unique variants, one (1.3%) was a pathogenic frameshift mutation (rs80359304; <em>BRCA2 </em>Met591Ile), 13 (16.9%) were possibly pathogenic, 34 (44.2%) were benign, and 29 (37.7%) were VUSs. Genetic epidemiological approaches were used to determine the association with variant, haplotype, and phenotypes, such as age at diagnosis, family history of cancer and family history of breast cancer. There were 5 BRCA1 SNPs associated with age at diagnosis; rs1799966 (P=.045; Log Additive model), rs16942 (P=.033; Log Additive model), rs1799949 (P=.058; Log Additive model), rs373413425 (P=.040 and .023; Dominant and Log Additive models, respectively) and rs3765640 (P=.033 Log Additive model). Additionally, a haplotype composed of all 5 SNPs was found to be significantly associated with younger age at diagnosis using linear regression modeling (P=.023). Specifically, the haplotype containing all the variant alleles was associated with older age at diagnosis (OR= 5.03 95% CI=.91-9.14).</p><p class="Pa7"><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Knowing a patient’s BRCA mutation status is important for prevention and treatment decision-making. Improving the characterization of mutations will lead to better management, treatment, and BCa prevention efforts in African Americans who are disproportionately affected with aggressive BCa and may inform future precision medicine genomic-based clinical studies. <em></em></p><p class="Pa7"><em>Ethn Dis. </em>2017;27(1):169-178; doi:10.18865/ed.27.2.169</p>
Publisher
Ethnicity and Disease Inc
Subject
General Medicine,Epidemiology
Cited by
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