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Association of type and location of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations with risk of breast and ovarian cancer

  • CIMBA Consortium
  • Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia2Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
  • Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
  • Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, UMR Inserm, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, France.
  • Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia.
  • Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
  • Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia6Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
  • Department of Gynecology, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
  • Susanne Levy Gertner Oncogenetics Unit, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel.
  • Department of Oncology, Ella Institute for Melanoma, Sheba Medical Center, Derech Sheba 2, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel. Electronic address: [email protected].
  • Oncology Institute, Rivkah Ziv Medical Center Zefat, Israel.
  • Department of Oncology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden12Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
  • Division of Clinical Genetics, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
  • Department of Oncology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • Department of Oncology, Lund University and Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden.
  • Department of Clinical Genetics, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. [email protected].
  • Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
  • Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.
  • UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California.
  • Department of Medicine and Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. [email protected].
  • Cancer Risk Program, Helen Diller Family Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco.
  • Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York.
  • Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA. [email protected].
  • Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
  • Division of Cancer Medicine, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 25Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Women's Cancer Program at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
  • Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, KS.
  • Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • *Division of Sports Medicine, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California; †Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Human Performance Laboratory, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California; ‡Department of Healthy Policy and Management, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts...
  • Department of Epidemiology, Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont.
  • Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm; Department of Pediatrics, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden; Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK; Department of Medicine, Celiac Disease Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA.

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Abstract

IMPORTANCE: Limited information about the relationship between specific mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 (BRCA1/2) and cancer risk exists.

OBJECTIVE: To identify mutation-specific cancer risks for carriers of BRCA1/2.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Observational study of women who were ascertained between 1937 and 2011 (median, 1999) and found to carry disease-associated BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations. The international sample comprised 19,581 carriers of BRCA1 mutations and 11,900 carriers of BRCA2 mutations from 55 centers in 33 countries on 6 continents. We estimated hazard ratios for breast and ovarian cancer based on mutation type, function, and nucleotide position. We also estimated RHR, the ratio of breast vs ovarian cancer hazard ratios. A value of RHR greater than 1 indicated elevated breast cancer risk; a value of RHR less than 1 indicated elevated ovarian cancer risk.

EXPOSURES: Mutations of BRCA1 or BRCA2.

MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: Breast and ovarian cancer risks.

RESULTS: Among BRCA1 mutation carriers, 9052 women (46%) were diagnosed with breast cancer, 2317 (12%) with ovarian cancer, 1041 (5%) with breast and ovarian cancer, and 7171 (37%) without cancer. Among BRCA2 mutation carriers, 6180 women (52%) were diagnosed with breast cancer, 682 (6%) with ovarian cancer, 272 (2%) with breast and ovarian cancer, and 4766 (40%) without cancer. In BRCA1, we identified 3 breast cancer cluster regions (BCCRs) located at c.179 to c.505 (BCCR1; RHR = 1.46; 95% CI, 1.22-1.74; P = 2 × 10(-6)), c.4328 to c.4945 (BCCR2; RHR = 1.34; 95% CI, 1.01-1.78; P = .04), and c. 5261 to c.5563 (BCCR2', RHR = 1.38; 95% CI, 1.22-1.55; P = 6 × 10(-9)). We also identified an ovarian cancer cluster region (OCCR) from c.1380 to c.4062 (approximately exon 11) with RHR = 0.62 (95% CI, 0.56-0.70; P = 9 × 10(-17)). In BRCA2, we observed multiple BCCRs spanning c.1 to c.596 (BCCR1; RHR = 1.71; 95% CI, 1.06-2.78; P = .03), c.772 to c.1806 (BCCR1'; RHR = 1.63; 95% CI, 1.10-2.40; P = .01), and c.7394 to c.8904 (BCCR2; RHR = 2.31; 95% CI, 1.69-3.16; P = .00002). We also identified 3 OCCRs: the first (OCCR1) spanned c.3249 to c.5681 that was adjacent to c.5946delT (6174delT; RHR = 0.51; 95% CI, 0.44-0.60; P = 6 × 10(-17)). The second OCCR spanned c.6645 to c.7471 (OCCR2; RHR = 0.57; 95% CI, 0.41-0.80; P = .001). Mutations conferring nonsense-mediated decay were associated with differential breast or ovarian cancer risks and an earlier age of breast cancer diagnosis for both BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.

CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Breast and ovarian cancer risks varied by type and location of BRCA1/2 mutations. With appropriate validation, these data may have implications for risk assessment and cancer prevention decision making for carriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1347-61
Number of pages15
JournalJAMA
Volume313
Issue number13
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Apr 2015

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Keywords

  • Adult
  • Age of Onset
  • Breast Neoplasms/genetics
  • Female
  • Genes, BRCA1
  • Genes, BRCA2
  • Genetic Predisposition to Disease
  • Heterozygote
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Mutation
  • Nucleotides
  • Ovarian Neoplasms/genetics
  • Risk Factors

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