Published in:
01-11-2007 | Original Paper
Novel germline mutations in BRCA2 gene among 96 hereditary breast and breast–ovarian cancer families from Kerala, South India
Authors:
Vani Syamala, Leelakumari Sreeja, Volga S. Syamala, B. Vinodkumar, Praveenkumar B. Raveendran, Hariharan Sreedharan, Ratheesan Kuttappan, Lekshmi Balakrishnan, Ravindran Ankathil
Published in:
Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology
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Issue 11/2007
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Abstract
Purpose
Aim of the present study was to identify the genetic heterogeneity, prevalence and frequency of germline mutations of BRCA2 gene in Hereditary Breast/Ovarian cancer patients from Kerala, South India.
Methods
We analyzed 102 Breast/Ovarian cancer patients from 96 breast and/ovarian cancer families for BRCA2 gene mutations using Conformation-Sensitive Gel Electrophoresis (CSGE) followed by sequencing.
Results
Sequence variations in BRCA2 gene were detected in 27 (26.4%) patients. Sixteen distinct sequence variants were detected of which 11 were (69%) in exon 11. We have identified two novel disease-causing frameshift mutations (c.4642delAA and c.4926insGACC) in two unrelated patients. Apart from this, fourteen distinct sequence variants were detected in 25 breast/ovarian cancer patients of which 8 (57%) were also novel. These include nine missense mutations, one silent mutation, one-nonsense mutation and three intronic variants.
Conclusions
The results of this study suggest that germline mutations of BRCA2 gene account for rather small proportion of Hereditary Breast/Ovarian cancer in Kerala, South India.