Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2005 Dec;37(12):1315-6.
doi: 10.1038/ng1671. Epub 2005 Oct 30.

Inherited susceptibility to lung cancer may be associated with the T790M drug resistance mutation in EGFR

Daphne W Bell  1 , Ira Gore, Ross A Okimoto, Nadia Godin-Heymann, Raffaella Sordella, Roseann Mulloy, Sreenath V Sharma, Brian W Brannigan, Gayatry Mohapatra, Jeff Settleman, Daniel A Haber
Affiliations

Inherited susceptibility to lung cancer may be associated with the T790M drug resistance mutation in EGFR

Daphne W Bell et al. Nat Genet. 2005 Dec.

Abstract

Somatic activating mutations in EGFR identify a subset of non-small cell lung cancer that respond to tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Acquisition of drug resistance is linked to a specific secondary somatic mutation, EGFR T790M. Here we describe a family with multiple cases of non-small cell lung cancer associated with germline transmission of this mutation. Four of six tumors analyzed showed a secondary somatic activating EGFR mutation, arising in cis with the germline EGFR mutation T790M. These observations implicate altered EGFR signaling in genetic susceptibility to lung cancer.

PubMed Disclaimer

Publication types

MeSH terms