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. 2015 Jun;47(6):643-6.
doi: 10.1038/ng.3284. Epub 2015 Apr 27.

Germline RECQL mutations are associated with breast cancer susceptibility

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Germline RECQL mutations are associated with breast cancer susceptibility

Cezary Cybulski et al. Nat Genet. 2015 Jun.

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  • Corrigendum: Germline RECQL mutations are associated with breast cancer susceptibility.
    Cybulski C, Carrot-Zhang J, Kluźniak W, Rivera B, Kashyap A, Wokołorczyk D, Giroux S, Nadaf J, Hamel N, Zhang S, Huzarski T, Gronwald J, Byrski T, Szwiec M, Jakubowska A, Rudnicka H, Lener M, Masojć B, Tonin PN, Rousseau F, Górski B, Dębniak T, Majewski J, Lubiński J, Foulkes WD, Narod SA, Akbari MR. Cybulski C, et al. Nat Genet. 2016 Apr;48(4):473. doi: 10.1038/ng0329-473c. Nat Genet. 2016. PMID: 27023777 No abstract available.

Abstract

Several moderate- and high-risk breast cancer susceptibility genes have been discovered, but more are likely to exist. To discover new breast cancer susceptibility genes, we used 2 populations (from Poland and Quebec, Canada) and applied whole-exome sequencing in a discovery phase (n = 195), followed by validation. We identified rare recurrent RECQL mutations in each population. In Quebec, 7 of 1,013 higher-risk breast cancer cases and 1 of 7,136 newborns carried the c.634C>T (p.Arg215*) variant (P = 0.00004). In Poland, 30 of 13,136 unselected breast cancer cases and 2 of 4,702 controls carried the c.1667_1667+3delAGTA (p.K555delinsMYKLIHYSFR) variant (P = 0.008). RECQL is implicated in resolving stalled DNA replication forks to prevent double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) breaks. This function is related to that of other known breast cancer susceptibility genes, many of which are involved in repairing dsDNA breaks. We conclude that RECQL is a breast cancer susceptibility gene.

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