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
. 2019 Aug 29;9(1):12524.
doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-48804-y.

Two truncating variants in FANCC and breast cancer risk

Thilo Dörk  1 Paolo Peterlongo  2 Arto Mannermaa  3   4   5 Manjeet K Bolla  6 Qin Wang  6 Joe Dennis  6 Thomas Ahearn  7 Irene L Andrulis  8   9 Hoda Anton-Culver  10 Volker Arndt  11 Kristan J Aronson  12 Annelie Augustinsson  13 Laura E Beane Freeman  7 Matthias W Beckmann  14 Alicia Beeghly-Fadiel  15 Sabine Behrens  16 Marina Bermisheva  17 Carl Blomqvist  18   19 Natalia V Bogdanova  20   21   22 Stig E Bojesen  23   24   25 Hiltrud Brauch  26   27   28 Hermann Brenner  11   27   29 Barbara Burwinkel  30   31 Federico Canzian  32 Tsun L Chan  33   34 Jenny Chang-Claude  16   35 Stephen J Chanock  7 Ji-Yeob Choi  36   37 Hans Christiansen  21 Christine L Clarke  38 Fergus J Couch  39 Kamila Czene  40 Mary B Daly  41 Isabel Dos-Santos-Silva  42 Miriam Dwek  43 Diana M Eccles  44 Arif B Ekici  45 Mikael Eriksson  40 D Gareth Evans  46   47 Peter A Fasching  14   48 Jonine Figueroa  7   49   50 Henrik Flyger  51 Lin Fritschi  52 Marike Gabrielson  40 Manuela Gago-Dominguez  53   54 Chi Gao  55   56 Susan M Gapstur  57 Montserrat García-Closas  7   58 José A García-Sáenz  59 Mia M Gaudet  57 Graham G Giles  60   61   62 Mark S Goldberg  63   64 David E Goldgar  65 Pascal Guénel  66 Lothar Haeberle  67 Christopher A Haiman  68 Niclas Håkansson  69 Per Hall  40   70 Ute Hamann  71 Mikael Hartman  72   73 Jan Hauke  74   75   76 Alexander Hein  14 Peter Hillemanns  20 Frans B L Hogervorst  77 Maartje J Hooning  78 John L Hopper  61 Tony Howell  79 Dezheng Huo  80 Hidemi Ito  81   82 Motoki Iwasaki  83 Anna Jakubowska  84   85 Wolfgang Janni  86 Esther M John  87 Audrey Jung  16 Rudolf Kaaks  16 Daehee Kang  36   37   88 Pooja Middha Kapoor  16   89 Elza Khusnutdinova  17   90 Sung-Won Kim  91 Cari M Kitahara  92 Stella Koutros  7 Peter Kraft  55   56 Vessela N Kristensen  93   94 Ava Kwong  33   95   96 Diether Lambrechts  97   98 Loic Le Marchand  99 Jingmei Li  100 Sara Lindström  101   102 Martha Linet  92 Wing-Yee Lo  26   103 Jirong Long  15 Artitaya Lophatananon  104 Jan Lubiński  84 Mehdi Manoochehri  71 Siranoush Manoukian  105 Sara Margolin  70   106 Elena Martinez  54   107 Keitaro Matsuo  81   82 Dimitris Mavroudis  108 Alfons Meindl  109 Usha Menon  110 Roger L Milne  60   61   111 Nur Aishah Mohd Taib  112 Kenneth Muir  113   104 Anna Marie Mulligan  114   115 Susan L Neuhausen  116 Heli Nevanlinna  117 Patrick Neven  118 William G Newman  46   47 Kenneth Offit  119   120 Olufunmilayo I Olopade  80 Andrew F Olshan  121 Janet E Olson  122 Håkan Olsson  13 Sue K Park  36   37   88 Tjoung-Won Park-Simon  20 Julian Peto  42 Dijana Plaseska-Karanfilska  123 Esther Pohl-Rescigno  74   75   76 Nadege Presneau  43 Brigitte Rack  86 Paolo Radice  124 Muhammad U Rashid  71   125 Gad Rennert  126 Hedy S Rennert  126 Atocha Romero  127 Matthias Ruebner  67 Emmanouil Saloustros  128 Marjanka K Schmidt  129   130 Rita K Schmutzler  74   75   76 Michael O Schneider  67 Minouk J Schoemaker  131 Christopher Scott  122 Chen-Yang Shen  132   133 Xiao-Ou Shu  15 Jacques Simard  134 Susan Slager  122 Snezhana Smichkoska  135 Melissa C Southey  111   136 John J Spinelli  137   138 Jennifer Stone  61   139 Harald Surowy  30   31 Anthony J Swerdlow  131   140 Rulla M Tamimi  55   56   141 William J Tapper  142 Soo H Teo  112   143 Mary Beth Terry  144 Amanda E Toland  145 Rob A E M Tollenaar  146 Diana Torres  71   147 Gabriela Torres-Mejía  148 Melissa A Troester  121 Thérèse Truong  66 Shoichiro Tsugane  149 Michael Untch  150 Celine M Vachon  151 Ans M W van den Ouweland  152 Elke M van Veen  46   47 Joseph Vijai  119   120 Camilla Wendt  106 Alicja Wolk  69   153 Jyh-Cherng Yu  154 Wei Zheng  15 Argyrios Ziogas  10 Elad Ziv  155 ABCTB InvestigatorsNBCS CollaboratorsAlison M Dunning  156 Paul D P Pharoah  6   156 Detlev Schindler  157 Peter Devilee  158   159 Douglas F Easton  6   156
Collaborators, Affiliations

Two truncating variants in FANCC and breast cancer risk

Thilo Dörk et al. Sci Rep. .

Abstract

Fanconi anemia (FA) is a genetically heterogeneous disorder with 22 disease-causing genes reported to date. In some FA genes, monoallelic mutations have been found to be associated with breast cancer risk, while the risk associations of others remain unknown. The gene for FA type C, FANCC, has been proposed as a breast cancer susceptibility gene based on epidemiological and sequencing studies. We used the Oncoarray project to genotype two truncating FANCC variants (p.R185X and p.R548X) in 64,760 breast cancer cases and 49,793 controls of European descent. FANCC mutations were observed in 25 cases (14 with p.R185X, 11 with p.R548X) and 26 controls (18 with p.R185X, 8 with p.R548X). There was no evidence of an association with the risk of breast cancer, neither overall (odds ratio 0.77, 95%CI 0.44-1.33, p = 0.4) nor by histology, hormone receptor status, age or family history. We conclude that the breast cancer risk association of these two FANCC variants, if any, is much smaller than for BRCA1, BRCA2 or PALB2 mutations. If this applies to all truncating variants in FANCC it would suggest there are differences between FA genes in their roles on breast cancer risk and demonstrates the merit of large consortia for clarifying risk associations of rare variants.

PubMed Disclaimer

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

References

    1. Ceccaldi R, Sarangi P, D’Andrea AD. The Fanconi anaemia pathway: new players and new functions. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 2016;17:337–349. doi: 10.1038/nrm.2016.48. - DOI - PubMed
    1. Knies K, et al. Biallelic mutations in the ubiquitin ligase RFWD3 cause Fanconi anemia. J. Clin. Invest. 2017;127:3013–3027. doi: 10.1172/JCI92069. - DOI - PMC - PubMed
    1. Nalepa G, Clapp DW. Fanconi anaemia and cancer: an intricate relationship. Nat. Rev. Cancer. 2018;18:168–185. doi: 10.1038/nrc.2017.116. - DOI - PubMed
    1. Ramus SJ, et al. Germline Mutations in the BRIP1, BARD1, PALB2, and NBN Genes in Women With Ovarian Cancer. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 2015;107:11. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djv214. - DOI - PMC - PubMed
    1. Easton DF, et al. No evidence that protein truncating variants in BRIP1 are associated with breast cancer risk: implications for gene panel testing. J. Med. Genet. 2016;53:298–309. doi: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2015-103529. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding